THE ASSEMBLY'S SHORTER CATECHISM ILLUSTRATED BY APPROPRIATE ANECDOTES; CHIEFLY DESIGNED TO ASSIST PARENTS AND SABBATH SCHOOL TEACHERS, IN THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH. BY JOHN WHITCROSS, TEACHER, EDINBURGH. NEW EDITION. NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER, 58 CANAL STREET, AND PITTSBURG, 56 MARKET STREET. T468 W 58 17136 1845 PREFACE. THE Assembly's Shorter Catechism has been long and justly esteemed an excellent compendium of religious knowledge. To il lustrate it, explanatory catechisms, and even Bodies of Divinity, have been composed. Parents and teachers have used it for the purpose initiating the young in the principles of religion. To contribute to their assistance in a labor so important, is the design of the following compilation. of Having been in the habit of selecting an anecdote or two, suited to the subject of instruction in the Sabbath School under his charge, the compiler was led to conceive the plan of this little work. It will be generally allowed, that anecdotes and stories are calculated to engage the attention of children, which gained by this means, may be happily kept, while directed to other parts of instruction. While, from the similarity of several of the questions, it was found difficult to prefix to each its appropriate anecdotes, it is hoped there will |