The Children's Portion

E-text prepared by Al Haines
Entertaining, Instructive, and Elevating Stories.
Selected and Edited by
Published by The Christian Herald, Louis Klopsch, Proprietor, Bible House, New York. Copyright 1895, By Louis Klopsch.
The Golden Age. Rev. Alexander McLeod, D. D. The Merchant of Venice. Mary Seymour The Afflicted Prince. Agnes Strickland His Ludship. Barbara Yechton Pious Constance. Chaucer The Doctor's Revenge. ALOE The Woodcutter's Child. Grimm Brothers Show Your Colors. C. H. Mead Her Danger Signal A Knight's Dilemma. Chaucer His Royal Highness. C. H. Mead Patient Griselda. Chaucer Let It Alone. Mary C. Bamford The Man Who Lost His Memory. Savinien Lapointe The Story of a Wedge. C. H. Mead Prince Edwin and His Page. Agnes Strickland Cissy's Amendment The Winter's Tale. Mary Seymour A Gracious Deed Tom. C. H. Mead Steven Lawrence, American. Barbara Yechton
There was once, in Christendom, a little kingdom where the people were pious and simple-hearted. In their simplicity they held for true many things at which people of great kingdoms smile. One of these things was what is called the Golden Age.
There was not a peasant in the villages, nor a citizen in the cities, who did not believe in the Golden Age. If they happened to hear of anything great that had been done in former times, they would say, That was in the Golden Age. If anybody spoke to them of a good thing he was looking for in years to come, they would say, Then shall be the Golden Age. And if they should be speaking of something happy or good which was going on under their eyes, they always said, Yes, the Golden Age is there.
Now, words like these do not come to people in a day. And these words about the Golden Age did not come to the people of that ancient kingdom in a day. More than a hundred years before, there was reigning over the kingdom a very wise king, whose name was Pakronus. And to him one day came the thought, and grew from little to more in his mind, that some time or other there must have been, and some time or other there would be again, for his people and for all people a Golden Age.