ON SUNDAY-SCHOOL INSTRUCTION: BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED TO SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS. BY THE REV. JOHN GREGG, A.B. MINISTER OF TRINITY CHURCH. "The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits." 2 TIM. ii. 6. SECOND THOUSAND. DUBLIN: WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. AND COMPANY; LONGMAN AND CO. AND JAMES NISBET AND CO. LONDON; AND WILLIAM WHYTE AND CO. EDINBURGH, 1847. PREFACE. As Sunday-School Instruction is given very largely, it is of much consequence that it be of the right kind, and be rightly given. Sunday-School Teachers are a numerous and important class, and may confer great benefit on society. If the following observations shall in any degree contribute to the improvement of some of them, they will answer a valuable purpose. No observations could be profitable without the blessing of God; and His blessing can prosper even these. May he forgive what is wrong, and bless what is right in them, for Jesus Christ's sake. SUNDAY-SCHOOL INSTRUCTION. OUR subject, my brethren, is Sundayschool instruction. The observations which I shall make upon it I intend for Sundayschool teachers. Sunday-schools are established wherever the Lord's Day is duly honoured, and the Bible is freely read. They have had hundreds of thousands of teachers, and have taught millions. They employ some of all classes, from the peer to the peasant. They prepare the minister for the pulpit, and the missionary for the heathen. The Lord has done great things by them. He has blessed them to teachers and scholars. He has made them as rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the vallies, refreshing myriads of our |