. Country walks for little folks . re-pose and stillness of the lovely morning arerendered even more soothing to the mind by thechime of the distant bells. But let us not spendthe hour in slothful loitering, or in empty ex-pressions of admiration; let us walk to thehouse of God in company with the multitudewho keep holy day, and there worship and bowdown and kneel before the Lord our Maker. Our country churches are generally very pic-turesque and venerable buildings. The tallspire, the grey tower, the ivied walls, and thepointed windows, together with the antiquityof the pile, affect the eye a
. Country walks for little folks . re-pose and stillness of the lovely morning arerendered even more soothing to the mind by thechime of the distant bells. But let us not spendthe hour in slothful loitering, or in empty ex-pressions of admiration; let us walk to thehouse of God in company with the multitudewho keep holy day, and there worship and bowdown and kneel before the Lord our Maker. Our country churches are generally very pic-turesque and venerable buildings. The tallspire, the grey tower, the ivied walls, and thepointed windows, together with the antiquityof the pile, affect the eye and the mind with apeculiar interest. Still more affecting is thechurch-yard! There lie the bodies — the dustof those who once worshiped within, but whonever more shall enter. Did they confess theirsins with lowly, penitent, and obedient hearts?Then all is well; then have they escaped theDitter pains of eternal death: and so we canview the mouldering tomb and the grassy hil-lock, in sure and certain hope of a COMING FROM CHURCH. Here we see a few of the congregation leavingthe church. Let us hope they will make thebest of their way home, that they may be thereagain in the afternoon; for in a country churchlike this there will not be an evening service. The worship of the Church of England as children can understand if they attendto it; but about three hundred years ago, theyused to repeat the service in Latin, as they donow in Roman Catholic churches and chapels;children could not then understand even theLords prayer. It is a great benefit to be per-mitted and assisted to pray to God in our ownlanguage; but this advantage is quite lost tothose who pay no attention, and are thinkingall the time of other things. Some good littlegirls and boys employ the time when they arewalking irom church, in repeating portions ofthe sermon, or the lessons for the day. Youshould try and sing. Did you not hear thechildren in the gallery, how nicely they sungto the o
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