The Pearl of Days Or the Advantages of the Sabbath to the Working Classes
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If the day was wet, or if it was the winter season, we would gather around the table by the window. During the afternoon, mother would read to us, or all of us, father and mother included, read by turns ; questions were then asked, and conversation entered into, about what we had been reading. It was upon one of these occasions, when some remarks made by one of my parents AUTHOR'S LIFE. 43 in endeavouring to call our attention to the truth that we must be changed, renewed in the image of God ; ...or, to take up the simple figurative expression then made use of, that we must have new hearts, else we never could be happy with our Father in heaven, that an impression was made upon my mind, never to be effaced : from that hour, through all my follies and all my waywardness, the thought of that new heart still haunted me, until I indeed found peace with God through Jesus Christ, and felt the renewing power of the truth of God. Viewing the practice of allowing children to consider their lessons as a part of their amusement, as pernicious in its tendency, as calculated to induce a habit of trifling with serious things, and to form a giddy, frivolous character, our parents never per- mitted anything like levity in attending to our lessons ; we never were allowed to consider them as a recreation, but as serious, though cheerful employment, which must never be trifled with, but seriously and ear- 44 SKETCH OF THE nestly engaged in.
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