The Basket of Flowers; Or, Piety and Truth Triumphant, Tr. from the Fr. [Ed. of J.C. Von Schmid's Das Blumenkorbchen] by G.T. Bedell (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION. Tdk following beautiful and useful story was first read in French, and the idea immediately suggested itself to my mind, that, with some alterations to make it convey lessons of clear and decided evangelical truth, it would be a very interesting little work for the libraries of Sunday Schools, and every variety of youthful readers. -The story is very touching, and the lessons taught the most useful and important. I have never read any lessons of practical piety drawn with more simplicity than they are in this little book from the beauties of nature. Indeed in almost every chapter we find, addressed to the youthful heart, sermons whose texts are the flowers of the garden. Where the story is merely translated, the translation is a very free one, and in many places large omissions are made, and in others considerable additions will be found. G. T. B, chapter{Section 4BASKET OF FLOWERS. CHAPTER I. KARLV HISTORY OF MART. The relation which we are about to give in this little book, is about some interesting transactions which occurred a long time ago, and in a country far removed from our Oti. This will account for some manners and customs which are not altogether familiar to our young readers; but we shall endeavour to make the history so plain and familiar, that all who read may understand the valuable instructions which it is intended to convey. Human nature is the same in all countries, and the operations of Divine grace are the same in all countries; andtherefore the principles which will be developed in this history, and the conduct which will be described, are such as are in constant operation everywhere about us. The whole history is full of interest, and of the most valuable moral and religious instruction; one which we are persuaded our youn...