Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-05-21
THE KINDLY DEEDS SOCIETY
BY LANES ". HUBBARD.

"Children said the teacher one day at
the close of the opening exercises of the
school, ~ think this is way in which
each of you may do kindly deed. 1t is
to choose some one, not your best friend,
but some one who needs help, for whom
you will pray every night and morning
for a week. Your morning prayer
might be like this: Dear Father in
Heaven, pray that Thou will bless John
or Mary mentioning name today with
the blessings they most need. Keep
him or her from doing wrong and help
him or her to do right, and if | can help
him or her in any way wilt Thou show
me and help me to do it. Your even
ing prayer might be like this: Dear
Father IN heaven, please forgive John or
/ Mary for all the wrong things he or she
has done today. and me if | didn't DO
what | could have done to help them. |
will write the prayers on the black
board so that anyone who wishes may
copy them or learn them by heart. Of
all the scholars perhaps Molly was the
one who was most impressed by what
the teacher said She thought and
thought ,"Who shall pray for?' There
would have been no doubt in her mind
if it could have been her best friend.
That would have been Dick. But the
one who needed help most, who could
it be? As hec eyes wandered over the
schoolroom, taking in one after another
of her mates, they rested on girl
named Carry Blake. She was the girl
she liked the least and had the least to
do with of all the girls in the school
Could it be she for whom she ought to
pray Carry was a city girl who had
come to live in the village only few
months before. Her father had bought
the village store and was running it,
and they lived in very nice house with
a big garden in the village street.
Carry evidently did not like it at all.
She kept talking about how much nicer
things were in Boston. How she went
to the theatre and to concerts and
dances. How you had to dress pretty
there, while here you could wear any
old shabby thing. Why. you needn't
wear shoes nor stockings if you didn' t
want to. and nobody would notice it.
She didn't like such things and
she wished she was back in Boston.
She was a bright girl, but she dldn t
spend much time on her lessons. She
said she WASH accustomed to country
school, and she was sore trial to the
teacher AS Molly looked at her, what
the teacher said came back into her
mind and she couldn't help feeling that
Carry was the one who needed help
most, and she promised to herself that
she would pray for her. When school
was over the teacher asked Molly if
she had chosen anyone to pray for, and
when Molly mentioned Carry's name,
the teacher drew her close to her and
said, "You dear girl, you have chosen
the one who needs your help most" 1t
is not strange that, as the days went by,
Molly grew more and more interested in
Carry. She joined her whenever she
could and got her to play games with
them at recess and, sometimes, walked
home with her after school and listened
patiently to her talk about the city and
the ever so much better things there.
One Monday when they happened to be
walking together-the teacher, | should
say, reminded the children every Mon
day morning about the kindly deed
prayer Molly asked her, Garry, are
you going to pray for anyone this
week." mo! think it's silly, was the
answer. One Saturday Carry saw
Molly going by her house and she ran
out and stopped her. She was getting
to like Molly though they still had
little in common. "Molly, - said
she, "won't you go on a picnic with me
to Lake Pleiad tomorrow afternoon?
I'll invite some of the boys and girls,
and mother will put us up some sand
witches and cookies, and We'll have a
jolly time, just such as | used to have
in Boston. 81 am sorry, Carry, but |
can't go tomorrow, because it's Sun
day" "Oh! you pious thing!" cried
Carry and ran back into the house with
out another word. Molly did not feel
much encouraged but she kept on pray