Then the angels told Lot to gather all his family, his wife and daughters and sons-in-law and to escape from Sodom, but his sons-in-law laughed at him and refused to move from the wicked city. Then Lot took his wife and his two daughters and prepared to flee. The angels brought them forth from the city and said:
“Escape for your lives; look not behind you; neither stay on the plain, but escape to the mountains, lest ye be consumed.”
Then the Lord rained fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah—both cities with all the people in them, and they were utterly destroyed. But Lot’s wife, eager to see what was going on behind her, turned and looked back, and behold! she was changed into a pillar of salt. So Lot and his two daughters fled to the mountains alone, and the two cities were nothing but smoking ruins.
FRIEDRICH FROEBEL
(April 21st)
The founder of the kindergarten and the lover of little children.
To-day we will learn about Friedrich Froebel who loved little children so much that more than a hundred years ago he started a kindergarten.
Froebel was a very poor little boy and when he was very small he had no playmates but the flowers in the old garden of his home. He loved these flowers very dearly and called them his children. He would tell them “Good morning,” and then “Good Night.” It seemed that the flowers were playing with each other, and sometimes talking to one another.