Universalist religious education publications

Universalist Sabbath School Depository

The headings from Scriptual Series to Record Books come from the longest booklist (c. 1866) I have. A few other works are peppered in as I have them.]

Scriptural Series, by William R. French

Boston: Universalist Publishing House

  1. Little Moralist
  2. Gospel Precepts
  3. Gospel Lessons
  4. Gospel Doctrines
  5. * The Sabbath School Assistant, designed for Bible Classes and the Higher Classes in Sabbath Schools. (1859) [A book of questions, keyed to biblical passages, to spark discussion.]

Universalist Docrinal Series, by L. J. Fletcher

Boston: Universalist Publishing House

  1. The Infant School
  2. First Impressions
  3. Key to Young Heart [sic]
  4. Guide to Salvation
  5. Lives and Doctrines of the Apostles
  6. * Universalism: its Doctrines and their Foundations (1854)

Service Books

  • S. S. Liturgy
  • The Altar
  • * A Manual for Sunday Schools. To which is added a Collection of Hymns. by William S. Balch.  (Boston: A. Tompkins, 1847)
  • * The Manual and Harp, for the Use of Sunday Schools, by L. J. Fletcher. (Boston: N. E. Universalist Publishing House, 1866.) [replaced the first manual?]

For Scholars from Four to Seven Years of Age

  • Lessons for Infant Mind [sic]
  • Easy Lessons
  • Infants [obscure]
  • The First Step in S. S.
  • What Must I Try to Be
  • Pictoral S. Q. Book

Seven to Ten Years

  • Childhood of Jesus
  • Child’s Catechism
  • Things to Love
  • Duties of a Day

Ten to Twelve Years of Age

  • Bacon’s Lives of the Patriarchs, I & II
  • Quest. on Sacred Hist.
  • S. S. Companion
  • Paige’s Questions
  • Lessons on Prayer

Over 14, and for Bible Classes

  • S. S. Expositor
  • Catechism on Parables
  • Emerson’s Holy Land
  • Hudson’s Questions
  • Miner’s Bible Exercises

Record Books

  • Teacher’s Class Book
  • Superintendent’s Record Book

Other Resources

Other Worship Resources

  • Living Fountain: a New and Choice Collect of Sunday School Songs. “Composed, selected and arranged by S. W. Straub” (Chicago: S. W. Straub and Boston: Universalist Publishing House.) [Apart from an imprint on the front cover, this work does not seem particulary Universalist; perhaps an independent publisher that "branded" works for denominations?]

Catechisms

  • * First Steps toward Heaven for Little Christians. Fourth edition. “prepared by Mrs. Abbie F. Marsh” (Universalist Publishing House, 1898)

Popular Reading

* Adventures of Elder Triptolemus Tub; comprising Important and Startling Disclosures concerning Hell; its Magnitude, Morals, Employments, Climate &c all very satisfactorily authenticated. To which is added the Old Man of the Hill-side. (Boston: Universalist Publishing House, 1867)