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PREJUDICE CONQUERED. Wl

around our footsteps and stung us” with its
deadly poison, how soon would the whole
mass of society be in arms to destroy the
enemy. Yet prejudice is more hurtful to
the peace of mankind; it is a thousand
times more destructive of human happiness
than such a monster or such a reptile as we
have supposed. It’is a snake in the grass,
that poisons our souls unseen: it is a spider
that weaves its fatal web in the chambers of
thought, and carries on its work of de-
struction insilenee and sécrecy.

Prejudice influences us,without our being
fully aware of its presence; and after we
have got into the habit of acting according
to its dictates#® we often think that we are
doing right when we are doing very wrong.
I shall endeavour; by a few tales and inci-
dents;'to. show some of the ways in which we
are influenced by ,rejudice.

Prejudice Conquered.

Several children were one day passing
by a church, when they notiged a little
girl, sitting on a stile. One of the elder