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An Empty Spoon

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 25, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 4.

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An Empty Spoon.

A young minister, who was quite self-satisfied with his own discourses, was always very curious to know what others thought of them. The Lord permitted him to gratify his curiosity one Sabbath evening as he was passing the cottage of an humble but pious laborer. The good man was kneeling with his family, and the young minister paused a moment to listen. He was thanking the Lord for their spiritual mercies, and for the blessed Bible on which their souls might feed, "for thou knowest, O Lord," he said, "that we have been fed this day out of an empty spoon."
Sunday-school children are often fed the same way, by people who undertake to address them.
"Now children," said a learned gentleman, "do you desire to know what it is that you all want—every one of you? I will tell you. You want"