When I was a little boy,” said an old gentleman, “somebody gave me a cucumber in a bottle. The neck of the bottle was small, and the cucumber was so large that it wasn’t possible for it to pass through, and I wondered how it got there. But out in the garden, one day, I came upon a bottle slipped over a little green fellow that was still on the vines, and then I understood. The cucumber had grown in the bottle.
I often see men with habits that I wonder any strong, sensible man could form, and then I think that most likely they grew into them when they were young, and cannot slip out of them now; they are like the cucumber. Beware of such habits, boys!”
“Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy Word.”
ML 07/10/1938