The Child and America's Future

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Published jointly by Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1923 - 178 páginas
 

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Página 47 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor : He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Página 28 - Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me: but whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.
Página 51 - Item: I devise to boys jointly, all the useful, idle fields and commons, where ball may be played; all pleasant waters where one may swim; all snowclad hills where one may coast; and all streams and ponds where one may fish or where, when grim winter comes one may skate, to have and to hold these same for the period of their boyhood.
Página 51 - And I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at night, with all pictures that may be seen in the burning wood, to enjoy without let or hindrance and without any Incumbrance of care.
Página 51 - Item: I leave to children inclusively, but only for the term of their childhood, all and every, the flowers of the fields and the blossoms of the woods, with the right to play among them freely according to the customs of children, warning them at the same time against thistles and thorns. And I devise to children the banks of the brooks and the golden sands beneath the waters thereof, and the odors of the willows that dip therein, and the white clouds that float high over the giant trees.
Página 51 - That part of my interest which is known in law and recognized in the sheep-bound volumes as my property, being inconsiderable and of no account, I make no disposal of in this my will. "My right to live, being but a life estate, is not at my disposal, but these things excepted all else in the world I now proceed to devise and bequeath...
Página 169 - ... the Playground and Recreation Association of America, 315 Fourth avenue, New York City, which will continue to supply badges and to handle all the details connected with the badge tests. The pamphlet "Athletic Badge Tests for Boys and Girls," Physical Education Series No.
Página 51 - And I leave to children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night, and the moon, and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at but subject, nevertheless, to the rights hereinafter given to lovers.
Página 6 - Give us the Young. Give us the Young and we will create a new mind and a new earth in a single generation'.
Página 81 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded by false glosses...

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