Excerpt from The Art of Securing Attention And let us confess to ourselves, also, that we are, accustomed to make very heavy de' mands upon a child's faculty Of atten tion, especially on Sunday. We ex peet him to listen to teaching from nine O'clock until past ten; then after a brief interval to compose himself into a reverential attitude, and into stillness and solemnity during a long service, the greater part Of which is necessarily above his comprehension, and adapted to cases and experiences very different from his own. Then we call upon him to come again, from two till past four, and continue wakeful, respectful, and attentiw during the wuole of our teaching. And all the day's engagements, we u1m. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.