#7. Love.#--The teacher must be a sincere _lover of childhood_ and _of the Master_. In the final chapter of the great Gospel by John, Jesus examines Peter and indicates the basis of great teaching power. It is well to study this narrative carefully. Picture Peter, at the dawn, weary and disheartened, coming from his fishless quest. The Master meets him and asks him but one question, but he asks that question three times, and each time he follows Peter's reply with the command "Feed." The lesson is plain--he that loves most feeds best, and the measure of one's power to teach the truth of God to his children is the measure of one's love for the Master Teacher. Where there is no love there can be no great teaching. Test Questions 1. What should be counted a vital part of the teacher's equipment? 2. Is it true that teachers are "born," not "made"? Give two reasons for your answer. 3. Name two ways in which a teacher can be a living example. 4. What are some of the evidences of a teacher's enthusiasm? 5. Whose point of view must the teacher take? 6. What manner and method in teaching do pupils like? 7. What is the measure of one's power to teach the truth of God to His children? Lesson 2 What the Teacher Should Know #8. He Must Have, before He Can Give.#--We can give only what we possess. This law holds throughout. Peter understood this when he made the memorable reply to the beggar's request for alms: "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee." It follows that whatever we wish the pupil to know the teacher should also know, and he should know more than he can hope to teach. #9. He Should Know His Bible.#--What do we wish the pupil to learn? Answering this will answer in part the question, What should the teacher know? Manifestly, then, the teacher should be familiar with the Bible. How very fragmentary and unsatisfactory our knowledge of the great Book is until we have studied it in a definite and systematic way--in the way we study our history or our geography. The teacher should at least know the salient features of the incomparable Text and should have well fixed in memory many of the great utterances that lie like flecks of gold upon its sunny pages.