A LOVELY story is told of an old local preacher who was also a shepherd of the hills. One day he was invited to a dinner by members of a scientific society and after the meal he was asked to make a speech.
He was keenly conscious of his intellectual inferiority in the midst of such learned men, but he felt it was too good an opportunity to miss witnessing for his Saviour. Rising to his feet he said: “Gentlemen, as you all see I am a plain and simple man. I don’t know much about astronomy, but 1 do know Jesus, ‘the Bright and Morning Star.’ I don’t know much about botany, but I know a little about ‘the Lily of the Valley,’ and ‘the Rose of Sharon.’ I don’t know much about geography, but I do know my way to the Cross of Calvary, and after all that is the only true knowledge that really matters in the long run.”
ML-12/31/1972