Examples of Goodness; Narrated for the Young (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1866 Excerpt: ... thers and sisters, sit around the same table, talking Kinaiy to each other, and often carry on an useful conversation. Of the oetter food which is provided for you I need not speak. Oh be thankful, children, to the great Giver of all good, and know well, that the good God takes, notice how we receive benefactions from his hands. To rescue a family out of so deep a misery as I tell of, is more than human aid can accomplish; there God must help, and he does help frequently through very insignificant means, to which man would think no special efficacy could be duly ascribed.--We shall observe this in the Woodman family. But let me first make you better acquainted with them. The fatner of this family knew no other way of supporting himself and them, than to solicit a.ms of his fellow beings in the hamlets and towns of that district. Early in life, he betook himself, with the beggar's sack on his back, to the little towns in the surrounding country; and afterwards established himself at a stand upon a bridge, where he begged of passing travellers. His wife took their daughter Kate, and both the boys, John and Joseph, with her, and stationed herself near a church, which was daily visited by the pious, whom, as thev issued from the church, she and her children beset, to extort a gratuity, and continued to entreat them, until they would bestow something. It was a standing order, that they should never turn back, even though a person had the ninth time refused them; and woe to him, who came back empty handed. If, at night, the amount obtained was not satisfactory to the mother, the children would be dreadfully flogged and overwhelmed with curses and abusive epithets. It was a horrifying sight, to look upon such a scene. Such treatment seemed calculated to stifle eve...