Show remarkable FEAT r OF MEMORY children learn and recite thousands of verses the pastor of a church in a jersey town wished 0 o stimulate the memo ries of the children in his sunday school to this end he offered two prizes tha first to pupils over and the other to pupils under twelve who during an interval of three months would learn to recite the greatest number verses from the bible A was appointed to hear the contestants tor the prize and register the number of verses memorized the first prize was taken by a young girl of sixteen who bad corn to memory during this interval of ninety dais verses of scripture these passages covered the en tire new testament with the excel alon of two genealogies and included liberal selections from psalms gene fis and other parts of the old testa ment the winner of the second prize was a little sister of the other prize winner a child of eleven years she had learned verses during the contest some 19 veres were mem |