DO butterflies come from eggs?” asked little Mary as she looked up into her father’s face, while he held out his hand on which a butterfly was resting.
“O! no, dear, let me explain it to you. A butterfly lays eggs which, when hatched, produce small grubs or caterpillars. These live for a certain time like silk worms till they have grown large, then they turn into a chrysalis, which is like a cone. You may often find them in the garden.
A great change then comes over the chrysalis. The cone bursts, and out comes a beautiful butterfly.
Mary’s father went on to explain to her that he believed God had caused these changes to take place as an illustration of what occurs when anyone dies who is a true believer in the Lord Jesus, and taking up the Bible lying on the seat by his side, he read a few verses from 1 Cor. 15, which explain all about the resurrection, “It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.”
That is like the butterfly, raised to beauty and power it never knew before.
ML 06/04/1916