I believe one morning he didn't get there
until after the last bell was done ringing, but otherwise his record
of attendance compares favorably with Sister Boggs's. Both teachers
agree to ignore the stated lesson for the day, but whereas Sister
Boggs leads her flock through the flowery meads of narration, Mr.
Parker and his class have camped out by preference for the last forty
years in the arid wilderness of Romans and Hebrews and Corinthians
First and Second, flinging the plentiful dornicks of "Paul says this"
and "Paul says that" at each other's heads in friendly strife. Mr.
Parker's class is also very assiduous in its attendance upon the
Young People's meetings, seemingly holding the dogma, "Once a young
person always a young person." The prevailing style of hairdressing
among the members is to grow the locks long on the left side of the
head, and to bring the thin layer across to the right, pasted down
very carefully with a sort of peeled onion effect.
There is a whole lot of them, and they jower away at each other all
through the time between the opening and the closing exercises,
having the liveliest kind of a time getting over about two verses
of the Bible and the whole ground of speculative theology.
Immeasurably more impermanent in method and personnel is the regular
collegiate department, the Sabbath-school proper.
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