We print this letter from a boy who wants to go to school. We
give it just as he wrote it, and hope to have the privilege of
printing a letter from him five years hence with a view to the
contrast.



Augst 25th.

Mr. Proseser D.:

Der ser i hav bin in form of the ---- coldge and is it quite a distant and
i thout i would rite you afew lines i want you to write to me how i can
get Bord and what it will cost me a week or a munth and what is tuisson I
want to noe before i come and i want to start in a short time rite to me
all about it i will ickspeck anser soon, and Adress me.

When I start in I want to goe 2 sesson's before I stop i think can conplet
most of inlesh studys in that time.



Does The Lord Understand His Business?
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Rev. J.H.H. Sengstacke.


THEN.

All through the early spring I heard complaints as follows: "The season is
against us and we shall not make anything." "Unless a change we must
starve." The season paid no attention to complaints but kept right on.

Now.

To-day God has blessed all with a good crop; plenty to eat and plenty to
sell. What next? The grumbling still continues. "There is so much that we
cannot get a high price for our produce."

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If "resemble" means like, as one of the girls found when consulting the
dictionary, why is it not proper to say as she did, "I 'resemble' very
much to be at home?"

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Letters From Very Little Pupils.
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_My dear teacher_:--I would like to have grace and truth before God, and I
hope I am now his little girl.--LUCY.

_Dear teacher_:--I want religion.--ARTELIA.

_My dear teacher_:--If I had my choice of anything I wanted, I would
choose a Christian life, so when I came to die I would die in Jesus, like
Daisy Holt died.--ROXY.



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