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stopped suddenly with the perspira-
tion almost binding his aged eyes.
He said: "My son, 1 have lived in
this world sixty years." "Yes," 1
said, "and you have never learned
to run a cross cut saw" Suffice it
to say sawed the rest of those cor
ners alone. But many a man who
still holds on to the old cross cut
saw way of doing things imagines
himself to be a model superintend-
ent who kicks and objects to lesson
helps and printed comments and
prefers to stop on the corner
of the old log cabin system
even though sits chimneys tumbled
down and its roofs a-cavin' in" So
a man must be a progressive man
to be a model superintendent. There
is a carpenter in Mexico who is never
out Of work for he has the most inn
proved tools in the market which
enables him to turn off twice the
work in day that his competitors
do who work the old way.
He has a screw driver with a
spring in it that sends the screw
home with one pressure of the hand
and a boring machine that goes
through wood like quicksilver
through sand. Speaking of boring
brings me to another negative
qualification of a model superintend-
ent. Many school has been bored
to death, talked to death by the
kind hearted superintendent. 1t is
terrible death to die but is more
prevalent and fully as fatal as
smallpox or cholera. When l
was a boy I had a superintendent
who loved to sing to the school and
have them sing with him, "Come
Let US Anew Our Journey Pursue, "
"Roll Round with the Year." etc.
Well, we all sang that song and
started in and read Matthew, Mark
Luke and John from April till the
first frost, and the next year we'd
"Come, Let us Anew Our Journey
Pursue" again and proceed to roll
round with the year again over the
said same books till thought there
was but one song for a Sunday
school and those four books were all
that the Almighty intended children
to study. We had not a model
superintendent.
Next to a heart full of love for
God and soul all aflame with a
burning desire to win souls to Him,
the head of the mods, superintend-
ent should be full of order. "Order
is the first law of,nature" and the su-
perintendent who has not this bump
largely developed is sure to make a
failure. Compare the building OF
Solomon's temple with the builders
Of the Tower of Babel and you have
the difference between the superin-
tendent who has order in everything
in the school and the one who runs
the school on fhe "Let FER go, Gal
lagher" principle.
Punctuality is an absolute neces-
slty to success in superintendent.
He and the janitor should be the
first two people at Sunday School
and he should be what the word in
dicates, superintendent, from the
furnace to the top of the steeple. He
should expect no one TO do his work
nor should he undertake to do an
others. AS full information and
benefit is only derived by rightly
dividing the scriptures" SO full ben
eft can only be had by rightly di-
viding the work in the Sunday
school and each one doing that
work. The model superintendent
has more eyes than the tabled cat
has lives. And here / remember
the injunction of my father (who was
an old teacher) when at the age OF
eighteen l started out to teach my
first district school, "My son, don't
see too much" The;ofice of a sue
cessful Sunday school superintend-
ent combines business experience
with spiritual qualifications built
upon foundation Of common sense
ornamented with education. The
model superintendent is the minis
ter's chief aid de camp, and if the
minister is a progressive Sunday
school man the superintendent
should be in full sympathy with
him. The model superintendent
is in full fellowship with each and
evey teacher in his school and he
should select those teachers with
reference to their adaptiveness to
the class to be taught and death
should be the only basis of promo
ton. The model superintendent
will meet those teachers once every