The voice that speaks the thought, may change or grow still forever. The heart that prompted the kindly and cheering word may grow cold and forgetful. But the page that mirrors it is changeless, faithful, and immortal. The Book that records the incarnation of divine love, is God's best gift to man. The books which are filled with kindly thought and generous sympathy, are the best gifts of friend to friend.
Every family ought to be well supplied with a choice supply of books for reading.
This may be seen from the consequences of its neglect and abuse on the one hand, and from its value and importance on the other. Parents should furnish their children the necessary means, opportunities, and direction of a Christian education. Give them proper books. A reading people will soon become a thinking people, and a thinking people must soon become a great people. It will be worth more to him than all your hoarded gold and silver.