The children's service book for church and home - Softcover

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. 1875 Excerpt: ...sadness, no more night, no more sin, but glory, glory, glory, for ever and ever!--we shall say to each other, "Oh how wonderful God is, who can bring such greatness out of such meanness, and make such happy beings out of such poor, weak little children as we used to be on earth!" FOOLS. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: hut fools despise wisdom and instruction."--Prov. i. 7. EVERYBODY in the world is either foolish or wise. If you and I went to the shop of a Hindoo, and there saw the man who owned the shop kneeling down before the stool on which he sat, to pray it to send him customers to buy his goods, and if we saw, as often we might see, the man put a little rice in a saucer, and place it on the floor before his stool, I think we should say, "What a silly, foolish man, to think the stool could be pleased with the rice, or send customers to his shop!" Or if we went to Mecca, and watched the pilgrims, who had come hundreds of miles, kiss the "black stone" in the wall of the great mosque, and go home happy and joyful, because they supposed their sins had gone out of their hearts into the stone to make it blacker, I think we should say, "Foolish Mahometans, to be so silly as to think that a kiss could send away the sins of the soul, and a dead stone could become black with the sins of men!" Or if we came nearer home--if we entered any of the churches in Spain, or Italy, or France, we should find, before a smartly dressed image of the Virgin, a piece of board held up by an iron rod, so as to make a little table; into the board were driven many sharp pieces of iron wire, and upon some of them were stuck tallow and wax candles, and these were burning away. At the door of the church, generally ...