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1.-THE Lords day than common days, or to
take portion of time from the period pc
culiarly consecrated to religious duties, to
compensate for an improper devotion of
hours to worldly business.


The effect Of this custom of family, is
however worthy of suggestion. Children do
not easily learn to stupify their faculties in
sleep for two or three hours after the sun has
risen, and after they wake on the Sabbath,
finding those who should be ready to restrain
aud instruct them, still held by slumber,
they pass those hours in noise or mischief
or at least uneasiness. In one part OF the
house is unlawful repose, and in another
part confusion, and the consequence is that
the day, begun wrong, is kept and ended
wrong, and children grow up with dislike
of that season, the return of which they
should be taught to welcome. They learn
indeed to follow the example oftheir parents,
and drown their love of activity in sleep,
and are thus led in sinful habit which they
continue through life, without perhaps feel


ing single doubt of its propriety. Their
father did so, why should not theys Let
parents consider this.