The New England Primer
[1843]
This was a standard reader in New England in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was apparently used in both public and Sunday (religious) schools. At that time children of all ages studied in the same classroom, so it has portions oriented towards younger and older students.
Besides instruction in the alphabet, the New England Primer also served to indoctrinate young minds in the stern and somewhat morbid Protestantism of that time and place. Depending on your viewpoint, it is either yet another example of how religion has been excised from the public schools in the United States, or a quaint sample of what our forefathers considered acceptable as ‘moral education’.
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The New England Primer also has examples of religious intolerance, specifically anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic statements, which reflect then-contemporary attitudes.
This particular book went through a number of editions. This version was scanned from an copy in the possession of my family which was published in 1843. An earlier version, dated 1777, is also available here.
–J.B. Hare.
CONTENTS
Title Page
Frontispiece
Alphabet
The Creed
The Lord’s Prayer
The Ten Commandments
Alphabet Poem
An Alphabet of Lessons for Children
Morning Prayer for a Child
Evening Prayer for a Child
Agur’s Prayer
Duty Of Children To Their Parents
Uncertainty of Life
On Life and Death
The Infant’s Grace Before and After Meat
The Sum of the Ten Commandments
Our Savior’s Golden Rule
Choice Sentences
The Dutiful Child’s Promise
Instructive Questions and Answers
Dr. Watts’s Cradle Hymn
Offices of Humanity
The Burning of Mr. John Rogers
Verses for Little Children
The Shorter Catechism
A Dialogue Between Christ, A Youth and the Devil
Lessons for Children
New England Primer
or,
An easy and pleasant guide to the art of reading:
Adorned with cuts; to which is added,
the Catechism.
Children, like tender osiers, take the bow,
And as they first are fashioned always grow;
For what we learn in youth, to that alone,
In age, we are by second nature prone
Massachusetts Sabbath School Society
Depository No. 13 Cornhill, Boston
[1843]
Scanned at sacred-texts.com, December 2002; J.B. Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain. This file can be reproduced for any non-commercial purpose, provided this attribution is left in place.
Divine use of Sickness
CP34 Divine use of Sickness
Read this tract by Pastor Cox about the divine use of sickness explains how God works with sickness to remind man of his limited time on earth, the consequences of sin, etc.
In this tract Pastor Cox explains how God positively uses sickness to help us turn our thoughts and attention to the eternal. We get so involved in our daily lives sometimes that we forget that our life is but a vapor on this earth, soon to no longer be. God uses sickness as a severe warning that our time is running out, and we need to live as though every moment has a forward view towards eternity. How we spend our life is important.
Sections:
1. Understanding that God is God
2. Sickness because of Sin
3. Warning about approaching Death
4. Warning about Human weakness
5. The Error of the Sick
6. God listens to those who ask in sincerity
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
There is an attitude within much of Christianity that sickness in any form is bad, and God does not have anything to do with it. For these Christans, they ask God to take the sickness away, and sometimes (as though it was their right to be health) that they demand God to remove their sickness. The reality of life is that they continue ill, and many have a crisis of faith over this. For them, God is impotent, or God does not love them. In other words, their confidence, faith, and love of God depends on God always sending them good things. But this is not how the Bible indicates life is. God uses calamity and sickness for His own purposes and we have to understand this (and accept it).Please support our tract ministry by donating on the tract website (see sidebar). Because of your donations we can offer these tracts online, and for free. Read the Tract CH34
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