great and essential truths of Christianity, and a considerable portion of Holy Writ for proof and illustration. The sixth number passes from simple proof and illustrations, to explanations grounded upon Scripture. The Catechism is still the text-book; but the field opens wider, and generally it will require that the scholars be able to read well, and to follow up an argument, before they can take up No. VI. with profit. A more full explanation of the design of this number is given in the notice which is prefixed to it separately.

No. VII. may be considered as ascending to the highest stage of catechetical instruction. The questions are illustrative of the Catechism, but they enter largely into some of the most important subjects of divinity. Man's original state, his fallen state, and his recovery in the Christian covenant, are the three principal heads into which this work is divided. The author has written a preface to his own work, which makes any further remarks here unnecessary. To the questions illustrating the Catechism, is added an Appendix, which contains, in the form of questions, a defence of Episcopacy and other matters of Church discipline, subjects which are highly important to be taught in schools connected with the Established Church, but which are very properly reserved until the great doctrines taught by the Church out of God's word are thoroughly instilled into the mind. A Glossary is added to the whole, which is not only adapted to explain the words used in the "Ques

tions," but also to supply materials for instruction in Grammar.

No. VIII. is Bishop Beveridge's work on the Church Catechism. The Postscript sufficiently explains and analyses this work. It is probable that but a few of the children in National or Parochial Schools will arrive at this number in the series; but if any approach near to it, it might be well to give the book itself as a reward to boys or girls leaving the School; that when they find themselves beyond the reach of the Teacher's voice, they may perfect themselves in the elements of the Christian faith, and continue to learn the certainty of those things in which they have been instructed.

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FIRST STEPS TO THE CATECHISM.

1. Q. My good child, do you know who made you?

A. Almighty God, our heavenly Father, made me and all the world.

2. Q. Why do you call God your Father?

A. I call God my Father, not only because He is my Maker, but also because in my baptism I was made a child of God.

3. Q. And does your heavenly Father take care of you always?

A. Yes: God takes care of me always, by night and by day, and gives me every thing that is good. 4. Q. Where is God?

A. God is every where in heaven and in earth, though I cannot see Him.

5. Q. But does not God see you?

A. Yes: God sees me always. He knows all that I think, and all that I say and do.

6. Q. What book will teach you to know God? A. The Bible will teach me to know God; for it is God's holy word.

7. Q. What does the Bible teach you to do towards God?

A. The Bible teaches me to love God with all my heart, and to obey Him in all things.

8. Q. And what are you taught in the Bible to do towards men?

A. I am taught in the Bible to love and obey my parents, to be kind to my brothers and sisters, and to do to all men as I would wish them to do to me.

9. Q. Can you tell me some of the things which the Bible teaches you not to do?

A. The Bible says I must not quarrel, nor steal, nor tell lies, nor use bad words, nor keep bad thoughts in my mind.

10. Q. What may you expect if you disobey God's holy word?

A. If I disobey God's holy word, He will be angry with me; for it is very wicked to disobey Him.

11. Q. And is He not always angry when we do what is sinful and wrong?

A. Yes: God is always angry when we do what is sinful and wrong.

12. Q. What must we do that we may obtain God's forgiveness?

A. We must be sorry for our sins, and leave them off, and pray to God to forgive us for the sake of Jesus Christ.

13. Q. Who is Jesus Christ?

A. Jesus Christ is the only Son of God. He came down from heaven, and was made man.

14. Q. Why did our Lord Jesus Christ come down from heaven?

A. Our Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.

15. Q. And what did our Saviour do to save us? A. Our Saviour Jesus Christ died on the cross, that God might forgive us our sins for his sake. 16. Q. Did He not rise again from the dead? A. Yes our Lord rose again the third day. 17. Q. And where is our Saviour now?

A. Our Saviour is in heaven, where He was before.

18. Q. Did our Lord Jesus Christ teach us how to do the will of God?

A. Yes our Lord Jesus Christ Himself pleased God in all things, and taught us how to please Him.