The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-21

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dies are fit to be mothers. So the Sun
day School must fill the mothers place
in this respect and the nearer we can
get it to this, the better it will be. The
Speaker deprecated the idea that the
Church and the Sunday School were
separate institutions. The Sunday
School is the Church in action. And 1t
is great in power and worth. Suppose
we had to pay the $4,000 Sabbath
School teachers in this country; and the
$780, 900 Sabbath School teachers in
England two dollars a week-what a
sum it would be. The Sabbath
School teachers are lieutenants 10 the
preaching army. But the force should
be reinforced. Instead Of 10 or Is per
cent. of the Church at work, as there is,
there ought to be 80 per cent. or more.
Christians don't study the Bible as they
shOuld-there is but little of it done,
except by Sabbath School teachers and
pastors. No one can afford to quit the
work. Mr.. Pardee gave several in
stances of teachers continuing in the
work to a very great age. One, a
Father Jessup, took a new class when
seventy years old. He said he wanted
the most important class, so he took the
smallest. He taught them but two
years, and went home to God, but that
class are all standing up for Jesus"
Now we have 100000 children, 81 per
cent. being under twenty-One years of
age. There are thoughts in this work.
The first, of which we have been talk
ing, is to get children in; the second is,
our Sabbath Schools ought to be more
Bible Schools than they are. How are
we to do thisi We must make the
Bible bright. happy book.
if it were dull book. But revolu-
tion is going on. We teach it different
ly. Our ministers are waking up. The
work is considered important enough
for special workers. Special pains are
being taken to teach the teachers. The
day ofmere commentary study and dull
teaching is gone. When we pray now,
we pray the children's prayer, SO they
can join with us. We break up our
prayers, so they can take it in. The
child is asking for its simple wants, and
going to God for itself. Ralph Wells,
of New York, opens his school in this
way. He makes everything revolve
around the lesson. He has a black
board and uses it. He don't abuse it by
giving fanciful lessons. So every Su-
perintendent should use it. Mr.. Pardee
said he would put the keynote of the
lesson on his lesson. He explained Mr..
Wells use of it. On one occasion HE
lesson was the Woman of Samaria
at the well. He had on the board
at the top 'If thou knowest the gift of
God" next task of me-" at the bottom
Giving water" He has no routine.
He opens his school differently. First
hs taps the bell, and waits for perfect
order. Next he said "Good morning,
The children said ''Good
Mr.. Wells" Next he told
them an anecdote about going into a
book store when he was young with his
aunt, who was going to give him a
present. She told him to pick out a
book. So he did so, and picked out
Jack, the Giant Killer" 1t was very
pretty, had q red cover. His aunt
bought it. Ralph was very happy. He
never was so happy. But after awhile
The pretty cover came off, and the book
was destroyed. "Now, children" said
Mr.. Wells, "what is it that we can get
than can never be lost" They said,
reverently, Living water" Then said
he, "How can we get it I" They an
swered, as it was on the board, ASK
Of Him." Then he explained the hymn,
and they felt it. when they sung with
tears in their eyes. Then he prayed,
saving the sentences, and they repeated
it after him. So we must teach the
children to pray. Mr.. Wells prayers
are always the OVERLOOKING of his heart.
Fathers and mothers" said Mr. Par
lee, ''teach your children 10 pray. II.
you teach them to pray the Lords pray
-r, teach them to feel it." Sometimes
Mr.. Wells has teachers TO talk, or the
pastor, but they must talk about the
lesson. Mr.. Pdrdee talked about the
singing in Mr.. Wells school. He takes
his hymns from all books; sometimes he
,ulls them from the Church Hymn Book.
Tie prints them with stencil plates on
large sheets, and they are hung up be
fore the school, so that they can all see
It. Mr.. Pardee gave the first lines OF
he hymns. Mr.. Wells has been singing
lately
Jesus, my cross have taken, &C., &c.
Mr.. Pardee thought it best to bring
the children to the Church service.
Mr.. Pardee gave an instance OF New
York pastor who was impressed by the
text "Feed my Lambs" who, not salts
led with preaching Il sermon to chill
lren once month, determined to
preach to them during one-half of every
service and it worked well.
A word about teaching. We neglect
the teachers and their work too much
in our Conventions.
First, teachers want to study their
their minds, habits, &c.
Next, they want to study the art of
asking questions. No one
fails to ask any question they want an
,wered in everyday life. Next, never
fail to make them tell you what you
want them to knew. Next, you want 10
know how to keep order, and the best
way is to keep in order yourself. Next,
learn to illustrate. Christ gave illus
trations, always, and he is the model
teacher. Mr.. Fitch says, "never per
nit child to remain a moment IN the
class withou: something to do and a
motive for dongit Ralph Wells teach
es an hour or an hour and n quarter to
an infant lesson"
Mr.. Pardee gave a model lesson. \
young lady in London gave it, before a
large audience, to q class who knew
nothing about reciting a lesson. She
began by asking them what kind OF
they had had. They said it
had been rainy.
Teacher-Can you tell Inc what rain
is good for!
Scholars-Good to wash the streets
with.
Some in the audience Uttered. She
rebuked them. Then she asked the lit
tie girls, "Can you tell me what rain is
good for!"
Scholar-Good to make the flowers
grow.
And thus she kept on, drawing from
them answers, and showing them how
useful rain, aud then sunshine, were.
Then she asked them how they lived,
and announced in simple way her les
son, "God has plan for every man"
and ended by telling them about a
Christ who had plan for them.
Mr.. Pardee had known scholors con-
verified the first day they ever went to