Where They got Them.

Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1902, Page 2

Where They got Them.

Mr John Wanamaker, a prominent American statesman, has for years been the superintendent of what is the largest Sunday school in the United States. One Sabbath be told the children about a mission school that to be established in the city. “ And 1 want each one of you,” he said, “ to buy one brick and bring it here next Sunday. The bricks will be used in the construction of the mission school, and so each of you can feel he has an actual partin the building.” On the following Sunday the school was aglow with excitement. Each of the hundreds of boys and girls had one brick —some had two apiece—seme had even three. When Mr Wanamaker - stepped to the front of the platform there was a gleeful buzz that could not be repressed—and then the , superintendent saw nothing but bricks, for up into the air went a ■ forest of arms, and each hand' clutched a brick. And at the splendid showing, that proved how closely his suggestion had been followed,-Mr Wanamaker smiled a benign and satisfied approval. But the next day

eyed contractor, who was putting up a building near the Sunday school appeared before Mr Wanaixmkor with a bill for huge pile of bricks that bad literally disappeared from the face of the earth the morning previous. >