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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GA., FEBRUARY 29, 1868.
Contents of No. 35.
Poetry —The Little Maiden, by Mrs. E. P. M.
original —illustrated page 273
Marooner’s Island ; by the Rev. F. R. Goulding.
Chapter XXl—original 274—2,5
Editorial—
Register your Letters; Special Notice; IV rite
for the Weekly; The Time Extended; A
Wonderful Child; Lying
“ There is a God,”— original - 2,6
Our Four-Footed Friends, No. II original two
illustrations 2 '^
The Prison Cell
Poetry —Eddie’s Question 278
Dust and Girls 278
Ellen Hunter : A Story of the War—Chapter VII
—original 2*B
Poetry —Joseph Ree —original 279
Lillian’s Room, by Mrs. E. P. M—Concluded—
original 2;9
Nice Arrangement 279
Too Smart 2,9
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 280
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Write for the Weekly.
are always glad to receive contribu
tions from our friends, young and old,
and we beg that more of them will write
for our paper. That you are not accus
litQfi tomed to writing for the press is no good
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and yet they never wrote for any paper before
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ious to build up a corps of little contributors, and
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pains to correct their contributions and prepare
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tural history, as seen in daily life, incidents ot
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and amuse our readers, or to encourage them in
the duties and responsibilities of life.
And, remember, the shorter your articles are
the better for us, for we can always find room for
short articles, while longer ones are sometimes
crowded out from week to week, when we are
really anxious to publish them.
The Time Extended.
Y special request, we have concluded to
fQSto extend the time for the Martelle prize
clubs. The date first indicated was
f March Ist, but as several parties have
not yet completed their lists, and there
is some complaint that the time was not
sufficient, we have determined to extend it to the
first of May. The largest number yet sent us by
one party is twenty-two , and some of our little
friends will have to work up, or be distanced in
the race. Remember, that the offer is a set of
Martelle, worth $25, or anything else from our
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gest list at club rates. For instance, you may send
us twenty-one names for S3O. A little extra ef
fort will enable you, therefore, to secure a hand
some prize, worth $25, besides giving you a com
mission of 50 cents on each $2 subscriber that you
obtain. Try it, boys and girls, and you will there
by help us and benefit yourselves.
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A Wonderful Child.
N the oth of February, 1721, was born at
HgTJ Lubeck, Germany, Christian Herneker,
\is probably the most wonderful child that
pTA ever lived. At the age of ten months he
could repeat every word that was said to
T him ; when twelve months old, he knew
by heart the principal events narrated in the first
five books of the Bible ; in his second year, he had
learned nearly all of the history of the Bible, in
the Old and New Testaments; in his third year,
he was well versed in universal history and geo
graphy, and could speak Latin and French; in his
fourth year, he employed himself in the study of
religion and church history, and was not only able
to repeat what he.read, but to reason upon it and
judge of its merits. At this age, he was taken to
Copenhagen to see the King, who proclaimed him
a wonder. On his return home, lie learned to
write, but being of weak constitution, he fell ill,
and died on the 27th of June, 1725.
\\ e do not cite this case because we expect or
wish our little readers to exhibit any such won
derful acquirements. Such extreme precocity is
a disease, and in all such cases the intellect ought
to be discouraged, rather than stimulated.
Written for Burke’s Weekly,
“ There is a God.”
jjfr'lr Jr'N hope none of our little readers have
the slightest doubt on that subject, but
they ought to go further than this— they
ou g ht t 0 love Him, praise Him, and
obey Him for his infinite goodness tons
poor, erring children. Just think of it
He gave His only begotten Son, that we might not
die, but have everlasting life ; sent our Saviour
here to proclaim to a sinful world salvation through
the merit of His saving blood. To little children
He ought to be particularly precious, for it was He
who said of them, that “of such is the king
dom of Heaven." Let us, then, dear readers,
"Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.”
All nature reflects the majesty of His glory. The
heavens, and the earth below, the wind and the
waters, with their millions of specimens of ani
mate and inanimate nature, sing the songs of His
praise, of thankfulness for their many blessings,
and bow in submission to His sovereignty. Let
not man be the only rebellious subject amongst
this vast host of worshippers. Children, love God
and obey His laws, for thus shall ye surely fulfil
the commandment, and be the inheritors of all
His glorious promises.
That you may see how the glory of His presence
penetrates to all climes, we copy the following
touching passage from the German :
“ There is a God ! The herbs of the valley,
the cedars of the mountain bless Him : the insects
sport in His beams ; the elephant salutes Him with
the rising orb of day ; the birds sing to Him in the
foliage; the thunder proclaims Him in the heav
ens ; the ocean declares His immensity. Man,
alone, has dared to say, 1 there is no God !’
“ Unite in thought, at the same instant, the most
beautiful objects in nature —suppose that you see,
at once, all the hours of the day, and all the sea
sons of the year ; a morning of spring, and a mor
ning of autumn; a night bespangled with stars,
and a night covered with clouds ; meadows enam
eled with flowers, and forests hoary with snow;
fields gilded by tints of autumn —then alone will
you have a just conception of the universe. While
you are gazing upon rhe sun, which is plunging
under the vault of the West, another observer ad
mires him emerging from the gilded gates of the
East. By what inconceivable magic does that aged
star, which is sinking fatigued and burning in the
shade of the evening, re-appear at the same in
stant fresh and humid with the rosy dews ot mor
ning. At every instant of the day, the glorious
orb is at once rising, resplendent at noonday, and
setting in the West, or, rather, our senses deceive
us, and there is, properly speaking, no East, b est,
or South in the world. Everything reduces itself
to a single point, from whence the light of day
sends forth at once a triple king in one substance.
The bright splendor is, perhaps, the most beauti
ful which nature can present, for while it gives
us an idea of the perpetual magnificence and re
sistless power of God, it exhibits at the same time
a shining image af the glorious Trinity.” R*
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Lying.
No vice more easily than this stupefies the con
science of any one. Pie who tells lies frequently
will soon become a habitual liar, and will soon lose
the power of readily distinguishing between the
conceptions of his imagination and the recollec
tions of bis memory.