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Show utterances, the habits, the decisions, es, thevery tones and gestures and the expres-sion of the face of the teacher wit{ whom so man hours each day are passed. Inevitably the teacher makes the moral atmosphere orthe school, and thus sets the keynote of those reln.tions with others, relations harmonious or discordant, which are the be 'nning of social life for the child, and which will Mess or mar his whole career. #hen we remember how boundless is this power, and how little thought is given to it by many of those who teach, I am sure we must wonder at the careless-ness of parents in so lightly dele atin these wred trusts. Every observant erson who &ought at all of this subtle and all-pervasive influence of the teac%er, and has opportunities to observe the schoolroom, must have been struck with the clearly traceable effect on pupils of the marked personal habits of the teacher. Especial1 if this teacher is loved and admired, the inflections of her voice, her manner of speaiing, even the peculiarities of her personal carriage and her mode of dress, will be again and again reproduced among her receptive pupils. And she must be a. very poor teacher or a ve unlovely character who does not win the affections of her r p i l s ; for the quig receptiveness the appreciating responsiveness of young chi1 ren, znd their disposition to loveand'idealize those who faithfully teach them are such as to make it easily possible for every good teacher to be warmly loved by her pupils. THE TRUBWLILN&BB OF CHICDREN BHOULD KAKE THE TEACHER TRUSTWORTHY. To me there is always somethine.pathetic, something that appea.18 most deeply to I all within me that id ilobh. and ii~dt!v<~rthiyl l, f l t t - sigltr of a-ioonl id1 uf c1tiltirt.n fixing tlle~rw e r , reriq,rive, rnl~tlnlf wits u n rl,i,ir ttx:hrr. Oh, what a t l~nl !n f ahxrlw nlwr m?s thn,n~lnr rrrr trne h w ~att ?he tllouelrr tl~ara. rhr wsnlr oi care-lessneas, atu$dity, or s&sh l&iness, he has misled su;h trustihg onesl What remorse at the thought that willful perversity or selfish pride, or the weak-ness that gives way to anger, or the love of ease that ends in nunous laziness may have caused one of us to betray such loving t m t l That Greatest of Teachem. who beine Himself. as one has said, "the Holiest among rlw rri6llty and thv hli~lltiar alm.ng'tllr, 1101y, IihPd with 1114 lraudn empires oh; rl~eirh lngrs. turned tllc prresm of i.t.nturit,s out of its ehanurl, al!d still govt~~rul,i,. ncca"-rhnr 1)ivine T ~ ~ C IlaIaCs I~i I in !\.onl.< nrok 1111dlv* i~~lificilxo1r0 ~ a ~oli lII Gho h o b , "It were better for him that a millstbne were &n%d about his neck, and he cart into rhe wa, rllsn rllxr l,t.al>unl<Cl A U L E O ~ 1~1O1e~je lit'tle 011rti td stumhl<." With rhcse~rnvew .l~onuibilirir~a rtilrllin 118 the rt.uchcr3?i uUuer~cc,w hat c,ugIir we \rho re~ch1 0 vrp-t-).n, tu drmaud-,fomel\rr! TAKE CARE =OW YOU =AX. First of all, as the communication of ideas is our great work, and ss for this oommu-nication of thought language is the medium, we should take care how we speak. The true teacher is bound always to he candid, kind,Jruthful in speech. The sacred gift of language carries with it the implied ohligahon always to speak the truth and nothing but the truth. I?. D. Maurice ("Soc~al Morality ") has truly said, "A cov-enant not to lie is implied in the very existence of the language of every people under heaven." I tmd no one of ou has been misled by those newspaper controversies in which man very keen an$ some very good men have endemored to prove to their own satisLtian that sometimes, under certain circumstances, a lie is a ood and clean thing-in fact, may he a kind of Christian duty. Away with such a%ominable doc-trine, whoever writes or preaehes it. There can be but one standard for speech, that of absolute truthfulness. The lie sets itself a ainst all God's laws. The whole uni-verse is leagued-bound fast, by laws of ~ 0 8 osw n ap ointing-to hunt down and crush the lie and to shame the liar! The saints, whose Eves were marred and blem-ished by lies; the suffering invalids who vainly turn hopeless eyes of questioning and despair u on friends and phys:cians and dare not trust them lifelong friends because they fnow the prevalence of the accursed doctrine "it is right to lie to the sick; " the hesitating morality of the young people and children who are growingup under the blightinq! gasmatic influence of moral teachers who maintain that it is sometimes right to le, m order "to save life," for instauce-all these victims of the evil of tampering with tmth cry out against these efforts to make anything else than a grievous sin out of a lie. "All lies do now, as from the first, travel incessantly toward chaos, and there at |