Of course there may be cases, in fact there often will be cases, where particular words will require special explanation, but they will be comparatively few, and instead of making efforts to avoid them, it will be better to let them come.

The pupils will be interested and profited by the explanation.
Perhaps some may ask what harm it will do to simplify language when talking to children.

"It certainly can do no injury," they may say, "and it diminishes all possibility of being misunderstood." It does injury in at least three ways: (1.) It disgusts the young persons to whom it is addressed, and prevents their being interested in what is said.

I once met two children, twelve years of age, who had just returned from hearing a very able discourse, delivered before a number of Sabbath-schools assembled on some public occasion.

"How did you like the discourse ?" said I.
"Very well indeed," they replied; "only," said one of them, smiling, "he talked to us as if we were all little children." Girls and boys, however young, never consider themselves little children, for they can always look down upon some younger than themselves.