Amusing Sunday School Blunders.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XX, 16 November 1901, Page 943

Amusing Sunday School Blunders.

Stories of schoolboy blunders in wrestling with examination papers have been told so frequently in the past that the narator is now apt to be regarded as a bore in seeking an audience for fresh samples of juvenile ignorance. At the meeting of the Presbyterian Assembly in Dunedin last week, a reverend gentleman exploited a comparatively new field by relating some of his experiences as supervisor of Sunday school examinations. One child in describing- Abraham's conversation with the Almighty,

gave a new turn to the story by ascribing the following utterance to the Deity: “As the stars are in heaven, so will the number of your ancestors be"! Another briefly summed up the chief lesson to be learned from the Deluge as “Don't get drunk.” To a third the moral of the story of the Good Samaritan was, “Keep out of the way of thieves.” There was a decided turn of originality about another, however, who commenced to outline the same parable as follows: — “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves; the thieves sprang up and choked him”!