FLOURISH LIKE A PALM TREE
Palm trees in a desert Many years ago when the great missionary Adoniram Judson was home on vacation, he passed through the city of Stonington, Connecticut. A young boy playing about the wharves at the time of Judson’s arrival was struck by the man’s appearance. Never before had he seen such a light on any human face. He ran up the street to a minister to ask if he knew who the stranger was. The minister hurried back with him, but became so absorbed in conversation with Judson that he forgot all about the impatient youngster standing near him. Many years afterward that boy who could never get away from the influence of that wonderful face became the famous preacher and author Henry Clay Trumbull. In a book of memoirs he penned a chapter entitled: “ What a...