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CHRISTIAN HISTORY.

FIFTH EDITION.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES S. FRANCIS AND COMPANY

1854.

9831 .833

Entered according to Act or congress, in the year 1852, by
WILLIAM CROSBY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

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GENERAL DIRECTIONS.

In this course of Christian instruction, there are eight text-books, bearing the following titles: - Early Religious Lessons; Palestine and the Hebrew People; Lessons on the Old Testament; Life of Christ; Books and Characters of the New Testament; Religious Duties and Christian Morals; Doctrines of Scripture; Scenes from Christian History. The first of these is designed to be used-though not to the entire exclusion of other text-books for that period by all pupils under ten years of age. As children enter the Sunday School at different ages, it seems necessary to leave them, up to a certain period, without a very rigidly determined order of instruction, and more than afterwards under the direction of the individual preferences and judgments of their teachers, in regard to their methods of study. The first manual, consisting of selected passages of Scripture and simple illustrative verses,

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