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LEARNING IN YOUTH

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 12, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 18.

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LEARNING IN YOUTH.

DANIEL WEBSTER once told a good story in a speech, and was asked where he got it.
"I had it laid up in my head for fourteen years, and never had a chance to use it till to-day," said he.
My little friend wants to know what good it will do to learn the "rule of three," or to commit to memory a verse of the Bible. The answer is this: "Sometime you will need that very thing. Perhaps it may be twenty years before you can make use of it in just the right place; but it will be just in place sometime. Then, if you don't have it, you will be like the hunter who had no ball in his rifle when the bear met him."
"Twenty-five years ago my teacher made me study surveying," said a man who had lost his property, "and now I am glad of it. It is just in place. I can get a good situation at a high salary." The Bible is better than that; it will be in place as long as we live.