The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction. — John Shaqi
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
Finally. Do not be tied down to any one plan or method of preparing a
Sabbath lesson, but invent new and fresh modes. Never suffer any part
of your preparation or teaching to relapse into a dull routine. Be
fresh, warm, and earnest in manner and matter, and raise yourself
above leaning upon any question-books or notes of lessons; use them if
you please, but do not lean upon them. The weekly teachers'-meeting is
an indispensable assistant to every faithful teacher. Never forget
that the only sort of knowledge which can answer a Sabbath-school
teacher's purpose "must be at once thorough, detailed, abundant, and
exact."
It is of the first importance that the teacher of children should
study well child-nature, child-language, and all the child's
characteristics--such as activity, curiosity, inquisitiveness, etc.;
what are its wants and cares; its dangers and its duties; its hopes
and fears; its sympathies and feelings, likes and dislikes. All these
must be candidly considered if we would prepare for the position of
Christian counsellor and guide to the child. We must gain its
confidence, draw out its sympathies, and win its heart, and all this
will require the most diligent, earnest, prayerful study. In this
process the teacher must needs often recall his own childhood, and
live that over again--become as a little child again--if he would
become a child's teacher. Do not ever fall into the error of supposing
that your children are ever too young or too ignorant to appreciate a
well-prepared lesson.
After these very full directions for the _teacher_, I am here
permitted by Mr. Ralph Wells to give the notes of his actual
_superintendent's_ preparation in the regular service of Grace
Mission-school, only one week before the previous part of this article
was written. The following are his exact notes:
"THE SUPERINTENDENT'S PREPARATION."
Subject--_Hypocrisy._
Time, 8 hours' _intense_ study.
Commenced Sabbath evening previous.
1. Prayer for light. Do you?
2. Go to the Bible to see what it says.
3. Texts found. _Write all out._ Job xx. 5; xxvii. 8-10;
xxxvi. 13, 14. Prov. xxx. 12. Psalms lxv. 2-5. Ezek. xxxiii. 31, 32.
Matt. vi. 2; xxiv. 51. Luke xii. 1. Mark xii. 15.
4. _Definition of Hypocrisy._
To seek to appear what I am not.
5. _Bible Examples._
_Causes._ _End._
Saul, 1 Sam. xv. 14. Love of gain. --
Gehazi, 2 Kings v. 26. " --
Judas, Matt. xxvi. 50. " --
Ananias, Acts v. 1-26. Gain and applause. --
Simon Magus, Acts viii. 26. Gain. --
Absalom, 2 Sam. xv. 1-12. Power. --
6. Look into the lesson and examples until I _feel_ it myself.
7. _Emblems._
_Bible._ | _Common._
Leaven. | The mask.
Whited sepulchres. | Counterfeit money.
Hidden graves. | Paste jewels.
Spider's web. |
8. _Common ways for all ages._
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