When Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, died, the Sunday-school
remembered that he used to come in every now and then during
the years of his history, and repeat just a single verse from
the superintendent’s desk; and the next Lord’s Day after the
funeral, they marched up in front of it in a long line, and each
scholar quoted any of the texts that he could recollect. The
grown people wept as they saw how much there was of the Bible in
the hearts of their children, which this one pastor had planted.
Yet he was a very timid and old-fashioned man; he said he had no
gift at talking to children; he could only repeat God’s Word. If
preachers and teachers would follow such a simple example, what
a power there would be in their ministrations. (Text.)
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