THE Sunday-School World. VOL. II.-No. 4.] THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, JOHN A. BROWN, President. FRED. A. PACKARD, Corresponding Secretary and Editor of the Society's Publications. M. A. WURTS, Recording Secretary and Secretary of Missions. LEVI KNOWLES, Treasurer. ALEXANDER KIRKPATRICK, Superinten dent of Depositories. GEORGE S. SCOFIELD, Superintendent of Depository, 599 Broadway, New York. THE "WORD METHOD" APPLIED TO Just published by the American Sunday-School Union of letters as elements of words. knowledge of the art of reading can be obtained vious for ADULTS, who have neither time nor patience to endure the tedious and seemingly REV. J. H. BURTIS, Associate Secretary of useless process of alphabetical and monosyllabic Missions, 599 Broadway, New York. instruction which is usually adopted. The BIBLE READER is published in a cheap form for general use. The TABLETS, which are of use in teaching large classes, may be had in sheets or on cards. For terms see SUPPLEMENT. A circular, explaining and illustrating the principle, and containing the opinions of eminent teachers and philologists, will be forwarded upon postpaid application. Samples of the book and tablets will also be furnished by mail to teachers,-especially .60 of Mission and Adult Schools-who will remit fifteen cents for payment of postage. .49 .53 .54 FIRST EXPERIMENT OF THE WORD "THE BIBLE READER."-We trust our .53 Addresses on Stilts... The Mission School-How Set in Motion.. Peace in Death.... No Morning and Evening of the Seventh Day. .58 Obedience a Test of Love.. .61 Perpetuity of the Sabbath.. .61 A Notable Fact... .61 "Mind what you say, 62 Your Part; God's Part.... .64 "WASHINGTON, March 17, 1862. "Imagine about sixty men and ten 50 .52 ..54 .61 63 "Imagine Dr. and myself, on one ...63 side of the room, with five or six white folks to look on, and the card (tablet) pinned up against the wall with the first verse of the .64 Bible. After singing a hymn and prayer .64 [APRIL, 1862. by Dr. -—————, he commenced the instruction, and in thirty minutes one half of the sixty had learned the words and could read the verse to their great delight." We are confident that there is not the least exaggeration in this statement, and that it is only necessary that the advantages of the "WORD METHOD" as applied to "THE BIBLE READER," should be known struction of ADULTS especially. We have to insure its general adoption for the insupply for the West and South, and must already large demands for a gratuitous beg those who have the means of aiding us, to do so, as we have not a dollar that can be properly appropriated to this most meritorious purpose. In our donations we are restricted to SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. For The Sunday-School World. THE LOST OPPORTUNITY. When I was about fifteen years old, I was induced to take a class in a mission school in Grand street, in the City of New York. The school was entirely made up of poor-very poor children. My class was composed of five young boys, from seven to nine years of age, and they were very punctual in their attendance and uniformly attentive and well behaved. I was not then a christian, and oh! since then, I have often looked back and have thought I might, perhaps, have been instrumental in saving their souls, had I then been a follower of the Redeemer, I well remember, one Sabbath, a young boy named Frederick, one of my class, was not there. Another Sabbath passed, and again his seat was vacant. In the evening, a message came to me that he was sick and wanted to see me. way to him, I called on our superintendent, and together, we went to see my sick On my scholar. He lived with his mother in a tenement house, in poorly furnished but neat and clean apartments; and in an inner room, in bed, with a face much swollen, we found my little scholar. I was inexperienced and not fit to talk to little Frederick, but our superintendent drew near the bed and taking his hand, spoke to him feelingly of Jesus. The next visit, we were told he could not live, and after talking to him a while, our superintendent asked him if he was afraid to die? At first, he replied he was not, but afterward, said he was. Mr. spoke to him of heaven and we kneeled and prayed for him. In a few days, he was beyond our cares and prayers. It is many years since this occurred, but never have I gone to my class since, without thinking as I looked into the eyes so lovingly turned upon me,--perhaps, today is my last opportunity of meeting these dear boys this side of eternity. Oh, how shall I persuade them to seek Jesus while it is called to-day! Dear fellow teacher! have you had such thoughts when you have met your classes? Perhaps, the very next time you sit down For The Sunday-School World. A Sunday-school teacher was deeply scholar poured out from the fullness of her heart, the story of her conversion. She told her how God had met her, and by the discipline of his Providence in severe trials and by the influence of His grace had brought her to bow, a penitent believer, at the feet of Jesus. Never did there seem to be a clearer manifestation of God's work before them, may be the last. Perhaps, attendance. The teacher sought her in her in the soul. Man could but stand aside next week you may be sent for to see one of your boys or girls in a last illness. Oh, if such should be the case, as you stand by their dying bed, could you look back on the many Sabbaths you have had with them, and feel that on every one of those holy days you have tried faithfully to teach them the words of Jesus, and have lifted to Him a prayer for his spirit to seal the truth on the young mind? Dear teacher, let a fellow-servant urge you not to fail on every Sabbath to teach salvation through Jesus Christ. Let this be the central truth around which all other teachings and thoughts shall gather. May I also ask, if superintendents are at all times ready to go with their teachers to the homes of their pupils, and have they always ready a word for the sick and dying, and also a word for the living, and are they trying to enforce the teachings given by us every Sabbath-day? T. B. WHY NOT OTHERS? Our worthy Treasurer, (L. KNOWLES, Esq.,) whose valuable services as Treasurer are given gratuitously to our institution. with which he has been connected as a Manager a score of years, is especially gratified and encouraged by such notes as the following: "Will the Treasurer of the American Sunday-School Union accept of the enclosed ($35,) thirty-five dollars, and use the same for extending Christ's cause by means of Sunday-schools. The handwriting is evidently that of a lady. If a thousand could be found of like mind, what a glorious work our Society could accomplish with the promised blessing of God! Why will not others do likewise? home. The child welcomed her, (for a and rejoice that God had done it. Joyful meeting for both teacher and scholar-none more joyful until they shall be permitted to meet at God's right hand above, to part never again! Soon after, the scholar publicly assumed For a while she attended regularly, then the vows of Christ, and we believe has thus she was missing. Again the teacher went far proved herself a faithful and consistent for her, but the girl was out, and the follower of the Lord Jesus. And the teamother said that "the reason her daughter cher, was she not encouraged, think you, had not been for the last few Sundays was to persevere in her efforts, and if ever that she was proud-spirited, and was unready to faint, or grow weary with the willing to come unless she could dress as perversity or heedlessness of her class, will well as the others." The mother (who was a Christian) said that "their family was not the remembrance of that dear scholar large, and their means small, and that she put new life into her zeal, and shed a could not always afford to gratify her clearer light upon the path of duty? Not that we must always expect to see daughter, even if she approved of it, which the results of our labors in Christ's cause she did not for persons in their circum-in this life, but ever work on, knowing missing scholar, and after a Sunday or The teacher left a kind message for her that His approving smile is resting upon us, and that nothing done in His name and two she again made her appearance in the for His sake will miss its reward in eterschool. And Sunday after Sunday, and nity. month after month, she was always found in her place in the class, meeting her teacher with looks of affection, her lesson thoroughly prepared, and she seemingly earnest in the pursuit of the knowledge that maketh wise unto salvation. stances." But there came a change, and the teacher's heart was again saddened by the irregularity of her attendance, and all her visits and persuasions had but little effect. Now it was pride and vanity in another form. The young girl had become a great student, and was ambitious of excelling in her class. Praised by her mates in the daily school for her wit and imagination, and looked up to by them as possessing a superior mind, all her time and energy were given to intellectual attainments. Her Bible was neglected, and God forgot ten! NEGLECTED CHILDREN. E. Our friends, especially those engaged in forming or teaching what are called mission schools,―are doubtless interested in whatever means are employed to diminish the number and provide for the social as well as moral improvement of the neglected children of our cities and large towns. We can collect hundreds of them together for an hour or two on the Lord's day, and teach them a little reading, and a little of singing, and scatter seeds of divine truth in their uncultivated hearts and mindshoping and indeed looking for a harvest more or less abundant. It is a good work. And what did the teacher do? Sit down It has been greatly blessed. It has enlisted despondingly with folded hands? No! some of the most devoted and godly of our Time after time she sought the wanderer. teaching corps, and has amply repaid all At every season of special religious interest, the toil and patience and constancy of its or whenever the ordinances of God's house supporters. But it is a burden upon the invited to special religious meditation, she wrote to her, and pleaded with her for her heart to think that when the hour of insoul's sake to consecrate herself in the struction is past, so many of the rude and bloom of her youth to her Saviour. Nor careless throng must repair to places that did she forget to use the Christian's most they call home, but which are pervaded powerful weapon-prayer. Often did she with influences sadly at war with those bear her on her heart to the Throne of Grace, and entreat that God, by the converting influence of His Holy Spirit, would be pleased to number her among His children. Four or five years passed away, when one bright Sunday morning after the exercises of the school were ended, the teacher was called aside by her wayward pupil, and a private interview was requested for the next day. The teacher had observed the gentle past, but had forborne to question her, and so was not much surprised at the request. They met at the time appointed, and the seriousness of the scholar for some months which the school has excited. It is a problem still unsolved, how to deal with poverty and vice in families, without violating their natural and civil relations which lie at the foundation of human society. But there have been very successful attempts made to mitigate the evil which it may be beyond our power to remedy, and among them the New York Juvenile Asylum, whose tenth report is before us, holds a prominent place. Its working is very direct and simple. There is a comfortable dwelling called a "House of Reception," into which were drawn last year, 300 children under the average age of eleven years. Of these upwards of 500 were truants, vagrants or pilferers, and the rest beggars or "unfortunates," a majority of whom were half or Notices to Correspondents. Approved communications on any subject connected with the improvement and extension of Sunday-schools, or the religious instruction of children and youth, will be welcomed to the columns of The Sunday-School World. They should be forwarded at least a week before the first Wednesday of each month. teachers or friends of Sunday-schools, which may be regarded as of general interest, are particularly desired. whole orphans-and 414 could not read-Brief Reports or notices of meetings of depraved and vicious habits had already become fixed in most of them, and who can wonder? That life in the streets is not so much a choice as a necessity with these little Arabs, and that if they had decent homes they would not be so ready to leave them, appears from the fact that though the gates of the Home are open, and there is an air of freedom which surprises visitors, yet only one of the 864 inmates, left the Asy lum during the whole year. Members of the Society and contributors to its funds, who desire it, and are willing to pay postage, will be furnished with the paper gratuitously. THE Sunday-school World APRIL, 1862. For interesting matter crowded out The success which has attended the of our regular sheet, see SUPPLEMENT. transportation of these children to the West (chiefly Illinois,) and their settlement in good homes, is very encouraging. Distributed as they are through sections of the country, where labour, even of little hands, is in demand, and where the urgent and manifold temptations of a city street are unknown, it is reasonably expected that they will become respectable and useful members of society. 66 ADDRESSES ON STILTS. We heard the other day, a capital story, and a true one, told of a certain high judicial dignitary in a neighbouring State. He was addressing Sunday-school children, and had begun by saying that he should speak to them in language which all might understand. After which he concluded in this wise: "And now, children, do you desire to know what it is that you all want,-every one of you? I will tell you. You all want an organic law and a fundamental basis. Whether those children went home with a realizing sense" of what they wanted, we are not informed. Another true story. A clergyman had invited a brother pastor to address his little flock, and very sensibly cautioned him at the outset against using too long words. The speaker got along nicely until near the close, when he remarked, "I will now give you a summary of what I have been saying." At this the clergyman who was sitting close behind, pulled the speaker's sleeve and told him that "summary" was too hard a word for them. "Your pastor tells me," continued the orator, "that you do not understand the meaning of a summary. A summary, my little friends, is an abbreviated synopsis.-Church Journal. HEAVENLY KNOWLEDGE. -An infant, standing on the top of a mountain, may see much further than a giant at its base; and even so the lisping babe, whom Jesus has taken from a mother's bosom to His own, excels in knowledge the profoundest of philosophers and greatest of divines.-Dr. Guthrie. A SUNDAY-SCHOOL IN OPERATION.-We commend this sensible article in our present number to thoughtful superintendents and teachers. Whatever differences of opinion there may be in respect to some of the author's views, the substance and spirit of the article cannot fail to be satisfactory. We could not divide it without weakening its force. TO CORRESPONDENTS.—Our contributing friends will please bear in mind that we should have their favours by the TWENTIETH OF THE MONTH to ensure their appearance in the following number. RETENTION OF OLDER SCHOLARS. In a late number of the Sunday-School World we called the attention of our readers to a recent discussion of this subject, by the New York City Sunday-school Society of the Methodist Church, "By what means shall we retain our Sundayschool pupils under our influence?" Some of the suggestions we have already quoted, with such comments as occurred to us. There are others not less important. It is mentioned as an evil "that older scholars become restless from long tuition in the school, and tired of the monotonous round of studies," and it is suggested that it "would awaken new life and energy to give them employment, either in teaching smaller classes, or assisting in some of the services of the school." We are not able to see how this remedy could be applied without falling into the error which our friends previously deplore, viz., the introduction of teachers who are too young to secure the respect and deference which are desirable in such a relation. Is it not worthy of consideration too, whether the "restlessness from long tuition," and the weariness of "the monotonous round of studies," are not like malignant tumors on the natural body,—— remediable only by excision? Why should “long tuition" occasion restlessness, except because it is unseasonable or inappropriate tuition? If the tuition at fourteen is suited to that age, why should it occasion restlessness more than the tuition of the first month's attendance? On the contrary, should not the attachment to the teacher, the school and the associations of the place (if properly cherished), have become strong enough to survive many disagreeable changes? Surely there is no need of a "monotonous round of studies" while we have such a volume as the Holy Scriptures for a text-book! Besides, may it not be questioned, whether scholars who have become "restless" and "tired" under their teachers, are in a frame or temper of mind to become teachers themselves? If a deep sense of their own obligation to the school for the intellectual and spiritual profit they have obtained there, prompts a Sunday-school pupil, at a suitable age, to accept the post of a teacher, we may hope for large success from the appointment. But if, jaded and harassed by a wearisome routine of uninteresting and profitless exercises, they fly for relief to some vacant teacher's seat, are we warranted to expect the fruit will be any better than the tree? The organization of the older pupils into separate Bible-classes being accomplished, much will depend on the selection of teachers for such classes. Our friends of the New York Conference advocate the appointment of persons "far in advance of the scholars, who are qualified to illustrate the word of God with history, philosophy and science." Such a qualification is of value to all grades of teachers, but in the selection of teachers for such a class of Bible students, we should regard sound judgment, warm-hearted piety and a large acquaintance with human nature as the prime qualifications. At that critical juncture in the great battle with "the world, the flesh and the devil," long ranges are out of place. It must be a hand-to-hand struggle, and the citadel itself, not the outposts, must be the point of grand assault. As to the Bible-class room, it should be quiet, comfortable and attractive, and properly furnished with seats, table and books for the teacher and class. We should not object to written essays, (which our New York friends recommend,) but we should rely much more on such brief oral discussion as would naturally be elicited by question and answer. Reading in such a class, even of essays composed by mem bers, is apt to produce listlessness. Success been settled by emigrants from New Eng- The people are, as a general thing, great workers and great readers. Indeed the greatest wonder is that so many who can read intelligently are willing to read trash. But for the Sunday-school I do not know what bounds there would be to this trashy reading. Sensation magazines and tales of low adventure or successful crime or abominable licentiousness are found every where. The cry is still for something new and marvellous. The people will read something. These flashy volumes are at noon, I was cut off from meeting with another Sunday-school during the day, as had been my practice in former years. A pleasant Sabbath morning, found a good congregation in the church,--that beautiful house of God. At the close of the service, several expressed their sympathy with my subject. One man cordially shook my hand whom I was told was the same man mentioned in the Sunday-School Journal in the year 1845, who met us in the year 1837 on the canal bridge near where the church now stands, and advised us to abandon all idea of any Sunday-school in that quarter, asuring us that opposition would surely crush it. This man is now a constant attendant at church, and his wife is a member; and their children regularly attend the Sunday-school. We have no space for further extracts or comments, but cannot forbear to express the pleasure it gives us to see the working men in our Sunday-schools pushing their inquiries into the remediable defects in our mode of operation. And if, as they say, "it is painful to contemplate the few who are converted in our Sabbath-schools, compared with the many who for years are placed under our culture and training," we may have much faith in the good re-tractive, are pompously advertised, puffed-had within five years been removed by sults of these unostentatious, familiar, practical discussions, to produce the desired reformation. by the papers, scattered by book pedlers A FAR REACHING BEAM FROM A plying wholesome and attractive reading. In one of the suburban Sunday-schools of Philadelphia, (known as the Landreth school, we believe,) considerable attention has been given to securing good attendance. A late report shows that one girl, whose mother is a widow, has been present twice every Sabbath for six years next May, with the exception of two Sabbaths, when she was confined with scarlet fever. Another has been present every Sabbath for four years, except when detained by sickness. A third has been a member of the school from infancy and constant in attendance. The example of these children was made known to a pastor of a church in Western New York, who determined to use it as a stimulus to the members of his own school. So that the light of the exemplary conduct of a humble member of the Landreth school on the southern border of Philadelphia, shines away off even to the banks of the Mohawk! For The Sunday-School World. EDUCATION IN MICHIGAN. It has been often said that common learning is more generally diffused in the New England States than in any other section of the country, and it is observed by travellers in those districts which have A NARRATIVE OF FACTS. It is now seventeen years since the writer first furnished for the old Sunday-School Journal, some articles under the above head. Another short visit recently made to one only of those Sunday-schools, seems to call for another brief record. Being on my way to the New York State At two o'clock the Sunday-school met in the school-room. From forty to fitty scholars were present, and a small company of teachers. Still the few make up in zeal what was lacking in numbers. They felt the necessity, and the value of the work. The pastor was now the superintendent. Since my last visit, two years ago, Mr. Pierson, then the superintendent, had gone to his reward. Mr. P., had been for years a faithful teacher under that veteran leader Mr. Littel, who preceded him. Two faithful men-active leaders in the blessed work death. God's ways are not as our ways. To me it was a blessed privilege "above the common walks of life," to meet that day with that little band. We prayed and talked, and sung together, and some of us I am sure anticipated by faith, a happier day." 66 Before dismissing the school, the pastor distributed to each a copy of the SundaySchool Banner (now the Child's World") that had reached them by mail from the Sunday School Union. It was a pleasing thought that those papers were being sent continually to these dear children of the mountains, from the children's mites of our own Sunday-school in Brooklyn. And as these teachers and scholars took my hand and separated to their homes, up and down the valley and far up the mountains, carrying their papers and library books with them, my heart was glad that we had been able in any degree to do good to this beloved people, who at our first acquaintance with them twenty-four years ago, were so destitute of the means of grace. I may mention a trifling incident that occurred as we were leaving the schoolroom. A little boy of five years, who had patiently sat beside his mother, took hold of my coatsleeve, and, hand-over-hand, pulling down my face to his, with a soft voice, said in my ear, I like you!" My heart and tongue replied, taking him in my arms, my dear little fellow, and I like you! Turning to the good pastor I said, the salutation of your little scholar has vastly over-paid me for my poor efforts to-day. Passing the graveyard on our way to the parsonage, I enquired if Mr. Littel and Pierson were both buried there. "Yes, both of them," said he, and opening the gate, he led me first to the grave of Mr. Littel, on whose headstone was an appropriate inscription; "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Near by was the grave of Mr. Pierson, on whose stone is written, "There is rest in heaven." 66 As we were leaving the graveyard, filled with nearly all who had died in that vicinity during a hundred years, Stop," said Mr. M., as he turned aside to a beautiful stone at the head of a grave on which the grass was just beginning to grow; "Here," said he, "we laid a few months ago, Mrs. J. N. She was one of the many of this valley who had neglected her soul. She was the wife of a man in good circumstances as to this world, and the mother of a family of children, I was one evening called to go in haste to her dying bed. Her physician had told the family that she would probably last but a few hours. As I went to her bed, she said, Mr. M., do pray for me.' I said, 'Do you pray for yourself? Her reply was, how can I pray? for nobody ever taught me to pray! nor I never prayed!!' I knelt," said he, "and prayed for her soul as on the confines of the eternal world; and she repeated after me every word of the prayer, And, I then pointed her to Christ as her only hope. Sunday-school of any name, could be found BROOKLYN, N. Y. A TEACHER. avail themselves of means of improvement. I would be glad if I could persuade them to take such a paper as the SundaySchool World, or to read such books as the Teacher Taught and Teaching, but they are not disposed to do it. It is hard to turn them away as their purpose and motive are good, and yet it seems hardly right to keep them, knowing as I do, that their instruction is little more than mechanical. Though attendance upon the Sundayschool is a serious addition to my labours and responsibilities on the Lord's day, nothing would induce me to forego it but the failure of health, or the appearance of some person, who combined in himself the essential elements of a leader. I have many perplexing questions about the uses and abuses of the library, but will trouble you with no more just now. S. For the Sunday-School World. A PASTOR'S EXPERIENCE. When I took charge of the congregation at present under my care, I found the THE MISSION SCHOOL. Sunday-school connected with the church, Supposing it has been determined by any in sad disorder. The superintendent, church to start a mission-school, supposing though a very godly man and faithful in the superintendent and corps of teachers the discharge of his duties according to have been appointed, what is the first thing his ability, was not competent to the place to be done? The first thing is to select a I left her to call on another sick per- and happily resigned. Another person of room, for without a definite and appointed son, and returned and prayed with her undoubted christian character and much place to which you may refer, and which, again, when I found her failing fast; and intelligence, was ready to succeed him if need be, you can show, you will find it in an hour or two she was gone. How and the teachers were disposed to favour impossible to recruit your scholars. Parents natural the distressing reflection—too late! his election, but I knew he was deficient are naturally incredulous when you protoo late!! Poor soul, the world to you was in several important points and yet I was pose to aid them in the instruction of their the first concern, and the soul the last, the reluctant to interpose any objection. So children, and unless you have something very last. Too late, also, we fear came the I assembled the teachers and after a more tangible to show them than a Sunminister of Christ to many souls whose pleasant conference on the interests of the day-school on paper, it will be hard to inbodies are lying here 'till the resurrection, school, expressed my determination to duce them to intrust their lambs to your -too late for you came the church of take charge of it myself for a time. After folding. Exercise your faith, then, to the Christ, too late, the Sunday-school, the arranging some details, I ascertained that extent of securing a room for your missionpioneer of the church, and the ministry." the system of instruction was very defec- school before you have secured your scholAfter tea that evening, the pastor told tive and the instruction itself very super-ars. In the choice of a room, regard must me of the death of Mr. Cyrus N. Gillet of ficial. I set to work and selected a series be had, as far as circumstances will permit, Westbrookville, (6 miles off) in the town of subjects which I thought adapted to the to various points. In the first place let it of Mamakating. He had died suddenly school and framed upon them a few be queseasy of access, as nearly as possible in a few weeks before. This Mr. G., is the tions. These I propounded to the teach- the centre of the locality which you desire man whose remarkable conversion was ers at the close of each session, giving to Christianize. In point of size let it be mentioned in a former report of my visits. them and the older scholars time to write adapted to the probable wants of the neighMr. G. was until about twenty years ago, of the week, I lectured on the subject of airy, high-ceiled, the children you will get them down with a pencil. In the course borhood. Let it, for the teacher's sake, be a bold and reckless opposer of religion. He, was converted by the Word of God from these questions. On the Sabbath I ex- together will use up oxygen enough on the lips of his own little girl, as she repeat-pected the teachers would instruct their their own account, besides coming wraped her lesson in that little old school-house, pupils so that when I questioned them ped in little nebule of other gasses not so where he had gone to see a Sunday-school, upon the lesson, as I was accustomed to pleasant. Above all, let the room be light (a thing he had never seen before.) Since do in the last ten or fifteen minutes of the and cheery. Hang it round with pleasant, his conversion, he has manfully contended session, they should be prepared to an attractive colored prints of a devotional and, at the same time, healthy character. Let all the ornaments of the place embody beautiful and reverential ideas, so that, years from now, when your scholars have and women, they may look back, now and grown up into toiling, anxious tempted men then, to the pictures and inscriptions on the walls of their first Sunday-school, and gather hope and courage from the memory. for the faith. A man of stern will and perseverance, he has sustained, sometimes almost alone, the Sunday-school; and in every way recommended Christ to his neighbours. He, too, has gone to his rest. And (the pastor added.) "the Sundayschool there is dead too! He was its life." Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail from among the children of men! O, who can estimate the value of one man whom God employs to work in earnest for Him! A retrospect of what God has done by the feeble efforts of a few of his people, show now, that three churches have been built, where three of our first Sundayschools were planted in that region. In the first article of this series, published in the Sunday-school Journal in April 1845, it was stated that no church, minister or swer. Our school is opened during the interval I have some teachers who are ill-quali- Having got your room into reception trim, the next thing is to fill it. In this matter there are various possible courses, and individual judgment must be exercised in the choice. One thing is indispensable. Every house in the district you have chosen to work in must be visited. This may be done either personally by the superintendent, or, better, by the teachers, each teacher being allotted a certain number of streets or blocks to canvass. This part of the duty will probably be accounted the |