Excerpt from Tracts of the American Tract Society, Vol. 12: General Series Sabbaths, and seasons of grace, and offers of mercy, would soon cease for ever. The next Lord's day, as the lady was returning from the Sabbath-school, she observed, to her great sorrow, the shop open, and the sticks of peppermint, and the glasses of candy, and trays of gingerbread set forth in as tempting display as ever and two of her own little scholars were indulging themselves with a look, though they assured her they had no intention of buying. She told them that it was wrong to go in the way of evil; and that even to look upon and wish for things that it is not right for us to have, is commit ting sin in our hearts. She desired them to look at the 3d chapter of Genesis and the 6th verse, and the 7th chapter of Joshua and the 20th and 215t verses, and there see what sad mischief. Came from looking on forbidden things; and she promised in the afternoon to talk over with them these portions of Scripture. Then bidding them hasten home, she opened the shop-door, and at the sound of the little bell forth came the mistress of the shop, expecting to. Meet a customer. The woman's countenance' expressed shame - that of her visitor, sorrow. I am truly grieved, Mrs. C to find your shop still open. I had hoped, from our conversation the other day, that you would have made up your mind to remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy. Why, yes, ma'am, I did mean to do so. I am really very sorry to keep Open shop but you know we must live and we take more on Sundays than on any other day in the week. 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.