rEE SABEATE.
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How should the hours OF the Sabbath, tAat
ar. not occupied by public worship. be spent!
This question is often asked The answer
te it must depend in some degree on tne
circun stances of the person by whom II is
made. 1t is easy to say in general terms that
the day should not be spent IN indoience-
nor sloth-nor worldly pleasure, but that u
should be devoted to personal and SOCIAL
Improvement. The methots best suited 70
accomplish this end will vary with indlvla-
al situation. Domestic instruction should
be especially regarded on the Sabbath, when
children are released from the exercises OF
school, and parents have opportunities OF
reaching their minds, which their own en-
gagements during the week may perhaps
confne to this season. Charitable sevlces
are appropriate to the day Visiting the
moor and the sick, is an Office to which
portion of the Sabbath may be given with
peculiar benefit. Sunday Schools require,
the attendance Of considerable number oi
serious persons, and we know no class OF
Christians who are entitled to higher com
mendation, than they who are willing to
foreeo the pleasures of private meditation and
reading, that they may give religious IN,
struction to the children of the Ignorant and
vicious. Few persons will find it profitable
to spend the whole day in seclusion; 1t was
not meant to be day of unnatural re-
straint. Few also, from their habits, can
derive pleasure from long continued exer-
else of reading. Useful conversation should
be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in its tone, but easy
and interesting, and having, as much as pos
sble, direct Influence on the religious char'
acter. Sunday is not a day for fasting. but
neither is it day for feasting. we sus'
pend our usual pursuits, but it is not sea
son for idleness to waste, nor for levity tt
profane. 1t should be so employed that vt
may be better and happier for it through
the week.