Excerpt from The Moral Almanac: For the Year 1842; Being Second After Bissextile, or Leap YearIt was his practice on the first day of the Week} in the afternoon, to get his sisters to meet and sit down in silence with him, and on these' occasions he sometimes spoke in the way of exhortation, and sometimes of prayer. Of his offering in the' way of supplication; his mother says.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.