Books with author Margaret Scott Gatty

A collection of parables by Margaret Gatty which includes the following: A Lesson of Faith, The Law of Authority and Obedience, The Unknown Land, Knowledge not the Limit of Belief, Training and Restraining, The Light of Truth, Waiting, A Lesson of Hope, The Circle of Blessing, The Law of the Wood, Active and Passive, Daily Bread, Not Lost, But Gone Before, Motes in the Sunbeam, Red Snow, Whereunto?, Purring When You're Pleased, The Voices of the Earth, The Master of the Harvest, The Deliverer, Inferior Animals, The General Thaw, The Light of Life, Gifts, Night and Day, Kicking, Imperfect Instruments, Cobwebs, and Birds in the Nest.

•Revised edition: This edition of Parables from Nature has updated some of words from the text such as hath, whither, cock, gay, and additional words and replaced these often confusing words with modern equivalents, such as has, where, rooster, happy, etc. to facilitate ease of reading and understandability. Because word definitions change with time, changing outdated words in the text adds value to the book by keeping the meaning of the words intact, while changing the actual words.•All four parts of this series are included in this Kindle book.What can we learn about God and life from nature? In this classic book, Margaret Gatty uses lessons from nature to teach timeless principles about things such as faith, leadership, and eternity. Each chapter contains its own independent story. In one story, when a caterpillar is asked to take care of the eggs of a dying butterfly, the caterpillar feels unfit for the task because of the magnificence of the grand butterfly. A lark tells the caterpillar that she must have faith. When the eggs of the butterfly hatch, and the shocked caterpillar realizes that the butterfly’s eggs are caterpillars like she is, she learns the lesson of faith—that she must believe something will happen even though she hasn’t seen it yet. When the time of metamorphosis comes for the caterpillar, and none of her relatives believe that she will become a butterfly, she says with confidence and joy—“I shall be a Butterfly some day!” THE TABLE OF CONTENTS IS NOW FULLY FUNCTIONAL AND CLICKABLE.

"There are two books," says Sir Thomas Browne, in his Religio Medici, "from whence I collect my divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant, Nature-that universal and public manuscript that lies expanded unto the eyes of all: those that never saw Him in the one have discovered Him in the other."Each timeless story uses nature to reveal God in a beautiful way.This edition of Parables From Nature collects the first four series of Margaret Gatty's collection and re-orders them to fit in with the Ambleside Online homeschool curriculum.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... the opposite corner, I see the sentinel guard, who will never stir from his post, until the assembly has dispersed, unless he hears or sees symptoms of danger or interruption, and then he will dash out and fly among them, making his warning cry, so different from all others, that any one who has once heard it will recognize it again. We must whisper our remarks very softly then, or it may give notice of our presence here, and all the flock may forsake the field. How solemn and grave, yet how keen and attentive he looks! How patient and observant! Contented not to join the fun himself, so that he may but promote it. Unselfish, dark watchman, are you paid for your trouble, and if so, how? Or do you do it out of love and affection for your brethren, expecting love and affection from them in return, on some future occasion, when one of them will watch, and you be allowed to play? Play, I still say; but can this be only play indeed? Surely something graver and more important than play must have brought these different companies and families from their often distant homes, to this spot? Alas! how vain are my questionings! nature remains mute around me, and man is ignorant and unable to answer. Yes! ignorant and unable to answer, let him say what he will. Hear this, oh you philosophers,--you lights of the world, with your books and papers and diagrams, and collected facts, and self-confidence unlimited! You who turn the bull's eye of your miserable lanthorns upon isolated corners of the universe, and fancy you are sitting in the supreme light of creative knowledge! Hear this; you are ignorant and unable to answer; or disprove it if you can, by showing me that you do know this one simple thing which puzzles me now! Tell me what the rooks are...

"Parables from Nature" by Margaret Scott Gatty utilizes the Charlotte Mason method of instruction, which is preferred by many homeschooling families. "Parables from Nature" weaves interesting facts from nature and science into the stories. The collection includes all 29 stories from the first, second, third, and fourth series, originally published in separate volumes.The stories in "Parables from Nature" are challenging, rich and complex, as they seek to uncover God's craftsmanship in the natural world, how the seen teaches us about the unseen. This is a great book to glean ideas from and stretch the intellect, imagination and understanding. This is newly laid out with clear print and a readable font (not like the hard-to-read facsimile editions provided by some other publishers).

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Mrs. Alfred Gatty's superb book of stories for homeschooling children is as practical and useful today as when it appeared in the mid-19th century. This book was published in response to a growing trend toward homeschooling as an method of education in the United States. The vast geographic expanse and speed of development in the nation at the time meant that municipal schools and formal education could not develop in time. Children either went with little education, or were taught at home or in small town classrooms - over decades, the homeschooling community formed, with Charlotte Mason's ideas among the most popularly used. Parables From Nature was conceived as a way for parents mindful of the importance of education and knowledge in children. It helps children visualize stories and narratives, develop their English language skills, and become moral and upstanding from a basis of traditional Christian principles, although the tales may be read and understood by those of any religion or none. The stories are reasonably easy to follow, and all have clear lessons and principles young children can learn. By stimulating the imaginations and allowing children to form ideas through these parables, parents have applied a tenet of Charlotte Mason's home schooling philosophy. Mason believed that children learn best when allowed to reason within their natural attention spans; thus, each of these tales is of a length perfect as a basis for a single lesson.