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19. •HE OGLALA LIGHT some advantages over the oral, although it matter not what the method so that the work is done, and ways and means will pre sent themselves as we proceed. I have found that the first time that the pnpil has recieved the impression of the story is the Supreme moment and I have got* ien reproductions that seemed to me wonderful at that time, but upon a recurrence the charm seems in a measure to be lost I never have those reproduction |apers returned to them for cor rection unless the story is a fairy tale, without any obvious moral or intent. My aim is to have the pupils concentrate all the powers of their minds on the subject matter of the story and to give them as much of this as they can digest and retain. We find that the natural trend Of nearly all literature that comes to us is in accord with the teach ings of the First Teacher upon yhose teaching all education is founded. This should be brought out in all our work, that lie shunned the rich, the wealthy, Und the strong while on earth to minister to the poor, the sick, the weak, the sorrowful and the sin ner. He has told us that those we would always have with us, fhus implying that we would ever Slave the opportunity of doing as lie has done. We would teach the wrong that it must be to use the mental and physical gifts given to us by our Creator to crush those to whom He has been less merciful. He has bidden them to call him, Father, and as the Father of Justice he cannot love them less. Teach the good ness, rather than the fear of God: that he gives us the flowers, tree, Waters, variety of seasons, but most of all the birds and animals, that they are His friends, that He loves them, and therefor we must not be unnecessarily cruel to them. As "not a sparrow falls without His knowledge". If they are to hear a sad story, and I believe it is well that they should occasionally, that they may know something about the sorrows of life outside of their own environment, and that they realize that others have troubles as well as they, and that they may know how to cope with them when they come by giving them the experience of others in doing so. However, if I tell them a sad tale, I say before I begin that it is sad but has a happy ending, and I should not tell them one that has not. We should aim to teach them to choose and buy literature for themselves. I once tried this by sending for about five dozen