Watch over Honey and make him a good dog;
And keep us all from getting lost in the wilderness. Amen.
How many illiterates are praying today, “Teach me to read and write?” How many hunger and thirst after knowledge but know not how to secure it? “Give me knowledge or I shall die, has been the prayer of countless millions,” says David Swing, the great American divine.
CHAPTER XV
THE CALL OF THE ILLITERATES
Plato said, “I believe that every immortal soul is the offspring of a divine thought, of a divine purpose, and that God has in His mind a picture like unto which He would have everyone of us to become.” It cannot be that God so just, so merciful, ever had it in His mind that any human being should be ultimately and forever illiterate. It is not the will of our Heavenly Father that millions remain in ignorance or that thousands have filled illiterate graves, that
Knowledge to their eyes her ample page
Rich with the spoils of time did ne’er unroll,
nor is it by the will of the illiterates themselves but through the shortsightedness and selfishness of educated men.