Excerpt from Church Teachings for the Sunday School It has been the effort of the compiler of this book to condense in a limited number of lessons, a history of the Church, its doctrines and ordinances. The First Part contains a brief history of the birth, ministry, death, resurrection and ascension of our Saviour, and the descent of the Holy Ghost, together with an explanation of the principal Festivals and Fasts of the Church. This part of the work is intended to be used from the first Sunday in Advent to Trinity Sunday. Each lesson of the First Part consists of a passage from the Bible, appropriate to the Church season, ao companied by explanatory notes from the works of some of our most eminent authors. The Second Part; to be used from Trinity to Advent, contains the history of the progress of the Church from the creation of man to the present time, with brief sketches of the lives of many of the most prominent personages of the Old and New Testaments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.