PLEASANT READINGS

FOR

HOMELY PEOPLE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF
“Words of Consolation and Counsel for the

Tried and Sorrowful,”

&c. &c.

CONTENTS.

CHRISTMAS TIME A HAPPY TIME

QUEER PEOPLE !-WHAT THEY SAID, AND WHAT

THEY DID.

KEEP THE HOME LIGHT BURNING !

YE SHALL Keep My SABBATHS.

TO BE, OR SEEM TO BEP

PROFANE SPEAKING.

Days PAST AND DAYS TO COME!

CHRISTMAS TIME A HAPPY TIME.

Hark! these are the merry, merry bells that usher in the 25th of December. The clock strikes twelve, and Christmas is come! We give a hearty welcome to Old Father Christmas, for though his hair is silvery with age, he has always the same happy smile. He brings to all of us a remembrance of joyful things, which make those who think about them very happy.

There is a difference, my readers, between being merry and being happy. The