Do "pray and pay" for us. Yours,
KITTY.
Ralph enjoyed the letter so much that he forgot for once to ask a question until his aunt took up a blue card and handed it to him.
"Oh, yes," he exclaimed. "Now tell me about the cards."
"Read it," said his aunt.
Ralph read as follows: "The A.M.A. True Blue Card."
"Oh, I know," said Ralph. "A.M.A. (ama) means love those. I had it in my Latin lesson this week."
"Love those, is it?" questioned Miss Hill. "Pretty good meaning that for our abbreviations. A.M.A.—the Love Them Society; it means just that. Love your neighbors, love your brothers."
"What brothers?" inquired Ralph. "I haven't any; wish I had."
"Yes, you have, my boy," answered Miss Hill. "You have red, white, black, and yellow brothers, and this 'A.M.A.' is to help them to read, to work on the farm and in the house, to learn trades, and to know the best things. Your black brothers are the negroes who live in all the South, the yellow are the Chinese in California, the red are the Indians in the Territories, in the schools of Hampton, and the whites are in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee. All these little books that I will show you tell about these brothers and sisters. Now read the card. Read it all.