p. 120 | Corrupt Teachings by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1865

Corrupt Teachings.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

It was required of the ancient priests that they should be very particular and reverential in their service of God in his house. For carelessness in this respect they were sometimes destroyed. Lev. x, 1–3.

In Zeph. iii, 4, the religious teachers of the last days are described thus: "Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law." The priests of the present day do not teach God's word and his law, but in their stead they teach politics, fables, and stories. It is sometimes shocking to see how they mix sacred and profane things together. The superintendent of the Union Sunday School, visited this place a short time since, for the purpose of instructing the children. Among other valuable (?) instructions which he gave them, was the following verse which he taught them to sing:

"A sixpence for a spool of thread, A penny for a needle, This we ask in Jesus' name, Pop goes the weasel!"

The above was actually taught to the children of Watrousville, by a minister of the gospel!! May God pity the youth when such teaching as this passes for religious instruction. The same minister denounced the law of God and those who taught it as being of Satan. He faithfully warned his congregation not to go to the tent to hear the devilish doctrine. Surely Babylon is fallen.

D. M. CANRIGHT.

Watrousville, Mich.