HOW TO REACH THE PARENTS by S. S. Worth

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 2

HOW TO REACH THE PARENTS.

By S. S. Worth

THE old maxim, “Catch the parent by first catching the child,” is freshly illustrated by an incident which a correspondent of The Sunday-school Times tells of our veteran worker Chidlaw. Leaving the railroad he walked five miles over the hills, crossing creeks on driftwood, to attend a Sunday-school Convention in Hancock county, during which he preached to a large assembly of youths, and three times the next Sunday. In the audience on Sunday was a gentleman of good repute, who had not been seen in a house of worship in twenty years. When he was asked why he attended twice that day—“did he know Mr. Chidlaw?” “No, sir,” he replied; “but my children heard the stranger the other day, and when they came home they talked of nothing else but his sermon, and I felt that I would like to hear the man that could get such a hold of my children.”—S. S. Worth.