PREFACE. IF I do not greatly err, in preaching to children, the best possible models are Æsop's Fables. The truth the teacher desires to impress on the minds of his little hearers should not occupy nakedly the major portion of his address, but be appended to a story as a Moral. In addressing adults, educated adults, at least, it is different,—the illustration should garnish the theme. S. BARING-GOULD. E. Mersea Rectory, Colchester, F. Purification, 1879. |