Excerpt from A Catechism for Children: Designed to Teach the First Principles of the Christian Religion, and the Plain and Great Moral Duties The necessity of brevity has been all along felt, and the Compiler has restrained himself from the introduction of every thing which did not appear essential to his design. He has put within brackets passages which the younger learners may pass over, and by the omission of which the Catechism may be much shortened. The Scripture References, which are inclosed in the same manner, are inserted for the sake of the elder scholars. The use of them may lead children to the desirable habit of consulting the Scriptures for themselves. Let it be suggested that where the Cate chism is not committed to memory, or not entirely, it may be found useful to form classes of scholars for reading it, the Teachers taking the Questions and the Scholars the Answers, including the Scripture References, which they should read in full from the Bible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.