Gathered for families who wanted reading fit for the Sabbath, this collection offers short moral and religious stories about children and adults learning kindness, temperance, honesty and faith, followed by devotional poems and a set of pledges. Typical is the tale of six boys who pool their week’s savings for a secret mission of charity.
A period anthology of Christian home reading, of interest to Adventist readers and historians of Victorian children’s piety. Download the free EPUB.