Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed. _GOD AND MANKIND._ VOLUME I. [Illustration: THE FAMILY CATECHISING.] THEOLOGY IN ROMANCE: OR, The Catechism and the Dermott family. BY MRS. MADELINE LESLIE AUTHOR OF "HOME LIFE" AND OF "MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES" AND REV. A. R. BAKER AUTHOR OF "THE CATECHISM TESTED BY THE BIBLE," ETC. ———————— BOSTON: JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY. CLEVELAND, OHIO: H. P. B. JEWETT. PHILADELPHIA: WM. S. & ALFRED MARTIEN. 1859. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. DEDICATION. [Illustration] THE VOLUMES OF THIS WORK ARE MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS TO THE Y O U N G C O N V E R T S IN THE G R E A T R E V I V A L O F 1 8 5 8, IN THE HUMBLE HOPE OF AIDING THEIR PROGRESS IN CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE AND GRACE. INTRODUCTION. [Illustration] TEN years have completed their course since one of the associate authors of these volumes published his first edition of "THE CATECHISM TESTED BY THE BIBLE." It was sold in a few weeks. That work, in two 18mo. volumes, was revised and stereotyped the same year; and two corresponding volumes, with the same title, but more simple and explanatory, and therefore better adapted to young children, were prepared and published with them.