Rural Reading

"Parents! when you buy suitable books and place

them in your houses, you procure for your children good company.

At The Window Book Cover

Cecily Mary Barker

Company which is always near and ready, and which may keep them

from that which is low, ignorant, foolish, expensive, or vicious.

Give your children good schooling and good books, and encourage

them in reading. It will be the means of improving and perhaps saving

them from ruin. In the meantime it will be no injury to you if

you read a little yourselves."

For a farmer should not only cultivate and improve his farm,

but also his mind. Those that are growing up under his care and direction

should have every attention paid them, lest the noxious weeds of vice

and corruption overtop the expanding blossoms of heavenly virtue.

Instruct your families in the ways of honesty, benevolence, and true

dignity of character and deportment. Above all let the Bible, the Sabbath,

and the pulpit be respected as the best means of intellectual and moral

improvement and of present and future happiness.

What Happened To Your Hand?

Harry Anderson

(1945)

"Great God, Thy wondrous works Thy power display;

Thy wisdom shines o'er all the earth and sea.

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, days appear;

They show Thy goodness through the changeful year."

Above prayer and text taken from

The Farmer's Almanac

For The Year Of Our Lord

1812

By Robert B. Thomas