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POETRY.

Hymn for the Children of Newcourt Sunday School..........

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Hymn for the Teachers of the Dursley Sunday School Union...... 52

A Poem on the Adult Schools....

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A Hymn for Sunday School Children...

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The Sunday School Teacher's Encouragement.

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Hymn for Sunday School Children .

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Hymn for the Olney Sunday School, by the Poet Cowper.

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Hymn for the New-court Sunday School..

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Hymn for Sunday School Teachers......

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School, Portsea, at their Annual Meeting....

Hymn sung by the Teachers of the Orange Street Sunday} 245

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SUNDAY SCHOOL REPOSITORY;

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The establishment of a Library, consisting of religious and moral books, to which the scholars may have access (agreeably to rules which may be made for its regulation) will be found

The following rules have been observed in some Schools.

1. The Library being formed for the visitors, teachers, and scholars belonging to this institution, no other persons can be admitted to the privilege thereof, except those who are donors of books.

2. Any scholars having been admitted six months, or rewarded for regular attendance, or good behaviour, and who have learnt upon obtaining a recommendation from their teacher, shall be admitted to the privileges of the library.

3. If any scholars, admitted to the library, shall commit any fault deserving of such punishment, they shall be deprived of their privilege for a limited time, or entirely, as the Committee (or Librarian) shall judge most proper.

4. Any persons having been scholars in this School, and honorably discharged therefrom, shall be entitled to the privilege of the Library, so long as they shall manifest a conduct suitable to the instructions which they have received.

3. All persons having books out of this library, must return them in fourteen days, or bring them to be re-entered. If they neglect this, they shall be liable to be deprived of their privilege.

6. The time of attendance for the books, shall be from

purpose of changing and re-entering the -every

As it is the particular desire of those who have established this library, that the parents and families of the children may be benefited thereby; the Committee expect that the children who have had the privilege of being taught to read in these Schools, and now of having books from the library, in order that their parents and friends may be brought to a true knowledge of God as the chief good, will embrace every proper opportunity to read these books to them; and the Committee recommend them to read the same with serious consideration, and a Spirit of Prayer to the Father of Lights, that they may be guided into all truth,

VOL. II.

an additional inducement to the regular attendance and diligent application of the children; and will also, by increasing their knowledge, promote the immediate design of the School. The propriety of a measure like this, which furnishes the children with books on the most improving subjects, for the exercise of that talent of reading which they have acquired, will sufficiently appear to every one. It may, however, be proper to remark, that its great utility has been experienced in respect to the parents as well as the children, in several Schools, where the experiment has been tried. The privilege of the Library is frequently continued to the children after they have left the School. This keeps them still, in some measure, under the view of their former instructors; furnishes employment for that leisure which would otherwise expose them to temptation, and appears calculated to influence their conduct in future life, and become a blessing to their descendants.

A small fund is usually appropriated to the purchase of books; and public notice is given, that if any friends are disposed to present books for the circulating library, they will be thankfully received. A Sub-committee of two or three individuals should be appointed to examine all books before they are circulated, to see that they are suitable for the purpose. All the books should be well covered with strong cartridge paper.

A complete list of the books in the library, regularly numbered, should be placed in a conspicuous situation in the school room. A number should be marked on each book to correspond with the number in the list, and the books should be placed in the library according to the numbers. The name of the School to which the book belongs, should also be stamped on it or written in it. For the plan of keeping an account of the books lent out, and the children who have them (See Appendix No. 5).

An attention to the hints thus far given may be considered indispensable in every well-regulated School, however small. A few additional plans which have been found serviceable, will now be stated.

As many children are induced to attend for a time from idle curiosity or a love of novelty, who relinquish their attendance when these motives cease to operate, it will be found useful to receive all the scholars at their first entrance upon PROBATION for three months. This will teach the parents and children to set a higher value on the privilege of admission. The names of these children should be put on a separate paper in each class-and in the roll book on the opposite page to the fully admitted Scholars in each Class. This distinction should be preserved where a

NUMERICAL REGISTER is kept, which being a permanent record of the success of the institution, should only have entered in it the names of scholars who have been three months or upwards in the School. These are, once a quarter, entered from the receiving book, and the number of their register marked in the last column of the receiving book, where also the dismissal of such as leave during trial, is entered * This register will not only note the date of their admittance, parent's names and residence, and state of learning when admitted, but also their progress, by the removal of the scholars from one class to another, being posted into it every quarter; and finally the time and reason of such scholar's leaving the School. The boys and girls may be registered on the opposite pages. (See Appendix No. 6.)

ALPHABETICAL REGISTER.-This book is used for the purpose of keeping an account of the residence of the children. It contains the names of the scholars in alphabetical order, to which the names of the parents and the residence are added. By reference to this book, the secretary or teachers will be enabled to find, without delay, the residence of any scholar. When the children change their places of abode, the alteration must be made accordingly.

CLASS PAPERS AND BOOKS.-In many Schools Class papers ruled in the form of the roll book (See Appendix No.3) are attached to boards, and merely the attendance is recorded. It appears highly desirable that the teachers should keep an accurate account of the weekly progress of their children, of the lessons they have said, and the hymns, chapters, catechism, &c. &c. which they have committed to memory. This may be done in a class book, (see Appendix, No. 7.) Some children will deceive their teachers by repeating old lessons, unless some account be kept of them. If the same teachers do not regularly attend every Sabbath, such an account is absolutely indispensable.

In order to take in at one view the whole of what a child has committed to memory, a short ledger account may be opened for each scholar, in which this can be stated without much trouble.

In concluding this little work, into which it has been endeavoured to compress much useful information, a few short hints to Teachers, founded on experience, will be given, leaving it

⚫ By observing the difference of the numbers in the first and last column of the receiving book, will be seen how many of the children received have not staid three months on an average.

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