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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

opening faculties in sympathetic ways, and to assist their orderly and beautiful develop­ment. We can let the founders of the kindergar­ten and its wise workers be our teachers in many things. It is a promise of great good, that so many young women are making those principles a study, and are finding their application in the school and the home. Knowing, as we do, how near heaven is to children, and that the Lord has provided these first years of innocence as a means of laying a basis of good on which regeneration and heaven for the child must rest, we can avail ourselves of the methods of wise 26 OUR DUTY TO THE CHILDREN teachers with a still deeper purpose than their discoverers knew. In all our efforts for the children we look beyond their natural develop­ment and their preparation for usefulness in this world, to the awakening and strengthening of their spiritual life. In what we do for children we know that we are not alone, but are co-operat­ing with the Lord and angels in storing up during years of plenty the corn which shall preserve their life in the years of famine which must follow.

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