The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
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The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.
Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
Sunday schools
Children's prayer-meetings are well adapted to this. Some of our
Sabbath-schools hold such a meeting at the close of each afternoon
session. A gentleman who is just adapted to the work leads off the
little boys who choose to attend, and a motherly lady goes with the
girls into another room. We have known eighty to follow her into the
room, and as many as half the number voluntarily follow her in prayers
of two or three or four simple petitions for just what the little
girls feel that they want. The meeting opens with singing a familiar
hymn, and then a few appropriate verses and remarks, just adapted to
kindle devotion in the little hearts, and then the little prayers
follow freely and almost spontaneously. They soon learn to love to
pray, and pray in real faith too, for the whole life of a little child
is a life of faith. Of course it will all depend upon the manner in
which these meetings are conducted, just as it is with any other
meeting or religious service. In good hands they prove to be eminently
successful and delightful. They teach the children how to pray, lead
them into the habit of praying with the heart and voice, and with each
other, and the influence on them, on their families, and the
Sabbath-school is in every way most blessed.
Let the exercises of such meetings be short, natural and simple, with
freedom and not constraint. A half or three-fourths of an hour is long
enough, as they should not be prolonged. They ought to be universally
adopted.
_The Scholar._
It is a great privilege to become a faithful, punctual scholar in a
well-ordered Sunday-school. Unnumbered blessings follow in the train.
He should be enabled to appreciate this. It is a matter of primary
importance that on his first introduction to the Sunday-school, he
should be given distinctly to understand its true character, position,
appropriate order and duties, and consent to a willing conformity to
all.
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