FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION BY WILSON R. BUXTON MINISTER OF THE UNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BOSTON The Pilgrim Press CHICAGO PREFACE THIS Manual is not intended for children. There already are in use a number of excellent elementary catechisms. This Manual has been prepared for those who, because of their previous instruction in the fundamental truths of religion, are prepared for a larger understanding of those truths and their practical application to the problems of life. In addition to the many adults who are in need of definite instruction in Christian teachings, there is a large class of youth passing through their teens who have a vigor of mind that ought to be turned to advantage in the assimilation of spiritual truth just as readily as it is utilized in the reception of what is called secular knowledge in the public schools. For such this little book has been written. The purpose of this Manual is to inform, suggest and stimulate. The writer has, therefore, endeavored to ask and answer those questions that will start the most fruitful line of discussion and inquiry. This has necessitated the asking of leading questions only, to each one of which the teacher is to bring his class by putting to the members questions, simple and practical, of his own framing. If the teacher is not already familiar with them it |