A great many of the boys who attend there have become acquainted with him, and it was only yesterday that Mr.Glentworth's sons were teasing me to consent to his beginning there the next term.

The boys," concluded she, "have better hearts than their parents." "Oh, I begin to believe it's all sham, this prejudice; I'm getting quite disgusted with myself for having had it--or rather thinking I had it.

As for saying it is innate, or that there is any natural antipathy to that class, it's all perfect folly; children are not born with it, or why shouldn't they shrink from a black nurse or playmate?
It's all bosh," concluded he, indignantly, as he brought his cane down with a rap.
"Charlie's been quite a means of grace to you," laughingly rejoined Mrs.
Bird, amused at his vehemence of manner.

"Well, I'm going to send him to Sabbath-school next Sunday; and, if there is a rebellion against his admission there, I shall be quite in despair." It is frequently the case, that we are urged by circumstances to the advocacy of a measure in which we take but little interest, and of the propriety of which we are often very sceptical; but so surely as it is just in itself, in our endeavours to convert others we convince ourselves; and, from lukewarm apologists, we become earnest advocates.

This was just Mr.
Whately's case: he had begun to canvass for the admission of Charlie with a doubtful sense of its propriety, and in attempting to overcome the groundless prejudices of others, he was convicted of his own.
Happily, in his case, conviction was followed by conversion, and as he walked home from Mrs.Bird's, he made up his mind that, if they attempted to exclude Charlie from the Sabbath-school, he would give them a piece of his mind, and then resign his superintendency of it.
On arriving at home, he found waiting for him a young lady, who was formerly a member of his class in the Sabbath-school.