Sharp Enough To Stick There is another sense in which truth, to be effective must be paint ed. It lias to be the opposite of dull. Now there are situations where truth can be dull, and wel come. If you are looking up in the encyclopaedia the population of North Dakota, or trying to find out what niacin is. you don't want to be amused, startled or entertained. You just want plain fact, plainly stated. Professors and other studi ous people arc trained to absorb truth no matter how dully it is presented. It's a poor student w ho can t learn as much from a dry professor as from a witty one. But most human situations are not in class-rooms. Truth that is not dry. ought not to sound dry. Truth that's worth remembering ought to be told in such a w ay that it can't be forgotten. Again, our Lord's teaching was of this sort. He never told a dull truth, and he never told his bright truth in a dull way. His sayings are all point ed; they have a way of sticking in the mind What he says flashes in the eye like sunlight on steel. There was no one around taking notes wh' ii Jesus spoke His say ings are remembered not because somebody had a ;.d notebook but because what hr said, stuck.

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