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CHAPTER VII SUNDAY. Sunday is a festive day. The girls come down to breakfast in their best frocks, the hoys discard their week-day overalls, and extra care is bestowed on hair ribbons and ties. After breakfast letters are written home, and at half-past eleven there is a service in Chapel for the whole Community, except the babies. The chapel itself is a converted coach-house, and its decoration is symbolic of the spirit of the Community. The two pictures are Love Triumphant and St. Francis Feeding the Birds—Love in immortality and Love in human service, which is man, and yet both are one. When the chapel was first made, each child volunteered to make a hassock. These hassocks are of red hessian, embroidered in blue, black and white. At a superficial glance they give an air of uniformity to the chapel. A closer examination will show that each hassock has a different pattern, chosen by the child who made it, some simple, some intricate, hut all carefully done. Ethel, aged seven, decorated hers with a plain border. It was simple, hut perfectly carried out, and she brought it to Chapel with a glowing face and a sense of achievement. How different the chapel would look if the hassocks were all made after one pattern, some badly, some well. Dinner is at one, and in the afternoon the whole school, with the exception of the privileged Senior Study, go for a walk with one of the grown-up people. When the children first came to the country they were very bad walkers, but they are beginning to take a pride in the length of the Sunday walk, and now manage to accomplish wonderful distances. The Senior Study go for a walk together, or stay in the garden. After tea is Sing-Song, and the whole Community assembles in the dining-room to sing. The Community hymn-book is being compiled gradually. New songs are discovered, and in many cases set to music by a friend, and added to the book. At Sing-Song the babies sing the songs they have been learning in the mornings, and the older children say pieces of poetry, read their essays, or show a specially good piece of hand-work. Sometimes members of the staff or visitors contribute to the programme. The book that is read before bed on Sunday night is a special one, thus keeping to the end the spirit of festival in which the day is begun. The problem of the educationalist with regard to religion is, or should be, how to provide a permanent basis for an honest religious development. This problem is complicated at the Caldecott Community by the false foundation laid before the children come to school. The religious background of their homes is not one of agnosticism, which is at least healthy; or even of indifference, which it would be possible