It is every Christian man and woman’s duty to try and save the children now. It is the duty of every preacher of the Gospel, and every Sunday School teacher to look after the children.
But how can they be saved if they hear what is preached today in half the pulpits of our country? The Rev. John Thomas tells us that “recently a reverend professor addressed the children from a Baptist pulpit in Wales. He spoke on the prophet Jonah. He told the children that he would not insult their intelligence by expecting them to believe the story of Jonah and the whale.”
“There are skeptics of his type who will not insult your intelligence by expecting you to believe that Jesus rose bodily from the grave,” or even that “five loaves and two small fishes fed thousands of people...”
But the gravest feature (Mr. Thomas goes on to say) of all is that in this flippant arrogance of unbelief in the miracles of Holy Scripture, Jesus, our Lord, is set at naught.
It is unintelligent for the children to believe the story of Jonah and the whale. “Our Lord believed it, therefore our Lord was unintelligent.” To sum up they infer that our blessed Lord believed things about the Old Testament that would be “an insult to the intelligence of the children of today.”