The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

"a teacher must have average intelli-
gence and common sense; more than this is
desirable but not necessary. The one thing
that cannot be dispensed with is the con-
secration to do something for God 1t is
not that you do it for your own souls sake
or even that you do it for the good of the
children, but that you do it for God. This
carries everything else with it; whatever
you do for Him you must do well, and so
the conservation carries with it the study,
the constant effort the concentration Of the
powers"
'Do you not attach Importance, then, to
the higher education of Sunday school
teachers"
81 have had in my school at the same
time comparatively uneducated working
woman and brilliant young man fresh
from college, and the woman went far be-
yond the other in the results she obtained
because her heart was warmer to the work;
if the college man had had her fervor and
had then added to his education he would,
of course, have been more efficient than, as
things stood, was either of them.
"You can't stand out for classical scholar
ship; I've got to have $50 teachers and If
have. that number Of classical scholars in
my congregations don't know where to
lay hands on them.
"rut the Sunday school teaching is grow
ing all the time more and more intelligent.
The Sunday schools have fully purged
themselves, | think, of the complaints that
used to be lodged. and in some cases with
justice, against them. l attribute this
largely to the public schools. Such pub
lie school system as that of this country
trains body of clear-headed, intelligent
citizens.
1.-The international lessons, against
which 50 much has been said, have also a
good deal to do with it. With all their dis
advantages the lesson sheets give the aver
age teacher far more than she woulu be in
any way likely to get herself. They do
such preliminary work of study and expo
sition that she has no excuse for going be-
fore her class without full, intelligent
comprehension.
1.-THE international series has won it's
way. Not religious paper in the country
would dare ignore it, and the secular press
finds itself obliged to give it progressively
more and more attention"
''In your Tuesday evening normal class
do you mark out courses of reading for
teachers in Oriental history and customs!''
/ mo, some of the teachers do so them
selves for their pupils. My aim in popular
exposition is to make the Bible practical.
1t is not worth the paper it is written on
except for whaBit can do for US to day. |
don't care any more about what happened
to Jesus than do about what happened to
julius Caesar except so far as Jesus is a liv-
ing force to enter into our lives now; boys
and girls must take Him home and have
Him with them Monday morning"
What do you think of present methods
of teaching the Chinese in Sunday schools!''
81 cannot say anything about them, ex :
cept as have seen them in one city Boston,
There was for some time familiar with the
work of Miss Carter, who had as many as
! 260 under her instruction. She went about
among the laundries and so entered into the
| lives of the poor creatures that they felt
toward her as to a mother and they came
to her with every trouble. She did infinite
good, but she was very judicious woman
and very careful in her selection OF
teachers.