To Parents—For Your Children.
By Editor
When children are learning to read, why should they not at the same time be learning something else? There is no object in reading except to learn facts or thoughts through the printed page. The lessons that a child must go over and over in learning to read will be so indelibly fixed upon his mind that he never can forget them. Every one can remember till the time of his death what he went over in his reading-books when he was a child. How important it is, then, that the child read that which is of worth! A great deal of that which is presented for the juvenile mind in many of the primary readers is simple nonsense. It means nothing whatever; and if a child could remember volume upon volume of it, he would not have anything at all that would be of use to him. The parents should see that their children learn from readers that will present good thoughts, thoughts that will be a blessing to children all their lives; readers from which they can just as well garner a good store of precious thoughts while they are learning to read, as to wait until after they can read before they gather them. To furnish parents just such a book as this, Prof. E. A. Sutherland, of Battle Creek College, has prepared a juvenile book. The simple facts in the Bible are gone over in a way that the youthful mind can readily comprehend. This book presents something that is the most interesting to a child of anywhere in the line of juvenile readers. Christian parents have here a great help in teaching their children to read right in their own homes; and, while these children are learning to read, they at the same time are storing their minds with useful knowledge, that will be valuable to them all through their lives. This very knowledge may be the means of saving many a child from making a wreck of his life, through anchoring him to correct principles. The price of the book is 35 cents. It may be had from either the Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich., or the Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.