If Christian teaching is ever dull, part of the explanation is likely to be that it has failed to contain such stories and illustrations from daily life as were always found in the teaching of Christ himself.

Stories may hold our attention when nothing else can especially when they speak to the needs which lie closest to our hearts and lives. As a window brightens a room, an illustration familiar to us from daily experience can become the means of our seeing truths which we never recongnized before.