Parents and teachers, who are searching for subjects and stories to talk to children about, would do well to look at a little book, costing only 15 cents, published, in very pretty shape, at the Sunday School Rooms, 7 Tremont Place.
It was arranged for Dr. James Freeman Clarke's school, by one who remembered a mother's lessons. The whole title is, The Fruit of the Spirit, or the The Character Harvest: Topics for Conversation and Reading, with the Bible as a Book of Illustration. 50 subjects are considered in 38 sections. The topic is often adapted to certain days, as Patriotism, for Washington's Birthday; Faith, for Thanksgiving; Punctuality, Industry, Perseverance, for the Old and New Year; Hope and Cheerfulness, for Easter.
Under each head are Bible mottoes and suggestions. For example, under Joy we find references to Conscience, Rightness, Love, as bringing joy; to Paul, as the Preacher of Christian Joy, in certain passages; and to David as the Joyful Singer, in certain Psalms. The special illustration is the Bringing Home of the Ark.
