Illustrations of Christianity Author:Jacob Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Stor of the infant school. The new scholar. must come trusting in him. I hope very many of my readers will see that both duty and happiness urge them to take ... more »the simple course I have endeavored to describe and illustrate, and that they will now take it, and follow me through the remaining chapters of this book with hearts bent on loving and serving God. CHAPTER II. THE FRIEND. " To whom shall we go 1 " There is a very excellent infant school in one of the chief towns of Switzerland, where many young children are collected under the care of a most kind and faithful superintendent and assistant, to receive moral and intellectual instruction. Whenever a new pupil is admitted, she looks with fear and trembling upon the strange scene before'her. A large open room is filled with the children standing in rows or collected in busy groups, and in the pleasant playground, verdant with grass and trees, many others are seen full of activity and happiness. It is the custom whenever a new scholar enters the school, for the teacher to collect all the children in the great room, extending them in a line around it; and then he walks into the midst, leading the little stranger by the hand, and something like the following conversation ensues. Teacher. "Here is a little girl who has come to join our school. She is a stranger, and is afraid. Will you all promise to treat her kindly?" Pupils. (All answering together.) "Yes, sir, we will." Teacher. " She has told jne that she will try to be a good girl and to do her duty; but sometimes she will forget, I arn afraid, and sometimes she will yield to temptation and do wrong. Now which of the older children will be her little friend, to be with her for a few days till she becomes The protector appointed. Power and sympathy. a...« less