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To FL Als ve us a call ai < a. WvuvvWW^vs ^VWv^AASV ^ Reading Coun For the Imp (Published By Request.! ^ An address by Rev W A Fairy be- f fore the Kingstree District Sunday- s school conference held in George- t town March 23-24: ( "A Reading Course for the Im- c | provement of Our Teachers" nat- 1 ^ urally suggests the query: What are s ~I nnalifioatinns nf thp I s WJC C99CUUOI v^uaituvuviviu; w* ~ Sunday-school teacher? The answer s to this question involves an ideal, t and that ideal is Jesus Christ. He t was the ideal Teacher. He is every- 1< where recognized as the Great ii Teacher. He is so recognized not p only by His friends and admirers,but t even His critics and those who have o denied His divinity have been forced ii to admit His ability and aptitude as o a teacher. Nicodemus in that re- n markable interview with Christ con- 1 fe8sed: "Rabbi, we know that Thou t art a teacher come from God"; and 1 the consensus of opinion concerning v Him was and is, "never man spake e as this man spake." a Christ is called a teacher as well n as a preacher, and the evangelists t make the distinction between the v teaching and the preaching of our F Lord. What,then,were the essential s qualifications of Christ as a teacher, b for these should be the most promi- t nent characteristics of our teaching I also (I refer entirely to Christ as a I hvman Teacher under His favorite b (title: '*Son of Man." Thus are we b better able to understand and follow Hit example). t These qualifications are three in 1 number, and may be summed up as r follows: (1) Knowledge of His field; v (2) Knowledge of His pupils; (3) h ' Character. r ^ First, then, knowledge of His e field. What was His field, His sub- n jeet? Not education or commerce t - - -~i ?r v.,*. r or pouucai or bocuu rciuiiu, uuv, 11- ligion. Did he know His subject? t Well, I should say He did. If you * have any doubt of it read His ser- z man on the mount, in which He sets ? forth the character of His kingdom f and ot those who are the proper 8 subjects of it. John declares that v "bo manknoweth the Father but the t Son and he to whom the Son will re- v veal Him." t What, then, is our subject? Our I subject is subject, Religion, or 1 the Kingdom of Heaven. To teach s its nature, its character, its princi- t pies and its application to life and s cooduct is our whole duty as teachers and preachers. Do we know our e subject as He knew it? This should It be the ambition of every teacher in a the Sunday-school. How are we to k realize this ambition? Through the 5 bureau of information. The best an- ii swer to the question: how may I b know? is study. I do not say we 4 y should read all the books on the sub- J jeet of Sunday-schools. The best b workmen use few tools, but they . ? 1 l 'i? o _ _ I must be or the nnesi quainy. ooa c few well-chosen books upon the p teacher's work will be of great ben- p efit. a 1. First. I would suggest a few L( well-chosen books of devotion. If: f we put first things first we must be- J v gin of course with the Bible,which is S( the text-book of the Sunday-school, j t; Our knowledge of other books.so far ! n as teaching goes, will depend upon e our knowledge of the Bible. [ s; And. let me suggest that every I ? J fe teacher have h?s or her Bible.prefer-1 j ably a teacher's edition, with all the necessary helps, maps, references, Live Bu; 4-4 PAJ 4-4 BE! ILL LINE LADI ;o full line of Rom rid we will give yc >TACKLE irovement I^fg28 f Our Teachers tc, and use no other. There are different ways of reading the Bible; iome good, others better. Reading .he Bible in connection with the Sunlay-school lesson, one should not ontent himself with reading theesson of the week merely?nor hould he study it in spots. He should tudy the book from which the leson is taken. The student who knows he book from which the lesson is aken knows better the particular esson of the hour. Get at the meanrig of the book; its spirit and purpose. Read it in the light of its auhorship, its time, the circumstances 'f the writing, the persons to whom t is written and its relation to the ther books of the Bible. There is nuch in the setting of the lesson, 'he scenery on the stage has much o do with the success of the play. 'lio wiol ootnr pan mnva his nnrlipncp rithout it perhaps, but he can more asily move them if he has approprite surroundings to interpret so auch for him. Some teachers atempt to occidentalize oriental scenes rith the inevitable result of failure, lead some book,of course. I would uggest that you read one or more ooks, then, on the geography or opography of the Holy Land. "The listorical Geography of the Holy .and," by George Adam Smith, has ieen recommended as a very superior ook on this subject. Next, seek your own interpreta-; ion of the lesson without the helps, 'hat is not best until first we have tiade our own interpretation, then ve are at liberty to use whatever lelps we approve. But we should retiember that these helps are intendd to be our servants and not our nasters. Personally, I have found he ordinary helps most useful: (1) tiagazine notes. I wonder how many eachers regularly read and study hese helps in the front of the magaine. from the pen of some of the jeatest thinkers of the age. (2) 'eloubet's Notes on the Internation\ Lesssons are also invaluable. I rould suggest in connection with hese helps a good Bible dictionary, rhich is indispensable. The commitee suggests for this year's lessons )avis' or Hasting's dictionary. I ise Watson's to advantage. There hould also be a good commentary o consult. I find "The Homiletic" uggestive. Of course every up-to-date teachr will read in connection with the ?ssons a few good biographies, such s: Life of Christ and of Paul. Stol;er's Life of Christ may be had for 0 cents. Edersheim's Life of Christ a two volumes will cost you Vnore, iut there is perhaps none better. | 'Spiritual Development of Paul" by fatheson, and "Pauline Theology"! iy Steyens, are also good. 2. Next to the Bible comes hurch history. Every nation takes >ride in its history, it is the most >recious heritage of a people's literture. Imagine a public school sys? j A? em metl umiiu'u nmeneau insimj rom its curriculum. Such a system . ould not be tolerated. Educators ee to it that no hoy passes through he graded school without being lade familiar with the important vents of his country's history. 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