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The "dollar side" had become the accepted promenade. Already there were some quite notable people who were pointed out to visitors. You could see Mr. N. P. Willis, who was then at the zenith of his fame. When a Sunday-school entertainment wanted to give something particularly fine, the best speaker recited his poem, "The Leper," which was considered very striking.
Great revolutions have had their origins in back cellars; great builders of railroads have begun life with packs on their shoulders, trudging over the wilderness which they were to traverse in after years in private cars. The history of Napoleon Bonaparte has not a Sunday-school moral, but we can trace therein the results of industry after the future emperor got started.
"G-got through?" said Jethro, without moving, "g-got through?" "Through?" echoed Mr. Worthington, "through what?" "T-through Sunday-school," said Jethro. Worthington dropped his match and stamped on it, and Wetherell began to wonder how much the man would stand. It suddenly came over the storekeeper that the predicament in which Mr.
Bill admitted he had no better proposition to offer, and only stipulated that his share in the scheme should be completely adequate. Abe protested at the work imposed upon him, but admitted its necessity. "Sit around this layout punchin' daylight into the lousy carcases of a bunch of neches, while you an' Doc here get busy, seems to me a sort o' Sunday-school game I ain't been raised to.
"My taste at this time was most indiscriminate. I could find some kind of enjoyment in almost anything that called itself a book even a Sunday-school story, or a child's history of the world provided only it gave something concrete for imagination to work upon. The mere process of reading, with the play of fancy that it quickened, became an agreeable pastime. These volumes shortened many a Sunday.
"Well! you do beat all, Nettie. But I can't, child; I haven't time." "Yes, mother, plenty. There's all the hour of Sunday-school before church begins. Now do, mother!" "Well you go off to school; and if I can, maybe I will. You go right off, Nettie." Nettie went, feeling weary and empty by dint of hard work and a dinner of a small bit of dry toast. But she thought little about that.
The days have gone by when anybody is supposed to be smart enough to teach children to drawl through the alphabet. We have the best of trained teachers even for that work, why should the Sunday-school not need them even more, infinitely more? "Now that reminds me of a difficulty which is present even when the teachers are all there.
"Let me be a little sunbeam for Jesus " and she seemed, then, to feel a subtle sort of glow, as from an actual sunbeam, warming her whole being. But the marvellous new feeling did not definitely begin till after Sunday-school was over, when she was helping Miss Simpson collect the song-books.
In later days the first Sunday-school in England was opened here, and just outside the city are the fragmentary remains of the branch of Llanthony Priory to which the monks migrated from the Welsh Border. The chief attraction of Gloucester, however, is the cathedral, and the ruins of the Benedictine monastery to which it was formerly attached.
Mr. Walters was very earnest of mien, and very sincere and honest at heart; and he held sacred things and places in such reverence, and so separated them from worldly matters, that unconsciously to himself his Sunday-school voice had acquired a peculiar intonation which was wholly absent on week-days.
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