ALL EQUAL HERE.- | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1871

ALL EQUAL HERE.—

It is related of the Duke of Wellington, that once when he remained to “take sacrament” at his parish church, a very poor old man had gone up the opposite aisle, and reaching the communion rail, knelt down by the side of the duke. Some one—a pew-owner probably—came and touched the poor man on the shoulder, and whispered him to move further away, or rise, and wait until the duke had received the bread and wine. But the eagle eye and quick ear of the great commander caught the meaning of that touch and whisper. He clasped the old man’s hand, and held him, to prevent his rising, and in a reverential under-tone, but most distinctly, said, “Do not move—we are all equal here.”