SCENE III. [David with his shepherd's crook in one hand and his sling in the other picks up five smooth stones out of the brook and puts them in a shepherd's bag which he has. Goliath appears with his shield-bearer before him. He looks about, sees David, whom he regards with great scorn.] Goliath: Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. David: Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands. [David puts his hand in his bag, takes an imaginary stone, slings it and smites the Philistine in his forehead. Goliath falls. goes up, draws out the sword and cuts off Goliath's head.] David David: In the name of the LORD of Hosts who gives us the victory! The Bible and Religious Art THE WIDE USE OF PICTURES IN EDUCATION We ought to form the habit of looking at a beautiful picture every day.Goethe. There is no limit to the good which is effected by placing good pictures before ourselves.-Ruskin. T HE use of pictures in education is steadily increasing. In the early days the walls of school rooms were bare and unattractive; to-day there are few schools so poor that they cannot possess at least one copy of some great painting, perhaps in colors, or a good photograph of a magnificent building, or a reproduction of a great historical scene. The textbooks of the public schools are now for the most part attractively illustrated with good pictures. The use of pictures as an aid to religious education is also becoming general. Fortunately for this field the greatest pictures of the world are upon religious subjects. Religious pictures make an especially strong appeal to young children. A mother wrote recently to a religious journal saying, "A picture of a little girl kneeling at her mother's knee hangs in my children's nursery. The baby girl has studied it so closely that she is not content to kneel anywhere for prayer but at her mother's knee. My other daughter, whose age is ten, likes the picture of Christ in Gethsemane, which hangs in her room, and she always kneels in that attitude.' A little American girl, ten years old, was taken by her parents to see the great picture by Holman Hunt, "The Light of the World," which hangs in a chapel of Keble College, Oxford, England. After they had left the chapel, her parents missed the little girl, and going back, found that she had returned to the picture and was gazing at it with rapt attention. The same child, when three years old, was seen one day looking with the greatest earnestness at a picture of the head of the suffering Christ, which hung upon the wall of her father's study. After a while she said to herself, "Poor man, dear man!" Many instances are recorded by library workers of children who come to the library and demand to see some of the great religious |