STICK TO THE LESSON

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

STICK TO THE LESSON.

The Baptist Teacher of April, 1880, gives the following good advice to teachers, with a hint to others who are not teachers. Of course no one need take it unless it applies to him.

“There is an old saying, that ‘he that scours the head of an ass wastes his soap.’ Of like character are attempts, by well-meaning adult-class teachers, to discuss abstruse or controverted points of doctrine in open class, with conceited and opinionated people, found in every neighborhood, who come into the class to hear themselves talk. It is better to stick to the lesson, even though one falls to an abysmal depth in the estimation of such wiseacres, than to turn the class into a theological debating club, and to—waste your soap.”