CHAPTER IV.

A SUNDAY WITH FATHER.


What a welcome day Sunday was to Master Sunshine!

To be sure he did not always enjoy going to church, for sometimes
the sermon seemed long and tiresome; but there was always the
singing to look forward to, and the breaking up of the
congregation after the benediction had been said. It was always so
pleasant then, for the ladies in their pretty gowns and the men in
their black Sunday coats exchanged kindly greetings with one
another; and Master Sunshine, in his best blue blouse, with golden
anchors embroidered on the shoulders, would follow sedately with
his family, and shake hands with the minister, and nod to his boy
and girl acquaintances in a very grown-up manner.

Though there were many things about the service that he could not
understand, yet it always pleased him to think that so many people
had come together to do honor to God. It seemed so like the Old
Testament times, when the people went up to Jerusalem to worship
the Lord.

Sunday-school took up another hour of the day, and the lessons