Incompetent to the making of a single cherry-seed, as Luther remarks,
how can we expect to fathom the works and wisdom of an infinite God?
“I am not so much of a farmer as some people claim,” said Hon.
W. J. Bryan in his lecture on “The Prince of Peace,” “but I have
observed the watermelon-seed. It has the power of drawing from
the ground and through itself 200,000 times its weight, and when
you can tell me how it takes this material and out of it colors
an outside surface beyond the imitation of art, and then forms
inside of it a white rind and within again a red heart, thickly
inlaid with black seeds, each one of which in turn is capable of
drawing through itself 200,000 times its weight--when you can
explain to me the mystery of a watermelon, you can ask me to
explain the mystery of God.” (Text.)
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