INTRODUCTION xiii 



majestic mountains and to fit the globe for life. 

 Attention to the most ordinary features of his sur- 

 roundings should make the child reverent toward the 

 earth on which he lives, and lead him to worship the 

 Power and Love that formed it. 



Part IV deals with the broader moral questions 

 of the duties which all those of the human race, 

 gifted above God's other creatures, owe to them- 

 selves, the world and their Maker. It is intended 

 to point out to the children the slow steps by which 

 the race of mankind has moved onward, to im- 

 press upon them, also, the fact that increase in 

 physical comfort does not mean race advancement, 

 unless [there goes with it a corresponding progress 

 in mental and spiritual life. 



Children of nine or ten are not too young to learn 

 something of the value of life, and to understand how 

 much the thought of one person can help the whole 

 race of mankind, and so God's world. 



The subjects treated in this book are so vast and 

 comprehensive that they can merely be touched 

 upon. Only a series of pictures, as it were, can be 

 shown the children; but it is hoped that the pictures 

 are vivid enough to awaken their interest and wonder 

 and to encourage them in the use of their own '^seeing 

 eyes.'' 



If one child should be led by these lessons to use 

 his eyes and mind in such a way as to become a world- 

 helper, the study and love of a lifetime which have 

 gone to make this book will not have been in vain. 



