The first year's trial of this course of religious instruction, in the Dewsbury School, more than answered the Author's expectations. The Lessons excited considerable interest in the minds of both teachers and scholars. The parents of many of the children also went through the weekly instruction with them, and thus the Sunday Lesson proved a profitable exercise to the whole family.

The work herewith submitted to the consideration of the Clergy and Managers of Schools is, therefore, an attempt to place before teachers, and through them to engraft on the minds of scholars in Church of England Schools, the main doctrines and precepts of Holy Scripture, which our Church intended to bring to the remembrance of her members, in her annual course of services. The manner in which the Author has endeavoured to accomplish this is as follows:-Six verses are selected from Holy Scripture, to explain, illustrate or enforce the subject to be taught on each Sunday. It is intended that the scholars should commit to memory one of these texts on each day. in the week. A number of questions are added, which are founded in the Collect, on the portions

of Scripture committed to memory, or on corresponding passages of God's Word. It is expected that both the teachers and scholars will study these questions, and that the latter will be prepared to answer them on the following Sunday. By this plan, the memory and the understanding will be exercised on the Sunday Lesson during the week; and it is hoped, with the blessing of God, that the scholars will thus be trained in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord."

CHRISTIAN YEAR,

A SCHEME OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION,

ARRANGED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ANNUAL COURSE OF THE SERVICES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

The References at the top of each page point out the parts of the Service for the day, and other portions of the Liturgy, on which the subject of instruction is founded, or by which it is explained or enforced.

One of the texts is to be committed to memory each weekday by the Scholar, and the whole to be repeated to the Teacher on the Sunday. The Scholar is also carefully to read the Questions during the week, and to find the Answers from the references given.

Advent.

Before Christmas are appointed four Advent Sundays, so called because the design of them is to prepare us for a religious commemoration of the Advent, or coming of Christ in the flesh. In beginning her year, and renewing her annual course of service at this season of Advent, the Church differs from other modes of reckoning time. The reason of which is, because she does not number her days, or measure her seasons, so much by the motion of the sun, as by the course of our Saviour; beginning and counting on her year with Him, who being the true Sun of Righteousness, began now to rise upon the world, as the day-star on high, to enlighten them that sat in spiritual darkness.

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The General Judgment.

COLLECT, EPISTLE, CREEDS.

1. He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. ACTS xvii. 31.

2. The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. ST. JOHN V. 22.

3. For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 COR. v. 10.

4. I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of Life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. REV. XX. 12.

5. For God shall bring every work into Judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Ec. xii. 14. 6. Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. REV. xxii. 12.