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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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Books / or Sunday Schools . To the Editor . 32 , University Street , London , Sir , February 19 , 1831 . The great deficiency of good books for our Sunday-schools has loug been felt by all those who are engaged iu conducting those useful institutions . When I am travelling about the country , it is
my constant practice on the Sunday to go into the school connected with the Unitarian chapel at which I am attending ; and the question which universally assails me is , " Can you recommend to us any good reading book ? " To this I generally reply by mentioning Mrs . Barbauld's Hymns , Mrs . Mary Hughes ' s Sunday-Scholar ' s First Book , Selections
from the Old Testament , Turner ' s Abstract , and the Gospel Examples . " We have all these , " it is rejoined ; " but we want something else—something in a more popular and attractive form , or , at all events , something which , whether it be good or bad , will have the charm of novelty , for our children are all tired of their old books . " Having , therefore , had more leisure than usual this winter .
I have been employing it in a very humble , but I trust a well-meant , endeavour to supply the deficiency complained of . I have nearly completed the first part of a set of Bible Stories , which are intended as a reading or class book . To enable your readers to judge of my plan , I subjoin a list of the subjects , and one Story , which may serve as a specimen of the whole .
I . Adam and Eve . 2 . Cain and Abel . 3 . Noah and the Flood . 4 . The Tower of Babel . 5 . The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah . 6 . Abraham and his Son Isaac . 7 . Jacob and bsau . 8 . Joseph hated by his Brethren . 9 . What happened to Joseph in Egypt . 10 . Joseph ' s Conduct to his Brethren and his Father . 11 . Moses in the Bulrushes .
12 . Destruction at Pharaoh and his Host . 13 . The Ten Commandments given . 14 . The Tabernacle . 15 . The Golden Calf . 16 . The Promised Laud . 17 . Joshua the Leader of the Armies of Israel . 18 . Jcpluha ' s Hash Vow . 19 . The Feats of Samson . 20 . The Story of Ruth . 21 . Samuel called to be a Prophet . 22 . Saul the First King of Israel . 23 . David
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slaying Goliath . 24 . Friendship of David and Jonathan . 25 . Parable of the Ewe Lamb . 26 . The Rebellion of Absalom . 27 . The Wisdom of Solomon . 28 . The Division of the Kingdom . 29 . The Three Years' Drought . 30 . Elijah and the Priests of Baal . 31 . The Wickedness of
Ahab aud Jezebel . 32 . The Young Persons who mocked Elisha . 33 . Gehazi struck with Leprosy . 34 . Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego . 35 . Nebuchadnezzar eating Grass like Oxen . 36 . The Haud-writiug on the Wall . 37 . Daniel in the Lions' Den . 38 . Hainan
and Mordecai . 39 . The Return from the Captivity . 40 . Judas Maccabaeus . " 16 The Promised Land . " Exodus iii . 8 , xxxiii . 1—3 ; Numbers xiii . xiv . ; Deut . xxxiv . 1—6 . ** The children of Israel wandered for forty years in the wilderness $ and duriug all this time , they were fed with food from heaveo , and their clothes did not grow old , neither did their shoes wear off their feet .
" But God had promised to Abraham , aud to Isaac , and to Jacob , that their descendants should possess a land flowing with milk and honey , that is , a very rich aud fertile land , and that they should drive out the wicked nations which dwelt there . So when the
Israelites arrived on the borders of Canaan , which was the country that had been promised them , Moses chose twelve men , one from each of the tribes ; aud he sent them to examine the laud , to see whether it was as good as they expected . He told them to observe what sort of people dwelt there—whether they were strong or weak , few or many and
whether they dwelt in tents , or in castles ; aud whether the land was rich or poor , woody or open . He told them also to bring some of the fruits which they fouud , for it was now the time of the first ripe grapes . ** 'I hese men are generally called The
Twelve Spies . They went and searched the land as they had been directed ; and after forty days they returned , and brought back with them some pomegranates , and figs , and one bunch of grapes so large , that two men were obliged to carry it on a pole between tiieiu Tliis was enough to prove that the laud
Miscellaneous Correspondence.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/57/
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