The British American magazine Author:Unknown Author 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: 55 FLOWERS, AND THEIR MORAL TEACHING. IT THE AUTHORESS OF "THE BACKWOODS OF CANADA." " Flowen I wherefore do ye bloom f We strew the pathway to the t... more »omb I"—Mohtoombit. Tax lore of flowers is the first dawning of that higher inward life that is the gift of God to man. The first perception of the Beautiful may be traced by the observing mother, to the pleasure that lightens up the eyes of the infant in her arms, when she first presents to its admiring gaze the bunch of brightly coloured flowers, with which she strives to attract its attention. How eagerly the tiny hands are stretched forth to grasp the treasure 1 What joy beams in the young face. It has caught a glimpse, as it were, from heaven, of its Maker! Children always love flowers ; and are they not the first of nature's books placed in the mother's hands for the teaching of the infants whom God hag committed to her trust ? Meet emblems, too, of his life, who cometh up, and is cut down like a flower. Mothers of Canada! cherish and encourage among your little ones this early and natural love of the fairest of God's fair works! Nothing tends more towards refining the minds of children, and keeping them from gross tendencies, than a lively and practical interest in the culture of flowers, and an intimate knowledge of the names, habits and uses of the familiar plants that they meet with in their daily walks. This is an enduring source of pleasure, and of increasing useful knowledge to the young, and it is open to the simplest capacity. If motheri till only teach from the book of nature, children will always learn readily and eagerly. Mothers! this is one of the easiest of all helps towards imparting religious knowledge to your young children—leading them through the excellence of God's works from ...« less