Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-03-06

,rcise so long, as to make it tresome.
Rather leave off while the children arc wide
awake and would be glad to 60 overa few
pages more. Fhey will then look forward
with d,s re atd even impaticncc to your
next 'sislre hour, and when it arrives, will
spread the table, and bring out the map, and
read and listen, with increasing satisfaction.
In this way you will. for the most part,
find it perfectly easy 10 wenn your eli, drcn
from the breost, and TO give them q high
relish for more substantial n.rilnent. When
they have finished one book of travels they
will call for another. Having gained some
knowledge the interior Of America, they
will want to pass over TO Europe-to vi,i
London, ard Paris, and Rome, unJ ST.
PelersburgI--,o wander among the Alps.
and bask on tho sunny plains Of Italy-to
60 to Athens and stand on Mars Hill
thence to Constantnopls, 10 Egypt, or to
the Holy Land and so across to
Persia, India, Birmah and China. And
when they have read rs many travels as
you think their ti.no VII allow, they will
not be less delighted, in taking up voyages
andsa ling round The world with Capt. Cook
touching at the great Islands in the Indian
Occean-exploring the vast Pacific. Ar.
chip p'!ago-pene:ratins the ice ofthe ;.rc.
tic rclelv ith Capt. Frankl n, and wintering
with Sir JOIN Ross, amid the icc-berss OF
the ever filful flashes ottlle Aurora Bsreas
and under the very paws Of Ursa Major.
In such course Of reading, your'chi!dren
will shorty become so much interested, that
whether YOU can command ttle time 70 sit
down with or not, they will 80 on; and IN.
deed, will leave you little else to do, but 10
select and furris,, the books. In making
your selections you will find none more in.
struc,ive, or interesting, than those volumes,
10 Which the researches, labors and progress
of modern missions have given birth such
as the narratives and journals OF Iyerman,
and Bennett, and Ellis, and Williams, and
Gu,zlaG and Smith, and Dwight, and
Parker, and many others. And | take this
opportunity to say, hat Protestant Mis-
sionarics from our own and from oIher
countries, are al this moment dong more
to make US acquainted with the actual con.
dition Of the world, than any other class OF
men. Living as they do, in the remolest
regions and among all the different races
hat have sprung from the first human pair,
they eniov advantages for becoming &C.
quainted with the character, habits and con.
di,ion Of all tho great branches OF the hu-
man family, which very few others possess,
so that by putting this class of books into
the hands Of your children, you will accom-.
plsh two great objects at once. You vii
furnish them with The most authentic intor-
nation, concerning tI'e stute Of barbarous
countries, and will interest them ia the all.
important cause Of foreign iss;ons.
From voyages and travels, you may
pass to history; or if you think it best, you
may begin with history, and provided you
are willing 10 take the necessary pains at
first, you will find no serious difficulty, in
giving your children as high Ia relish for
this kind of reading, as you could wish.
The human mind loves knowledge and in
is healthy aud unsophis,icase1 state, it loves
truth better than 6clion: The history Of
man, in all ages, in all countries, under all
forms of government, in all stages Of i'm.
provement! Can there lie any thing like
It to excite curiosity and stimulate TO en-
quiry? But with few exceptions, The
young mind mus: be put upon the right
track. The great majority of children will
cleave to their story books and become too
much enamorcd with fiction, 10 relish any
thing else, unless they are led up into high
er and clearer region, at the right time.
If you wish your children to love history,
take your map and sit down with them as
before. They will first want to know some.
thing about their own counlry-ts discov.
cry, its aboriginal Inhabitants, its settle
men,, lis mountains, rivers and lakes, is
present condition, population, cities DC.
By selecting good history, stopping every
now and then to explain, to point out places
upon the map and 10 answer questions, you
will find it extremely easy 10 gain their at
tention, and make them regard as prlvl.
ege, what they at frs. perhaps, lssksd for
ward to as task. When you have kept
them long enough upon America, you can
take up the history Of England; and so
proceed from country TO country, and travel
back 10 the beginni G of time. The his.
tories of Greece and Rome and Carthage
and Egypt, will interest them exceedingly
and so, in fact, will all others, whether an.
cicnt or modern if they are drawn up in q
pleasing style, and are read with the help
Of good MAPS, and in the presence of lis.
,cning and delighted parent. Neither voy
ages, travels, nor history, should ever be
read in the family without maps. If they
are not used for considerable time at least,
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