SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS ON THE PARABLES, INTENDED PRINCIPALLY FOR THE USE OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS. BY A LADY. то CHRISTIAN PARENTS AND TO ALL DEVOTED LAY-TEACHERS IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST,OD THIS SMALL WORK ON THE PARABLES OF OUR BLESSED LORD, IS HUMBLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED, BY A LADY. PREFACE. MY DEAR CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, WHILST I offer this little book for your use, suffer me to suggest a few hints for your consideration. After having deeply thought in which way religious instruction might be most forcibly and interestingly imparted to my class, I adopted a plan, on which the following conversations are supposed to be conducted. In order that each member of my class should be able, in the first place, to find the scripture references, I made all of them learn the names of the books in the Old and New Testaments. After that, I proposed that they should successively name a parable for the following Sunday, when each should come prepared with suitable texts, and, (if possible) with appropriate passages from the Liturgy, and Articles of our Holy Catholic Church; reserving, as an especial privilege to the individual who had chosen the subject, the |