INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS TO THE READER. vii The volume also contains some addresses to teachers, to parents, to young men, and to the little ones of the Christian family, in the hope of suggesting various modes in which the friends of the children may do good service. The division into sections will enable the reader to refer readily for the kind of address he may require; but the larger number of specimens will be found under the more important headings "For Closing School," and "For Separate Services." A suggestive, rather than an elaborated style of treatment has been adopted throughout; and where an illustration or anecdote is likely to be well known, or is at the teacher's easy command, it is only briefly referred to. The Compiler and Editor has had many years' experience in preparing lessons, helps, and addresses for Sunday-school teachers, and he trusts that this volume will be found of superior and permanent value to his fellow-workers on behalf of the children; and with this hope he commends it to the great band of Christian teachers, praying that the Lord of the children will permit His gracious benediction to attend upon it wherever it may go. R. T. |