This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...were very far in advance of those of ordinary women of her day. One of the school girls writing home, said, " Miss Carpenter is quite delightful. She understands Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and every other language, for anything I know to the contrary, for I only know of these through hearing her teach them. She is fond of poetry, conchology, and geology--the two last she seems to understand very well. In short, she seems to be universal." While Miss Carpenter was thus busily occupied in teaching both living and dead languages, and scientific subjects on the week days, her time on Sundays was given to the Sunday school. From a very early age she had taken part in this work, and had always been very much interested in it. But in 1831 she was appointed superintendent of the school. It is scarcely necessary to say that she threw her whole heart into her task. She was not content with simply teaching her class on the Sunday. She made herself the friend of her scholars, inquired into their circumstances, followed them to their homes, introduced herself to their parents, and learnt all that she could about them. In this way she found out how miserable and poor many of them were, and, living as they did in such a degraded condition, how difficult it was for them to escape from sinking yet lower and lower. Even in these days we sometimes think that people who differ in politics are very much more excited and bitter than they need be, and that if opponents would only discuss quietly and talk pleasantly together, they would respect each other more. What would the persons who think thus have said if they had watched events fifty or sixty years ago? At the very time that Miss Carpenter was made superintendent of the Sunday school, the country was in the gr...