Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A Watermelon Seed


William Jennings Bryan was a lawyer/politician of the 1800's, even ran for president a couple of times. The article that follows is from him and shows his understanding of the "mysteries of the Bible".


Once when I was going to Columbus, OH I stopped to eat in a restaurant and ordered a slice of watermelon. I took the seeds home with me to plant in my own garden. That night a thought came to my mind. How many watermelon seeds would it take to make a pound? The next day I weighed them and found that it would take about 5,000 dried seeds.
A few weeks later I planted just one of the little seeds. Under the influence of sunshine and shower, that little seed had taken off its coat and gone to work. It had gathered from somewhere two hundred times its own weight and forced that enormous weight through a tiny stem and built a watermelon. On the outside it has a covering of green and within that a rind of white and within that one of red, and then it had scattered through the red many little seeds, each one capable of doing the same work over again.
What architect drew the plan? Where did the little watermelon seed get its strength? Where did it find its flavoring extract, and its coloring matter? How did it build a watermelon?
Until you can explain a watermelon, do not be too sure that you can set limits to the power of the Almighty. The most learned men in the world cannot explain the watermelon, but the most ignorant man can eat a watermelon and enjoy it. God has given us the knowledge necessary to use these things, and the truth that He has revealed to us is infinitely more important for our welfare than it would be to understand the mysteries that He has seen fit to conceal from our faltering view.


Think about it. Tol