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Training Children in Godliness
Written with a view to helping raise children to lead healthy Christian lives, this title will provide specific ways to train and disciple young people for life and for eternity.
140 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2007
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About the author
Jacob Abbott
1,400 books91 followersAbbott was born at Hallowell, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820; studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was tutor in 1824-1825, and from 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City.
He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School.
His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, The History of Sandford and Merton, and the The Parent's Assistant.
Fewacres in 1906, Abbott's residence at Farmington, Maine
His brothers, John S.C. Abbott and Gorham Dummer Abbott, were also authors. His sons, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott, a clergyman, were also well-known authors.
He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School.
His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, The History of Sandford and Merton, and the The Parent's Assistant.
Fewacres in 1906, Abbott's residence at Farmington, Maine
His brothers, John S.C. Abbott and Gorham Dummer Abbott, were also authors. His sons, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott, a clergyman, were also well-known authors.
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May 18, 2022
Picked this up on a recommendation after hearing there was a chapter about training children to be happy. The author who made the recommendation stated - that you won’t find parenting books today that talk about “training” children to be happy. This is a great commentary for the entire book, as it’s not anything that you’d find written today, but very much what Christian parents need today. My favorite chapter was “How to Instruct Children for Eternity”. I will be returning to this book and reading it again, probably more than once.
I appreciated the stories the author wrote to illustrate his points and loved his inclusion of the rules that George Washington wrote at age thirteen, “Rules of Behavior”. My favorite of which - “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Moses brought down from Mount Sinai the Ten Commandments, not the Ten Suggestions.”
I appreciated the stories the author wrote to illustrate his points and loved his inclusion of the rules that George Washington wrote at age thirteen, “Rules of Behavior”. My favorite of which - “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Moses brought down from Mount Sinai the Ten Commandments, not the Ten Suggestions.”
July 17, 2023
Fantastic!
September 20, 2012
An encouraging and challenging book for anyone raising or teaching young people who desire to bring them up in the Lord. This was written quite a while ago, but the updated version (which I read) is still mostly applicable today.
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