CATECHISM, LITURGY, AND CHURCH HISTORY. DIVISION I. SECTION I. 1. "What is thy duty towards thy neighbour?" Write the answer to this question, and give a Scriptural illustration of four consecutive clauses of it. 2. "Why was the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ordained?" Illustrate from Scripture the answer to this question. SECTION II. 1. Write the last sentence in the "Absolution," and the four first verses of the "Te Deum." What Psalms (besides those for the day) are used in the office for Morning Prayer, what Hymns, and what Canticle? 2. What is a Litany? When is the Litany appointed to be used? Give supplications from the Litany which belong respectively to, the Invocation, the Deprecation, and the Intercession. To whom do we specially address ourselves in the Deprecation, and why? What sins do we specially pray to be delivered from? 3. Give some account of the order of the ecclesiastical year. SECTION III. Write out one of the following "Articles of Religion," and prove it from Scripture: DIVISION I. SECTION I. 1. Of the resurrection of Christ. 2. Of the Old Testament. 3. Of Christ alone without sin. DIVISION II. 1. Give some account of the persecutions of the early Church. 2. What is known of the history of the church under the following Emperors:— Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine? 3. Who were the Apostolic Fathers? Give some account of Polycarp. 4. What authors wrote against Christianity, and who were the apologists of the early church? Give some account of one of them. and Origen. 5. Give some account of Irenæus, Cyprian, 6. Give some account of the conversion of the Anglo Saxons. 7. On what principal occasions before the Reformation, and for what causes, did contests arise between the State in England, and the Pope? 8. Against what practices and what doctrines of the Church of Rome did the reformers in England chiefly protest? Give some account of John Rogers, Bishop Hooper, and Rowland Taylor. EUCLID. 1. Upon the same base and upon the same side of it there canuot be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the base, equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated at the other extremity. SECTION II. 1. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts. 2. If a straight line be divided into two equal and also into two unequal parts, the squares of the two unequal parts, are together double of the square of half the line, and of the square of the line between the points of section. 3. If from any point without a circle two 2. The greater side of every triangle is straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts opposite the greater angle. 3. To a given straight line to apply a parallellogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle. the circle and the other touches it, the rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts the circle and the part of it without the circle shall be equal to the square of the line which touches it. MENSURATION. SECTION III, 1. What is the cost of a wall of brickwork 72 ft. 9 ins. long, 18 ft. 3 ins high, and 5 bricks thick, at £4 per rod? 2. A coach wheel turns 210 times in a mile; what is its radius? 3. A pipe 2 inches in diameter discharges 20 gallons of water in a minute; what is the uniform speed at which the water is issuing? 4. What is the contents of a tree whose length is 17 ft., and which girts, in 5 equidistant places, as follows,-viz., 9.43 ft., 7.92 ft. 6.15 ft., 4.74 ft., 3.16 ft? SECTION IV. Give an example of a field book, and calcnlate the area of the corresponding field. DIVISION II. 3. If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, and the sides about the equal angles proportionals the triangles shall be equiangular, and shall have those angles equal which are opposite to the homologous sides. 4. Show that straight lines, which are perpendicular to parallel straight lines, are themselves also parallel. 5. If from any point in the diagonal of a parallellogram, straight lines be drawn to the angles, the parellellogram will be divided into two pairs of equal triangles. 6. If tangents be drawn at the extremities of any two diameters of a circle and produced to intersect one another, the straight lines joining the opposite points of intersection will both pass through the centre. 1. Equal straight lines in a circle are equally distant from the centre; and conENGLISH GRAMMAR, AND THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. DIVISION I. I. Define an article, an adverb, and a preposition; give the etymologies of these words, and examples to illustrate the definitions of them. When is the article a to be used and when an? 2. How do nouns ending in y, fe, and f, respectively form their plurals? Give a reason for the rule in the last case, and state the exceptions. How do nouns ending in y form the possessive case? 3. Distinguish between a proper and a common noun, and define a collective noun and an abstract noun, giving examples of each. SECTION II. Parse the words printed in italics in one of the following sentences. Paraphrase and explain the last sentence. 1. Him the Almighty power hurled headlong. 2. Give me that book, that I may read it, for it is mine. 3. The mind of man being naturally limited, it is impossible that all its faculties can operate at once; and the more any one predominates, the less room is there for the others to exert their vigour. SECTION III. Paraphrase one the following passages from Milton's Paradise Lost: 1. Thus far these beyond All her original brightness, nor appeared In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds care Sat on his faded cheek; but under his brows 2. O, myriads of immortal spirits! O, powers Matchless, but with the Almighty; and that strife Was not inglorious, though the event was As this place testifies, and this dire change How such united force of gods, how such SECTION IV. 1. What are the different sounds of the vowels? 2. Distinguish between the uses of shall 2. When and under what circumstances, were knights of the shire and burgesses first called to sit in parliament? 3. What were the chief provisions of Magna Charta? Mention instances in which 1. The settlement of America by the they were violated. Englis. 2. The conquest of British India. 3. The wars with France from 1793 to 1815. DIVISION I. Section I. Give examples of the assertion by Parliament of its independence, and of the responsibility of the ministers of the crown. Under what circumstances were these rights finally established? ARITHMETIC. Work one of the following Sums so that the reason of each step in the working may appear: 1. Subtract 35968 from 52071. 2. Multiply 4963 by 307. 3. If 13 things cost £15 what will 19 cost? N.B.-This sum is to be so worked as to be intelligible to children who have no knowledge of Fractions. Section III. 1. Having bought goods for £18, I sell them four months afterwards for £25; what is the gain per cent per annum? a. To find the price of 20 articles, every shilling in the price is to be taken as £1, and every penny as 1s. 8d. b. If the price of an article be expressed 2. Extract the cube root of 7 to 4 places in farthings, the price of 100 may be found of decimals, and cube the result. BOOK-KEEPING. Section IV. What books are used in keeping a Tradesman's Account, and for what purposes? Give examples of the Headings and entries in these books respectively. DIVISION II. 1. Prove in such a way as to make it intelligible to children one of the following rules of Mental Arithmetic : by taking those farthings as pence, and their double, as shillings. c. To find the interest of any number of pounds for a given number of months at 5 per cent. per annum; take the pounds as pence and multiply by the months. 2. A and B can build a boat together in 18 days, and with the assistance of C they can build it in 11 days; in what time could C do it by himself? No. 24. FEBRUARY 1, 1853. Our Publication reaches this month the end of its second year. We again offer our thanks to those whose words and wishes have encouraged our humble efforts in the cause of elementary education, and have helped to make them known. The kind welcome which our monthly messenger has obtained amongst those whom it was designed to serve leads us to hope that it has supplied in some measure a want which, we knew, had long been felt. It is our anxious wish to make our pages more fully a medium of intercommunication between elementary Teachers. The Papers are especially conducted for the Schoolmaster, and we call on our readers to contribute papers on the methods they employ in teaching ordinary school subjects, or on other educational topics. also ask them to take a more active part in the Correspondence which appears each month, and to strive to make this part of our periodical serve the common good. We We have lately introduced into each number short notices of SchoolBooks, and works connected with education, which, we trust, will be useful to our readers. In this, as in each other part of the Papers, we have steadily kept the wants of elementary schools in view. We shall receive with pleasure all suggestions on the conduct of the Papers which might seem adapted to extend their use, and will give them our best attention. Our simple purpose is to offer such help as we are able to elementary Teachers. With confidence we ask their help and encouragement in return. It is well for each of us to pause at times in his work and ask him self what results he seeks in it. Assuredly the work of the Teacher does not end in itself. His vocation is to educate the men of the next generation. He aids the spread of knowledge and truth. And if he follows humbly in the steps of Him who blessed the children of old, his work, we cannot doubt, will serve to help forward the Kingdom of God amongst us in deed as well as in name. |