A SERIES OF

OPENING SERVICES FOR THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

Founded on the Life of Jesus Christ

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

REV. JOHN JAY LEWIS

WITH CHANTS AND HYMNS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY

LEO RICH LEWIS

"I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH"

BOSTON

UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE

1888

Mus 491.150.1ējē

KD 9374

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE ESTATE OF
REV. CRAFLES HUTCHINS I
MAY 24, 1939

Copyright, 1887,

BY THE UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE.

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, Cambridge.

To the Cherished Memories

OF

EARL MELVILLE CATE

AND

FREDERIC HENRY BARNES

THE EDITORS INSCRIBE THE LABOR AND CARE THEY HAVE SPENT UPON

THESE SERVICES.

PREFACE TO THE SERVICES.

THE

HE Selections from the Scriptures in the thirty-four Regular Services herein contained, together with the Superintendent's Readings which precede them, make up a history of the life of the Saviour as recorded in the four Gospels. The Revised Version - a few marginal readings being made use of—has been uniformly followed. Each service has a Responsive Reading, a Chant, a Prayer, and a Hymn, which are selected or written with reference to its Selection from the Scriptures. Thus each service, as well as the whole series, is a unit.

It was thought best that the Regular Services should all be formed. upon a single model; and the content and length of the model service were such as seemed, by the acceptance given to various service-books now in use, to be adapted to the taste of the largest number of schools. In using one of these Services, the Sunday School as a body will take part in all except the Superintendent's Reading, reading in concert the Responses, the Selection from the Scriptures, and the Prayer, and singing together the Chant and the Hymn.

Services for Special Occasions and for the Infant Class have also been inserted. The latter have been prepared by one who for many years has had charge of a large primary class, and will therefore be found especially adapted to their purpose. The suggestion that services for the closing of the School be included, was not acted upon, because it is the Editor's opinion that the most fitting closing service consists of the singing of a hymn, the repeating in unison of the Lord's Prayer, and a benediction by the Pastor.

For suggestions, advice, and contributions to the devotional part of the Services, the Editor gratefully acknowledges his obligation to his brother