Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
CHILDREN OF THE SABBATH SCHOOL, INTO WHOSE HAPPY FACES I HAVE LOOKED, FROM WEEK TO WEEK, FOR SO MANY YEARS, AND WHO HAVE LISTENED SO EAGERLY FOR THE SPOKEN WORD, THOUGH NEVER SO UNWORTHY,
“No, deary; grandma didn’t say he would. You see, ma’am, I’ve told him stories to make him forget like he was hungry, and there’s none like those in the good Book. O ma’am! ther...
9. Part 9“Poor, low, ignorant people like you and me, Will,” said Miss Marvin, quietly. “_So_ poor, we have no right to a foot of God’s great earth nor one breath of His pure air, save a...
12. Part 12The storm may darken over land and sea, But step by step with Christ I walk along. Dear Christ, the storm and sun are both of Thee, And Thou, Thyself, art still my strength and...
10. Part 10“So we shall have most comfort ourselves in our teachings when we have most of Christ in them; then, too, we shall do most good to the souls of others.”
8. Part 8“I can’t help it. Carter knows nothing will take me away _that_ night!” and Dick walked rather consequentially off, quite right in his refusal, but entirely wrong in the spirit...
5. Part 5Now Dolly had forgotten and the children knew nothing about Tryphosa Harte, sitting just inside the dining-room door. Tryphosa had come for the clothes; her mother did Mrs. Smit...
7. Part 7“_Be_cause my strings all knotted up tight—no; ’twasn’t, neither; I just wouldn’t say ‘Please,’ and the ‘becauses’ kept happening right along,—horrid, all of ’em. There’s always...
3. Part 3The boys had an idea it would be a very sober, stiff old Dick, but they soon found out their mistake. He was as full of fun as ever, only now he tried to keep it for playtimes....
6. Part 6“Yes, dear, they both look very nicely. You deserve the ticket papa promised when the weeds were all gone, as well as the one you was to have when Luella’s dress was finished. B...
11. Part 11“Be wise as a serpent but harmless as a dove,” laughed Miss Marvin. “Fishers of men sometimes need to work as warily as those who go down to the sea in ships.”
4. Part 4“Don’t you remember when we went to the review of troops,” said her father, “we couldn’t see any order or reason in all the marching and counter-marching; but there was the Gene...
1. Part 1CHILDREN OF THE SABBATH SCHOOL, INTO WHOSE HAPPY FACES I HAVE LOOKED, FROM WEEK TO WEEK, FOR SO MANY YEARS, AND WHO HAVE LISTENED SO EAGERLY FOR THE SPOKEN WORD, THOUGH NEVER SO...
13. Part 13“Not exactly so; we’ll make each other some little pretty present not costing any more than what we give the poor children. But take plenty of time to think it over before you d...