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
_Seventh Demandment:_ You must be sure to preach the Bible. To get the
Bible into their hearts is _your_ task. Stick to your task. All truth
is good, but Bible truth is best. Use the best with little hearts. The
Bible is the greatest story book in the world. That is the reason
little folks like it when you tell them the wonder stories out of it.
Show them a story. Clothe a lad in oriental garb, and call him Joseph,
and while they are looking at him, tell them the much loved story of
Joseph and his brethren. Give the boy a lunch basket, and tell the
story of the boy that supplied five thousand with his lunch one day
when he passed the basket and its contents, over to the Master. This
is putting the story over by objects, and it puts it in and under and
it sticks for all time.
_Eighth Demandment:_ You must begin with the known, and work up to the
unknown in the handling of objects. Jesus asked for a drink of water
from the Samaritan woman and from that water from Jacob's well from
which she had drawn the water for her home since childhood, He began
to reveal to her the water of Life, and she drank from that fountain,
and her home town in Samaria had a Billy Sunday awakening from the
well of Jacob. Jesus began with water from the Well of Jacob. He ended
with a talk about the water which cometh down from above.
It will help you and greatly vary your program if you ask the children
to bring their own objects with them some times which they have found
by the wayside, and then you may give them a spiritual lesson. They
will never forget the lesson, and often, in other days, when they see
those objects again, they will remember your lesson.
_Ninth Demandment:_ You must not be afraid of object lessons which may
have a little slant in them toward a happy little surprise.
Sometimes the effect we were not looking for makes the most lasting
impression. It is this quality that makes a fairy tale so fascinating
to children. Wonder objects can make truth as charming as the ways of
fairies. Wonder objects provoke curiosity, and curiosity is the mother
of attention. This is the best type of attention. Look over the wonder
lessons of this book and work them. Children never forget a thing as
long as they continue to wonder about it.
_Tenth Demandment:_ You must pray over and about your objects. Just as
the minister prays over the elements of the Lord's Supper, so pray
over your objects. God can bless things as well as words, and this He
will do if both things and words are used for His glory. These Ten
Demandments are like ten guiding stars throbbing in the night. All of
them are Pilot Stars seeking to guide the wise lovers of children as
did their Father's star long ago to the place "where the young child
lay."
=CHAPTER II
"OBJECT TEACHING IN THE BIBLE"=
_In this chapter we find the Bible authority and example for Object
Teaching. Read this chapter before you give your first lesson_
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