A Love Of Reading

It is the fault of a systeni which brings the oommunity up in the idea that a poor knowledge of the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic constitutes in itself an education. .Now, on tho contrary, it seems to me that the true object, the great end of the common-school system, is something more than to teach children to read ; it should, if it ia to accomplish its full min sioo, also impart to theui a love of reading. Having started the child by means of what we cali a common-echool course - having, as it were tauphtit to walk- tbe procesa of further sulf edncation is to begin. The great ineans of self-education is through Look, through uiuch reading of books. But just here there is in our system of inetruction a missing link. Io our schools we teach children to read ; we do not teach them how to read. That, the one all-important '.hing, the great connecting link between school education and Belf-education, between meaos and end, that one link we makc no effort to supply. As long as we do not make an effort to supply it, our school system in its results is, and will remain miserably deficiënt. - Charlea Francis Adams. Nothing in life has any meaning, ezcept as it draws us further into God, and presses us more closely to Hiui. The world is no better than a oomplication of awkward riddles, or a gloomy btorehouse of disquieting mysterie, unlcss we look at it by the licht of this simple truth, that the oternal God is blessedly the last and only end of every soul of man.- F. W. Faber.