"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." THE Sabbath dawned upon the village of E—, the day which the Lord has appointed for His own, that day which, when kept holy to religion and rest, leaves an especial blessing behind it. About two hours before the time for attending morning service, Viner took his little Bible in his hand, and walked with his daughter to the sea-beach, where, seated on a shelving shingle, with the wide ocean heaving and sparkling before them, they enjoyed together a quiet time for reading and speaking of the things of God. On their return, to their utmost surprise, they found the shop open, the shutters down, and Walter placing some vegetables on the board. "O father!" exclaimed Nelly, "Has Walter forgotten what day it is?" "What are you doing?" said Viner, as he entered. "My shop always is closed upon Sundays; I thought that I had mentioned this to you before." "Yes," replied the boy, "you did so, but look there!" And he pointed to the tempting display in Goldie's window. "Is he to have all the custom and the cash, he who is ten times richer than you are!" "What he has—what he does is no excuse for me; it is not for him that I must answer before God. Put up those shutters again, Walter." Walter obeyed sullenly, with a look which told that he was not at all convinced of the wisdom of the order. Viner then drew him into the shop, and said, "Is not one of the Ten Commandments, given from the mouth of the Lord God Himself amid the flames and thunder of Mount Sinai, 'Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day; in it thou shalt do no manner of work'?" Walter nodded assent. "Is there not a blessing for those who obey this command? Look here," said Viner, opening his Bible, and pointing to these words from the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah: "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." "That may have been so once, but I don't believe that it is so now," said Walter. "God knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning, He is 'the same yesterday, to-day, and forever!'" "I only know," muttered Walter, "that the way in which you go on is the way to starve." "Do you believe that our Heavenly Father ever suffers any one to starve for obeying His commandment?" "I can't tell," replied Walter, still rather surlily. "Do you believe that He, to whom all the treasures of earth and heaven belong, who created the world and every living thing upon it, is able to provide for our wants?" "I believe that the Almighty is able." "But you doubt that He is willing?" Walter was silent.