Evening star., 1925-01-04
ADVERTISEMENT.

Let me quote further the tender and log
ical appeal to the little ones, teaching them
the necessity for unselish love and graft
tude, told In simple parable. Mrs. Stetson
asks:
Did you ever awake early some
cold winter morning, while it was yet
dark, and hear the milkman rattle the
bottles, as he left the nice milk for
your breakfast-and as you snuggled
in your warm, little bed, that YOUR
dear earthly father and mother had
provided for you, did you send out to
the nrlkur,an loving thought, CRATE
full thought and ask God to keep him
happy and warn3 Did you ever think
how many are working to make our
Clothes Our coats and shoes and hats
and dainty little frocks-how many
sew, and sew, and sew? And some
times they must be very tired; but
they finish their work and it comes to
us to supply our needs. Do we forget
to be grateful for all they provide
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these things is all we have to do for
them. We must be grateful. Selfish,
unldnd, ungrateful children are never
happy. The twentieth century chill
dren are learning that loving thoughts,
grateful, unselhsh thoughts make
them healthy and happy.
All thinkers realize that we are living in
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our future citizens--rnust be guarded and
protected through every channel of activity
which touches them. Particularly must the
books they read, the songs they sing, the
music they hear, be expressions of "whatso-
ever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest whatsoever things are just whatso-
ever things are lovely, whatsoever things are
of good report" paul Philippians iv., 81
A little child's consciousness is virgin soil.
Children must be taught to think rightly;
taught that every thought is a power for
good or evil.
The words and music of beautiful lul-
1aby, Loves Lullaby which adorn the
opening and closing pages of the book
above mentioned. if learned and sung by
our American children-and ultimately by
all of His '1ittle nes'-would usher in the
peace on earth, good will toward men,"
for which tired, yearning humanity is hun
gering and thirsting. I quote the two last
verses:
Lullaby lullaby, mother-ove sings
Over the cradle of peasant and kings:
God is the Father and Mother of ALL
This is Christs message to great and to
small.
'Iove clothes the lily in radiant white,
Love feeds the lanbkins and guards through
the night
Love broodeth over each hamlet and hail.
Love never faileth, but careth for all.'
In this MESSAGE to the Dear Children
Mrs Stetson teaches them American ideals
and to remember and revere the founders
of OUR country, America.
A touching and little known picture of
George Washington, the father of our coun-
try, with little children, illustrates this book,
as does one of Abraham Lincoln with chill
dren. These pictures emphasize great his
torical points, in just the way a child can
grasp them, and teach the young that as
Abraham Lincoln was the hberator from
physical slavery, so they can liberate them
selves and others from the mental slavery
which wrong thinking puts upon them.
Mrs. Stetson refers to the Bible in way
a child can understand, and illustrates her
points with picture-stories. She writes:
You know, dear little ones, that the
Bible is the book that tells us what
God says to His people, through men
who love Him and who obey His COM
mandments, one of which reads:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart. and with all thy SOUL and
with all thy strength, and with all thy mind
and thy neighbor as thySelf.
These men were called prophets.
They prophesied, or foresaw and
foretold the result of wrong thoughts
or thoughts which were not God, or
good thoughts-Lfe and Love and
Truth thoughts. Ages ago people
were told to be good and obey God,
if they wanted to be happy themselves
and be able to make others well and
happy Elijah was one of the proph-
cts who talked with God and taught
God-thoughts to the people, SO you
see, God spoke through him, and, of
course, Eljah's thoughts were all life
and love and truth thoughts. and these
good, God-thoughts made the people,
who obeyed Gods voice through Eli
iah, happier and healthier.
Did YOU ever hear, children, that
once Elijah went into house, and he
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