[Footnote A:  This mode of treatment has succeeded in a number of instances, several first-rate writers on education have tried it, and have found it work well; it is one of the most effective methods to operate upon the minds of young children that I have been able to discover:  I have tried the plan with older children with great success.  Reader! can teachers, who are mere boys and girls, act thus, in such a case?]

Should any person be disposed to object to such a process, they may be reminded that the Infant System deals with children as rational creatures, and is designed to prepare them for future life.  I have seen numerous instances of its beneficial effects? these have induced me to pursue the plan, and in the strongest terms to recommend it to others.  In all cases, the matter should be stated to the children simply, calmly, and slowly, and they will seldom, if ever, come to a wrong conclusion.

A manual trade, or a business, which requires dexterity can never be learnt from books alone, or properly understood from mere precepts.  All must be acquired by practice, and then the knowledge of it becomes, as it were, a part of our very selves.  The same applies to the precepts of morality.  If they be merely committed to memory by rote, they will often lie there cold and inactive, and not unfrequently tend even to harden the feelings.  But when they are brought out into actual practice, and made to bear upon the conscience of the culprit, and on the moral feelings of all the children through him, they are seen in a new and convincing light, and learnt with a power that will impress them indelibly on the memory.  “Nathan said unto David, Thou art the man.”  The most effectual teaching of a christian parent is not at the time of the mere infusion of moral truth into a child’s mind, but in the example he gives in his life, and the direction he gives according to it to his child when he “walks by the way” and when he “sits in the house.”  Such should be the teaching aimed at in every infant school.  How wise are the dealings of the creator with us on the subject of reward.  What being ever yet did good, who did not feel within a certain reward?  Who felt most of the influence of the Holy Spirit? the passers by,—­or the good Samaritan?  Nay! who felt the greatest reward in his own breast, the Samaritan himself, or the man who fell amongst thieves?  I think the Samaritan.  Throughout all creation we see rewards; for assiduity, “the early crow gets the worms; the cautious animal escapes his enemies; the good man enjoys the most happiness; out of goodness happiness cannot be found;—­virtue brings its own reward;” obedience to the natural laws does the same, so does obedience to the spiritual laws bring such rewards as my pen cannot describe, but, I doubt not, many have felt them.  The whole system of society appears to me to depend upon this stimulant.  Who would wish to be the heads of the church and take the additional responsibilites and