I was destined for business, and served the usual apprenticeship to become qualified for it, and also continued in it for a short period on my own account.
Even at this time the thought ever haunted me as to what should be done for young children.

At length the germ was developed at one of the Sunday Schools, which were then rising into general notice.

For years I attended one of these in London, and here circumstances again befriended me, regarding the matter so frequently in my thoughts.

The teachers mostly preferred having a class to superintend that knew something, and I being then a junior, it fell to my lot to have a class that knew little or nothing.

I mean nothing that it was the object of the Sunday-school to teach.