And now this work is done. I thank God, with all my heart, for permitting me to engage in it, and for helping me to get through with it. It humbles me in the dust to think how utterly unworthy it is of the glorious Saviour to whom it refers. But I know he is pleased to work by feeble means. He puts the treasure of the gospel in earthen vessels, on purpose that “the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” My earnest prayer is that he will graciously accept it as a tribute of grateful love from one of the least and most unworthy of his followers; that he will pardon all the mistakes and imperfections connected with it; and bless it, notwithstanding, and make it useful. And if it shall prove helpful to Christian parents and teachers in training their children for Jesus; and if the young who read these pages shall find anything here to aid and encourage them in trying to know and love and serve the blessed Saviour, I shall feel that the time and labor spent upon this work have not been in vain! AMEN! ANALYTICAL INDEX OF FACTS, LESSONS, ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES, AND BIBLE STORIES Acorn, The, iii 195 Adam and Eve, i 1, ii 113 A just God and Saviour, ii 118 All for the best, i 249 Androcles and the lion, iii 80 Angel in the stone, iii 207 Angelo, Michael, iv 233 Antidote, The, ii 293 Apostles Chosen, iii 1 The Men, iii 5 The Work, iii 12 The Help, iii 18 The Lesson, iii 23 Ark, Noah’s, i 27 Size of, i 32 Occupants of, i 33 Jesus the true, i 34 Supplies of, i 35 Safety of, i 40 The blessings of, and how secured, i 45 Ascension, The, iv 179 Time of, iv 179 Place of, iv 182 Manner of, iv 184 Lesson from:—Obedience to the Command of Christ, iv 190 Ashamed to tell mother, iv 102 Assyrian call to prayer, iii 27 Augustine, Saint, iii 164 Aunt Lucy, iii 14 Awakened at the bottom of the sea, ii 7 Baptism of Christ, ii 244 A very Strange, ii 245 A very Wonderful, ii 247 A very Instructive, ii 251 Instructive, Because it teaches us to think of Jesus as the Pleasing Son, ii 251 Because it leads us to think of Jesus as the Gentle Dove, ii 257 Because it leads us to think of Jesus as the Atoning Lamb, ii 263 Baptized pocket-book, ii 198 “Be”, iii 66 Beetle an object of worship and interest, i 131 Being loved back again, iii 193 Believing saves, ii 133 Best time for doing this, iii 210 Bible, One for seven hundred men, i 155 Bickersteth, Rev. Mr., iii 211