. Historical and pictorial Lititz ... he was the first, he would be the last one I would receive fxom did I imagine on that day, my future destiny to be the educator ofmany hundred boys, who would be brought to me from nearly all the States inthe Union. In Gods Providence it has, however, come to pass during 50years, as the Catalogue shows. About four weeks after Master V. had entered,five more came from Baltimore, all sons of highly respectable families. *Theyarrived without preliminary application, and I was much concerned what to dowith them, for I was deficient in boarding ac
. Historical and pictorial Lititz ... he was the first, he would be the last one I would receive fxom did I imagine on that day, my future destiny to be the educator ofmany hundred boys, who would be brought to me from nearly all the States inthe Union. In Gods Providence it has, however, come to pass during 50years, as the Catalogue shows. About four weeks after Master V. had entered,five more came from Baltimore, all sons of highly respectable families. *Theyarrived without preliminary application, and I was much concerned what to dowith them, for I was deficient in boarding accomodations; but it neverthelessreally appeared, as though a Higher Hand had regulated the matter, for familyafter family in the village offered to receive not only the newcomers, but anumber of others who soon followed ; these five boys also came on the reccom- * He knew nothing of their coming. Quite unexpectedly to him the carriage containingthe boys stopped before the blacksmith shop while school was in session.—-A. R. B. [48]. mendation of the two gentlemen who had reccommended the school to Mr. V. In proportion as the school increased, the old building was found too small,and it was determined to tear it away and erect a larger house on its site;accordingly, in the early part of 1822, the dingy blacksmith shop was takendown, and on the 25th of September following, I moved the school into thenew building. Spacious and comfortable as I now deemed my room, constantaccessions to the number of my pupils, soon rendered futher extensions had taught me, that quite young pupils cannot be properly consortedwith those older and more advanced. I therefore proposed to those parents ofthe village, who had small boys, the establishment of a primary school; but assuch an arrangement was unheard of in those days, in these parts, the project metwith little favor. Thinking that the additional expense thereof constituted thechief objection, I offered to bear that mysel
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