Sweetness of the Hand

The Master sometimes made His points through telling stories. 
Julia Grundy recorded the following story of His: 
‘A master had a slave who was completely devoted to him. 
One day he gave the slave a melon which when cut open looked most ripe and delicious. The slave ate one piece, then another and another with great relish (the day being warm) until nearly the whole melon had disappeared. 
The master, picking up the last slice, tasted it and found it exceedingly bitter and unpalatable.
 “Why, it is bitter! Did you not find it so?” he asked the servant.
 “Yes, my Master,” the slave replied, “it was bitter and unpleasant, but I have tasted so much sweetness from thy hand that one bitter melon was not worth mentioning.”’ (Honnold, Annamarie, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 167)
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