Bricks and Mankind

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1879

Bricks and Mankind

A Boy once heard his father remark, "It was a poor rule that would not work both ways." One day while at play he found eight bricks and placed them all on their ends, and pushed the first over, and that knocked the next, and so on until all were down. He went to his father and told him what he had done, and the rule failed. "My son," said the father, "brick and mankind are alike; both made of clay, active in knocking each other down, but not disposed to help each other up." How true!