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Reading To Children, Text

From: New Book Of Two Hundred Pictures
Creator: n/a
Date: 1868
Publisher: American Sunday School Union
Source: Straight Ahead Pictures Collection


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READING TO CHILDREN.

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IN some parts of England there are large fields of hops, which look beautiful, and which need a great many hands to gather the blossoms and pack them in baskets. Children can do this as well as grown persons, and, when the hop-picking time arrives, they travel from the cities with their parents and others. Most of them are ignorant, quarrelsome, and profane, with no one to care properly for their bodies or souls. A young lady has induced some of them to listen to some Bible stories, and to learn a prayer and a few verses of hymns.

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