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Show C. I. G. The Lamb" Couliuiii's Her SI ry. Santa Bauiaka, Svpt. 1, '70. Editors llerald: And you want to hear more aUntl Mary's other little lamb? Well. It went to BChool one day, which event, proved an unlucky one, for it wn turned out, for no ill-behavior on its own part, but simply because it was not tiio custom to allow lambs in school. Still it lingered near, hoping to receive a little attention, but the looked-for comfort did not come, Ifo it wandered away off from tho flock and from Ihe fold, aluno I Time passed on and the lamb grew in knowledge, in wordly wisdom, and her desire grew less and less for admission into that school, where once she would have been so contented. con-tented. She has visited the vast schoolboiiio of tho world, and in it finds leaeherd both competent and kind. The seien-e of learning, both secular and religious, is o tiered her, and having u mind for it, the has imniovcd opportunities.. Yet her lleece was ahorn, and many lime, had it not been lor Him who tempers the wind for shorn lambrf, she must have perished for she was a sensitive lamb, and the cold and rliillino lilmfj nf i.nL-irwl in her unpRilecled condition, pierced her through and through. The ouo whom she trusted implicitly implic-itly her nearest and dearest protector had drawn her from Ihe (lock-out side its fold so tho warmth of ils enfolding en-folding was denied to her. She was chosen for tho "pet lamb," and although there were other lambs, this special lamb, if but one could go to "school," the protector "preferred to all other lambs." Alas! tho shepherd o( a rlock ought to know his own mind. Hut all shepherds are not strong minded, and (hen, "public opinion" is sometimes sought at the risk of personal favor. Slill Ihe lamb has a right to a voice in the matter, and if the "school" cannot admit her into its warm embrace, the fails to see propriety in ihe protector going in wit lion t her, enjoying privilegoi denitd her. She feels deserted when most needing protection. With the promise ot "school" she left the natural protection of the dam and the ( shcepfuld, to follow a new director. What makes the Iamb love Mary so? Fur -Mary loved the lamb, you know. Although tho voice of "public opinion" opin-ion" is sometimes rinht, yet tome-limes tome-limes il is wrong Irni very ignorance of tho question m point, then it becomes be-comes ihe duty of the enlightened to spoisk of the liiiugs they know, striving striv-ing to move "pubiic opinion" from its erroneous moorings. And who can toll the vast amount accomplished by the b. eating of one little lamb? Disheartened, Dis-heartened, def'-ncclcss may be the very power in her success her strength lies in her weakness ! Hu mau nature at its besl is kind, and hearts will respond in tender solicitude solici-tude to the oppressed, to tho unjustly treated. C. I G. |