Evening star., 1925-01-04
ADVERTISEMENT.
Mother Goose Suggestions Harmful to Children
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piritual Standards of This Hour.
Bible tells them to "Ase, and ye shall
receive" So he told the mother that
the meal should not waste, neither
should the cruise of oil fail, and they
did not, for the story reads, "She and
he, and her house, did eat many days
And the meal wasted not, neither did
the cruise of oil fail"
Then there was another prophet, Elisha,
who told woman how to get the money to
pay her debts. The man to whom she owed
the money was going to take her two sons
and make them work to pay this big debt
OF course, the mother felt very sorry that
her sons would have to work hard to pay
her debt. Elisha asked her if she had any
thing to eat in the house. She said, Nothing
save pot of OIL" and then he told
her to send out and borrow empty vessels of
all her neighbors. You see, the mother was
obedient to the prophets word and she had
her reward, for all the vessels that she had
borrowed from her neighbors were filled
with oil, which she sold, and she paid all
her debts. 1t is right for every one TO
If every one knew Elijahs and Elishas
and Christ Jesus God-and there is only
one God-there wouldn't be ANYBODY in debt
would there3 If everybody knew that the
God of Elijah and Elisha and Christ Jamus
was hev God and their loving Father, no
one would be worried about debts, and
there would be no hungry people and no
starving children. l think, children, If
Elijah and Elisha were here today, they
could feed ali the hungry little and big
children here and in Europe, and / kso1v,
really do kno1D that Christ Jesus can, and
he is ever-present. l think that all the
earthly fathers and mothers and everybody
had better find God and, He will feed all
His little and big children, do you not7
And again the shackles OF fear are brok-
en-, when Mrs Stetson frees the little ones
from the agony, the bondage Of fear, which
our childhood prayer, "Now | lay me down
to sleep" implanted in us all. On this sub
Ject she writes:
Ny dear mother was my first Sunday
when I questioned the prayer she taught
me TO say before | went TO sleep, which
ran thus:
Now l lay down to sleep;
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If should die before I wake
l pray the Lord my soul to take
I did not want to say this prayer, be-
cause | did not want to die and leave my
dear parents, my horse and piano and organ
and home.
AS child rebelled at the prayer "1f
should die before l wake" Today, dear
children, you can go to Sunderland with
the prayer that dear Mary Baker Eddy,
T1yhn discovered md ChyISf
ence, and who wrote wonderful book,
which she calls Science of,d Health grTth
Key TO the Seribtwfs-I repeat. you have
the prayer that Mrs. Eddy has given to chill
dren of the twentieth century, and which
will never take you away from your par
ents, but will teach you that Gcd is your
life and that you cannot be separated from
life and love- You will learn that God
thoughts life. This is Mrs. Eddy's
PRAYER, which thousands of little ones offer
to our loving Father Mother God every
night
"Father-Mother God,
Loving me
Guard me when / sleep;
Guide my little feet
Up to Thee"
There is another prayer, whose author |
do not know:
Now | lay me down to sleep;
know that God His child does keep
know that God my life, is nigh,
live i'll Him; I cannot die
God is my health, can't be sick;
God is my strength unfailing quick,
God is All; know no fear,
Since Life and Love, our God, is here"
The subject of children's books has been near
my heart for years, and I have made extensive
investigation throughout America and Europe to
see what sort of books are found in the libraries
and other places available to children It would
appall and arouse mothers, if they could see much
that is given to children.
I would have this book of Mrs. Stetson's promi-
nenty placed in every library and school in
America, SO that the demand OF the children, with
their pure, receptive mentalities, could be met
and their latent capacity to think for themselves
could be satished. "a little child shall lead
them" The children of larger growth" wifi be
led to the solution of problems that bewilder-
ing the world at this unprecedented hour, if they
will read ponder and practice the true educational
processes, that simply and beautifully unfoldcd
in this lovely book, Greetings and Message TO
the Dear Children.
I am very grateful to Mrs Winifred SaclHille
Stoner, for her courageous words on Mother
Goose" which have inspired this letter. l have
a revised Mother Goose, whose happy secrets
will tell later. My life work has been devoted
TO the elevation of children, not only in my own
country, America, but throughout Europe even in
faraway Russia, where / was guest in the house
hold of the late Gar, and later, coming to Mos
cow, where ! had priceless experiences and
glimpses of the childlike loving spirit of the
real Russian people. 1t was the appreciation and
comradeship of my young friends (the grand
children of Queen Victoria) in England which
was really the first stepping stone in the musical
structure OF my art, which afterward developed