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THE

TEACHERS' STOREHOUSE

AND

TREASURY

OF MATERIAL FOR

WORKING SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS.

VOLUME V.

LONDON:

ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

1880.

UNWIN_BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON.

PREFACE.

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THE year through which we have been permitted to help our fellowteachers has been a very marked one in Sunday-school history, one in which we have had many opportunities for reviewing the past, and gratefally saying, What hath God wrought?' And one that should be a new departure,' a time when, quickened and refreshed, we start out again on more fully consecrated scenes of service for God among the children.

It has been our Centenary Year, and we have not even yet done wondering over the amazing growth of the Sunday-school system, or ceased to thank God that He put it in the hearts of good men and women, some hundred years ago, to care for the neglected children.

What a gracious national unity is found in this one common good work! Every section into which the Church of Christ is divided accepts this duty; and, every Sabbath, all the Christian people of the land blend together in one earnest purpose-to bless, and teach, and save the children; and all agree in this, that the best blessing for them is to help them to love the Word, and see the glorious beauty of the Saviour Christ. We are one as we take the children into our love and care, for Jesus' sake.

But this Centenary Year has more especially impressed upon us two things: 1. That the Sunday-school system must in some way be developed so that it may more fully reach the children of the middle and upper classes, who are now placed under singular disadvantages in respect of religious training. To this matter we propose giving some careful attention in the year upon which we are so soon to enter.

And 2. That the efficiency of the teachers must be materially increased, both by the enlargement of their Biblical knowledge and by their culture in practical teaching work.

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