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The Learned Clergyman and Illiterate Preacher

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 30, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 7.

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The Learned Clergyman and Illiterate Preacher

A LEARNED clergyman was accosted in the following manner by an illiterate preacher who despised education: “Sir, you have been to college, I suppose?” “Yes, sir,” was the reply. “I am thankful,” rejoined the former, “that the Lord opened my mouth without any learning.” “A similar event,” retorted the clergyman, “took place in Balaam’s time; but such things are of rare occurrence at the present day.”