REPETITION | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1887

REPETITION.

IN his recent address before the Congregational Club, Rev. W. H. Brodhead, of Wakefield, told quite effectively the following story which has pertinent application to public speakers who tell the same thing over and over: A gentleman, addressing a Sabbath-school in Newark, described a family in distress, and the disposition a little girl made of a half-dollar given to her. He offered twenty-five cents to any child who could guess correctly what she did with her half-dollar. A boy immediately piped up, "Bought a basket with it." "But how did you happen to guess that?" "Give me my quarter, please, sir." "Yes, but first tell me how you could have guessed that." "Give him a quarter if he guessed it right," said other boys in the rear of the room. "I was in Jersey City last Sunday and heard you tell the same story!" was the quick reply on receiving the quarter.—Congregationalist.