A Painted-Picture Letter to My Grandchildren

Have you ever painted a water color in your school? Have you ever watched a painter make an oil painting of many colors? Or a chalk artist do so with his colored crayons? Good. Then you will understand the heading of this letter. I intend to paint some pictures using words instead of oils, word-pic­tures. First then, let us paint a picture of this world as it came from the Creator’s Hand; The earth and all the stars of the heavens. I cannot give you a very clear picture of the earth as it...