Emphasis Preaching Journal
Big Beginnings
Commentary
Children are often naively honest, as a friend of mine found one day. He was visiting a class at his parish school. The teacher was helping her pupils memorize the names and capitals of all fifty states. They ran a drill, trying to pool their memories and recite all fifty names. Unfortunately, they only came up with 42. My friend, an elderly priest, laughingly reminisced that in his youth, he had to recite the names of all the states all by himself, with no help from the rest of the class.
