p. 342 | A REMEMBERED TEACHER by Wm. C. Wilkinson

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 22

A REMEMBERED TEACHER.

By Wm. C. Wilkinson

I see him now, importunate, eager, bold To push for truth, as most to push for gold; Young then, with youth’s fine scorn of consequence He weighed no whither, so he knew his whence— Asked only, but asked hard, Is it a fact? That point well sure, deemed then he nothing lacked. Truth was from God; she could not lead astray. Fearlessly glad he walked in truth’s highway; Who joined him there, had fellow stout to cheer; Who crossed, met foe behooved him well to fear; His quick, keen, urgent, sinewy, certain thrust Well knew those knights who felt it in the joust.

Ideal Christian teacher, master, man, Severely sweet, a gracious Puritan, Beyond my praise to-day, beyond their blame, He spurs me yet with his remembered name! — Wm. C. Wilkinson, in Scribner.