Excerpt from Peter Parley's Annual for 1864: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People Dear Boys, be grateful first 6 our Heavenly Father, whose tender mercies are over all His works, for the continual favours he showers upon us; next, be thankful to your earthly parents, for their kind care and protection of you from day to day, and for constant exertions for your welfare. How shall you show your gratitude? How otherwise can you show it, but by doing your duty both to God and them? You are but as yet only little plants sprouting, as it were, from the earth, requiring the gentle dews of affection and the small rains that water the tender grass to rear them. But the time will come when both blossoms and fruit may be expected, and a general harvest of good. Let your Heavenly Father, your parents, your friends, neighbours, and school fellows be glad in your affection and duty, ripe as the golden grain of the corn-fields, and delicious as the fragrance of the fruit-trees and then you will reflect, as it were, the love of God from your inmost being. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.