An Easter Story
HERE is a sweetness and simplicity about the stories for children broadcast in the Kindergarten and Schools session that parents find most encouraging. But quite the most outstanding I’ve heard recently was Allona Priestley’s Easter story, "The Little Donkey," an account in the little donkey’s own words of how he carries Jesus into Jerusalern for the Feast of the. Passover. It was full of homely detailMartha chats to the donkey’s owner about the marketing for the big supper she’s preparing for the Master and His friends; the donkey, frightened by the children waving branches in front of his eyes, is steadied by the Master’s reassuring hand and voice. The young child’s delight in being someone else and seeing things from an _ entirely different viewpoint was sagely used to bring the happenings at Easter within his own experience, and the programme created a matter-of-fact piety that was never at odds with its informality.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 10
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157An Easter Story New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 10
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