A prominent American Bishop tells this incident from his own life.

A prominent American Bishop tells this incident from his own life. “When I was a small boy, at our Sunday School they gave reward cards for attendance.

When you had thirteen of the smallest size, you received a larger one and when you had four of this size, representing fifty-two Sundays of attendance, you re- ceived a large card. You were summoned before the whole School and presented with this card.

To properly celebrate such an event, I was all dressed up and had on a pair of new red-top boots. My father had me sit on the front seat so that the other children would not muss me up and so we rode to Church. When my name was called I marched proudly up the aisle.

The woman who was the Superintendent, held the card up high for all to see. At the bottom of it, in large letters, were these words, ‘Thou God seest me.’ In a stern, severe manner she said to me, ‘Now remember that wher- ever you go, God is looking at you. No matter where you go nor what you do, God is watching you.

So be careful what you do. God will see all you do. He is watching you all the time.’ “T took that card from her hand, marched down the aisle, did not stop at our seat, but kept right on and walked out of the Church.

I then went out into the woods and then I threw that card as far as I could throw it. To think that God who made the world and owned all of it, had to pick out a little feller like me and snoop around and watch him all the time, spy on him to see if he did something he ought not to. It took a long time for me to get that idea out of my head.” We all know this was an inaccurate interpretation of that pas- THE BIBLE SCHOOL LESSON ap sage of Scripture, but it imbedded itself just as deeply in that boy mind, as the true one would have done.

If then, during this impressionable age, the teacher can bring the accurate teachings of Christ to the pupil in efficient manner, these truths become a very part of the mind of the child. By a wise use of illustrations the teacher can bring this to pass in the period when impressions made, last all the life: ‘Thy words are a delight unto my heart.”

Young people want something new continually, and so do old folks. Both classes have left the Sunday School largely for the same reason. They say, “That’s all old stuff to me. I know what they will talk about before I go there.”

Illustrations because of their exceeding diversity in kind and application furnish this something new. They can even make the class forget that the lesson is an old one. It is studied with that eagerness that makes for deep and lasting impression.