Here is an excerpt from a sermon by John Bruce at Special meetings at Saginaw on July 4th, 1927......This is an example of what our parents and grandparents learned and followed:
"........."That song we were singing this morning "Lord speak to me that I may speak," it's good to wait upon God so we may answer correctly. Not doing things in our own way or the way that looks right to us.
I had a father of a boy in high school to ask me, "What shall I do about him?" He is just at the right age to be very conceited, everything of the world seems to appeal to him and they are leaving their stamp on him.
What shall I do? Would you let him finish his education or would you take him out of school?
I told this father that high school is NOT a fit place for a boy and if he were a boy of mine, I would rather see him facing the world without an education than facing the world with high mindedness and conceit and without God in his life. I would like to see him like those UNLEARNED fisherman, John, Peter, and James, unlearned in worldly ways."
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