NOTE. The present work was written by the late Benjamin Elliot Nicholls, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, (Eng.,) and was originally published by the (London) "Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge." It has required no material alterations to fit it for the purposes of the present publishers. It has a value for religious teachers of all grades, for Bible-classes, and for advanced members of Sunday-schools, which will not fail to be discerned by the diligent and discriminating reader. It is recommended to the student of the Holy Scriptures as affording great facilities to the reading, marking, learning, and inwardly digesting their precious truths. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by the in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object. |