Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-20
SUNDAY sCMUSl iNsTluUTE.
FoCBTH sEssIOS


Sunday school iNsTsIUTE-
FouEIH sEssIoS.
Tuesday. 2 o. m.-Mr. Wheeler took
-" Reviews" a. q sohiect and " Precept
upon preeept, and hse upon line her
q little and there little" John Yves
ley asked his wife vhy she told child
twenty tinses to do q thing Because
she said, II should stop at the nine
tenth time l should lose sll my work
The commanding offise reviews his
troops TO learn what they car do. A
good review is like knot in tine end of
the thread. IL holds. The little girl
strung all her besda, but lost all for
want of q knot. Jus' Q, With our Son
day school Lessons. Sunday school re
visvs are like wheat crop. II takes
three months to grow them. Reviews
are usually dull, because Leaders have
no rerisH. Take the 'pots' of this
quarter and break a few out Of the
golden texts. | am not saved Break
ths knots and see the difference. He
once set twelve baskets OF wheat on the
pulpit, each continuing q passage for
the children. Another quarter each OF
twelve Riris brought q sneaf Of wheat,
and by series Of symbolic representa-
lions brouehs the golden texts wildly
70 memory"
Suddenly the pulpit became picture
eaii-ry. and N ,ontains, cite, aud art
p ctures rose before the open eyes OF
he listeners. Twelve mountains rose
in 81 secession under the review topic
aad upon the mountaio sides we're huoe
gems Of symbA painted to represent
b. key note Of the Sunday school Les
son. Then the ehildren's eyes sparkled
a. beautiful chart vas uprolled repre-
sentin2 the sewer sowing his seed on
different ground.
YITTH SESSION.
TUESDAY EvENMo-Mr. Wheeler talk
ed about Normal susdav School work.
He said be had i've hours talk which
be would oondense to thirty minutes
Mako room for tescher< meeting and
normal work in every Sunday school.
Christianity 10 q warfare. We mus.
drst be ready. then take aim. and then
6ie. The Lord wants picked men ever
- their post. Men Who will take Gods
method and do a. He says
There are three Pa for us to remem-
Der First-Prepare. Second Plan
Third Perform. Get all the help you
can Of the best Kind, then lay your
plan. map out your history. chronology,
etc.. in small slices. and don't foreei
your application. II you get ready and
take aim. but dent pail the trigger. no
body falls. How many Of you can re
CITE the books Of the Bible 10 their or.
der7 No responsel. There are three
things 10 the Bible:
First TIE visible manifestation OF
God, az in Adams life.
SECOND The invisible nifestations
Of God. as in the Holy Spirit.
Third The God man.
There are several resemblancee:
FIrst-The miracles Of the Old and
New Testament.
SECOND The applications, as in Kings
aud Acts.
Third-rhe experiences. Psalms and
Epistlss.
Fourth-The outlooks, Prophecy of
Old and New. The A B O OF the Bible,
the author, the book. tho centaries.
There are thirty six authors. Sixty
six books in the Bible. RI aninR over SIX
teen centuries.
The Ave books Of the Law.
Twelve books of history.
Five books Of poetry.
Five looks OF greater prophets.
FIVE books Of lesser prophets.
The history may be Qroaped thus
Three single books. then three double
book; last three single book; twelve
books Of history. The Eve books OF
poetry-Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Eccle-
.rsstss, songs Of 3 ,lou on; poetry Of
the pvople g ID loves.
he would remember the twelve lesser
prophets by pronoupcinR the hrst syl-
liable OF each as word. thus: Hobo
Am Observation-Disclosures
-Z-N4.
Ihus take the mountains, the lakes,
the rivers, etc., aud make normsl lee
sou. You can all draw q map Of p 4ies
tine With half dozen strokes OF the
chalk that will hold the attention Of
your elsss-
Again In chronology. you dad Ave
mountain peaks 10 Bible history. First
The creation Of man about 1000 yesr-
before Christ Secoud-Arsrat, 1000
years later. Third Hsrsb. 1000 years
later. Fourth - MoFiah, 5000 years
later. Fifth Oiive,. 1000 70 70 later.
There are ave men hsre-Adam, Noah,
Abraham, Solomon, Christ Bsswceo
these mouutains th~fs are vallsys-Ja-
red. Shem. Moses. Esss. represent these
valleys, 500 years interval between the
mountains.
Another point IL the different Bibles.
First ioklid. 1854. 6eood-Tyndal.
rhird-yames, 1911. Fourth-Canter
oury, 1870.
Tue question BOX brought out lively
discuDson, which lasted for halt N
hoas. All vsrs folly aroossd to the
povss of sysee@ In Sunday school vork.