FORTY YEARS'

Experience in Sunday-Schools.

:

BY

STEPHEN H. TYNG, D.D.,

RECTOR OF ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, NEW YORK.

NEW YORK:

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SHELDON & COMPANY.

BOSTON: GOULD & LINCOLN.

1860.

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

JUL 16 1913

HARVARD
DIVINITY SCHOOL

H42,039

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
SHELDON & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for
the Southern District of New York.

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INTRODUCTION.

THE importance of the subject of this little volume none can doubt. There is a familiarity in treating it, and a desultory method pursued in its discussion which may be considered inappropriate for a book. I have only to say, the chapters herein contained, were so many distinct letters addressed to a friend who was the Superintendent of a Sundayschool, at his own request. After a publication in the INDEPENDENT had given them a very extensive circulation, their compact publication in the present form was also solicited. They are the simple language of personal experience and observation in the field of which they treat. They may be the instrument of suggesting other and better thoughts and