The Children of India: Written for the Children of England
Annie Westland Marston
Hardcover
(Asian Educational Services, Jan. 1, 2003)
Excerpt from The Children of India: Written for the Children of EnglandLittle while ago I was sitting in a room where two ladies were talking together about books. One of them asked the other if she could tell her of a nice book for children about missions.A long time passed before the answer was given. The lady did not like to say no; but after thinking a good while, she was obliged to say that she had never heard of such a book. Then they began to talk about other books, and I put away the thoughts that had been coming into my head about the children, in a safe corner of my mind, to keep for a little while till I could find some more to put with them. There were only three of them at first. Shall I tell you what they were?(1) There are very few books for children about missions. (2) There ought to be more. (3) Somebody must write a new one. But then people say, 'Three are no company;' so these three thoughts could not get on well together till I found number four, and number four came very soon after. Why should not you be the somebody? The four managed to get on without any quarrels, as soon as I promised I would be the somebody. Then I had to find a great many more thoughts to go with these four.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.