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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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he cake which you had put inthe closet, yet I went to the closet, and when I had closed the door,and it was all dark, I felt around till I got a piece of the cake, and Iate it. I did not know that God could see in the dark. I am verysorry that I have been so wicked and so naughty. And so littleWillie threw his arms around his mammas neck and laid his head upon her shoulderand wept very bit-terly. Once a manwent to steal cornout of his neigh-bors field. Hetook his little boywith him to holdthe bag open,while he shouldpull the corn andput it in the bag.After they hadreached the corn-field the fatherlooked this wayand that way, and looked about him in every direction, and whenhe had given the little boy the bag to hold open, the little boylooked at his father and said, Father, there is one direction thatyou have not looked yet. The father was quite frightened andsupposed that his son had seen some one coming in some direction.But the son said, You have not looked up. There is some one in
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Eye in the Pulpit. FISH IN AQUARIUM. 299 that direction I am sure who sees us. The father was so muchimpressed that he turned away from his sinful purpose, and returnedhome, never again to steal from anyone. Many years ago, among some of the denominations when theybuilt a church, they used to build the pulpit very high. It was builtalmost as high as the gallery. And when the people sat in thepews and desired to see the minister, they had to bend their headsback, and look up very high toward the pulpit. At Reading,Pennsylvania, there is still one of these old pulpits which was for-merly in use. On the under side of the shelf upon which theBible rested in that pulpit, there was painted a large eye. Andwhen the people would look up from the pews to see the minister,or towards the Bible, underneath this lid upon which the Biblerested they would always see this large eye. This eye would seemto look right down upon each one individually, and thus theywould constantly be reminded of the text

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