Identifier: crayoncharactert00gris (find matches)
Title: Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Chalk-talks Moral education Religious education
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Meigs Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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girls, and while we are waiting for the time to come when theselittle visitors of today will be old enough to be with us regularly, weare convinced that the home training for seven days in the week ishigher and more lasting than an hour of teaching in the Sundayschool under the best of teachers. So it is with joy that we knowthat these parents are beginning with the babyhood of their childrento tell them of Him who blessed the little ones and said, of such isthe kingdom of heaven. We are glad we may look forward to thetime when we, in the Sunday school, may also have a part in thistraining. Let us hear a little story this morning: Once upon a time ayoung lad, while idly spending his time in a grove surrounding hiseastern home, carved with his knife in the bark of a young birch treethree words which his mother had taught him to say. (As you con-tinue the narrative, draw the small tree and merely indicate the wordsand the heart next referred to, completing Tig. 104.) The first word 166
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167 had three letters, the second had two letters and the third four letters.And around them he drew a little heart, as his mother had taught himto do. And when he had finished it, he ran away to his play and for-got all about it Years afterward, when he had grown to young manhood^ hereturned to the home which he had not seen for a long time. As hewent once more to the grove, he came upon a birch tree and stoppedto look at some words carved upon its bark, with a heart drawn aboutthem. Memory carried him back to the days of his childhood—it wasthe same tree, grown big and strong, and with it the heart had grownlarge and the words were there strong and plain. They could not beremoved without greatly marring the tree. Here are the heart andthe words: (Add lines to revise Fig. 104 to Fig. 105.) As he lookedupon the words, they thrilled him with tender emotions as he remem-bered that it was his mother who had taught him this beautiful senti-ment. If I had written there an unkind word, he

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