From the Sunday School Conference of 1929 –

“Many have known the wonderful effect of a truly great teacher. …

“One such teacher, with a wide reputation as a wonderful leader of boys, was plowing in his field when called upon by a man interested in the high type of farming he was doing. After a short conversation, the farmer suddenly reached in his pocket and produced the stub of a pencil and a little red diary, in which he wrote something. ‘May I ask what you were writing?’ The farmer replied, ‘Something in our conversation called to my mind an incident, the very kind I have been searching for for days to illustrate the lesson to my class.’

“It is ever thus. This man was a great teacher, because he prepared the lesson well and spent hours thinking of applications to make that lesson ring true in the hearts of his beloved boys.”

– George R. Hill, Jr.