The Peep of Day

Do you want your little Imps to fear the Lord and shy away from improper behavior? Then this is the book for you. Favell Lee Mortimer's THE PEEP OF THE DAY has been scaring the Devil out of children for over one-hundred odd years. Writting in Victorian England Mrs. Mortimer pulls no punches when describing the evils that could befall wayward children. She states in no uncertain terms that only by the will of God can a child be saved from unrelinting hellish torture. Mrs. Mortimer suffered a great shock when her first love became a Roman Catholic. Mrs. Mortimer ended up married to an abusive protestant minister. Mr. Mortimer, thankfully, died early in their marriage, thus freeing Mrs. Mortimer to spend the rest of her life hating Roman Catholics, Bhudists, Moslems, and a multitude of other religious orders, and writing books. Her THE PEEP OF DAY was a giant best seller in Victorian England. In addition to THE PEEP OF DAY Mrs. Mortimer wrote many other books including a series of travel books dedicated to convincing the Victorian Englishman that he should not travel outside his native country. Mrs. Mortimer, by the way, only left England on two occasions, once to visit Scotland and once to visit France. Eventhough she only lived a few miles from Wales, she never chose to venture there. Most of her travel documentary came from gossip and other authors' works. Mrs. Mortimer most likely suffered from insantiy during her later life. In addition to scaring children with her writings, she once tried to teach her pet donkey to swim, almost drowing the animal. Her parrot suffered a worse fate, being made to lie on it's back for extended periods of time because Mrs. Mortimer felt it needed to rest. The parrot finally gave up the ghost after Mrs. Mortimer washed it with soap and water and dried it before the kitchen hearth. Mrs. Mortimer is burried in her local church yard, but no one is exactly sure just where she rests.

This book is frightening. It is written for children and goes into graphic detail of all the terrible ways a person's body could be destroyed if the person does not believe in God. That is just what I consider to be the best way to illustrate how much of a lunatic F.L. Mortimer was.I recommend this book for a good laugh if you want to see how far a "christian" woman will go to convince people that to be anything other than Christian is a terrible thing. Instead of convincing anyone, this sort of discussion leads to the immediate dismissal of everything any other Christian tries to say.Read it if you want to laugh, but not if you want to know anything about Christianity.

This devotional book has been used for instruction of little children for hundreds of years. Written in terms easy for the little ones to understand, our family used it with much success. It sparked good discussion around our dinner table. I have seven children and finding devotional material that doesn't bore the older children or lose the younger is a rarity. I can't recommend it highly enough!