THE TEACHER AS A CHRISTIAN.

Among the many good qualities, and from nature lead his pupils up that every teacher ought to possess to nature's God. He can repeat in we seldom hear his being a Christian their hearing some of the wonderful utterances of the Bible, and impress mentioned. No qualification is more them, by well chosen words, upon important than this. To be a Chris- their young minds, so that they will tian is to stand in direct relationship never forget them in after life. He with the Father of our spirits through will thus open up the powers of inJesus the Christ. Such a relation-tellect and the moral nature to reship instills upon the mind and heart ceive an amount of intellectual and of the teacher a heavenly influence moral training that he otherwise, which he can get from no other wanting the Christian character, source. It strengthens him with a could not impart. It is right to be divine prudenee which tends, more a Christian whatever may be our than anything else, to secure to him vocation in life; but especially when the highest success in the manage- we take upon ourselves the high and ment of his school. It fills him holy task of training immortal mind. with that kindness and long-suffer- Then the necessity is imperative that ing for the children, which gives we stand allied to the divine throne. him that gentle but powerful con- With one hand upon God and the trol over them which is irresistible. other upon the children, the teacher The Christian religion is that which is in the best position possible to exbinds man back to his God. Sin ert all the educating energies that has separated him away from God. the youthful mind is capable of reIn the Christian teacher we find the ceiving. Go, then, teachers, and refittest instrument in the hands of a ceive lessons of heavenly wisdom merciful God, to lead the youthful from the Great Teacher, and you mind away from the paths of sin and will then go to your work of teachfolly to walk in the narrow and ing indeed with that wisdom that peaceful way that leads to the throne cometh from above by which you will of the Father in heaven. He can be the better able to lead your bring to bear this heavenly and sav- pupils in green pastures and beside ing influence in many ways in the the still waters. Your memory will school-room. When he teaches remain in the hearts of your pupils physiology he can show the wise de- when you have passed to the blessed sign manifested in the human frame, school of the Master above.

V

VIRTUES OF THE SUNFLOWER.

"As the sun-flower turns on her god, when

The sun-flower is so generally continually towards the sun, uses it neglected that it may be classed to illustrate the constancy of affecamong those flowers which waste tion. their sweetness. The poets occasionally honor it; as, for instance, Moore, who, referring to the tradition that the flower turns its face]

he sets,

The same look which she turned when he

rose."

But according to the Farm Jour

nal, the virtues of the plant are wind-break. They contain a large many and it thus enumerates them: amount of potash, and are excellent "In the first place, the flowers for kindling. The seed has also been abound in honey, and furnish food recommended for fuel. The reputafor bees. The seeds contain oleagin- tion of the growing sun-flower to abous matter, and yield oil at the rate solve miasmatic vapors and prevent of one gallon to the bushel, which is fever and ague is well known.' but little inferior to olive oil. One This last remark deserves especial acre will produce fifty bushels of attention from those who live in a miseed. It is also a valuable food for asmatic region. We believe if a horses and poultry. It has been half acre or so of sun-flowers were used for bread by the American In- planted in close proximity to every dians, and also in Portugal. The dwelling that much of the suffering leaves are excellent fodder for cattle. from fever and ague would be avoidThe stalks, while growing, may be ed. It has been our custom for utilized as bean-poles where they years to plant a number of the are scarce and difficult to be obtain-stalks of this plant close to our ed, and dry, may be used as roofing, dwelling, and we have had scarcely or set up against a fence to form a | any chills in the family:

BOYS.

brain to foolish dreams, and would think it treason to suggest the nightmare. This is part of him. He can put more kinds of things in his pockets, and in greater numbers, than anybody else in the same space, on the habitable globe.

The average boy is commonly that has a stomach that clamors for looked upon as one of nature's ex-three square meals a day, and still periments. An experiment, too, that has room for such odds and ends as reflects precious little credit on his providence and skillful foraging designer. He is expected to con- throw in his way,-a stomach that sume a certain amount of bread and digests equal to an ostrich's,-a butter-besides taking in at regular stomach that scorns to incite the intervals of each day three square meals. He is supposed to have a natural affinity for dirt pies and torn trowsers. As like as not you will see him with any number of toes, between one and ten, peeping out of his sorely tried boots, that have not been able to resist his exuberent activity. The shingle or slipper may have been applied to the best cushioned part of him, as a timely corrector-illustrating that part of natural physics wherein notion is converted into heat, and with but limited success. And why?

He makes himself familiar with all the ponds in his neighborhood. He knows to a fraction how far he ean throw a stone, and what kind will go straightest. In all these things we have a natural leaning to and sympathy for him. But when it comes to his firing pebbles or shot There are two of him! through window panes with that One is the irrepressible efferves- classic implement, the bean flipper, cing young animal, who has a hor- we feel constrained to hand him ror for good clothes, as they entail over to the tender mercies of those the trouble of trying to keep them whom he has offended, to be dealt whole and clean-the little chap with as seemeth good.

DR. Jos. GARDENER.

The healthy, active little boy, is a crown of laurel to the brave and with good intentions, is a sore trial true; but a cap and bells to the unto the patience of that best part of worthy. all God's creation-a mother! Even she, who has first to understand and translate his wordless requests in helpless infancy, often has her patience worn threadbare.

Now if busy hands, active feet, and a clamorous appetite, with strong tendencies to be dirty and ragged, were the whole of him, we would feel constrained to classify him among the palpable failures.

RAREFIED AIR.

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As every one knows, in proportion as we ascend from the sea-level, the barometric pressure diminishes at the rate of about one centimetre per 100 metres of vertical ascent. And this diminution is progressive: suppose that at the sea-level the pressure is 76 centimetres, then it But there is another of him. His will be 66 centimetres at the height palpable duality comes to his rescue. of 1,123 metres (summit of VesuBeating under his jacket (if he has vius), 56 centimetres at 2,432 metres one), but beating in his sturdy (pass of the Great St. Bernard), breast, certainly, is a heart that can at 3,998 metres (Mont Pelvoux), 39 respond to every generous emotion. at 5,920 metres (the height of the Sometimes in heat he may be un- highest pass of the Himalaya is just, but show him his way into the 5,835 metres.) The greatest height true and right, and he will do his attained by man was reached by best to undo his wrong. Here is his Glaisher in a balloon-8,840 metres, salient point. There is more color pressure 24.76 centimetres-and by and more pay dirt, to use a miner's the brothers Schlagintweit on foot, phrase, in working this, than there in the Himalaya, 6,882 metres, is in looking after holes in his jacket. pressure 32 centimetres. The highThen in his active little brain what est mountain on the globe, Gaurisa train of nebulous ideas throng! ankar, measures precisely 8,840 "When I am a man," is always the metres-the elevation at which Mr. objective point of his thoughts. Glaisher fell fainting to the floor of There, good friend, is your most his car. promising field of labor.

Such modifications of pressure cannot be endured with impunity by the human organism. Though life in moderately elevated regions, as the Jura and Auvergne, seems to be so beneficial to those who dwell there constantly, that multitudes come thither from afar in pursuit of health; and though in regions situated at a greater altitude, as the admirable

To you, O patient teacher! is given the responsible charge of evolving form and consistency from the nebulous dreams that nestle in the brains of your pupils. It is to you, in many instances, that they must owe whatever of intelligent culture they obtain in life. Their undefined hopes and misty anticipations may be so directed by your cultured in-plateau on which the city of Mexico telligence-if you have it, and you are not fit to teach without-that in whatever calling in life our boys may be found in the aftertime, they will reflect credit on you who have trained them.

Teaching is what you make it. It

stands, the sum of the climatic conditions seems to offer hygienic advantages: still all are agreed that at very great elevations there always supervene, with more or less intensity according to persons and circumstances, certain characteristic per

turbations and discomforts described the atmosphere, we are not cor

by travelers in the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Andes, and the Himalaya. -Dr. Paul Bert, in Popular Science Monthly for July.

THE TRUTH-TELLER.

It is worth while now and then to have what is called the truth told have what is called the truth told you about yourself.

There are

rect in reference to the latter. The air begins much below the ground, and we ought to say that where the ground, which is a mixture of earth, water, and air, ends, from there the atmosphere exists alone. It is no wonder that no particular attention was paid to the air in the soil; its presence there does not make any direct impression on any one of our senses; we infer its presence more times when such truth-telling is of from other experiences and consegreat and immediate service. But I quent conclusions. The human have noticed that persons who plume mind formerly looked upon the air themselves upon speaking the truth as something unsubstantial, spiritto their neighbors are persons who ual, although men saw the effect of really have no special devotion to hurricanes; no wonder, then, that truth, but who have, on the other no one thought of the air hidden in hand, a passion for making people the ground, which cannot even blow uncomfortable. They do not love the hat from our head.-Prof. Pettheir neighbors; they hate them. tenkoffer, in Popular Science With them so-called truth-telling is Monthly for July. merely a form of self-indulgence.

How would it do, the next time the village truth-teller comes around, for you to tell the truth to him?

Remember the Fifth Annual Session of the Bedford College Normal "Kind friend, I thank thee for opens on Monday, July 16th. We telling me my daughter's manners are prepared to say that we intend are rude, and that my uncle, the to make it the most useful and inparson, should be spoken to about teresting of all the good Normals his method of public prayer, and already held by us in the years that my Sunday-best-go-to-meeting past. Lectures on the theory and stove-pipe hat is two seasons behind practice of teaching, and other subthe times; but let me reciprocate jects germain to the business of thy kindness by informing thee that teaching will constitute a very imthou art a selfish old gossip, without portant feature of the Normal. Let enough brains to perceive the whole all who design coming be on hand truth about any situation, but only a at the beginning and take the comsilly half-truth, or a miserable dis- plete course. Anything short of torted-truth, which, from the best of this will be unsatisfactory both to motives, I advise thee to keep to yourselves and to the instructors. thyself."-"The Old Cabinet,' in It is one of the objects of his highScribner for July.

BOUNDARIES BETWEEN
EARTH AND AIR.

est ambition in a teacher who loves his work to lead his pupils as near the goal of perfection as possible. We want our teacher students to be thoroughly armed and equipped for If we say of the surface of the the warfare. Then be on hand earth that it is the limit of punctually at the time for opening the earth and the beginning of resolved to see us through.

OUR POET'S CORNER.

THE BATTALION.