What is the character of Jesus Christ?
What has he done for us?
What does he require of us?
What is to be the condition of those who are wicked after death?
What is to be the condition of the good after death?
How are we to escape from the portion of the wicked after death?
How are we to gain the rewards of the good after death?
Some such question can be given each morning; and the children can be required to learn a text from the Bible, which will answer this question, to repeat the next morning. If they are too young to find it themselves, they can be required to ask the aid of their companions who are older, or of their friends at home.
The being, character, and works of God, the feelings and duties owed to him, and our relations and duties in reference to a future state, are the topics which usually are classed as religious instruction.
Moral training commonly is understood as relating to the duties we owe to ourselves and to our fellow-creatures. In this department the following methods could be adopted: