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CONTENTS.

MEMOIR of Mr. Robert Raikes, and the Origin of Sunday

Schools...

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unday i

His Letter to Colonel Townley, giving an Account of
the good Effects resulting from the first trial of a Sun-
day School......

Account of the Rise and Progress of the General Sunday School } 10

Society.......

Their circular Letters to the Laity and Clergy...

Letters from the Bishops of Salisbury and Landaff in com-

mendation of Sunday Schools.....

12, 14

15

Extract from a Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry? 15

of Nottingham .......

Letter from William Morton Pitt, Esq. to the Committee.. 21

A Table, shewing the gradual Progress of the Society for

for }. 24

Twenty-seven Years

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Extract from the last Report of the Society.....

28

Questions to which answers are required from Applicants, &c. 30

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On the Advantages of Sunday School Unions, with Rules for con-

- 31

stituting them....

On the Propriety of forming Bible Associations in Sunday Schools,

with an Account of the Southwark Sunday School Bible Asso- 34

ciation...

Review of Lancaster's Address to the Friends and Superintendents } 45

of Sunday Schools.

Letter from the late Robert Raikes giving an Account of the Sun-} 51

day Schools at Painswick.

The Utility of Commands....

Spelling by means of Writing..

54

55

Sunday School intelligence.-Roman Catholic Sunday School...... 55

Extract of a Letter from Ireland.................

57

Obituary.-Account of the Happy Death of Charles Lipscomb,...., 59

An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Sunday School Union.. 65

An Account of the Hibernian Sunday School Society....

An Account of the Stockport Sunday School...

An Address to Sunday School Teachers

68

75

84

Thoughts on the Propriety of Unity among Sunday School Teachers. 89

Review of Macgowan's Life of Joseph....

-Bunting's Sermon, before the Sunday School Union....

The Duty of Ministers to Catechise their Young People and Sun-

day Scholars

99

97

99

First Paragraph in the Gloucester Paper relative to Sunday Schools 114

Account of the Hackney Sunday School Bible Association.... 115

Meeting at Friars Mount Sunday School.............

117

Clerkenwell Parochial Sunday School Bible and Prayer Book As-} 118

sociation......

Sunday Schools for Adults

119

Sunday School Union Public Breakfast

120

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Origin, Progress, and Present State of the Edinburgh Gratis Sab-

bath School Society

125

Minutes taken at the Quarterly Meetings of the Sunday School Union 129

Annual Report of the Sunday School Union for 1815......

Letter from the Bristol Sunday School Union......

133

134

Proceedings of the annual Meeting of the Sunday School Union. 159, 178

Annual Sermon to the Members of the Sunday School Union, brief

Minutes of.....

179

On Promoting the Reading of the Holy Scriptures.

180

Question proposed to the Children of a Sunday School, with the

181

182

A Short Account of the Life and Death of Ellen Tildsley..

183

On Adult Schools......

189

On addressing children in Sunday Schools

193

Parallel between the characters of Julius Cæsar and Robert Raikes 196

Minutes taken at the Quarterly Meetings of the Sunday School 198

Union, continued.

On Prayer Meetings among Sunday School Children..

Letter of instructions from the Edinburgh Gratis Sabbath School

Society to the Teachers of their Schools...

202

205

The situation of the uneducated Labourer.....

209

Extract from the speech of R. H. Martin, Esq. on the formation of
the City of London Auxiliary Bible Society

Letter to the Treasurer of the Sunday School Union from Bristol... 229

Statement of the rise and progress of the Bristol Methodist Sunday

231

235

236

236

Obituary-Account of the Happy Death of Margaret 237

first a Scholar, then a Teacher in Friars Mount School.....

The third report of the Hibernian Sunday School Society...

245

An Address to the Committee of the Bristol Society for the instruc-} 251

tion of the Adult Poor......

Letter to the Editor.....

257

Minites taken at the Quarterly Meetings of the Sunday School Union 258

An Account of the internal arrangement and system of Discipline 262

of the Friars' Mount Sunday School......

Interesting Account of two Malefactors recently executed

Guernsey......

On the peculiar temptations of Sunday School Teachers..

in?

274

277

} 280

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An Account of the first Anniversary of the Sheffield Sunday School

Union..

Catholic School for the instruction of poor Irish Children.

Quarterly Meeting of the Sunday School Union in London............

Meeting of Superintendents in London....

293

295

Second Quarterly Meeting of the Bath Sunday School Union...... 296

Frome Sunday School Union...

Woolwich Sunday School Union.

Essex Sunday School Union'..

Intended Publication on Adult Schools..

Want of Education

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298

300

302

303

303

Address delivered at the Quarterly Meeting of the Bristol Sunday 905

School Union.......

Speech of Mr. C. N. Wawn at the formation of the Newcastle-} 312

upon-Tyne Sunday School Union

Anecdote of a Sunday School Boy....

Letter on the Instruction of Adn ́ts

A Sunday Scholar's Collection of the Names of Christ..

319

320

321

Minutes taken at the Quarterly Meeting of the Sunday School Union 324

Review of the Bristol and Nottingham Sunday School Hymn Books 326

Report of the Bath Sunday School Union .....

Extract from the Report of the Nottingham Sunday School Union, 338

First Report of the Frome Sunday School Union.....

341

Extract from the Report of the Si'ver Street Sunday School...... 344

Woolwich Sunday School Union................

Southwark Society for the Instruction of Adults, with the Speeches

delivered at the Meeting...

Southwark Auxiliary Sunday School Union..

Obituary of Thomas Leach.......

Elizabeth Davis.

Letter to the Editor......

347

Reches}

348

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383

386

387

889

Stroud Sunday School Union..
Nottingham Sunday School Union
Bristol Sunday School Union
Bath Sunday School Union
Shropshire Sunday School Union

Hibernian Sunday School Society

395

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Teachers and Friends
of Sunday Schools, with an Account of the Speeches delivered

Regulations of the Sunday School Union, with the new additions.. 400

Minutes taken at the Quarterly Meetings of the Sunday School Union 407

Letter to the Editor on the Review of the Sunday School Hymn

Books.....

Letter to the Editor

410

412

Review. History of the origin and progress of Adult Schools, 419

by T. Pole, M. D...

Scriptural Writing Copies....

Report of the Society for the support and encouragement of Sun-

day Schools throughout the British Dominions..

East London Auxiliary Sunday School Union

Letter from the Secretary of the West Kent Sunday School Union 418

Obituary of a Sunday School Girl, aged 13..........

Seventeenth Report of the Edinburgh Gratis Sabbath School Society 425

Account of the Aberdeen Sabbath Evening Schools......

Extract from the Report of the Paisley Sabbath Evening Schools.. 436

Extract from the Fifth Annual Report of the Glasgow Sabbath

Evening Schools

Letter on the Review of the Sunday School Hymn Books

An Address to Sunday School Teachers, from 2 Tim. 2 and 6..

On the Tendency of Sunday Schools to promote the spiritual Inte-
rests of the Teachers..

448

450

454

Additional Letter en the Review of the Sunday School Hymn Books 458
A Systematic Mode of teaching Writing..

462