A FATHER, whose son was given to riding out for pleasure on the Sabbath was told that, if he did not stop it, his son would be ruined. He did not stop it, but sometimes set the example of riding out on pleasure himself. The son became a man, was placed in a responsible position, and entrusted with a large amount of property. Soon he was a defaulter, and absconded. In a different part of the country he obtained another responsible situation, and was again entrusted with a large amount of property. Of that he defrauded the owner, and fled again. He was arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned. After years spent in solitude and hard labour, he wrote a letter to his father, and after recounting his course of crime, he added, “That was the effect of breaking the Sabbath when I was a boy.”—The Little Gleaner.