HIS book is merely intended to be suggestive; to enable the mother, elder sister, or teacher to propose occupations that may be found to promote the pleasure and profit of the little ones under her care upon Sunday after noons. The book might with advantage be retained in the hands of the mother, while she would seek by questions to call out the thoughts, and suggest ideas to be worked out by the children themselves. At the same time, it has been written in the form of conversations, in order to make it more readable when given to the children to study alone. Few duties are more urgently incumbent upon us as Christians than to teach our children to look upon the Sabbath as the happiest day of the week; the effect of this impression, given in early youth, will probably leave its hallowed memories to influence the whole after-life. Above all, the promise should be remembered: "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."Isa. lviii. 13. |