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Should not the plan, arrangement, and illustration of our sermons have a specific reference to the children’s apprehension, and to a subsequent enquiry of their intelligence? Not to speak of the advantages to ourselves in the cultivation of a simpler mode of address, the benefit to the children would be most important, in forming and fixing their habit of attention in the house of God, etc. Still further—if the Scriptural lesson in the school were to form the subject of one of the sermons of the day, the unity of the system about to be detailed would be complete, and the school would be most advantageously connected with the Pulpit Ministry.