A Sunday School superintendent was giving a talk on repentance.

Illustration 4. A Sunday School superintendent was giving a talk on repentance. He was not sure that the boys and girls knew what that word repent- ance meant. So he asked them this question, “Can any boy or girl tell x 168 THE ILLUSTRATION me what repentance is?”

A little girl raised her hand. He said to her, “Well, Annie, tell me what repentance is.” She replied, “It is being sorry enough to quit.” Question 1 Would you classify this among the objectionable smart sayings of children?

Question 2 Would this make a good basis for a talk to children of the ages 6-8? Question 3 Would it make a better foundation for a children’s talk or to bring out a point in a sermon to adults? {I-189] Illustration 5. A woman came into a shoe-store in a very timid, shy way. A clerk stepped up to her and said, “What can I do for you?”

She replied, “I want a pair of shoes for a little girl.” “What number ?” The woman said, ‘‘Why, the girl is twelve years old.” “But what number does she wear ?”

“T don’t know.” “But what number did you buy for her the last time you bought her a pair of shoes?”

The woman hesitated, found difficulty in speaking and then said, “Why,.you see she has never had a pair of shoes, You see, sir, her father used to drink up about all the money he earned. But since the saloons have been closed up, he has sobered up and changed.

This morning he said to me, ‘Mother, I want you to go up town and get Sissy a pair of shoes.’ ” Question 1 Would this make a suitable illustration for the basis of a temper- ance talk to older children? Question 2 What element of strong appeal is there in the illustration, that would bring the illustration directly home to those that heard it? Question 3 Would it be better to give this talk to a Junior Church group or to the children in the average morning congregation?