Promise. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon

References.

Sing.

Isaiah lv. 7.

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How well thy blessed truths agree!
How wise and holy thy commands !
Thy promises, how firm they be!
How firm our hope and comfort stands.

Should all the forms that men devise,
Assault my faith with treach'rous art,
I'd call them vanity and lies,
And bind the Gospel to my heart.

This Lesson is given out by three Monitors.--First Monitor, the Precept. Second Monitor, the Prayer. Third Monitor, the Promise. It may be considered one of the most useful Lessons introduced. Here is not only Jehovah's command, but the medium, prayer, by which we may derive assistance from him to fulfil that command, and the blessed promises of eternal life to such as obey. The pious and faithful Teacher will so easily discover the application of such a Lesson, that we think it useless to enter further into it.

This Lesson is used by a Monitor from the Rostrum, the children, as usual, repeating after him; after which, some such questions as follows, may be put by the Teacher.

T. Who was the first man ?--- C. Adam.

T. Who was the second Adam?--- C. The Lord from heaven.

T. What command did God give to Adam ?---C. That he should not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

T. What new command did Jesus Christ give to his disciples?---C. That they should love another.

T. Did Adam obey God?---C. No, he disobeyed him. T. Did Jesus Christ ever commit sin ?---C. No, he was without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing.

T. What did Adam bring into the world by sin?--C. death.

T. What did Jesus Christ bring into the world?--C. Glad tidings of great joy, &c.

And in this manner may any other name given to Christ be profitably conversed upon by the Teacher and children.

CHRIST ALL IN ALL.

A Dialogue.

Q. Kind Teacher, I am come to learn
In this short plain address,---
By asking questions, that concern
My endless happiness.

A. Yes, child; but if you'd learn to run
The great salvation race,

Know, that the name of Christ alone
Can answer ev'ry case.

Q. By sin, my God and all is lost,---
Oh where may God be found?
A. In Christ; for so the Holy Ghost
Shews by the Gospel sound.

Q. But how shall I escape and flee
Th' avenging wrath of God?

A. In Christ, who bore upon the tree
That whole amazing load.

Q. Then where's my title, right, or claim To Heav'n's eternal bliss?

A. In Christ alone, that glorious name,--The Lord our Righteousness.

Q. But mayn't the spirit, weak as grass, Fail, ere it reach its length?

A. Jesus, the Lord,---thy Righteousness---
Will be the Lord, thy Strength.

Q. But may not Justice interpose,
And stand in Mercy's way?
A. Jesus did all the debt thou owest,
To Divine Justice pay.

Q. Where may mine eyes

the pardon spy,

Unto my saving good?

A. In Christ's free promise, see it lic---
In his atoning blood.

Q. Repentance must attend---but whence
Shall I this grace receive ?---

A. Christ is exalted as a Prince,
All needful grace to give.

Q. But how shall faith be had? Alas!
I find I can't believe;

A. Christ is the Author of that grace;
And faith is His to give.

Q. But where shall I be safe at last,
From hell and endless death?
A. Christ is a Refuge from the blast
Of everlasting wrath.

Q. Why, Sir, is Christ the whole you say?
No answer else I find

A. Because, were Christ, our All, away,
There's nothing left behind.

The preceding Lesson is used in the Rostrum, by two Monitors; after which, the children should be questioned, or conversed with, on the subjects, and bring forward Scripture proofs, &c.

In the general instruction of the School by this Lesson, one, two, three, or more children may be called out, each one giving out the subject of the Parable, and where it may be found in the New Testament; after which, the Teacher may sometimes take up any one, and question the children as to its meaning. We subjoin an example.

T. What is a parable?-C. An instructive story.

T. Who spake the parables we have now been repeating?-C. Jesus Christ.

7. Why did Jesus Christ instruct his disciples by parables?-C. That they might the better understand the lesson he wished to teach them.

T. In the parable of the tares among the wheat, who is meant by the man sowing the good seed?-C. Jesus Christ. T. What by the field?-C. The world.

T. What by the good seed?-C. Good people.
T. What by the tares?-C. Wicked people.

T. Who by the enemy?-C. Satan.

T. What by the harvest ?-C. The end of the world. T. Who are meant by the reapers?-C. The angels of God.

T. On the whole, what may we learn from this parable?-C. That, although God permits good and bad people to live together in this world, they will be separated in the

next.

T. Who will separate them ?-C. The angels of God.