Taught of the Lord
"All of your children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of your children" - Isaiah 54:13The Basket of Flowers
Product Description
Author: Christoph Von Schmid
Best For: Boys and Girls, Late Elementary - Adult
Pages: 168
Written in: 1878
This first book of the Lamplighter Rare Collector Series continues to be a best-seller. James, the king's gardener, teaches his 15-year-old daughter Mary all the principles of godliness through his flowers. She is falsely accused of stealing, and the penalty is death. Mary remembers her father had taught her: that it is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie, and that the worst pillow to sleep on is the pillow of a guilty conscience! This story will change your life forever!
"I am giving The Basket of Flowers to my grandchildren. I have no doubt they will devour it." -Elisabeth Elliot
"I would like to express my thanks for printing The Basket of Flowers. It is a wonderful book with many virtues we need today in this world. The The Basket of Flowers has given me a new perspective of the Bible and at the same time making a better Christian out of me and my family. Thank you so much!” -Carissa
Basket of Flowers This is one of the most life-changing books Ive ever read. It changed me as a dad. I loved the section where Marys father says, See in this lily my child, the symbol of innocence. Its leaves are a whiteness which outvies that of the richest satin and equals that of the driven snow. Happy is the daughter whose heart is also pure, for it is the pure in heart who shall see God. But the more pure the color my child, the more difficult it is to preserve it in all its purity. The slightest taint can spoil the flower of the lily and it must be touched even with the greatest precaution lest it retain the blemish; thus also one word, one thought, can rob the mind of its purity. Let the rose, he said, pointing to that flower, be an image of modesty. The blush of modesty is more beautiful than that of the rose, as it rises to the cheek of a modest girl. Marys father reached down and picked up the lilies and the roses and placed them into her hands and said, These are brothers and sisters. But innocence and modesty are twin sisters and can never be seperated. Be always innnocent and modest my child, and you will always be virtuous. Just love it! What wisdom! -Trent Smith Trent Stone
About the Author:
Christoph von Schmid Writer of children's stories and educator, b. at Dinkelsbuehl, in Bavaria, 15 Aug., 1768; d. at Augsburg in 1854. He studied at Dillingen, and, where he served as assistant in till 1796, when he was placed at the head of a large school in Thannhausen on the Mindel, where he taught for many years. He soon began writing books for children, of which the earliest was "First Lessons… for the Little Ones", written in words of one syllable; next, a "Bible History for Children", a work which became very popular far beyond the confines of Bavaria; and, lastly, his famous stories for children. In the latter year he was appointed canon of the Cathedral of Augsburg, where he died of cholera in his eighty-seventh year. In 1841 he began the publication of a complete edition in twenty-four volumes of his scattered writings. In the introduction he tells his readers how his stories were written. They were not composed for an unknown public, and in a mercenary spirit, but for children, among whom the author daily moved, and were not at first meant for publication. To enforce his lessons in religious instruction, he sought to illustrate them by examples taken from antiquity, from legends, and other sources. Usually a story or a chapter was read to the children after school hours as a reward, on condition that they should write it down at home. He thus became familiar with the range of thought and the speech of children, and was careful to speak their language rather than that of books. He was able to observe with his own eyes what it was that impressed the minds and hearts of children both of tender and of riper years. Their manner of repeating the stories also helped him. He was the pioneer writer of books for children, and his great merits are fully acknowledged by writers on pedagogics. His stories have been translated into twenty-four languages, and to this day he is regarded in Germany as the prince of story-writers for the young. He is the greatest educator Bavaria produced in the eighteenth century, and ranks, both as to theory and practice, with the most celebrated of modern educators. Canon Schmid was the ideal of a mild, charitable, unselfish man, of childlike simplicity of character, whose virtues are mirrored in his writings. On 3 September, 1901, Thannhausen unveiled the bronze statue of the celebrated story-writer and educator.
Written in: 1878
This first book of the Lamplighter Rare Collector Series continues to be a best-seller. James, the king's gardener, teaches his 15-year-old daughter Mary all the principles of godliness through his flowers. She is falsely accused of stealing, and the penalty is death. Mary remembers her father had taught her: that it is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie, and that the worst pillow to sleep on is the pillow of a guilty conscience! This story will change your life forever!
"I am giving The Basket of Flowers to my grandchildren. I have no doubt they will devour it." -Elisabeth Elliot
"I would like to express my thanks for printing The Basket of Flowers. It is a wonderful book with many virtues we need today in this world. The The Basket of Flowers has given me a new perspective of the Bible and at the same time making a better Christian out of me and my family. Thank you so much!” -Carissa
Basket of Flowers This is one of the most life-changing books Ive ever read. It changed me as a dad. I loved the section where Marys father says, See in this lily my child, the symbol of innocence. Its leaves are a whiteness which outvies that of the richest satin and equals that of the driven snow. Happy is the daughter whose heart is also pure, for it is the pure in heart who shall see God. But the more pure the color my child, the more difficult it is to preserve it in all its purity. The slightest taint can spoil the flower of the lily and it must be touched even with the greatest precaution lest it retain the blemish; thus also one word, one thought, can rob the mind of its purity. Let the rose, he said, pointing to that flower, be an image of modesty. The blush of modesty is more beautiful than that of the rose, as it rises to the cheek of a modest girl. Marys father reached down and picked up the lilies and the roses and placed them into her hands and said, These are brothers and sisters. But innocence and modesty are twin sisters and can never be seperated. Be always innnocent and modest my child, and you will always be virtuous. Just love it! What wisdom! -Trent Smith Trent Stone
About the Author:
Christoph von Schmid Writer of children's stories and educator, b. at Dinkelsbuehl, in Bavaria, 15 Aug., 1768; d. at Augsburg in 1854. He studied at Dillingen, and, where he served as assistant in till 1796, when he was placed at the head of a large school in Thannhausen on the Mindel, where he taught for many years. He soon began writing books for children, of which the earliest was "First Lessons… for the Little Ones", written in words of one syllable; next, a "Bible History for Children", a work which became very popular far beyond the confines of Bavaria; and, lastly, his famous stories for children. In the latter year he was appointed canon of the Cathedral of Augsburg, where he died of cholera in his eighty-seventh year. In 1841 he began the publication of a complete edition in twenty-four volumes of his scattered writings. In the introduction he tells his readers how his stories were written. They were not composed for an unknown public, and in a mercenary spirit, but for children, among whom the author daily moved, and were not at first meant for publication. To enforce his lessons in religious instruction, he sought to illustrate them by examples taken from antiquity, from legends, and other sources. Usually a story or a chapter was read to the children after school hours as a reward, on condition that they should write it down at home. He thus became familiar with the range of thought and the speech of children, and was careful to speak their language rather than that of books. He was able to observe with his own eyes what it was that impressed the minds and hearts of children both of tender and of riper years. Their manner of repeating the stories also helped him. He was the pioneer writer of books for children, and his great merits are fully acknowledged by writers on pedagogics. His stories have been translated into twenty-four languages, and to this day he is regarded in Germany as the prince of story-writers for the young. He is the greatest educator Bavaria produced in the eighteenth century, and ranks, both as to theory and practice, with the most celebrated of modern educators. Canon Schmid was the ideal of a mild, charitable, unselfish man, of childlike simplicity of character, whose virtues are mirrored in his writings. On 3 September, 1901, Thannhausen unveiled the bronze statue of the celebrated story-writer and educator.
