FOR Lessons on the Church Catechism. BY JOHN MENET, M.A. VICAR OF HOCKERILL, AND LATE CHAPLAIN OF THE HOCKERILL SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORIES: 77, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS; 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE; 48, PICCADILLY; AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. PREFACE. THE outlines of the following Short Notes were drawn up for the use of the Students of the Hockerill Training College, in order to assist them in their own study of the Catechism, and to provide them with a distinct plan for giving lessons on the Catechism to the children in their schools. The Notes have been rewritten, and are now published in the hope that they may be of some use to Pupil Teachers, Students in Training Colleges, and Teachers in Elementary and other Schools. The Exposition of Bishop Nicholson on the Catechism has been freely used, and much valuable assistance has been obtained from the Rev. Peter Young's Lessons on Confirmation. In addition to these explanatory lessons it will be found necessary to secure an exact knowledge of the words of the Catechism by lessons given at other times for this purpose only. In these lessons each answer should not only be repeated distinctly by the children from memory, but every question and answer should be written on the Black Board, and read by the children, who should also from time to time write out portions of the Catechism from memory, in order to test the accuracy of their knowledge. The Lessons may be found too long in some cases, and will need division. It is taken for granted that Teachers will use their own discretion in this and all other respects. HOCKERILL, BISHOP'S STORTFORD, May, 1876. SHORT NOTES FOR LESSONS ON THE CATECHISM.1 LESSON I.-THE CHRISTIAN NAME. I. Name ("What is your Name?"). Ask several children in succession for their names; names by which they are called when 1 A catechism is a form of oral instruction in question and answer. It is a concise sum in the simplest and fewest words of the subject which is treated. It implies (1) a catechist, the person instructing; (2) a catechumen, the person instructed. The questions of the catechist and the answer of the catechumen form the catechism. See Luke i. 4: "Wherein thou hast been instructed" (catechized); Gal. vi. 6: "Let him that is tanght (the catechumen) ... communicate unto him that teacheth (the catechist) in all good things;" Acts xviii. 25: Apollos was instructed (catechized) in the way of the Lord.” Compare Deut. vi. 7; 2 Tim. iii. 15. 66 B |