Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Children of India

India is a very old land, and those who live there look far back into the past. They listen to the stories that were told of men and gods in those old days, and follow the customs that were followed then.

Chapters

8. CHAPTER VIII

But the children of India have to act as men and women long before anyone here would think them old enough to do more than learn and play. Very early indeed a little Hindu child...

7. CHAPTER VII

Even in high caste homes, where the women are never allowed to leave their own dingy part of the house, little girls, while they are still very young, play freely with their bro...

10. CHAPTER X

Men and women have gone to India to tell of the King of the world, and because of that new things are coming into the lives of the children there. There is great excitement when...

12. CHAPTER XII

Ramabai and her brother were alone, but they had one treasure that very few Hindu brothers and sisters then had. They had their friendship for each other, their common interests...

11. CHAPTER XI

There have often been learned Hindu men who have lost their faith in idols, and the story of one of these has so much to do with the lives of many children in India to-day, that...

14. CHAPTER XIV

Sita was only a child but she was very miserable. The other little girls she knew romped and played about, but she had to work hard and to bear blows and many other kinds of cru...

16. CHAPTER XVI

It is not only to poor and outcast girls that the sight of the King of India brings joy. There are women in that land whose lives were happy and glad before they saw Him, who ye...

9. CHAPTER IX

Once upon a time a boy was born in a manger in Bethlehem. When He was still a child wise men from the East came to worship and to lay gifts before Him, because they had seen a s...

15. CHAPTER XV

Far away in the north of India a little boy was born. He was trained to two things--to be a robber and to obey the Prophet Mohammed; and he learned what he was taught thoroughly...

4. CHAPTER IV

Far back in the early days four kinds of people sprang from Brahma the creator, to form the castes of India. The first, the Brahman caste, sprang from his mouth, to rule all the...

1. CHAPTER I

India is a very old land, and those who live there look far back into the past. They listen to the stories that were told of men and gods in those old days, and follow the custo...

2. CHAPTER II

Very long ago, though the mountains stood at the world’s centre, and India lay at their feet, there was no Ganges river, and the plains lay bare and fruitless. The god Siva then...

5. CHAPTER V

When a baby is born in India the lines between the bones of its skull can be traced just as they can be traced in a fair-skinned child. The mother of a white baby does not notic...

13. CHAPTER XIII

Before we leave India we shall hear the stories of four others of its children who found their way to Christ the King. The name of the first of these is Hormasdji Pestonji. He w...

6. CHAPTER VI

There are hundreds of other old stories that affect the life of Indian children to-day; but if we remember those which tell us of the holy land--the seats of the gods--amongst t...

3. CHAPTER III

Long long ago, the unknown spirit began to play a game of life and death, and he is still playing it. That is what a Hindu child is taught, so life is not a real thing to him, b...