re looking for it.
Sunday afternoons all the family can hear each story and talk over its
fine points of virtue and goodness. Thus may be developed an
appreciation of the human qualities that are really admirable. We can
discuss also the probability of certain of the stories and the
righteousness of the deeds.
Any blank book will do, or even a composition book. It will help to keep
hands happily occupied if you make your own covers and cut out gilt
letters for the title. Often you can find pictures to illustrate the
stories chosen; sometimes you may prefer to draw the illustrations. Keep
_The Golden Deed Book_ in a safe and convenient place, because there
ought to be something to go into it every week. For instance, did you
read the other day of the young man who jumped in front of a train to
save a young girl? He lost his life, but he saved hers. Can you find
that story and put it in the book? Perhaps you have found one that seems
even more fitting.
10. _Various plans._--Giving happiness creates it. Plan something every
Sunday for the happiness of others. Occasionally go in a body to call on
someone who will be made happy by the visit.
If you walk in the park or elsewhere, see how many things you can
discover that you have read about in the Bible or know to be mentioned
there.
Try the game of "guessing hymns." While someone plays the familiar
tunes, each takes a turn at identifying them and the hymns to which they
belong.
Set aside twenty minutes for each one to write a letter to send to the
brother or sister, relative or friend, at a distance. Even the baby can
scratch something which he thinks is a "real enough" letter in penciled
scribbles.
Close the day with quiet reading and song, or with the memory exercise
in which all endeavor to repeat some simple psalm or a few verses, like
the Beatitudes. All children like to repeat the Lord's Prayer in family
concert.
I. References for Study
Emilie Poulsson, _Love and Law in Child Training_, chaps. i-iv.
Milton Bradley, $1.00.
_Happy Sundays for Children_ and _Sunday in the Home_. Pamphlets.
American Institute of Child Life, Philadelphia, Pa.
II. Further Reading
_Sunday Play._ Pamphlet. American Institute of Child Life,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Hodges, _Training of Children in Religion_, chap. xiii. Appleton,
$1.50.
III. Methods and Materials
_A Year of Good Sundays._ Pamphlet. A
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