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He that is faithful in that whicli is least, is faithful also in much.— Luke 10:10. 



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Vol. II. 



MAY, 1883. 



No. 2. 



MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS. 



WHO I.'^ MY neighbor;— LIKE 10: CO. 



fWOXDEK how many of the children to 

 whom I am talking to-day are school- 

 — children. Most of you, I presume, are ; 

 at least, I hope so. Well, 1 used to go to 

 school too ; and the school I attended, about 

 thirty years ago, was taught by a school- 

 master who had a good deal of trouble in 

 making his pupils mind. For instance, 

 when they were disobedient he would some- 

 times ask them to come out and stand on 

 the floor ; but pretty soon they got so they 

 were disobedient, even in this. Then he 

 would come up to their desks where they 

 sat, and make them come out on the floor, 

 sometimes taking them by the collar. Well, 

 some of the boys finally got so disobedient 

 that they would hold on to their desks so he 

 could not lead them out on the floor, and, I 

 am sorry to say, that in some cases he had 

 to give up and let them sit where they were, 

 because he could not make them mind nor 

 obey him. I wonder if they ever have any 

 such work at your school, dear children. I 

 trust not, now in this enlightened age of the 

 world. Well, of course the directors began 

 to think, after a wiiile, that this would not 

 do, so they hired another teacher. He was 

 a fine-looking young fellow, rather tall, and 

 there was also something about his look and 

 manner that made the most of us think that 

 he was not the one to be trifled with in the 



way we had been doing. Among the pupils 

 was a boy called Thomas. Thomas was by 

 no means a bad boy, but he had been led into 

 these kinds of tricks ; and by some means or 

 other it happened he was the first one to un- 

 dertake to disobey the new master, in a fla- 

 grant manner. We had been carrying on a 

 little too much that afternoon, and the new 

 teacher asked Thomas to come out on the 

 floor. At this, many of the boys began to 

 watch intently to see whether the n&w mas- 

 ter would do any better than the old one did. 

 Thomas didn't go. 'i'he teacher spoke to 

 him the second time. He didn't go then. 

 At this the master came up near his seat and 

 took hold of his collar ; but Thomas got hold 

 of the seat and bench, as had been the way 

 of doing, and when the new teacher pulled 

 pretty hard, and gradually relaxed his hold 

 as though he thought of giving up, Thomas 

 looked around to some of the rest of us and 

 began to smile a little as though he thought 

 he was rather more tlian a match for the 

 master. I happened to be watching intent- 

 ly the face of this latter personage ; and al- 

 though he seemed calm and unruffled, yet I 

 thought I caught something of a look in his 

 eye that made me think he was not ready to 

 give up just yet, after all. Of course, the 

 eves Oi all the school were turned upon them, 

 when all at once, as if by a sleight-of-hand, 

 the teacher raised 'J'homas bodily clear out 

 of his seat, and over the desk, and he hardly 

 touched any thing until he found himself in 



