FRIENDS OF THE STRANGER. 131

grammar and composition, and he even entered him in
chemistry and botany. Carl taught the two young
friends to read musical notes, and diligently brought
them forward in the study of the German Bible, and
some beautiful poems of Schiller and Burger. These
were happy and profitable days for all the three. Carl
began to learn the delights of a truly Christian friend-
ship. He was soon introduced to the Sunday school,
and gathered around him a class of German and Swiss
children from the neighbouring paper-mill. Meanwhile
he became more accurately instructed in the great
principles of Scriptural religion, in which he had been
sincere, but with obscure and puerile notions. Here was
exemplified his own maxim that the great helper in
teaching is Love; and he learned more in a single
evening in autumn at the Cherry Hill farm house than
during a whole day at the Oaks.

What can make up to a loving child the loss of -,
parents? Certainly nothing on earth. Yet, when
father and mother are gone, we may find some relief
in the presence of sincere and affectionate friends.
Carl found the truth of this at Cherry Hill. When
the nights began to grow longer, he was permitted by
Dr. Newman sometimes to spend a long evening at the
farm-house. Then, when the doors were closed, and
the curtains pulled down, the family began to gather
in what they called the “living room.” Mrs. Black
was at her wheel or her knitting. The rosy-cheeked