Emphasis Preaching Journal

A bishop, speaking to a group of seminary students, offered these lessons.

"T. C. Hamlet once wrote a humorous, but effective and engaging poetic fable about two frogs which hopped into a large can of cream. After paddling around for a while, one frog despaired of escaping and just gave up, quickly sinking to the bottom. The other frog, however, was determined to paddle as long as life remained. He paddled so long and so hard, in fact, that the cream soon turned to butter and eventually the frog was able to hop out of the can to safety!