HENRY CLAY TRUMBULL

HENRY CLAY TRUMBULL



  Henry Clay Trumbull was born in Stonington, Conn., June 8, 1830. Though poor health kept him from formal education beyond age 14. At age 21 while attending Charles Finney’s revival meetings he trusted Lord Jesus Christ and immediately endeavored to serve Him, so much so that as a yielded and willing Christian he was an outstanding testimony then and continues to be so today. He became a world famous author, editor, and avid pioneer of the then new Sunday School Movement. Trumbull was awarded honorary degrees from Yale, Lafayette College, and New York University. He wrote 38 books. Wikipedia lists 16 of his published works. Christian Book Distributors still sell a number of his books. One is in my library, *HINTS ON CHILD RAISING. It is a book he wrote when 60 years of age.  “A book that’s been helping parents for over 100 years.”

  During his lifetime as a personal and public evangelist he traveled the world, was Union Army chaplain ministering to the wounded, spent time in several Confederate prisons, championed the new Sunday School movement, was a Biblical archeologist, and a much sought after speaker.

  Though a busy man, he and wife Alice Cogswell Gallaudet (Whose father founded the American School for the Deaf. Alice was named after Alice Cogswell, the first student at the school.), they raised 8 children.

  Henry Clay Trumbull died in 1903 at the age of 73.

EBB4 (Compiled from several sources.)



*192 pages. Table of contents lists:

1. Child Training: What Is It?                                                        2. The Duty of Training Children

3. Scope and Limitations of Child training                              4. Discerning a Child’s Special Need of Training

5. Will-Training, Rather than Will-Breaking                            6. The Place of “Must” in Training

7. Denying a Child Wisely                                                              8. Honoring a Child’s Individuality

9. Letting Alone as a Means of Child Training                        10. Training a Child in Self-Control

11. Training a Child Not to Tease                                               12. Training a Child’s Appetite

13. Training a Child as a Questioner                                         14. Training a Child’s Faith

15. Training a Child to Sabbath Observance                          16. Training a Child in Amusements

17. Training a Child in Courtesy                                                  18. Cultivating a Child’s Taste in Reading

19. The Value of Table Talk                                                           20. Guiding a Child in Companionships

21. Never Punish a Child in Anger                                             22. Scolding is Never in Order

23. Dealing Tenderly with a Child’s Fears                               24. The Sorrows of Children

25. The Place of Sympathy in Child Training                           26. Influence of the Home Atmosphere

27. The Power of a Mother’s Love                                            28. Allowing Plat to a Child’s Imagination

29. Giving Added Value to a Child’s Christmas                      30. Good-Night Words



PS. I encourage acquiring and prayerfully reading this book as a parent, grandparent, and for personal edification.