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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1882

Get Near Them.

A WELL KNOWN educator says, that if you want to influence the young, you must get near them. Just as it is in the world of physics, the force of attraction varies inversely as the square of the distance. That accounts for the fact that often the inferior in capacity and attainments exert a greater influence than their superiors. They get near to the person to be moved. He who desires to act on a child's heart must not have his head among the stars. He must come down into the child world. He must put himself into the child's place in order that he may be able to speak effectively.

To get into a boy's heart, as some one has well said, you must get the boy-heart into you. Then you can bring him up with you into the thoughts and feelings of a man.—National Teacher.