The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

and women. If he watches them as a spy would try to ferret out the actions of an enemy, he will find his scholars dis honest and there is no exception to the rule.
 Thomas Arnold's Plan.
 This truth has been well demonstrated by the history of the greatest teachers who ever lived. When Thomas Arnold went to Rugby there were more rules there than days in the year Every teach CT was expected to be a spy. No teacher trusted a boy no more than a warden in Sing Sing penltentiary would trust life convict outside the penltentiary walls All these rules were written upon a board and nailed up in Rugby chapel. No sooner did Thomas Arnold take charge than he cut down the board or rules and threw 1t Into the fire. He then had the boys assemble before him, and he said: "Young gentlemen, I expect every one of you to be an honorable young man. This school hereafter, is to be run on the honor of it's pupils" By that course Thomas Arnold turned lot of decelvlng pupils into a band of honest boys.
 The same fact was true in reference to the life of Mary A Divermore at Dux- bury. This is her testimony: '1 informed my pupils on the opening day that the school was to be Self governed. There were to be no punishments for offenses, no rewards for well doing Each one must conform to the rules of the school as a matter of honor or leave 1t. Every young man was to be a gentleman, every one of the young girls, a lady" Do you won- der when Mary A. Livermore started her school upon such a basis as this that she had young gentlemen and young ladies for her scholars? How was 1t, o teacher, with your past life? If you had a teacher who never trusted you and was trying to catch you in a dishonest act did you not cheat under his very eyes2 You did, and you know it. On the other hand, were not all the boys and girls honest in dealing with that teacher who used to leave the room on the day of examina- tions and put the members of your class on their honor7 It always pays to appeal to the honor of your students. Treat your class as honest boys and girls, and they will be honest. Spy on their tracks, and they will cheat you and deceive you at every step. Thus the two great means by which teacher is to mold his classes for Christ Is, first, to be a Christian himself, and, second, to appeal to the Christian instincts of the scholars by whom he is surrounded.
 And now l come to one closing plea for the teacher to give his heart to Christ Of all professions in the world where a person needs the grace of God to sustain ullll lHe peudBoBicdl pToleSSlon lB tHe loic- most. Of all classes of men and women toward whom the world is most blatantly and cruelty ungrateful that class Is to be found among the teachers. Do you know" said a teacher to me the other day, that of all intelligent workmen a teacher Is paid the least? A father pays more to the carpenter who shingles his house than he does to the school teacher who mods the brains and the character of his child. He pays more to the workman who puts in his plumbing or the mason who rears his walls or to the plasterer who mixes his lime for his inside walls than he does to the school teacher who Is forming the life of his child for time and for eternity" Yes" I said, "I know it. Shame on the community which does it." Protectors of Society.
 But, Christian teachers, though your pay Is small though the world may be ungrateful for the good that you can