Simple Sketches (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: Cf)e Squirrel. It is one of the greatest advantages arising from the benevolence of the present day, that it instils a spirit of philanthropy into the tender bosoms of the rising generation. We see liberality beginning to display itself in almost every professing Christian; and the children of our country are often seen to extend their little hands to aid in the great cause of spreading the gospel. I have met with several instances recently, which much interested me, only one of which I shall now relate. It was Sabbath eve, when, at a friend's house, we were all sitting in the piazza, conversing about the exertions now making for the heathen. It was a lovely evening, and the conversation most interesting. " Father," said little Harriet, after listening a long time to our conversation,?" Father, do these little heathen children wish to learn to read the Testament ?" " Many of them areanxious for this; and all would be anxious, did they know its value." " But, father, have they all got Testaments, if they did know how to read?" " No, my love, few of them only ever heard any thing about the Testament?about God?about Jesus ChristI" " Will half a dollar buy one Testament for one little heathen girl ?" " It would." " Oh I" sighed the little Harriet, " how I wish I had half a dollar t Father, may I sell any thing I've got, if I can get half a dollar ?" " Yes," said the father, smiling at his daughter's simplicity. Here the conversation ended. Almost every child has some toy of which it is peculiarly fond. Harriet's toy was a beautiful, tame, grey squirrel, which she had brought up, to which she was excessively attached. It would eat from her hand, attend her in her rambles, and sleep on her pillow. The pretty little Jenny, for this was its name, was suddenly taken sick. The l...