Excerpt from Sunbeams and Moonbeams The light fell into the basement of the old church through the square, frosted windows; not very much light, for it was a rainy Sunday. Sunday school was being held in the basement; and here and there was a class gathered together, and sitting up in a very decorous manner in the straight-backed pews. In one of the pews were six girls between the ages of thirteen and sixteen years. They belonged to a class that was very proud of never missing Sunday school. Usually these girls were excited on a day when it rained, but this morning they seemed to be rather listless. The truth is, they were beginning to feel that vacation was a dull season of the year; they had been out of school two weeks, and already they were longing for September and schoolbooks. Even in the dim light that found its way through the frosted windows, one could tell by the dresses of the six girls that they belonged to well-to-do parents. They said their lesson, and joined in the hymn with the rest of the classes, and settled back in the pew again to wait for the rain to hold up a bit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.