sucking it the rest of the time, because she didn't want to get
her handkerchief all bloodied up. It was a kind of fancy
handkerchief, made of thin stuff trimmed with lace - no good.

The Sabbath-school may be said to be divided into three courses,
namely, the preparatory or infant-class, the collegiate or
Sabbath-school proper, and the post-graduate or Mr. Parker's
Bible-class.

What can a mere babe of three or four years learn in Sabbath-school?
sneers the critic. Not much, I grant you, of justification by
Faith, or Effectual Calling; but certain elementary precepts can
be impressed upon the mind while it is still in a plastic condition
that never can be wholly obliterated, come what may in after life.
Prime among these elementary precepts is this: "Always bring a penny."

Some one has said, "Give me the first seven years of a child's life
and I care not who has the remainder." I cannot endorse this without
reserve; but I maintain as a demonstrated fact: "Bring up a child
to contribute a copper cent, and when he is old he will not depart
from it." It was recently my high privilege to attend a summer
gathering of representative religious people in the largest
auditorium in this country. Sometimes under that far-spreading roof
ten thousand souls were assembled and met together. This fact could
be guessed at with tolerable accuracy from the known seating
capacity, but the interesting thing was that it could be predicated
with mathematical certainty that exactly ten thousand people were
present, because the offertory footed up exactly one hundred dollars.
What an encouragement to these faithful infant-class teachers that
have labored unremittingly, instant in season and out of season,