A BRAVE BOY | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 37.

A BRAVE BOY.

Among many illustrations of this sterling quality of real nobleness is that of the celebrated Adam Clarke, the commentator on the Bible. When a lad he was put to work in a linen factory in Ireland. One day while thus engaged, a piece of cloth was wanted to be sent out, which proved to be short of the quantity required. The master, however, had an idea that it might be made the proper length by stretching. He thereupon unrolled it, and, taking hold of one end himself, he gave Adam the other and said, "Pull, Adam, pull." "I cannot, sir." "Why?" asked the master. "Because it is wrong, sir," was the brave lad's reply.

Hearing this the master declared he would not do for a cloth manufacturer and sent him off home. The result was he became the friend of the Duke of Lupec, and ultimately one of the most learned commentators on the Bible England has ever had.—Selected.