Pambo Learns One Psalm Verse by Spencer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 14, 1884

Pambo Learns One Psalm Verse

By Spencer

Socrates Scholasticus reports the story of one Pambo, a plain, ignorant man, who came to a learned man and desired him to teach him some psalm or other. He began to read unto him the thirty-ninth Psalm, "I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue." Having passed this first verse, Pambo shut the book, and took his leave, saying that he would go learn that point first. When he had absented himself for the space of some months, he was demanded by his reader when he would go forward. He answered that he had not yet learned his old lesson; and he gave the very same answer to one who asked the like question forty-nine years after.