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It is to me a highly interesting and very delicate picture the moral influence of which must be elevating."-Rev. Dr. Tyng.

What More Suggestive Picture

upon the wall of Home or School anywhere, for its Purity and Goodness here, and its dream of Gladness for the Life Beyond, than

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which will be given to subscribers for the Pennsylvania School Journal upon our Fifty-Second Volume, July 1903-4.

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Not many pictures are better adapted for the Christian Home or for the public or private School Room. Its moral and religious influence is felt and acknowledged by all who see it. During a visit to New York we saw a fine copy of "The Better Land." handsomely framed, occupying the place of honor in the airy business office of a well-known publisher. On making some remark in regard to it, he replied, "Yes, I bought that because it has a certain high thought and delicacy of expression which one so rarely finds in a picture." We have it tacked upon a door in our working-room, and it is very good company. Wherever a good picture goes, tacked up or framed and hung up, it gives pleasure, and does good day by day and every day. We have distributed many thousand pictures during the past few years and hope to send out many thousand more. There is often "a silence that speaks," and in the school room pictures with their silent lessons should never be wanting. The Better Land. drawn by Miss Sawyer, engraved by Rea, is printed on heavy plate paper 24 x 30 inches in size,

The School Journal issues Twelve Numbers to the Volume, comprising about Six Hundred large double-column Pages. It has been the Official Organ of_the Department of Public Instruction for nearly Fifty Years. Subscription, $1.60. Five Copies, $7.00. Address,

J. P. MCCASKEY, Lancaster, Pa.

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HEN I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he had long been on the confines of the next world; that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But, since, I feel how great a part he was of me. great and dear spirit haunts me. not think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning and reference to him. He was the proof and touchstone of all my cogitations. He was a Grecian (or in the first form) at Christ's Hospital, where I was Deputy Grecian, and the same subordination and deference to him I have preserved through a life-long acquaintance. Great in his writings, he was greatest in his conversation.

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him was disproved that old maxim, that we should allow every one his share of talk. He would talk from morn to "dewy eve," nor cease till far midnight; yet who ever would interrupt him? who would obstruct that continuous flow of converse, fetched from Helicon or Zion? He had the tact of making the unintelligible seem plain. Many who read the abstruser parts of his Friend would complain that his works did not answer to his spoken wisdom. They were identical. But he had a tone in oral delivery which seemed to convey sense to those who were otherwise imperfect recipients. He was my fifty-years-old friend without a dissension. Never saw I his likeness, nor probably can the world see it again. I seem to love the house he died at more

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passionately than when he lived. What was his mansion is consecrated to me a chapel.-Charles Lamb.

THAT man is not perfect who is so in and for himself alone. An essential part of true manhood is in the relationships that he sustains to other beings, in the midst of whom and with reference to whom his life is lived. . Man is not great, nor rich, nor strong, for himself alone. He is not, then, to make these the occasions for lording it over his fellows. The poor, the ignorant, the low, are not stepping-stones, nor lawful plunder; they are brothers to be respected and helped. He must use the advantage of his high position as a means of lifting up those beneath him. He is bound to help the weak by as much as he is stronger than they. His debt to all men is limited only by his superiority to them. Paul saw the law, when he wrote, "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise."-Savage.

AMIDST the gay life, the beautiful forms, the brilliant colors of an Athenian multitude, and an Athenian street, the repulsive features, the unwieldy figure, the naked feet, the rough, threadbare attire of the philosopher, Socrates must have excited every sentiment of astonishment and ridicule which strong contrast can produce. It was-so disciples describe it-as if one of the marble satyrs, which sat in grotesque attitudes with

pipe or flute in the sculptors' shops of Athens, had left his seat of stone and walked into the plane tree avenue or the gymnastic colonnade. Gradually the crowd gathered round him. At first he spoke of those plying their trades about him; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The peculiar sweetness of its tone had an effect which even the thunder of Pericles failed to produce. The laughter ceased-the crowd thickenedthe gay youth, whom nothing else could tame, stood transfixed and awe struck in his presence-there was a solemn thrill in his words, such as his hearers could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the clash of drum and cymbal in the worship of the great mother of the gods: the head swam-the heart leaped at the sound-tears rushed from their eyes, and they felt that, unless they tore themselves speedily away from that fascinated circle, they should ere long sit down at his feet and grow old in listening to the marvelous music of this second Marsyas.

Busy lives, like running water, are generally pure. Nothing will do more to improve the looks than sunshine in the heart. Endeavor to keep your life in the sunshine-the shadows will catch it soon enough. A child's mind is often much like a piece of white paper upon which anything may be written. Don't blot it. Those who have the "best times" when they are young begin the soonest to nurse their rheumatism. Happy is he who has learned this one thing-to do the plain duty of the moment quickly and cheerfully, whatever it may be. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if you want food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work his life should be happy and useful. Therefore learn to enjoy your work. "Triumph and toil are twins."

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a machine of which you can polish the cogs with any kelp or brick dust near at hand; and having got it into working order, and good, empty, oiled serviceableness, start your immortal locomotive, at twenty-five years old or at thirty, express for the Strait Gate, on the Narrow Road. The whole period of youth is one essentially of formation, edification, instruction. I use the words with their weight in them; intaking of stores, establishment in vital habits, hopes, and faiths. There is not an hour of it but is trembling with destinies-not a moment of which, once past, the appointed work can ever be done again, or the neglected blow struck on the cold iron. Take your vase of Venice glass out of the furnace, and strew chaff over it in its transparent heat, and recover that to its clearness and rubied glory when the north wind has blown upon it; but do not think to strew chaff over the child fresh from God's presence, and to bring the heavenly colors back to him-at least in this world.—Ruskin.

THAT the truths of the Bible have the power of awakening an intense moral feeling in man, under every variety of character, learned or ignorant, civilized or savage-that they make bad men good, and send a pulse of healthful feeling through all the domestic, civil, and social relations-that they teach men to love right, to hate wrong, and to seek each other's welfare, as the children of one common Parent-that they control the baleful passions of the human heart, and thus make men proficient in the science of self-government-and, finally, that they teach him to aspire after a conformity to a Being of infinite holiness, and fill him with hopes infinitely more purifying, more exalted, more suited to his nature, than any other which this world has ever known-are facts as incontrovertible as the laws of philosophy, or the demonstrations of mathematics.

TEACHERS Who do not feel the need of attending educational gatherings must rate such gatherings very low or themselves very high. Neither our country nor our cities have a very enviable reputation in this matter, and both should improve. Teachers need the breadth of view that enables them to see the coordination of all parts of the educational system that they may know the relation of their work to the whole. The primary

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