our twenty-eight foot flag having
a prominent place; the patrons and friends of Burrell were loud in her
praise, and the teachers on the evening of their departure were given
a banquet by a surprise party at the "Home."

INDUSTRIES.

One feature of the programmes at the church, calling attention to some
work of Burrell not done at these other schools, illustrating shop,
sewing and drawing, were interesting for their own sake; first a
presentation of models executed at our shop, then a tableau of the
boys having on their aprons and caps and tools in hand; then the girls
of the fourth and fifth grades grouped with different articles of
sewing about the sewing teacher, who stood directing one of the number
at work upon the new sewing-machine. The drawings exhibited were two
large, finely executed crayons that won the admiration of all. These
industries, for which over $50 had been solicited the past year, were
fully shown at Burrell School building during the week on public days
when some fifty patrons favored us with their presence and praise,
former pupils lamenting the lack of these features during their school
days.

BIBLE STUDY.

Better than all special attractions, than the general interest in
texts and teachers, has been the marked interest in Bible study and
evident conversion of a number of our pupils whose lives show a
changed purpose. The Endeavor Society has had a part in this, and each
of the last meetings seemed to be better than the others, so that it
is hoped that the organization may be maintained through the summer.
It was the prayer of a "father in Israel" here, "Turn loose thy Spirit
upon us, for sinners are running wild to hell; uphold our heads above
the swelling tides of sin in which others are floundering; and, after
the confusion of this life is wound up, permit us to march around thy
throne above, eternally."

There is in the above the true idea, however strangely it is phrased;
but the words of our pupils sometimes need translating, and they
continually interest even a teacher of long-standing among them. Only
recently the writer has come upon these expressions: "He called me
out of my name," meaning that the objector had been called "a fool,"
perhaps; and "I've done spoiled it out," the excuse of one who had
erased his examples before the teacher could correct the same.

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NORMAL SCHOOL, ORANGE PARK, FLA.

BY REV. T. S. PERRY.

At Orange Park