The gospel object book : $b A hand-book on object teaching for ministers, teachers of children and adultsWoolston, C. H. (Clarence Herbert)
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The gospel object book : $b A hand-book on object teaching for ministers, teachers of children and adults
Woolston, C. H. (Clarence Herbert)
Children's sermons
Further--any one receiving a little child receives the Lord--the child
is forever the ambassador of the throng; rather than cause one such to
stumble, it were preferable to pass out of life by a violent way.
These little ones are to be held therefore in high honour--never
despised.
To gather and hold the children it is necessary, not only to
understand the child, but also to be of the child spirit. The study of
child psychology is fascinating, and of great value; but one may be an
expert therein, and never attract a little one. To do that, the very
tone and temper of childhood is necessary.
The writer of this book, Dr. C. H. Woolston, fulfils these conditions
in the most conspicuous way; and is fulfilling the obligations with
the most radiant success. He has dedicated the book to The Children of
Cedar Falls. He might have dedicated it to children in every centre
where he has worked among them. It is fitting, however, that I should
be privileged to write a brief foreword to this book because it is
here, at Cedar Falls, that I have seen most of him at his work, though
I have seen his work also at Winona Lake.
I am certain that I speak, not only for myself but for all the
speakers at this Conference, and for those who have attended it, when
I say that one of the supreme things of delight and of light has been
Dr. Woolston and his bairns.
The children gather about him, and follow him round, not only to their
own meetings, but to adult gatherings like bees about the flowers.
Moreover, when he is at work, there is invariably a fringe of children
of an older growth at his meetings. In his eyes are the dancing lights
of childhood yet, and he radiates the child spirit.
What wonder then that the bairns love him, and God uses him so
wonderfully to shepherd and feed the lambs of his flock.
The reader of these talks will not have the wonderful personality of
the writer, but they will surely find much of the charm of his
remarkable ability to talk to children, not patronizingly as one apart
and aloof, but in close comradeship, as one of themselves, gleeful in
their glee, tender in their sorrows, sympathetic with their trials,
representing to them the Lord and Lover of them all.
With unbounded affection for the man, and confidence in his work, I
commend this book to all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity
and truth, and who therefore perforce are lovers of the little ones.
G. CAMPBELL MORGAN
=CHAPTER I
"THE TEN DEMANDMENTS"=
_A Chapter to be often read as we study the art of object teaching.
Follow these 10 Rules--they are Ten Steps to the Palace of Success_
THE TEN DEMANDMENTS
IN teaching children and others how to visualize God's truth, we must
remember the Ten Demandments and keep them.
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