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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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16 The Royal Exchange, London. 253 254 GRASSHOPPER AND ANT. boy took it up in his arms, and hastened to his mother, who,although a farmers wife, with many cares and several children,resolved to adopt the little stranger as her own. Years passed on, and the infant boy grew to be a man ofindustry and economy, and finally became one of the richest andmost influential men in the city of London. Queen Elizabeth,who was then upon the throne, often consulted him, and in afteryears, as an expression of gratitude to the great city in which hehad accumulated his wealth, and for the royal favor which hadbeen shown him, he built the Bourse, or what is called the RoyalExchange, and in recognition of the kind Providence which had
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Grasshopper. used the grasshopper to lead the steps of the boy to where the babywas lying in the fields, Sir Thomas Gresham, for that was hisname, placed this large grasshopper in stone, upon the topmost pin-nacle of this Royal Exchange. While I cannot vouch for the his-torical accuracy of this legend, yet it beautifully illustrates thetruth that God often uses an humble insect for the accomplishmentof His great providences. Now, I want to tell you something about the grasshopper, andalso about the ant. The grasshopper is very much like that class of boys who GRASSHOPPER AND ANT. 255 want to have a good time, play and frolic from day to day, butnever go to school or work, but live for the play and pleasure to beenjoyed each day as it passes. The grasshopper jumps from placeto place across the field, eating his food wherever he can find it,and then spends his days and weeks in idleness. He never stopsto think that the summer will soon pass away, the fields will thenbe barren, the cold

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