OUR lesson was the fifth of Luke. I had explained to my little ones how fish were taken with nets, (illustrating by the fragment of a net I had picked up on the shore), and had told them that these nets were only let down at night, as in daylight the fish could see the nets and so avoid them. Going over the ground again, I asked, “What time was it when Simon was told to let down his net?”
“It was daytime.”
“Was that the best time?”
“No, Teacher,” came in chorus from the class. “Yes,” came from one voice alone, (a dear little Jewish maid.)
“Most of you said, ‘No.’ Why?” I continued.
“The fish would see the net,” was the expected answer.
“Now, Leah, you said, ‘Yes,’ tell us why you think it was the best time?”
“BECAUSE JESUS SAID TO,” was the simple and beautiful answer.
The class hour was over, the children had received their lesson, and I had got mine.
Ah! how far ahead of the keenest reasoning is the faith of a little child.
ML 11/16/1902