THE LAME GIRL: A STORY FOUNDED ON FACTS. BY GRACE KENNEDY, AUTHOR OF FATHER CLEMENT,' 'THE DECISION,' 'ANNA ROSS,' ETO 'My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. NEW EDITION. EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND CO. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO JESSY ALLAN. come. 6 I OFTEN Wonder what the children who attend SabbathSchools think of all the labour and pains which are bestowed upon them. I wonder if they ever ask themselves these questions, Why do our Sabbath-School masters come to meet with us so kindly every Sabbath evening? However cold, or wet, or bad it is, still they What pleasure can it give them to hear us repeat what they have heard repeated a hundred times before? They get nothing by coming but trouble. We are instructed, but what is their reward? And those ladies who visit our schools, and sit down amongst us, and seem so pleased when we do well, and so grieved when we are careless and inattentive, and who listen so patiently to our ill-got lessons, and reprove us so gently, and encourage us so kindly, why are they so anxious about us? What good does our improvement do to them? and why should they be sorry when we are careless, and will not receive instruction?' My dear children, this is the reason,-your Sabbath-mas |