CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH. SECOND SERIES. Lessons on the Collects. BY MRS ROBERT O'REI LONDON: 2 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS. 138. i. 114. PREFACE. THOSE who agree with the author that the daily religious instruction of children should be founded upon the Church Catechism, will probably agree with her also that their first Sunday lessons should be drawn from the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels; and that there should hardly be a time within their remembrance when they had not in some sort been led to observe the Church's seasons, and to recognise the great practical lesson which each in turn conveys. Some attempt at suggesting this idea, with regard to very young children, was made in the concluding pages of the first series of "Children of the Church," and it is hoped that the present |