"The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding
unto the simple."

PSALM CXix. 130.

Philadelphia:

AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,

No. 316 CHESTNUT STREET.

NEW YORK: No. 147 NASSAU ST......BOSTON: No. 9 CORNHILL.
LOUISVILLE: No. 103 FOURTH ST.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1854, by the
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.

A No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object.

PREFACE.

THE following pages were not originally intended for Publication. They were written for the instruction of a deaf and dumb child, in whose education it was necessary to employ the simplest form of language; and the object of the writer, therefore, was to convey, in such language, as much scriptural and religious knowledge as the pupil was capable of receiving.

It has been suggested, that, as this little history was found to interest the child for whom it was at first intended, it might possibly be made useful in other cases; either in the

instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, or among children in general. It is, therefore, now published, in the humble hope, that he, who not unfrequently condescends to employ the weakest instruments, may bless this feeble endeavour to lead the young to the knowledge of his Holy Word.