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gifts and blessings which God has given to them, and of how they have shown their love for God by work­ing with him for other little children who may have fewer joys than themselves, and also by doing simple acts of service for parents and others. It is as true of love as of anything else that growth is dependent upon expression. All children, even Beginners, are eager to help, and when it is suggested to them that God wants everybody to assist him in doing for others, and stories are told them which show how other little children have become God's helpers, they Invariably manifest a desire to do kindly deeds of service, and in doing them their love for God, the great Doer, and for others than themselves grows. Nature Lessons. Froebel declared : "The things of nature form a more beautiful ladder between heaven and earth than that seen by Jacob"; and again : "From every point of life, from every object of nature, there is a way to God." In these statements Froebel simply gave utterance in another way to the truth which Jesus emphasized in using the

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