Then what is it?
What did my consciousness reply?
I ask you, my little friends, What did my consciousness reply?
It replied, It is the temple of the Lord! Ah, think of that, now.

I could hardly keep the tears back, I was so grateful.

Oh, how beautiful it is to see these ranks of sunny little faces assembled here to learn the way of life; to learn to be good; to learn to be useful; to learn to be pious; to learn to be great and glorious men and women; to learn to be props and pillars of the State and shining lights in the councils and the households of the nation; to be bearers of the banner and soldiers of the cross in the rude campaigns of life, and raptured souls in the happy fields of Paradise hereafter.
"Children, honor your parents and be grateful to them for providing for you the precious privileges of a Sunday School.
"Now my dear little friends, sit up straight and pretty--there, that's it--and give me your attention and let me tell you about a poor little Sunday School scholar I once knew .-- He lived in the far west, and his parents were poor.

They could not give him a costly education; but they were good and wise and they sent him to the Sunday School.

He loved the Sunday School.