ving her pain in any way in consequence of her
faults, except the simple pain of awakening conscience in her bosom is
almost entirely unknown. I hope that you will always be ready to confess
and forsake your faults, and endeavor while you remain in school, to
improve in character, and attain as far as possible, every moral
excellence.

I ought to remark before dismissing this topic, that I place very great
confidence in the scholars in regard to their moral conduct and
deportment, and they fully deserve it. I have no care and no trouble in
what is commonly called _the government of the school_. Neither myself
nor any one else is employed in any way in watching the scholars, or
keeping any sort of account of them. I should not at any time hesitate
to call all the teachers in an adjoining room, leaving the school alone
for half an hour, and I should be confident, that at such a time order,
and stillness, and attention to study would prevail as much as ever. The
scholars would not look to see whether I was in my desk, but whether the
Study Card was up. The school was left in this way, half an hour every
day, during a quarter, that we might have a teachers' meeting, and the
school went on, generally quite as well, to say the least, as when the
teachers were present. One or two instances of irregular conduct
occurred. I do not now recollect precisely what they were. They were
however, fully acknowledged and not repeated, and I believe the scholars
were generally more scrupulous and faithful then than at other times.
They would not betray the confidence reposed in them. This plan was
continued until it was found more convenient to have the teachers'
meeting in the afternoons.

When any thing wrong is done in school, I generally state the case and
request the individuals who have done it to let me know who they are.
They do it sometimes by notes and sometimes in conversation,--but they
always do it. The plan _always_ succeeds. The scholars all know that
there is nothing to be feared from confessing faults to me;--but that on
the other hand, it is a most direct and certain way to secure returning
peace and happiness.

I can illustrate this by describing a case which actually occurred.
Though the description is not to be considered so much an accurate
account of what occurred in a particular case, as an illustration of the
_general spirit and manner_ in which such cases are disposed of. I
accidentally understood, that some of