40 or 41 by 1 girl

Two papers, A and B, written by members of the same grade and class in a
test in spelling:

A. B.
greatful gratful
elegant eleagent
present present
patience paisionce
succeed suckseed
severe survere
accident axadent
sometimes sometimes
sensible sensible
business biusness
answer anser
sweeping sweping
properly prooling
improvement improvment
fatiguing fegting
anxious anxchus
appreciate apresheating
assure ashure
imagine amagen
praise prasy

In a test in spelling wherein fifty common words were dictated to a
class of twenty-eight pupils, the following results were obtained:

2 spelled correctly all 50
3 spelled correctly between 45 and 48
5 spelled correctly between 40 and 45
11 spelled correctly between 30 and 40
6 spelled correctly between 20 and 30
1 spelled correctly between 15 and 20

And now the question--what has all this to do with the teaching of
religion? Just this: the differences among men as found in fields
already referred to, are found also in matters of religion. For one man
it is easy to believe in visions and all other heavenly manifestations;
for another it is next to impossible. To one man the resurrection is the
one great reality; to another it is merely a matter of conjecture. One
man feels certain that his prayers are heard and answered; another feels
equally certain that they cannot be. One man is emotionally spiritual;
another is coldly hard-headed and matter-of-fact. The point is not a
question which man is right--it is rather that we ought not to attempt
to reach each man in exactly the same way, nor should we expect each one
to measure up to the standards of the others.

An interesting illustration of this difference in religious attitude was
shown recently in connection with the funeral of a promising young man
who had been taken in death just as he had fairly launched upon his
life's work. In a discussion that followed the service, one good brother
found consolation in the thought that the Lord needed just such a young
man to help carry on a more important work among the spirits already
called home. His companion in the discussion found an explanation to his
satisfaction in the thought that it was providential that the young man
could be taken when he was, that he t