THE CHILD'S CATECHISM, 241 or eight years old, and these amount to twenty-four : This will reduce the Catechism for that age to fifty questions. Then when they arrive at nine or ten years of age, they may learn the answers which were beforeomitted, and so become mastersof the Whole. If this method be followed, therewill be, as it were, three catechisms for three stages of childhood, each exceeding the otherin length, in a more exact proportion to the growing years and memories ofchildren, till at twelve or thirteen years they are are prepared to learn the Assembly's Catechism with greater improvement. But in this and all other methods of instruction whichrelate to children, much of the managementand practice, must be left -to the discretion and care of those who teach them, and all must becommit- ted to the grace and blessing of God. AMEN. THE SECOND CATECHISM: OR, THE CATECHISM FOR CHILDREN, WHICH THEY MAY BEGIN AT SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS OLD, ACCORDING TO THEIR DIE* ERRENT CAPACITIES. I. QUESTION, DEAtt child, do you know what you are? Answer. I am a creature of God, for he made me both body and soot. Is. sly. 11, 12. Thus saith the Lord-1 have made the earth, and created man upon it. Job s. 11.'Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, a fenced me with bones and sinews. Zech. xii. 1. The Lordwho formeth the irit of man within him." f 2. Q. How do you know you havea son!? A. because I find something within me that can think and know, can wish and desire, can rejoice andbe sorry, which my body cannot do. r' Job. xxxii. 8. There is a spirit in man. Job xxxv. 11. Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven. Prov. sudi. 'j. As he thinketh in hie heart, so is he, Prov. H. 10. Knowledge is pleasant to thy soul. Is. xxvi. 8. The desire of our soul is to thy name. Ps. xxxv. 9. My soul shall be joyful in the Lord. Mat, xxvi, 38. My soul is exceeding sorrowful. 3. Q. Wherein doth your soul differ further from your body ? A. My body is made of flesh and blood, and it will die; but my soul is a spirit, and it will live after my body is dead. -See answer 1. w Luke xxiv. 59. A spirit bath not flesh and bones. Job sosie. 14, 15. If he gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh shall perish together, and mau shall return again to dust. Ex. xii. '7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit toGod who gave it. Mat. x. 28. Fear'not them who can kill the body, but are not able to kill the soot., 4. Q. For what purposedid God make you such a creature with a body and asoul ? A. To know him: and serve him hereon earth, that 1 may dwell with him and be happy hereafter in 'heaven. Whet is written Is. xliii. 21. may be applied to all mankind, viz. " This people have t formed for Myself, they shall, or should, shew forth,my:praise. Ps. lxsui. 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps.xvi. 11. In thy presence"is fulnessofjoy, VOL. V Q
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