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==Teaching==
The summer I was fifteen I taught my first school. The little schoolhouse was built in a grove by the roadside. It looked friendly and inviting; but I confess to a feeling akin to awe, as I unlocked its door on that May morning. I had on purpose gone early, to look over things before the scholars arrived. As they came in, singly, and in groups, with a cheerful, "Good morning, Teacher", I immediately felt at home. There is little to be said about this, my first experience in teaching. With the exception of the minister's daughter, a girl about my own age, the pupils were boys and girls under fourteen, with a few ABC scholars.
Ella Burlingame was a quiet, studious girl; it was a recreation for me to hear her recitations, after the others, and we read together at noon recesses. Naturally, we became great friends, and I was often at her home. Ella was very near-sighted. Spectacles were rarely worn in those days, except by old people. Business had called Mr. Burlingame to Chicago. After supper, on the day of his return, he said to his daughter: "Let us go for a walk." As usual, they called for me. At the top of the hill he stopped, and taking a pair of spectacles from his pocket, gave them to Ella, saying: "Put them on, dear, and look off over the valley."
A lovely vale it was, with groups of farm-buildings and bits of groves. She put them on and looked, she took them off and looked, then replacing them she looked long at the valley and at the cloud-flecked, azure sky. Then with a glad cry, she turned to her father: "Oh father! I did not know the world was so <u>beautiful</u>! I never <u>saw</u> things before!" Her ecstasy knew no bounds. Mr. Burlingame then gave her a little Bible from his pocket. She scanned its pages eagerly, then turning to me said: "Now I need to not grow stoop-shouldered by putting my nose to my book."
* ''Ella Burlingame may have been born at Newark Valley, N.Y. on Oct. 7, 1846, as Ellen Gertrude Burlingame, the daughter of Rev. Arnold G. Burlingame and his wife Lucinda Beecher Burlingame. On June 4, 1866 she married Warren Lyman Moody of Woodstock, IL, a brother of Dwight Lyman Moody, founder of [[Moody Bible Institute]]. Warren was born in 1838 in Northfield, MA, the son of Edwin Moody (1800-1841 Northfield, MA) & Betsey Holton Moody (1805-1896 Northfield, MA). They lived in Elmira, N.Y., until 1888 when they settled on a farm north of Gardner, [[Kansas]].''
''Warren died in 1896 and Ellen moved into town, and for nineteen years she was unable to walk, and for her final three years she was rendered an invalid. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and took an interest in the work of the G.A.R. They had four children: George B. Moody (Boston, MA), Rev. Arnold G. Moody (Muskogee, OK), Leonard W. Moody (N.Y.C.), and Mrs. E.G. Lundy (Emporia, KS). Ellen died on May 4, 1924 in Gardner. At her memorial service, at Ellen's prior request, a quartet sang "I Know Whom I Have Believed", a hymn written for Warren and Dwight's mother in honor of her 80th birthday.''
==A Winter School==
==A Year in Berlin==
