The Sunday Kindergarten: Game, Gift, and Story; a Manual for Use in the Sunday Schools and in the Home

Forsideomslag
University of Chicago Press, 1909 - 271 sider
 

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Side 203 - The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small, Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread Where love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells : The Book of Life the shining record tells.
Side 27 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come, wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Side 204 - But, go to ! thy love Shall chant itself its own beatitudes After its own life-working. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad ; A poor man served by thee, shall make thee rich, A sick man helped by thee, shall make thee strong; Thou shall be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
Side 236 - Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Side 252 - Oh, what can little lips do To please the King of heaven ? The little lips can praise and pray, And gentle words of kindness say : Such grace to mine be given...
Side 181 - GOD does not send us strange flowers every year. When the spring winds blow o'er the pleasant places, The same dear things lift up the same fair fa.ces. The violet is here.
Side 88 - Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Side 116 - Warm, and sofr, and white. But more sweet and quiet Lie our little heads, With our own dear mothers Sitting by our beds. And their soft sweet voices Sing our hush-a-bies, While the room grows darker As we shut our eyes. And we play at evening Round our...
Side 128 - Genius,' and especially did they emphasize the filial and fraternal duties to an extent hardly equaled elsewhere. Now it is precisely these duties that must be impressed on young children, and hence the biblical stories present us with the very material we require. They cannot, in this respect, be replaced. There is no other literature in the world that offers what is equal to them in value for the particular object we have now in view.

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