| Show The April number of ot Mind begins beI tho limo twelfth volume of oC that well known metaphysical review It opens with n a ntine alino tine lino poem by b entitled en tilled Peace Penco Over Oer Africa which is accompanied with a II portrait and sketch of or tho time author by hi h C B Iatter son Non This hl article IM is I followed by b the first of ot a II series of ot Important papers paper by I John an author editor mid astrologer of ot hed lu d IP lion on The Sun Situ Il Hook ok an nn Astro Metaphysical Study Stud will Mill Inter Interest est emit every one ono familiar with the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures other anti arti articles eyes cles are uro Spiritualism and Its 1111 by Jy B 11 0 O Flower Tho The Higher by J H It A AMarshall Marshall Mind MinI ns as a U Factor Indor In ht Sue Sui uess cesK by hy James Jamos lair and 1 h by W V J Colville Thinking Gals Ool Thoughts by Isabel Goodhue In I 11 lv Ing by b M r on nn Self et ix by h Elizabeth Hugart Tho The Natural Life by Folger Birk r r How flow to be Je Happy by b Io Do non Han anti and Bertram k sec HOC mind on rho The l e ni f Let Id Letters tor ter Editor John Julia Emery J McLain 0 Ills die discusses cusses Telepathy In ht lieu hag and un ii nd In iii reviews sonic gome of time the latest Int lt books woks The lh llev Hel Helen Van nn Anderson answers sonic panted queries In the tho Family FA III I Circle depart department department ment which hits bus four other The Alliance lub Co Fifth Ave N Y In nn an eastern eastern paper of recent rec lIt date appeared a n poem entitled Lit Little Litlie tle lie tho the authorship of ot which was ssan long lon In dispute That publication hns has brought to light lIht pome somo Interesting things concerning Julia Julin S 5 i Parney Carney whoso whose claims to time the authorship me mire so strongly a us aM to b uve no nu doubt thAt flat she Mie he wrote the till verses Mrs Mm s I Carney Cnn y still live she hl once onro lived In Chicago It H eurs and she sho tells sells the tine follow following ing story The under which I wrote the little verses which ero des destined destined tined to become were nore these e It seas WIllI In 1815 during my first year an as a teacher leacher In the Boston primary schools I 1 had hn been writing meriting Wile verses and nud little stories for tor a n number of religious peer perl for far tomo some time and one cue of or my ny special friends was Dr J II If Usher of or Boston toll u n publisher of or Sunday Su ulay and church tracts pertaining to the th work worst of or the time church One day da I received a n letter leHt front from hint him asking me 1111 to write for tor the time Sunday school scholars and that lint night I wrote n a little paper entitled A Letter to Sabbath School Children In this I urged them to look out omit for tor the little things of ot lire life and toward the thc close ot of the paper I wrote these words word The world Is up of ot little things I will put Jut this In rhyme for tor you oU Little drone of water Little grains of ot sand Make Inke the mighty 1111 ocean And the pleasant land It was wa far tar Into the lice night when I finished tine the paper po per Early r In III the morn Ing In I went to old Tremont two to young oung Englishmen were teaching the thus Pitman system s of ot writ Ing In In order or er to 10 advertise time the th those these gentlemen c gave free fret tickets to the teachers leathers In the time Hoxton primary I hlll had accepted the Invitation As the session for the teachers was hold held from C G f to 7 find amid my own school convened n a little later I 1 1111 h d to bo be on nu hand early carl The rue Instructor instructor In short land hand 1 s ons that morning gave a 1 short lecture and then called upon the stu slut dents to prepare nn ton exercise exorcise giving ox In phonographic characters to tu some sOllie original thoughts Ten minutes were given for this exercise and I put myself to o the task nt at once Naturally my thoughts n turned to tho the e little paper bumper which u I Md atad uld written n the night before and the tho copy eop of or which I then tad had In the Docket of tit my tiny III gown rown So I wrote the time first Hist again and then continued So the little moments mOm moments Humble tho they be Make Malle the tho mighty ages Of eternity So Eo our little errors errors Lead the soul away From Irom the paths of ot virtue Far In sin to stray Little deeds of ot kindness Little words of love Help to make earth happy Like the heaven above I Dy By TI the time I 1 had finished the corn como composition position In the phonographic language the time was up and I gave gate my may copy to the Instructor hurrying away to tomy tom tomy my m school chool I spent the morning with the tho children At noon n I messenger er came from Dr Usher for tor the copy of or the tract and I gave It to him Later Inter re reo an nn Invitation from Rev llev He J C Adam Adams the editor of oC the line Gospel Go pel Teach Teacher er ea r published hod In Boston I 1 sent to hint him the four verses and that was Wall their first publication In full tull My 1 little verses were at nt once copied by papers throughout the country anti and It was not long lone before they had made their way Into ninny homes While I Iwas Iwas Iwas was still teaching leaching In the Boston Hoston schools Professor sor William Bumstead Introduced the tho word method Into th the primary eye system tem tern by Ly means of charts and exercises He lie published a I little book as os n a guide to his hla work and among other verses ap op appearing In the tho publication were Little Things This Thin was quite surprising to tome tome me mc for I did not know knol he was wall going to use u the verses erI and I 7 woe was one of ot a committee of ot six teachers from the tho Boa Bos Boston Hoston ton primary schools appointed to ex examine examine x amine and report upon the word meth mettr method oIl od of ot study stud In this edition and for tor the sake of or orthe the tho meter the last lost lint line but one of or the thelast thelast last verso terse mad hall boon been changed so that the time verse Cle read tad Little deeds of oC kindness Little words of ot Love Iove Make our earth nn an Eden Like Ilke the heaven above I presume ume this line was Wa changed by hy Mrs Mee Francis I Sergeant Osgood for tor Mr Air Ir when he prepared his hula First Header ns nl It was WA to be u used uell cil as al a II singing sing BIng singing BIngIng ing exercise and as originally written the meter was not satisfactory |
