Article October 8, 1966 Issue

Learning from a Train-spotter

[Of special interest to juniors]

CHRISTINE McMICKING

When you ask questions about God, one of the first answers you are given is that God is everywhere. Then you may wonder how you know that God is everywhere. Here is a story to help you find the answer.

One day when I was waiting at an English railway station for my train to arrive, I saw a boy sitting all by himself on a wooden bench at the far end of the station, just where most of the locomotives stopped. He had a notebook on his knee; and every time a train pulled up, and even when one rushed through without stopping, he would write something in his book.

I was curious to know what he was doing, so I sat down beside him and asked if he would explain. "I'm train-spotting," he said; and then he showed me a neatly ruled page on which he had written down the type, and the number if possible, of each locomotive that passed through the station.

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