Show REMARKABLE FEAT OF MEMORY Children Learn and Recite Thousands of Bible Verses The pastor of a church In a Jersey town wished to stimulate the memories memo-ries of the children In his Sunday school To this end ho offered two prizes the first to pupils over and the other to pupils under twelvo who during an Interval of three months would learn to recite tho greatest number of verses from tho Bible A commltteo was appointed to hear tho contestants for the prize and register the number of verses memorized The first prlzo was taken by a young girl of sixteen who had committed com-mitted to memory during this Interval of ninety days 12230 verses of Scripture Scrip-ture These passages covered tho entire en-tire New Testament with the exception excep-tion of two genealogies and Included liberal selections from Psalms Genesis Gene-sis and other parts of the Old Testament Testa-ment The winner of tho second prize was a little sister of tho other prizewinner prize-winner a child of eleven years She had learned 715 verses During the contest some 19000 verses were memorized mem-orized |