‘CHAPTER II.

THE ARITHMETIC LESSON.

“* Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”—Z cles. ix. 10,

4;EHO does not know the natural reluctance of

 
 

A j| childhood to make steady effort? Indeed, is
it not the reluctance of the human heart at all ages?
Children in deed, and children in character, are often
ready enough to act from impulse or circumstances,
and make great achievements ; but it is the habit of
steady, self-relying, yet humble effort, which accom-
plishes all that is truly good and useful. We are to
do with our might whatsoever our hands find to do.
This habit cannot be begun too early, and it can only
be successfully cultivated in a child, by making him

feel that there is power enough in parental authority

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