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Title: The Child at Home
The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated

Author: John S.C. Abbott

Release Date: June 7, 2006 [EBook #18533]

Language: English

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THE

CHILD AT HOME;

OR

THE PRINCIPLES OF FILIAL DUTY

FAMILIARLY ILLUSTRATED.

BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT,

Author Of "The Mother At Home."

Published By The

American Tract Society

150 Nassau-Street New-York.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1833, by CROCKER and
BREWSTER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of
Massachusetts.

Right of publishing transferred to American Tract Society.

PREFACE.

This book is intended for the children of those families to which The
Mother at Home has gone. It is prepared with the hope that it may
exert an influence upon the minds of the children, in exciting
gratitude for their parents' love, and in forming characters which
shall ensure future usefulness and happiness.

The book is intended, not for entertainment, but for solid
instruction. I have endeavored, however, to present instruction in an
attractive form, but with what success, the result alone can tell. The
object of the book will not be accomplished by a careless perusal. It
should be read by the child, in the presence of the parent, that the
parent may seize upon the incidents and remarks introduced, and thus
deepen the impression.

Though the book is particularly intended for children, or rather for
young persons, it is hoped that it will aid parents in their efforts
for moral and religious instruction.

It goes from the author with the most earnest prayer, that it may
save some parents from blighted hopes, and that it may allure many
children to gratitude, and obedience, and heaven.

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

Worcester December, 1833.

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