MacPherson, A. Cluny. Lessons on The Church Catechism : For the Use of Sunday School Teachers and other Religious Instructors. London: Church of England Sunday School Institute, ca. 1880. [11526]
Green cloth over thin card, decorated in black & gilt, edges worn, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Rather fragile interior with end papers of poor quality. 88 clean pp. The text pages are white; the end papers are brown and made from pulp paper. Fair. Hardcover.
This series was originally printed in the the "Church Sunday School Magazine." The Church of England Sunday School Institute was founded in 1843 to provide specifically Anglican materials for Sunday Schools, and for offering training sessions and materials for their teachers.
This book provides the teacher with ideas, synopsis, and instruction on teaching the different sections of the Church of England Catechism.
"So far as the matter of the following lessons is concerned, their object is to take the Catechism as it stands, and by illustration, outline, and application, to commend it to the hearts and understandings of those who have to learn...We have taken the Catechism, in all its grand simplicity, as a faithful exposition of Christian Responsibility, Faith, and Duty; we have neither added to, nor taken from it, but in all agitated and curious questions have left it to answer for itself." - Preface. (
