YEARS AGO, in an Eastern land, there lived a boy named Ben Syra. When quite young he begged his teacher to instruct him from the Bible. But the teacher refused, saying, “You are too young yet to be taught the sacred mysteries.”
“But, master,” insisted the child, “I have been to the graveyard and measured the graves, and found some of them shorter than myself; now, if I should die before I have learned the Word of God, what will become of me then, master?”
“From a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation.”
ML-03/24/1974