"Say Fellows-": Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Is
By Smith, Wade C.

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Excerpt: Fifty Practical Talks with Boys On Life's Big Issues By WADE C. SMITH Author of "The Little Jetts Telling Bible Stories" New YorkChicago Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh 1921 Adapted from the Author's weekly Sunday School Lesson Treatments in The Sunday School Times, by permission of the Editors. New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street Dedicated to her whose instruction and example first inspired in me the purposes and ideals which make for patience, courage, endurance and faith MY MOTHER Introduction "My teacher told me to write a composition on the last picture I looked at," said Henry, a sixth grader, when he came in from school the other day. "I had seen a picture of a fire engine," he added, "so I wrote: "'With a clatter of hoofs and a whirr of wheels, the fire engine dashed around the corner. The driver was crouched low in the seat. He was driving like Jehu.' "But I could not spell Jehu, so I went to my teacher and asked, 'Please, how do you spell Jehu?' "'Spell what, Henry?' "'Jehu.' "'What in the world are you trying to say, boy?' "'I am trying to tell how fast a fire engine driver goesas fast as a chariot driver in the time of King David, I think it was.' "'Well, Henry, I think you had better say the engine driver drove as fast as an ancient charioteer.'" "And did you?" I asked. "No, sir; I said, 'he was driving like mad.'" It is plain that this grammar-school teacher had never heard of the Bible character who had interested her pupil, but the author of this book knows how to spell "Jehu" to a questioning boy, or to a "gang" of boys, or to a Sunday-school class of boys. Is there any boy who does not have a motor in his mind? A writer of a method article in a recent issue of The Sunday School Times related an incident of a chap whom he described as "a motor-minded boy." He said that he was sitting on top of a school desk at recess, kicking back with...

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