I am convinced that the teaching of nature has not been attended to as it ought. A person properly influenced by it, and humbly receiving its teaching, is conscious that he is under the guidance of a safe teacher. I will give one instance of nature’s teaching. I have two grandchildren in my house, a boy and a girl, about four years of age, who are very fond of their grandpapa, so fond that they wish to be oftener with him than he considers desirable. Should he only request them to go out in the usual way, they only laugh at him. If he rises to put them out, they run under the table like kittens. When he is on the one side they are on the other, where his hand cannot reach them. He then has to take the strap and threaten them severely and, even when putting them out with that severity, they put their backs to the door to prevent him from shutting it, and sometimes weep bitterly, which is very painful to his feelings. Nature, however, has taught him a different lesson: to speak kindly to them in a low tone of voice, and instantly they go out quite happy, and even saying, “Put the snib on the door, grandpapa.”
THE GAELIC BANNER.
BRATACH NA GAELIC.
’S gu’m b’éibhinn, gu’m b’éibhinn,
Gu’m b’éibhinn a’ Bhrataich i,
’S gu’n leumainn, gu’n leumainn,
Gu’m leumainn le h-aiteas rith:
Teannaibh dlùth le aon rùn,—
Teannaibh dlùth gu cabhagach,
Cuiribh ’n àird i ’s gach àit