Away on the Moorland (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ... laughed as he detected Eob's secret reluctance to approach certain spots as evening drew on, and one day, taking up his jacket which he had thrown on the ground, he found the piece of buckthorn and asked him, with a shrewd smile, what it was. Eob also smiled, and looking a little ashamed, murmured that " It was Kitty put it in it." Sitting down beside the children, Mr. Lovegrove tried, in as simple words as he could use, to show them that all these notions were the remains of the heathen worship of old times, which had never entirely died away owing to the imperfect manner in which the people in wild, out of the way parts of the country were taught the truth, before the Bible was put into their hands, or they were able to read it. Now that the light of knowledge was so much spread abroad, he said it was the duty of all Christians to have no fear but that of offending God. He showed them that to fancy the time of the moon could have anything to do with the success or failure of any work was, in fact, although people would be shocked at the notion, to worship the moon after a fashion; and he reminded them of the command, "Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the heathen are dismayed at them;" and as to being afraid of any evil consequences from an accidental cause, it looked, he said, as if we thought there were other beings that had more power than God, our merciful and Almighty Father, Who has given us such a wonderful proof of His love in the gift of His beloved Son, Who is "kind even to the unthankful and the evil," and whose Word says, "Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?" t Jer. x. 2. He added, that many of our misfortunes were caused by our own folly or sin, but t...