1963年,一名叫玛莉·班尼的女孩写信给《芝加哥论坛报》,因为她实在搞不明白,为什么她帮妈妈把烤好的甜饼送到餐桌上,得到的只是一句“好孩子”的夸奖,而那个什么都不干,只知道捣蛋的戴维(她的弟弟)得到的却是一个甜饼.西勒·库斯特是《芝加哥论坛报》儿童版的主持人.十多年来,孩子们有关“上帝为什么不奖赏好人,为什么不惩罚坏人”之类的来信,他收到过不下千封.每每翻阅这样的信件,他的心情 In 1963, a girl named Mary Benny wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune because she did not understand why she helped her mom put baked cookies on the table and got only one “ Good boy, ”and the one who did not do anything, just know that troubled David (her brother) got a cookie.Ciller Custer is the host of the children’s edition of the Chicago Tribune For more than a decade, the children have received no less than a thousand letters about such reasons as “why God does not reward good people and why they do not punish bad people.” Every time they read such letters, his mood