Goats to the Orange Rinds

Returning home in 1952 from a worldwide visit to various mission fields, I had the joy of visiting the land of our Lord. Dr. Joseph Stowell, with whom I was traveling, and I were going by car from Beirut, Lebanon, down to see the cities of Tyre and Sidon. En route we stopped at an orange grove and ate some luscious Lebanese oranges. Since there were no signs such as we see in America concerning littering the highways, we threw our orange rinds into the fields. As we did so a flock led by a shepherd came our way. When they were several hundred feet away a few animals left the shepherd and the flock and ran into the field to get the orange rind.

I used this in a message back in the states and a little boy raised his hand. When I said, “Sonny, what do you want?” he said, “I’ll bet those other animals were goats.” He was right.