He
had to be an able man and a nimble-witted man. Mere piety might
shine in the prayer-meeting, in the class-room, at the quarterly
love-feast, but not in the Sabbath-school. I remember once when
Brother Butler was away they set John Snyder to teach us. John
didn't know any more than the law allowed, and we made him feel it,
until finally, badgered beyond endurance, he blurted out that all
he knew was that he was a sinner saved by grace. Maybe he couldn't
just tell where to find this, that, and t' other thing in the
Bible, but he could turn right to the place where it said that
though a body's sins were as scarlet, yet they should be white as
snow. It was regarded as a very poor sort of an excuse then, but
thinking it over here lately, it has seemed to me that maybe John
had the root of the matter in him after all.
The comparative scarcity of polemical athletes and the relative
plenty of the Miss Susie Goldrick kind of teachers, apparently
called into being the Berean Lesson Leaf system, with its Bible cut
up into lady-bites of ten or twelve verses, its Golden Topics,
Golden Texts, its apt alliterations, like:
S AMUEL
EEKS
AUL
ORROWING
and its questions prepared in tabloid form, suitable for the most
enfeebled digestions, see directions printed on inside wrapper.
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