SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Sir,-It is a matter of astonishment to me that anyone can indulge in such a matter-of-fact criticism of a short story as that given by A. H. Reed on the story Hear the Pennies Dropping, by Mary Stewart, which appeared in The Listener of April 16, 1948. This story of an elderly, unattractive woman, whose only interest in life was a vicarious love of children, and who, in the end, was bitterly hurt by them, is one of the most poignant I have ever read and I will never forget it. It subtly records and exemplifies life’s hardest lesson (never learnt in Sunday School) that though we cast our bread upon the waters we must never expect to get it back; and that it is to Job and the Jeremiahs we must go for essential truth. The story is satisfying, not only from the aspect of spiritual integrity, but in factual points criticised by Mr. Reed. From my own memory I consider it to preserve accurately the Sunday School atmosphere of the early decades of this century. It is pleasing to know that there is a writer in New Zealand who can so create, and that there is a journal such as The Listener to publish her work.
MARGARET
NELSON
(Kohimarama).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 16
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213SUNDAY SCHOOL. New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 16
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