THE CATECHUMEN REPORTER, SABBATH-SCHOOL TEACHER'S GUIDE, AND PARENTAL MONITOR. To dismiss a youth from the school who has outgrown his boyhood is BOD EDITED BY THE REV. ROBERT JACKSON VOL. XI. LONDON: JOHN MASON, 14, CITY ROAD, AND 66, PATERNOSTER, ROW. .. 126 148 151 153 The exploits of Samson 156 The Israelites sin, and repent David anointed King instead of David slays Goliath with a sling.. 318 Saul attempts David's life Jonathan defends David from Saul 350 Samson at Gaza, and his death.. 158 | David at Adullam.. .. 374 .. 376 .. David in the cave of En-gedi 879 Saul's disobedience 311 .. 314 THE CATECHUMEN REPORTER, JANUARY, 1851. FRANCE. LETTER FROM A WESLEYAN CATECHIST.-No. II. Paris, Oct. 26, 1850. I AM very happy to begin my second letter by saying that the Head of the Church is looking favourably on and blessing our efforts in France for the religious instruction of the young. I must confess that when I arrived here I was far from being sanguine as to the results, but God has so much encouraged me by opening doors of usefulness, that whilst I reckon upon persecutions to come, and not a few disheartening events, yet I am now more full of hope than ever. To begin with the class, the formation of which I announced in my last, I have now fourteen catechumens, regularly entered as such, on their declaration that they had the approbation of their parents and would punctually attend. There are nine girls and five boys whose ages vary from 10 to 15; the greater part of them have done their first communion, so that I have no fear of the priests taking them away. I have visited most of their parents, some more than once, have been well received by them in every instance, and thanked for my instructions to their children. I find that some of them have one of their parents, and one or two both parents, protestants, either of the Reformed or the Lutheran Church. In one instance, I was astonished to find that the mother of two of my catechumens spoke English, and more so to learn that she had been a scholar and afterwards a teacher for four years in the Wesleyan Sunday School of Hinde Street, London, when it was first opened; but she left without having become a member, and it seems that whilst she acquired a great deal of biblical knowledge, she never was converted. She came to Boulogne, and married a Frenchman, a papist, so that all her boys have been educated in the Romish religion, whilst the daughters, like the mother, are protestants. But alas! they have only the name of protestants, for whilst the mother seems very ex |