SUNDAY SCHOOL

Repository;

OR,

TEACHERS' MAGAZINE.

VOLUME I.

Commencing, January 1813.

London:

PRINTED BY H. TEAPE, TOWER-HILL.

Published by W. Kent, No. 116, High Holborn; Sold also by T. Hamilton,
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CONTENTS.

PAGS

MEMOIR of Mr. Robert Raikes, and the Origin of Sunday} 1

Schools

Account of the Rise and Progress of the General Sunday School 10

Society.......

Their circular Letters to the Laity and Clergy......... 12, 14

Letters from the Bishops of Salisbury and Landaff in com- 15

mendation of Sunday Schools...

....

......

Extract from a Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry? 15

of Nottingham

...

Letter from William Morton Pitt, Esq. to the Committee.. 21

A Table, shewing the gradual Progress of the Society for?. 24
Twenty-seven Years

28

Extract from the last Report of the Society....

Questions to which answers are required from Applicants, &c. 30

On the Advantages of Sunday School Unions, with Rules for con-

stituting them.....

} 31

On the Propriety of forming Bible Associations in Sunday Schools,

with an Account of the Southwark Sunday School Bible Asso- 34

ciation.......

Review of Lancaster's Address to the Friends and Superintendents } 45

of Sunday Schools.

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Letter from the late Robert Raikes giving an Account of the Sun-} 51

day Schools at Painswick.

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The Utility of Commands...

Spelling by means of Writing.

54

55

57

Sunday School intelligence.-Roman Catholic Sunday School...... 55

Extract of a Letter from Ireland.....

Obituary.-Account of the Happy Death of Charles Lipscomb,...., 59

An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Sunday School Union.. 65

An Account of the Hibernian Sunday School Society.

An Account of the Stockport Sunday School....

An Address to Sunday School Teachers

Thoughts on the Propriety of Unity among Sunday School Teachers. 89

Review of Macgowan's Life of Joseph..

93

97

Bunting's Sermon, before the Sunday School Union......

The Duty of Ministers to Catechise their Young People and Sun-99
day Scholars

First Paragraph in the Gloucester Paper relative to Sunday Schools 114

Origin, Progress, and Present State of the Edinburgh Gratis Sab-

bath School Society

} 125

Minutes taken at the Quarterly Meetings of the Sunday School Union 129

Annual Report of the Sunday School Union for 1813............

133

Proceedings of the annual Meeting of the Sunday School Union.159, 178

Annual Sermon to the Members of the Sunday School Union, brief

Minutes of..

brief? 179

On Promoting the Reading of the Holy Scriptures..

Question proposed to the Children of a Sunday School, with the

answer of one of the Boys......

Anecdote of a Sunday School Child

A Short Account of the Life and Death of Ellen Tildsley....

On Adult Schools...

180

e 181

182

189

189

On addressing children in Sunday Schools

193

Parallel between the characters of Julius Cæsar and Robert Raikès 196

Minutes taken at the Quarterly Meetings of the Sunday School

Union, continued...

198

On Prayer Meetings among Sunday School Children.....

Letter of instructions from the Edinburgh Gratis Sabbath School

Society to the Teachers of their Schools...

202

205

The situation of the uneducated Labourer....

209

Extract from the speech of R. H. Martin, Esq. on the formation of

the City of London Auxiliary Bible Society

210

Letter to the Treasurer of the Sunday School Union from Bristol... 229

Statement of the rise and progress of the Bristol Methodist Sunday

231

School Society ...

Sunday School at Plymouth Dock

Beneficial effects of Sunday Schools..

Small Unions of Schools......

Obituary-Account of the Happy Death of Margaret Lincoln,} 237

first a Scholar, then a Teacher in Friars Mount School.....

The third report of the Hibernian Sunday School Society....

235

236

236

245

An Address to the Committee of the Bristol Society for the instruc-

tion of the Adult Poor....

Letter to the Editor.....

251

257

Min tes taken at the Quarterly Meetings of the Sunday School Union 258

An Account of the internal arrangement and system of Discipline 268

of the Friars' Mount Sunday School.....

...

Interesting Account of two Malefactors recently executed in? 274

Guernsey.......

On the peculiar temptations of Sunday School Teachers......

An Account of the first Anniversary of the Sheffield Sunday School

Union..

Catholic School for the instruction of poor Irish Children.

Quarterly Meeting of the Sunday School Union in London..

Meeting of Superintendents in London..........

Second Quarterly Meeting of the Bath Sunday School Union..

Frome Sunday School Union....

Woolwich Sunday School Union..

Essex Sunday School Union..

Intended Publication on Adult Schools..

Want of Education

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305

Address delivered at the Quarterly Meeting of the Bristol Sunday

School Union........

Speech of Mr. C. N. Wawn at the formation of the Newcastle-} 312

upon-Tyne Sunday School Union

Anecdote of a Sunday School Boy...

Letter on the Instruction of Adu ts

A Sunday Scholar's Collection of the Names of Christ...

319

... 320

321

Minutes taken at the Quarterly Meeting of the Sunday School Union 324

Review of the Bristol and Nottingham Sunday School Hymn Books 326

Report of the Bath Sunday School Union..

Extract from the Report of the Nottingham Sunday School Union, 338