Helps for the Children by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

Helps for the Children

By Editor

PARENTS who are anxious about the moral and spiritual development of their children will gladly accept helpful suggestions which tend to produce desired results.

Not less important than other helps is that of carefully selected reading-matter. By this means get that boy or girl of yours to thinking about those things which “are pure, . . . are lovely, . . . and of good report.”

Our Little Friend is published to meet this very need. Its Bible stories and lessons, its bird, animal, insect, and other nature stories, have made this child's paper not only an educator, but an interesting and attractive one as well. Every week thousands of children too small to read cuddle up to their mothers and listen intently to the sweet, helpful stories, while older ones sit by the hour and assimilate the truth which it teaches. One of them writes as follows:—

“DEAR LITTLE FRIEND: I have taken you for three or four years, and keep you nicely put away after mama has read each article, and we have studied the Sabbath-school lesson with you as a teacher. I am very much interested in the animal stories especially. My greatest desire is to be a missionary in China.”

Lists of contents are sometimes monotonous. The following one is not. It is for 1910, and of course is but a partial list only, but it gives some idea of what we have to offer:—

Uncle Ben's Cloverfield Series; Birds of the Bible; Noble Men of Ancient Times; Women of Note in Bible Times; Simple Lessons in Present Truth; How to Care for Our Bodies; What a Boy Can Do; Some Things a Girl Can Do; Children of the Reformation; Stories of Missionaries; Some Recent Inventions; Some of Nature's Wonders; Heroes of History, and Some of Their Achievements; Simple Talks on Ethics; Help One Another Band; Mothers' Helpers; Fathers' Minutemen; Animals; Birds; Insects; Fishes; Children of Various Nations; etc.

Just the thing for the kindergarten, primary, and intermediate divisions of the Sabbath-school. In clubs of 5 or more it costs but 50 cents a year (less than one cent a week). Single subscriptions, 50 cents. Order immediately, and get the beautiful double holiday number free. Address your tract society, or Our Little Friend, Mountain View, Cal.