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 A DEVOTIONAL EXERCISE. 
 
 Teacher — Whose day is this? 
 
 School — This is the day the Lord hath made, vve 
 will rejoice and be glad in it. 
 
 Teacher — Where shall we walk pray tell us ; and 
 how can we find the way? 
 
 School — In all the ways acknowledge Him, and he 
 shall diredl thy paths. 
 
 Teacher — Where can we look for strength to help 
 us through the day? 
 
 School — The joy of the Lord is in our strength. 
 
 Teacher — Where shall we wisdom find our know- 
 ledge is so small? 
 
 School — Call unto me and I will answer thee and 
 show thee great and mighty things which thou know- 
 est not. 
 
 Teacher — Would the Lord be angry if we should 
 chance to fall? 
 
 School — The Lord is very pitiful and of tender 
 mercy. 
 
 Teacher — And does He love us enough that he 
 will help us so? 
 
 School — Yea, He has said I have loved thee with 
 an everlasting love. 
 
 Teacher — How can little children serve the Lord; 
 they love Him and long to know? 
 
 School — Be kind to one another, and what so-ever 
 thy hands find to do do it with all thy might. 
 
 Teacher — What is the best thought we can take 
 with us when the day with its lessons are o’er? 
 
 School — What hast thou gleaned to-day and who 
 made happy. 
 
 Teacher — Who will be with us when darkness 
 comes once more? 
 
 School — The Lord will be with us and watch over 
 us and give us rest. 
 
 Teacher — Who leads us by day as well as watch 
 over us by night? 
 
 School — The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. 
 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ; He 
 leadeth me beside the still waters; He restoreth my 
 soul ; He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness 
 for his name sake. 
 
Summary of Colonies and States 
 
 The first enduring settlement^ 
 
 Where English people stayed^. 
 
 At Jamestown in Virginia, 
 
 In sixteen-seven was made. 
 
 In sixteen -fourteen at New York, 
 
 Wrecked Dutchmen built a shanty ; 
 
 Massachusetts Pilgrims came, 
 
 In sixteen hundred twenty. 
 
 New Hampshire lands were occupied 
 In sixteen-twenty-three ; 
 
 In thirty-four to Maryland, 
 
 Came Catholics across the sea. 
 
 From thirty- three to thirty-six 
 Connecticut was won. 
 
 In thirty- six by William’s friends 
 Rhode Island was begun. 
 
 The Swedes encamped in Deleware 
 In sixteen-thirty-eight ; 
 
 In sixty -four, Elizabethtown, 
 
 Began New Jersey’s state. 
 
 The English navy took New York, 
 
 In sixteen- sixty-four. 
 
 And from this time the colony 
 An English title bore. 
 
 Year sixteen hundred fifty 
 Is North Carolina’s date. 
 
 In sixteen seventy, began, 
 
 South Carolina State. 
 
 Penn came to Pennsylvania 
 In sixteen eighty-two ; 
 
 In seventeen hundred thirty-three. 
 
 To Georgia debtors go. 
 
 These thirteen States the Union formed 
 And scarce three million held ; 
 
 Now forty-five compose the land, 
 
 With seventy million filled. 
 
Now six small territories, 
 
 Within the western border: 
 
 And thirty-two new States have been 
 Admitted in this order. 
 
 Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, 
 
 Ohio, Louisiana ; 
 
 The latter fairly bought from France, 
 
 The next was Indiana. , 
 
 Then Mississippi, Illinois 
 With Alabama, Maine, 
 
 Missouri and Arkansas next ; 
 
 And then came Michigan. 
 
 New Florida and Texas next. 
 
 With Iowa come on ; 
 
 Wisconsin, California, 
 
 Minnesota, Oregon. 
 
 Then Kansas, West Virginia, 
 
 Nevada forms a state ; 
 
 Nebraska, Colorado bring 
 The number up to thirty-eight. 
 
 Montana, Wyoming, Washington, 
 
 Idaho, North and South Dakota form 
 And now in eighteen ninety-six, we find, 
 
 Utah which closes the number up to forty-five. 
 
 vv President Verses. ^ 
 
 Of all the honored list of presidents, 
 
 George Washington was first to the White House 
 sent ; 
 
 Honest, noble, great, good, and wise. 
 
 With the Bay State John Adams to advise. 
 
 Two terms filled with whiskey rebellion, 
 
 Capital placing, treaty with Spain and England, 
 
 They serve ; and admit three new states, 
 
 Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee. 
 
 Second on the line, John Adams find. 
 
 With Thomas Jefferson called into line ; 
 
 To quell the once friendly France, 
 
 The Alien and Sedition laws advance. 
 
James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, 
 
 As twenty and twenty-one we’ll place ; 
 
 Garfield is shot, the country mourn, 
 
 And Arthur holds rule alone. 
 
 Twenty-two a democratic president we place, 
 
 Grover Cleveland with Thomas Hendricks ; 
 
 There’s trouble ahead with labor disturbances, 
 Earthquakes and Indians in the West. 
 
 Benjamin Harrison as twenty-three have we, 
 Grandson of Wm. H. is he ; 
 
 The Johnstown flood comes two states he admits. 
 Idaho and Wyoming. 
 
 As twenty-four Grover Cleveland we have again 
 With Adlai Stevenson to rule o’er our land. 
 
 With the World’s Fair at Chicago 
 
 And North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington. 
 
 As twenty-five Wm. McKinley we see 
 With Garrett Hobert by his side 
 The tarriff bill trying to decide 
 And help the money question’s side. 
 
 Now this last makes us twenty-five presidents 
 Twenty-six administrations 
 And twenty-nine terms 
 Of republic rule both good and bad.