THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of THE LORD THY 1. And God spake all these words, saying, 2. I AM THE LORD THY GOD: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy GOD First Commandment. 3. Thou shalt have no other gods maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor before me. thy stranger that is within thy gates. 11. For in six days the Lord Second Commandment. 4. Thou shalt not make unto thee made heaven and earth, the sea, any graven image, or any likeness and all that in them is, and rested of any thing, that is in heaven the seventh day wherefore the above, or that is in the earth be- Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and neath, or that is in the water under hallowed it. the earth. Fifth Commandment. 5. Thou shalt not bow down thy- 12. Honour thy father and thy self to them, nor serve them: for I, mother: that thy days may be long THE LORD THY GOD am a upon the land which THE LORD jealous God, visiting the iniquity of THY GOD giveth thee. the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Sixth Commandment. 13. Thou shalt not kill. Seventh Commandment. 14. Thou shalt not commit adul 6. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and tery. keep my commandments. Third Commandment 7. Thou shalt not take the name Eighth Commandment. 15. Thou shalt not steal. Ninth Commandment. of THE LORD THY GOD in 16. Thou shalt not bear false vain: for the Lord will not hold witness him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Fourth Commandment. against thy neighbour. Tenth Commandment. 17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not 8. Remember the Sabbath day, covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his to keep it holy. man servant, nor his maid servant, 9. Six days shalt thou labour and nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing do all thy work: that is thy neighbour's. 18. And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 21. And the people stood afar off; and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. 22. And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I HAVE TALKED WITH YOU FROM HEAVEN. See more concerning these commandments in Deuteronomy, 5th chapter, 16. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29th verses, Deuteronomy, 31st chapter, 12 and 13th verses, and Matt. 22. 40. and James, 2. 10. Plan for the improvement of Sunday School teachers, in religious and literary knowledge. "There is an evident deficiency both in the ability and mode with which many teachers convey their instructions; it is therefore of great importance that they should seriously consider the subject, and adopt such measures as their opportunities and circumstances will permit, to insure their own advancement in knowledge, and to acquire superior methods of imparting this knowledge with facility to others. The means I would suggest to their attention is, that the teachers of each Sunday School, or of two or more schools, should unite themselves for the purpose, upon a plan similar to the following," &c.-London Journal of Education. Note." This plan proposes that the teachers meet for a few hours every week, for mutual instruction; one being selected as a leader of the class; the method of proceeding is, to read three or four pages, and make remarks on works of the following character, "Notes on the Holy Bible,”—“Watts on the Mind," -"Scripture Geography,"—" English Grammer,"--" Rhetoric,”—“ Addresses to Children,""Watt's Logic,' Locke on the Human Understanding,"-"Watt's Philosophical Essays,""Locke on Education,”. "Watts on the Passions," &c. We are pleased to remark that this plan has been adopted, and is about to be carried into practice by one of the schools of our union. The following is the proposed arrangement they are to pursue to commence with reading and scripture pronunciation. In regard to the first of these, we remark that fluent and correct reading and speaking is highly desirable, and indeed a principle pre-requisite for S.S. Teachers; exercise in reading will advance them in elocution, and it must be acknowledged, that this will be highly advantageous for instruction, and better adapted to impress the mind when conveyed in pleasing and correct tones; and any method that will advance teachers to ease and correctness of speaking, will strengthen the means of their utility to cultivate the minds and morals of their pupils. In regard to the second course, scripture orthography, and pronunciation, it is highly worthy of consideration, though we regret to observe that this is as an object as little regarded, (even by such whose high and sanctioned office should set them beyond this reflection) as if there was no Biblical standard; and readers of the scriptures are so various and incorrect in this particular, that their hearers are either at a loss to know their meaning, or are led into mistakes, in proper names, and matters of topography. We might give examples of this, but think that the observations we have made, will strike our readers as being precise and correct. The excellency of this novel plan requires farther remarks than our present limits allow. We defer them for a future number. NOTICE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Questions on the historical parts of the New Testament, designed for Sabbath Schools, by Truman Parmele, Superintendent of the Utica Sunday School. Merrill & Hastings, Utica. It gives us unusual gratification to notice this useful tract, as being drawn up by one actively engaged in the work of Sunday Schools; which ought in a measure to be a passport to its adoption in Sunday Schools. Catechetical compendiums of Bible history, are numerous. We have compared the present with several others, and give it our decided preference, and the point on which we more particularly rest our approbation, is the closeness of inquiry on the matter of each chapter; a most desirable object in the religious instruction of children. Others with which we have compared this, do not contain so many questions by a third. Its usefulness would, however, be increased were the questions yet more extensive. Our author has furnished the first chapter with explanations to each question as a guide to the instructor to enlarge on each subject.—We think these are not of sufficient simplicity for general usefulness, and we doubt whether many Sunday Scholars would not require farther explanation of such terms as-" Christian Era,"-" Ascension," "Manifest in the flesh,"" Astrologir, "-" Assuming the civil power," &c. With this exception, (which however is not without its usefulness,) we highly approve of this little catechism: its arrangement is judicious, and its form cheap; and besides it has the charm of being designed for the use of Sunday Schools, and has its authorship from a Sunday School Teacher. We think it will add to the existing facilities for catechetical instruction. Sabbath School Visitant, Vol. I. No. 1.-Utica N. Y. Merrill & Colwell. This is a welcome Visitant, and from the introduction and other matter contained in the first number, promises also to be a useful one. We cordially wish it success, and congratulate our fellow labourers at Utica on their apparent zeal, in affording two publications the present year, so well calculated to promote the excellent cause of Sunday Schools. This work is closely printed, and in a neat form, each number comprising 8 pages 8vo. Terms 50 cents yearly, payable on delivering of the 3d number, or 624 at the end of the year. The Sunday School Magazine.-Philadelphia. We have received the prospectus of this work, which affords the promise of great usefulness; its first number appears the present month, and issues from the press, under the most happy and auspicious circumstances, being the first effort in behalf of Sunday Schools, by the American Sunday School Union, lately organized in that city, and embracing the Sunday Schools throughout the state. This work will doubtless be the best possible medium of information from this magnificent area of action, now nearly co-extensive with the whole Sunday School field abroad in the earth. We think that the friends of such institutions may look with confidence to this publication as a source of the greatest promise, either for matter of encouragement, or practical usefulness. To every union founded on such philanthropic and christian principles as the Pennsylvania Society, and to every such effort of usefulness as the Sunday School Magazine, we would delight to inscribe the motto, 66 PERPETUA ESTE !" for our faith in regard to such labours of heavenly beneficence is, that as their high and holy object is, so shall their effects be, eternal. SUNDAY SCHOOL FACTS AND ANECDOTES. The tendency of the Bible to enlighten the mind, and its powerful influence to weaken the iron grasp of ignorance, prejudice and superstition, is delightfully exemplified in the follow ing fact. The utility of training the young mind to such a reliance on the testimony of the scriptures, meets us with the fullest conviction on reading this simple anecdote. While we recur to the early part of the last century, a period of scientific and literary light, and marked also as a religious age,—and find that the sarcastical pen of an Addison and a Swift, was thought requisite to dissipate superstitious follies, and the elucidations of science were required to allay popular prejudices and apprehensions; we allude to the period of the great comet of 1680, and the noted London prediction of the time of the end, how the excellence and superiority of the scriptures glow into brightness, when we thus behold superstition more beautifully and ably confuted from the lips of a little child, instructed in the truths of the Bible, than by the pointed arguments of literature and science. The Little Interpreter. "At a village not many miles distant from the metropolis, (London) a hawker was vending some printed trash containing a pretended prophecy that the world would be burned and come to an end on Whit-Monday. Several of the villagers on hearing the solemn and strange news, were talking of its veracity and probability, when a little sabbath scholar, (a girl 9 years old) with zeal and boldness rejoined,' why need we be afraid or mind what that book says, for remember that Jesus tells us in the Bible," of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.' ”—London Sunday School Magazine. INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE. The unusual exertions that are making in behalf of the young, to advance them in religious knowledge, is a subject of devout gratulation to the christian. Gladly do we notice the following pleasing intelligence, as communicated through the New-York Religious Teachers' Society:-"It is intended considerably to enlarge our operations during the current year, by publishing |