A Child’s Bible Text Mistake
A CHILD's mistake in the words of a Bible text will sometimes give us a gleam of a child's liability to misunderstand the tenor of such a text; and it will suggest afresh the importance of carefully explaining both the separate words and the connected sense of every Bible verse memorized by the little ones. A bright little fellow of three years old had been hearing at family prayers and in primary class, the story of Paul's shipwreck, and he seemed full of sympathy with Paul when he was fairly on the Italian shores, bound by land toward Rome. The golden text for the third Sunday in April—as he understood it—seemed, to the little fellow, a peculiarly appropriate one, as Paul was greeted by his fellow-Christians from the metropolis. “He thanked God and took a carriage,” was his idea of that text; and it seemed a reasonable idea, under the circumstances.—Sel.