Any blank book will do, or even a composition book.  It will help to keep hands happily occupied if you make your own covers and cut out gilt letters for the title.  Often you can find pictures to illustrate the stories chosen; sometimes you may prefer to draw the illustrations.  Keep The Golden Deed Book in a safe and convenient place, because there ought to be something to go into it every week.  For instance, did you read the other day of the young man who jumped in front of a train to save a young girl?  He lost his life, but he saved hers.  Can you find that story and put it in the book?  Perhaps you have found one that seems even more fitting.

10. Various plans.—­Giving happiness creates it.  Plan something every Sunday for the happiness of others.  Occasionally go in a body to call on someone who will be made happy by the visit.

If you walk in the park or elsewhere, see how many things you can discover that you have read about in the Bible or know to be mentioned there.

Try the game of “guessing hymns.”  While someone plays the familiar tunes, each takes a turn at identifying them and the hymns to which they belong.

Set aside twenty minutes for each one to write a letter to send to the brother or sister, relative or friend, at a distance.  Even the baby can scratch something which he thinks is a “real enough” letter in penciled scribbles.

Close the day with quiet reading and song, or with the memory exercise in which all endeavor to repeat some simple psalm or a few verses, like the Beatitudes.  All children like to repeat the Lord’s Prayer in family concert.

     I. References for Study

     Emilie Poulsson, Love and Law in Child Training, chaps. i-iv. 
     Milton Bradley, $1.00.

     Happy Sundays for Children and Sunday in the Home.  Pamphlets. 
     American Institute of Child Life, Philadelphia, Pa.

     II.  Further Reading

     Sunday Play. Pamphlet.  American Institute of Child Life,
     Philadelphia, Pa.

     Hodges, Training of Children in Religion, chap. xiii.  Appleton,
     $1.50.

     III.  Methods and Materials

     A Year of Good Sundays. Pamphlet.  American Institute of Child
     Life, Philadelphia, Pa.

     IV.  Topics for Discussion

     1.  What is the real problem of Sunday in the family?  Is it that of
     securing quiet or of wisely directing the action of the young?

     2.  Recall your childhood’s Sundays.  Were they for good or ill?

     3.  What are the arguments against children playing on Sunday?  Is
     there any essential relation between the play of children and the
     wide-open Sunday of commercialized amusements?

     4.  Can you describe forms of play in which practically all the
     family might unite?