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LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS 45
flowers of the field and the birds of the air as objects to teach the love and care of the heavenly Father. Lessons from nature are of especial importance in teaching little children because birds, animals, flowers, plants, and trees are so real and intimate a part of the child's world. "Your heavenly Father feedeth them" is a truth which it is perfectly easy for a little child to receive. The children's winter hymn finds a response in every child's heart:
"Winter day, frosty day! God a cloak on all doth lay;
On the earth the snow he sheddeth,
O'er the lamb a fleece he spreadeth,
Gives the bird a coat of feather,
To protect it from the weather,
Gives the children home and food;
Let us praise him-God is good."
To deprive a little child of lessons from nature is to rob him of one of his most precious spiritual inheritances, one of the ways in which God most clearly speaks to his soul. The world will always be more full of meaning and joy to him, more truly God's world, if in early childhood we build upon
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