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"Papa," said Richard, who had all the time been standing silent, "Ethel and I have been thinking, if you approved, whether we could not do something towards teaching the Cocksmoor children, and breaking them in for the Sunday-school." What a bound Ethel's heart gave, and how full of congratulation and sympathy was the pressure of Margaret's hand! "What did you think of doing?" said the doctor.
He remembered the story of Doherty. His anger began to give way to a sick feeling of disgust. 'Think, now, said the Captain: 'is it likely that you could enlist a corps of Sunday-school teachers for this kind of work?
They do not approve of the Sunday-school atmosphere he wants to bring about, nor do they shut their eyes to the fact that the younger element must be considered." "Younger element! Do you call Sanford old?" "No; he's only twenty-eight this minute. But there are a lot of new members even younger than that strange as it may seem!
"Oh, she'll like it of course!" said John, with some sinking of heart about the Sunday-school books. There were so many pressing to shake hands with John, and congratulate him, so many histories to tell, so many cases presented for consultation, that it was quite late before they got away; and tea had been waiting for them more than an hour when they returned.
Emma folded up the cotton frock she had been making for one of her young pupils in the Sunday-school, locked her work-box, cleared the table of all signs of their recent occupation, and took her seat by the side of her brother. The children were not allowed except on particular occasions to sit up after ten o'clock; but as it was Mr.
She always read late after she went home and felt a stronger wish than usual to live and to be happy. The meetings were conducted in the Sunday-School room, where there were wooden chairs instead of pews; an old map of Palestine hung on the wall, and the bracket lamps gave out only a dim light.
He was inclined to believe that morality consisted largely, if not wholly, in clear thinking, and not in the precepts of the Sunday-school.
Then, when he brought them to the carriage, I kept him there while I asked numberless questions about you, and heard from him just how good you are, and how you help him in the Sunday-school and everywhere, visiting the poor, picking up ragged children and doing things I never thought of doing; but I am not going to be so useless any longer, and the next time you visit some of the very miserablest I want you to take me with you.
"I think," went on Nora, as she followed the example, "it is the very prettiest place for a Sunday-school that there ever was." "Have you been in other Sunday-schools?" asked Daisy. "Yes, in two." "What were they like?" "O they were in a church, or in some sort of a room. I like being out of doors best; don't you?" "Yes, I think so. But was the school just like this in other things?"
One may understand at once from this situation, and from her past history, that Germany has the sound good sense not to be influenced by the latest school of sentimentalists, who pretend to believe that the world is a polyglot Sunday-school, with converted millionaires as teachers therein; or, if not that, a counting-house, where all questions of honor, race, religion, love, pride, all the questions which bubble their answers in our blood, are to be settled by weighing their comparative cost in dollars.
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