Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURES TO CHILDREN. LECTURE I. HOW DO WE KNOW THERE IS ANY GOD t No man hath seen God at any time.--John 1. 18. Contents.--Why God called by this name. Paris and London. Did any body ever see God 1 The wind and trees. Any body ever see pain? Hunger. Love. Eyes put out and ears deaf. A child can think without eyes and ears. The watch in the case. Proof of God. The meetinghouse. What the meeting-house made for. A meeting-house built by chance 1 The silk-worm. The dead rabbit and birds. The cow and horse seeing a painting. The mind is glad. The body is a house for the soul. The new book. God made things. The rainbow, flowers and fruits, made by God. God seen plainly. When ought a child to think of God. The sincere wish. Children have heard a great deal said about God. Our forefathers, a great while ago, used to call him "the Good." We shorten the word a little, and call him God; but it means the same thing, --good. And they gave him that name be Paris and London. Did any body ever see God? The wind and trees. cause he is so good to men. But 1 am going to ask these children a question. How do you know there is any God? Have you ever seen him? No; for "no man hath seen God at any time." Are we sure there are things in the world which we never saw? Yes, a great many. You never saw Paris, .-or, London; and yet you know there are such peaces. How do you know? You know hecause others have been there and seen them. Now, -suppose nobody had ever seen those cities, could you know there were such cities? No. How, then, do you know there is any God? Is it because the men who wrote the Bible say there is a God? But how do they know? They never saw God. Can we believe there is any thing which nobody ever saw? Yes, a great many things. v Go to the window...
