Humours of Examinations.

Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 137, 11 June 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

Humours of Examinations.

The Rev. Harris Cohen, in the current number of ' Young Israel,' supplements the Rev. A. A. Green's article on this subject in the same magazine last month by some of his own experiences. One day, after a school entertainment, when the boys had evidently the ' liviug piotures ' of the grevious day vividly before them, Mr. ohen conducted an examination in Scripture. * What did the angel say to Hagar when he met herein the desert?' he asked one child, and, thinking of the vßry • tableau ' he had taken part in, he replied, with a smile on his face, ' Where are you goincf to, my pretty maid P' On another oooasion Mr. Cohen was translating to a olass the seventh verse of the first chapter of Genesis, which reads as follows : -' Aud God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters whioh were above the firmament.' 'Please sir,' asked the youngest in the class, what did they want water above the firmament forf And ere Mr. Cohen had time to offer an explanation, another boy exolaimed, « I know, sir ; for the angels to have a bath !' Among other r«plies given by Mr. Cohen is one he received from a child in an infant school. ' Who can tell me why God rested oa the seventh day ?' he asked. For a while there was perfect silence in the room, but soon there came the answer, « 'Cos it was Sunday.' To the question, « Wtfere is God P' nearly all the children replied, < In Heaven.' 'But that,' says Mr. Cohen, 'was hardly the answer I wanted. Some indeed oame out with amusincr replies. One said, "In his house; " auotber, "In school; " a third, "lUpstaira ; " but from one dear little fellow onh' came the answer I longedfor — "Everywhere." '

The Japanese are kind to animals, and hold them in hononr. Among the monuments erected to commemorate the war in China ia one to the horaea that fell during the war.