Mothers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1900

Mothers

By Editor

We think you will be interested in the following extracts taken from a forthcoming book by Mrs. Vesta J. Farnsworth, entitled

THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN

"MOTHER: We may call it a house, because the Bible calls it so; and, more than that, it says it is a temple. Listen to this verse: 'What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?'"

"AMY: Then this house or temple of the body does not belong to us, mother, for it says, 'Ye are not your own.'"

"PERCY: I see how it is. You know people sometimes build houses to rent, and the One who made the house we live in gives it to us for a home as long as we live, and He wants us to take good care of it."

"MOTHER: That is right. The house is loaned or 'rented' to us, as Percy says, for us to live in and care for."

"MOTHER: Percy, do you remember what men use in building houses?"

"PERCY: They use stone, wood, brick, iron, glass, lime, and paper."

"HELEN: And some houses are made of earth and straw."

"MOTHER: Yes, and some of these things are found in the body-house."

"AMY: Why, mother, we are not made of wood, stone, glass, or lime!"

"MOTHER: That is true; yet some of these very things are in your body. Those who have studied the blood tell us it is iron, partly, that gives it its rich red color. You saw what a pretty red it is when you cut your finger to-day, Helen. Some of the things of which glass is made are in our hair and finger nails, and our bones would soon become useless if we did not give them plenty of lime."

"PERCY: But how do iron and lime get inside of us? That is what I would like to know."

We can not now follow Percy as he learns how the iron and lime become a part of him, but suffice it to say he learns it, even as he does many other things in the same series, because it is made so plain that any child can grasp it.

This is the object of the book, to help you in your work of instructing your children about the wonders of the house they live in, and how careful they should be to keep it in repair.

We hope to publish and copyright this book in the United States and England sometime in February.

Pacific Press Publishing Co.

OAKLAND, CAL. 39 Bond St., New York City 18 W. 5th St., Kansas City, Mo.