These children were under the influence of obedience, _and in the light of truth_, and being in that light, they could see from no other, and very naturally concluded the master meant what he had said.
One day some visitors requested I would call out a class of the children to be examined.

Having done so, I asked the visitors in what they would wish the children to be examined; at the same time stating that they might hear the children examined in natural history, Scriptural history, arithmetic, spelling, geography, or geometry.

They choose the latter, and I proceded to examine the children accordingly; beginning with straight lines.

Having continued this examination for about half an hour, we proceeded to enter into particulars respecting triangles; and having discoursed on the difference between isosceles triangles and scalene triangles, I observed that an acute isosceles triangle had all its angles acute, and proceeded to observe that a right-angled scalene triangle had all its angles acute.

The children immediately began to laugh, for which I was at a loss to account, and told them of the impropriety of laughing at me.