Preface-Summary
PREFACE
The liberal use of pictures in the teaching of the young is now a commonplace in the educational system of every civilized country. It has been universally adopted with « infants », even the letters of the alphabet being presented to their budding intellects through the eye by means of illustrations associating each letter with some well-known object whose name it begins. And every Catholic will readily admit how the giving of sacred pictures to children excites their interest in holy things and creates and stimulates religious feeling in the little souls.
This being so, it was felt that although children's picture books inculcating religion or morality in one way or another were numerous enough, there was yet no Catechism extant in which an attempt was made to convey as large a part as possible of the teaching by the pictures themselves. It therefore occurred to the Managers of La Bonne Presse that they would be supplying a real and long-felt want if they brought …More