LESSON FOURTH
ON CREATION
Q. Who created heaven and earthy and all things?
A. God created heaven and earthy and all things.
The Acorn and the Pumpkin
The wisdom of God is displayed in creation. A man was lying in the shade of a spreading oak tree one hot summer’s day. As he looked idly about him, he saw a pumpkin vine trained on a fence, from which large, heavy pumpkins were hanging. ‘‘That is a very bad arrangement,” he said to himself, “that slender, fragile plant bears such large fruits, while a stalwart tree, such as this oak beneath which I am resting, only bears tiny acorns. If I had made the world, I should have ordered things more wisely.” As he finished speaking an acorn fell from the tree, and smote him on the nose so sharply that his nose began to bleed. This unexpected blow taught the conceited man a lesson. “I must acknowledge,” he said, “ that God has arranged everything very wisely. Had the acorn that fell been the size of a pumpkin, and dropped from the height it did, I should have been stunned, or at least my nose would have been broken. What we learn at school is quite true: God has ordained all things in
