JARROLDS' New Code Reading Books. THE FIRST STANDARD. Adapted to the Requirements of the New Code, 1871. At the suggestion of several Teachers using and greatly Teachers having any of the previous edition will find all BODLEIAN LIBRARY 22.JL. 91 is night. GOD made the sun to give light on the earth. If we look at the sun through a glass, we can see spots on its face or disc. These spots move over the sun's disc. 2. The birds, the beasts, and the fish of the sea, all love the light and warmth of the sun. If there were no sun, all things would be dark and cold. Then birds, and beasts, and fish, and shrubs, and plants, and trees, would die. 3. A little boy once said, "I should like to see GOD." So his father took him to the sun's rays and bade him look at the sun. 4. But the sun was too bright for him to look on. Then his father said, "If you cannot look at the sun, how shall you look upon the great GOD who made the sun? 1. THE moon shines by night. She is not so bright as the sun. At times we can see the moon by day, when she looks like a small white spot in the sky. The moon has no light of her own. Her light is the light of the sun which shines on her, and is thrown back from her face to our eyes. 2. The moon goes round the earth once a month. When she is seen very small, we then call her a new moon, but she is the same moon. Sometimes she looks like a half moon. When she is large and round, we then call her a full moon. Some parts of the moon are dark and some bright. The dark parts are deep dells, and the bright parts high hills. 3. The dark parts of the moon look like a face. Some think they are like a man and his dog. Some say a man and his dog were put into the moon for working on a Sunday. 4. This is not the TRUTH, and all such tales are only fit for weak minds. It is very wrong not to keep the LORD'S DAY holy; but all days are the LORD's days, and there is no day in which we may tell lies. LESSON 3.-THE STARS. Count belts praise many bright light world plan-ets through broad great ho-ly na-ked guides works 1. WE see the stars at night in the sky. How bright they are! They seem to burn like fire. Most of those we see on a dark night are suns. They are like the sun we see in the day time. They give light to other worlds like our world. 2. A few of the stars are called planets. These are worlds that move round the sun and have their light from him. Many of these have moons which move round them, to give them light, as our moon gives us light. One of them has broad belts round his body. One has a bright ring which gives forth light. |