A

CHILD'S FIRST INTRODUCTION

TO THE STUDY OF THE

HOLY SCRIPTURES.

IN A

SERIES OF DIALOGUES BETWEEN A MOTHER AND
HER CHILD.

BY

ALICIA CATHERINE MANT,

AUTHOR OF

"RHYMES FOR ELLEN," "TALES FOR ELLEN," &c. &c.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk
of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the
way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.-Deut. vi. 7.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

OLD TESTAMENT.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN COCHRAN, 108, STRAND;

AND

JAMES DUNCAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

MDCCCXXX.

INTRODUCTION.

Of all the feelings which can arise in the breast of a Christian Mother on contemplating the opening years of her child, that must be the most interesting which views her as a rational and accountable being. If her child be rational and accountable, for what was reason given? To whom is account to be rendered of its use or abuse? The answer to these questions naturally gives birth to an anxiety to lose no time in engaging this reason to the proper exercise of its powers, and in instructing the child in the nature of that God, to whom she is responsible for all her actions*, and on whose favour and displea

* The use of the female pronoun throughout the Introduction has arisen from the work having been written for the