d, but by which we now found it

ned us after nine o'clock; for the told us exultingly, had been full two e colour was gone from her cheek, ess from her eye; she threw herself ok some tea, but said she was too In vain she tried to read-in y, who had heard nothing, intreated

eat.

- she had heard.

Amelia was ex"Dear

any effort to recover herself.

to her as we were going to bed,

yed your Sabbath?" "O, yes, I

am dead tired."

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Do you feel the day of rest?" She smiled at the

I

have had none, but è good I have heard."

must be the

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May you oo much?" "No, that cannot be : the nourishment appointed for our ɔre needful than the food we eat."

to all wno - w no need it—and you, u of that number?"

"Indeed, yes; I

thing; I feel very sad, and quite confuse I should profit more by being in my c communion with God; but then"-" Bu are the only person for whose benefit yo was not intended."

I arrived on the following Saturday a of a friend. She apologised for the abs daughters all the morning. "Saturday "is a particular day among us—we feel boys finishing up their tasks to be ready day. We write all necessary letters-i matters are in agitation among us, we try them, to get them off our minds; part try to disencumber our memory of little t as orders, promises, &c., that they may themselves to-morrow. In short, it is settling day among us. And you would

its, before they can share our

learned that all arrangement was at I could see it; for the house looked thers look, when every thing is put rout. Fresh flowers were in the erfumes on the table-work, books, 1 were laid away. I foolishly asked, expected. "Yes," my friend reI have company; but not such as . We do nothing on Saturday pare for Sunday. We collect our instruct them in religion, and prefor Sabbath occupation; and, as emove any little anxieties that may Is, or disputes that may be between them tea, and while the elders is the privilege of the little ones hour later than usual, to wait upon ghtly prized, I assure you. When

child ran up to me, and asked if I was in a good-humour-I said, "I hoped s cause," she said, "nobody must get up humour on a Sunday." The parents s did not check her: I had before rem stillness of the house-I believe, literall had been done, but to light the fires a the breakfast.

The little ones were all present during an unusual thing, receiving from Mamma rials of occupation and amusement; } sacred subjects, little Sunday books, a articles of that sort, made valuable by b produced except on Sunday. My frien that though they had similar things in she always had a choice set for Sunda that was certain to succeed in making the and when the set was worn, and the no exhausted, they passed into the comm

a rule; we went to church or not say which, though I know, I not have it supposed this is an of my picture-it makes not to was the place the parents had for themselves and their children, expected any one should know a

rn home, my friend said to me, se our leaving you till dinner. It separate, and pass the time alone; no are confined in the week, have >ut. Our doors are closed against e girls go to their rooms, or to the they like, but are strictly enjoined alone. For my own part, charged e care of such a family, the right to God, and do nothing but commuself or him, is a privilege I cannot thing. I never even read, except