5398 44.560 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY uIFT OF SIMMONS COLLEGE LIBRARY Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. WITHDRAWN SIMMONS COLLEGE LIBRARY MOTRON NOTE. THE following work is designed to accompany the INSPIRATION and READING OF THE BIBLE' which have been recently published by the Society, and which should be introduced into every Sabbath school Library in our country. While it does not pretend to claim equality with those beautiful books in any respect, it may nevertheless partially supply a want which has long been felt in our Sabbath schools, and together with them, afford some help in the study of the sacred oracles. As utility rather than originality has been the aim of the writer, he has freely consulted those who are wiser than himself; and has endeavored to bring together, in a popular form, those hints, rules, and illustrations which are of most importance in the reading of the Bible, without stopping to indicate the more learned sources from which some of them may have been derived. It would be unjust, however, not to refer to Van Mildert's Bampton Lectures, to which he has been indebted for much valuable assistance in this undertaking. It is hoped that, with all its imperfections, this little book may be of some use to a large class of persons in our Churches and Sabbath schools, who have not access to larger works on the subject of interpretation, or to whom those works, from their scientific character, would be nearly useless, and that it may tend to hasten the time when all shall know the Lord from the least to the greatest. Cambridge, March, 1844. |