THE

YOUNG CHRISTIAN'S

SUNDAY EVENING:

OR, AN

EASY INTRODUCTION

TO

THE READING OF THE BIBLE.

FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN.

BY

THE AUTHOR
OF “ THE INFANT CHRISTIAN'S FIRST CATECHISM.”

Oh, say not, dream not, heavenly notes

To childish ears are vain,
That the young mind at random floats,

And cannot reach the strain.
Dim or unheard, the words may fall,

And yet the heaven-taught mind
May learn the sacred air, and all
The harmony unwind.

THE CHRISTIAN YEAR.

VOLUME II.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,
AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL,

1832.

LONDON:

GILBERT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

TO

LADY RICHARDSON,

AS TO ONE WHOM THE AUTHOR HAS LEARNED,

FROM HER EARLIEST YEARS,

TO LOVE AND RESPECT ;

AND ON WHOSE FAVOURABLE OPINION, AND

KIND INTEREST IN HER PRESENT UNDERTAKING,

SHE SETS NO COMMON VALUE:

THE SECOND PART OF THIS LITTLE WORK

IS INSCRIBED,

BY HER EVER AFFECTIONATE AND OBLIGED,

L. P.

ADVERTISEMENT.

In presenting to her readers her farther attempt to facilitate the instruction of children in the sacred Scriptures, the author feels called upon to premise, that this Second part of her work may perhaps be found, in some places, more difficult than the First. This difference, however, was not altogether unintentional. It was supposed, as indeed, in the case of a child six years old, it was found, that the time occupied, and the mental exercise undergone, in reading the previous part, were calculated to make the young reader capable, by degrees, of grasping information which he could not have borne at first.

Much, however, will depend upon the tastes of children, and the general progress of their