Honest Parents

An honest young man saw the truth from the Bible that he needed to be baptized into Christ to put on Christ (Galatians 3:27). He hesitated, though. He loved and honored his honest parents, and they had never been baptized. He could not bring himself to do something that might imply they did not go to Heaven.

His parents owned a country store. The teacher suggested, “Suppose, unknown to them, their scales were not correctly calibrated. Every time they charged for a pound, absolutely incorrect, the customers received less than for which they paid. Then, suppose a man from the State Bureau of Weights and Measures came by and showed them their scales were off. Wouldn’t they immediately change them?“

If they saw the truth that you now see, wouldn’t they obey? Wouldn’t they want you to obey the truth?