The Low Crib

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1875

A GENTLEMAN traveling in the South attended worship in a colored church, the colored pastor of which was remarkable for his high-flown styles in the use of words. On this occasion a white minister preached in a plain and direct style, adapted to his audience. In the season of exhortation which followed the sermon, an old negro thanked the Lord for the various blessings of the Sabbath and sanctuary, and added, “We thank thee that to-day we have been fed from a low crib.” The Protestant Churchman wishes that all preachers would remember that Christ’s flock are mostly little ones. Their necks are short. They can not reach high; and food placed in too lofty a crib is no better than none at all. They may then starve, though the food be provided, because they cannot get anything that will nourish them.