Definite design also will be found prominent, to render more effective the whole of the class-teaching and school exercises, attainment in one department always being preparatory and conditional to the next above it, but especially that of fitting them for and inspiring in them early the hope of becoming teachers, thus supplying a healthy stimulus to all scholars.
The necessity for the teaching of the Holy Spirit in reading, hearing and searching the Scriptures, as well as His regenerating and sanctifying operations upon the mind and heart, having been too much overlooked, special attention is directed to this important subject.
Finally, practical utility is the design of this volume, as a manual of suggestion for permanent use in all departments of Sunday School work,-for the Superintendent in the desk; for the Teacher in the class, whether Infant, Bible, Intermediate, Senior, or Servants'; for the Parents at home; for Servants in their important spheres; for Old Scholars in all after-life; and possibly for the Minister in his pastoral duties, visits, and oversight of the Sunday School.
The arrangement of the work is as follows, viz. :—
The Necessity for the Sunday School-Signs of Inefficiency in its working, and some of the probable Causes which have led to it-then, from the matter and method of the Saviour's teaching, define what is the proper object of the Sunday School; suggest an Outline for the several ages, of what and how to teach; and, finally, call into exercise Agency adapted to these various necessities, not only on the Sabbath, but also through the entire week.