Thursday, September 13, 2018

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



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