Each catechetical answer has been analyzed, and the subjects it contains carefully studied by us individually. Then we have unitedly agreed upon the method of explaining, illustrating, and enforcing its truths. For the theology and ethics of these little volumes the author is mainly responsible; but the background, drapery, and shading of the picture, on which much of the interest and utility of the work depends, is to be ascribed mainly to the authoress, whose nom de plume is associated with his name upon the title page.
After a careful revision and preparation for the press, the work is given to the public in the hope that it may aid parents, Sabbath school teachers, and pastors in the religious education of the dear children committed to their care, and may enable the rising generation better to understand these subjects of divine knowledge, and more tenaciously to "hold fast the form of sound words."
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
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[CHAPTER I. MAN'S CHIEF END; OR, LITTLE LOTTY]
[CHAPTER II. THE BIBLE; OR, THE SAILOR BOY]
[CHAPTER III. THE DIVINE RULE; OR, AOLA]
[CHAPTER IV. THE CHARACTER OF GOD; OR, PRAYER IN THE ASSEMBLY]
[CHAPTER V. THE UNITY OF GOD; OR, THE MISSION HOUSE]