In Mother's Arms; For Mothers of Babes from Birth to Two Years of Age, Including Directions to Pastors, Churches, Schools and Teachers of This Department; Mother's First Text-Book in Lutheran General Council Graded System of (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... your own fallibility, and set up the love, fear and trust of God as the real background of every dealing. Value the direct and childlike qualities of your little ones. Around us older people the world has woven a web of false wisdom and conventionality and prejudice, and society has established many formalities. Remember that your little one is free from this web. His instincts and actions are spontaneous. He has not yet learned, unless he has caught it in imitation from you, his own importance, pride in his pedigree, vanity at the marvelousness of his beauty, or the hauteur of social position. Have a care, lest, while his eyes are resting upon you, you will be transmitting these elements of a low and worldly character through your own actions and expressions. Your child's nature is simplicity itself. It is teachable and trustful. Preserve this quality. Our Saviour chose this simplicity in preference to the complication of the adult nature and said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven"; and "Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter therein." Preserve this simple trustfulness as your little one's most precious quality, and do not induct him into the artificial ways of older people. Chapter IV. The Touch off a Lowag Eye What to See in Baby. 4. God's Pictare "In the image of God."--Gen. 1: 27. 1 I ' HAT fine little form and face is a sweet new blossom of humanity, --father's and mother's life, with the bitterness and the labor strained out, and a new tint and fragrance grained in. But your darling is more than a mere earthly blossom. It is a flower "fresh fallen from God's own home." Your child has a life above nature. "The rosebush had a baby A tiny wee bud, Its face is white as snow, --And all day she rocked it to and fro, To...