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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1880

The Sabbath School.

By Malcolm

POETRY OF TEACHING.

"Come ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord." Ps. 34:11.

Despise them not. Would’st thou a jewel slight? Each one before thee is a parent’s pride. This little thing, in tattered corduroy, A mother with a mother’s fondness loves, And would not for your large estate exchange. Methinks at morn she kissed his cherry cheeks; He lightens labor to yon son of toil, Who, while he wipes the sweat from off his brow, Thinks of his son—his hopeful little boy, Whom he has dandled oft upon his knees, And daily pleads for at the throne of grace.

Each one’s a favorite at home, and each— Why not?—should also be beloved in school. Desist from teaching, ye who love them not; For who can render up their second selves To those whose welfare they have not at heart? —Malcolm.