TWO ANECDOTES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16158, 12 March 1918, Page 3

TWO ANECDOTES.

A correspondent sends us the following stories, for the truth of whica he is able to vouch:— It happened in a Sunday-school in a charming holiday resort much fraquented l>y dwellers in the city, and on the plains. The little ones were listening to the "Old, Old Story." Wideopen eyes and bright faces betokened a very lively interest in the narration. Presently there ca'no a pause, broken at last by the eager voice of an inquisitive little chap of six: "Please, teacher, were you alive when Jesus was in thg world?" The gray-haired lady in charge, while candidly admittng that nianv summers liad passed over her, smilingly assured the seeker after facts that she could not go quite so far back as that! 11l this connexion perhaps another little anecdote is worth telling. It happened also in a_ school, not a Sabbath school, though, situated in the same charming resort. The" word monument had cropped up in a lesson. Some reference was made to the meaning of the word, and then to the uses of monuments. Standing on a prominent point on the confines of the little town, there is a notable monument famed throughout the Dominion for its historical associations. "W]iy <vas it there? the children were asked. Silence for a few moments, and then a winsome little little maid ventured: "Please, that is where Jesus (Christ is buried!" Our correspondent suggests that those who believe in religious education will have to become more active — after the war.