THE LESSON OF THE ANTS
A party of missionaries was sitting at tea one afternoon, when suddenly an ant appeared on the white tablecloth, made its way to one of the tea cakes, walked around it, and finding nothing to eat there, made straight for the sugar bowl. After eating some bits of sugar, it went off with a small piece. The party watched it go off the table, down the table leg, along the floor of the room, and disappear underneath the door. Not long afterwards, it returned with several of its relations, climbed up the leg of the table, marched along the top, and led by the first ant, they all entered the sugar bowl. After they had eaten their fill of sugar, they all departed, each with a piece of sugar in its mouth. But that was not all – presently a swarm of ants arrived to partake of the same sweet food. What a great lesson those ants teach us.…
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