One of our Scholars.—He is in the Third Reader class, and is learning the simplest questions in arithmetic. This is his first year in school, and instead of being a little boy, as you might suppose, he is thirty-five years old, and a “Baptist preacher.”
When he first came, he said: “I ain’t got no learning; what I knows, I just picked up myself.”
One of the boys said: “I advised him to come, so that he can learn to explain, and when he gets up to preach, folks won’t sniggle in their sleeves.”
FOR THE CHILDREN.
DOLLARS FOR SELF, AND CENTS FOR CHRIST.
“Yes, I always give for missions and everything else,” said Phil. “I give something every Sunday; don’t you?”
“Why, no; I give five or ten cents when I think I can spare it, when I have a good deal of money and don’t want it for anything,” said Tom.
“I give whatever papa or mamma gives me for it,” said James. “Sometimes it’s more, and sometimes it’s less.”