BRITISH! N. B.-The Profits of this little Book, if any, will be appropriated to the Funds of THE CALCUTTA AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. THE design of this little work will be suf ficiently understood by inspection of the title page. Every serious parent who has presented his child to be baptised, knows that it is his duty to bring up the child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord: and that, without christian instruction, one of the most solemn ordinances of our holy religion will degenerate into a mere form. The Questions now printed together, were originally published separately, for the use of a small class of children, assembled for weekly instruction at the Old Church, Calcutta. Each clause of the Creed, &c. formed, in succession, the subject of one examination, and was usually the substance of the sermon on the preceding Sunday, thrown into a catechetical form. This will explain the introduction of some ques tions, which do not strictly belong to the places where they occur. The sermon on Confirmation, prefixed as an introduction to the work, was preached Cambridge, on occasion of a Confirmation held in that town, by the late Bishop of Ely. |