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Religious Instruction 301
which they hold as indispensable for the moral
and social future of the child.
When we pass from the conception of provi-
dence to the conception of sin, we find in child-
ren the same natural logic. A small girl, an
only child, asked :
" How could God allow his
only child to be killed? You could not have
done it to me !
" And a small boy said, " It is a
very good thing for us that the Jews crucified
Christ, so that nothing happened to us."
These are both poles of an emotional and a
practical way of looking at the Atonement.
Within them all similar circumferences are
drawn. To a more comic and naive sphere of
ideas belongs the proposal of a small girl to
call the Virgin Mary God’s wife. Also there
is the story of a boy who spoke in school of Our
Lord and the two other Lords, meaning the
Trinity.
From the classes in Bible history and cate-
chism, there are innumerable examples of
children reading the words incorrectly, and
misunderstanding the ideas they stand for. A
boy, warned to keep the lamps burning, an-
swered contentedly, " We have petroleum
gratis." Another, asked whether he would
like to be born again, said, " No, I might be
turned into a girl." These are typical ex-
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