THE TEACHER TAUGHT by C. S. Warner

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1879

THE TEACHER TAUGHT.

By C. S. Warner

At a Wesleyan Methodist church in a town in Ohio, Sunday, March 9, a teacher of a class of little boys and girls, while giving general instruction, said that when good men die they go right to Heaven, but when the bad die they go right to hell. One of the little boys asked the teacher if there was not a day of Judgment, to which the teacher answered, “Yes.” “Then,” said the boy, “if people go right to Heaven or hell at death, what need is there of a Judgment?” The teacher could not answer.

Another boy then asked why people differed so much about the observance of the Sabbath. The teacher said that Christ sent his disciples out to teach the people that the Sabbath had been changed to the first day of the week. The first boy then asked, “Where in the Scriptures do you find that?” The teacher hesitated a moment, and then said, “It is not in the Scriptures.” “Oh,” replied the boy, “if it is not in the Scriptures, it does not concern us.” “Well,” said the teacher, “when you are converted, you will understand it better.” “But,” replied the boy, “some have been converted right in this house lately, and have commenced to keep the seventh-day Sabbath.” The teacher was dumb before him. This boy’s parents were Sabbath-keepers. In this case the Lord, through this little boy, taught the teacher, a man who sets himself up as a religious guide of the people. C. S. WARNER.