. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. en up at the center of the village and then, again, the children would becoming from not only as far south asLong Hill or Longmeadow, but as far Atttograph of the First , ^^, . Schoolmaster, UOrth aS ChlCOpCC. After a while a rule was made that for every child in attend-ance the parent must furnish a load of wood for the school-house fires. It was a simple school, not of much value forolder boys and girls, perhaps. There was reading, writingand s
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. en up at the center of the village and then, again, the children would becoming from not only as far south asLong Hill or Longmeadow, but as far Atttograph of the First , ^^, . Schoolmaster, UOrth aS ChlCOpCC. After a while a rule was made that for every child in attend-ance the parent must furnish a load of wood for the school-house fires. It was a simple school, not of much value forolder boys and girls, perhaps. There was reading, writingand spelling, and perhaps some arithmetic; and if DanielDenton came from England, as perhaps he did, he had some-thing to tell the children of the Old World, which they wouldnever see, and of which there were no newspapers and veryfew books to tell them. There were no Sunday schools inthose days and perhaps the best teaching in the school wasconcerning the great things of God such as those set forth inthe following verses, which were taught to some of the Spring-field children in the nineteenth century by Dr. Peabody, ofwhom we shall read later THE SETTLEMENT 39 THE WORKS OF GOD. To be Spoken by Children. The God in whom I ever trustHath made my body from the dust;He gave me life, He gave me breath,And He preserves me still from death. He made the sun, and gave him light;He made the moon to shine by night;He placed the brilliajit stars on high,And leads them through the midnight sky. He made the earth in order stand;He made the ocean and the land;He made the hills their places gentle rivers round them flow. He made the forest, and sustainsThe grass that clothes the fields and plains;He sends from heaven the summer makes the meadows bright with flowers. He made the living things; with careHe feeds the wanderers of the air;He gave the beasts their dens and caves;And fish their dwelling in the waves. He called all beings into birthThat crowd the ocean, air, an
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