sings the hymn. It saves some trouble in passing books about.
As soon as children can read they are taught the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Commandments, a number of Gospel texts, and then they are taken on to St. Matthew’s and St. John’s Gospels. They next have to learn a very long catechism, and must pass a stiff examination in all these subjects before they can be baptized, unless, of course, they are the children of Christian parents, and so baptized in infancy; but even then, before they can be confirmed they must know the subjects mentioned, with the addition of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. In all our schools our first object is, of course, being missionaries, to give the children a really good, Scriptural education. From 8 to 9.30 a.m. the teaching is wholly Biblical, commencing with Scriptural repetition, followed by an address to the school
