The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-12-31
Copyright, Davis W. Clark.

the evolution of Jesus character
The Hebrew home was night-bloOm-
ing cereas. Paganism knew nothing
worthy the name of home. Oriental
children were as a rule dismissed to
the company of slaves.
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In the Jewish household, on the
contrary, the sweetest confidence
maintained between parent and child.
Father, what meaneth this?' was
often on the Child's lips, and to de-
scribe the intent of ceremonial or
memorial was the fathers delight.
There were eight well-defned stages
in the religious nurture of Hebrew
youth. The sacred name greeted his
eye on the dOorpOst as he came or
went. He must needs learn his Shema
and Hallel He had his own birthday
text, an acrostic from Scripture which
spelled his name. The thoroughness
of his training is evident from the
familiarity with every part OF the
Old Testament in both Hebrew and
/ Greek which he showed, He was
certainly familiar with three Ian
guages, possibly with fourth. We
know he could write. The surprise
of the Jews, expressed in the words,
"HOw knOweth this man letters?n was
caused by the phenomenal wisdom he
showed in Interpretation, though to
their knowledge he had never attend
ed a rabbinical school, she equivalent
of going to college i'll our day.
/ There is here an incidental hint of
the excellence of The advantages af-
forded to him in his home, and the
fidelity with which he awaited himself
of them.
ChiId-Study and Sundays School
1ethods.
Peter then dined again, and, i'm
mediately the cook crew. The stun
bling little reader flushed when
teacher and class laughed But his
error only showed that dinner" and
"cook" were more familiar to him
than the apostle and his shameful
lapse. Perhaps, too, it was u natural
association of ideas His mind may
have been on the good meal he knew
was making at home.
When will it be realized that the
Bible narrative takes young people
to foreign land with strange man.
ners and dialect? A lady once ad-
mitted that until she was pretty
good sized girl she thought that the
Scripture scenes were laid, not in this
world at all, but in heaven. The
method will be admitted an unreal
one which could have left such an
impression. The idea may not have
originated with the teacher, but al
least ought to have been discovered
= and disabused
The Bible story needs to be Ameri
canized, or the child needs to be for
= eignized. The alternative is either tC
recast the story in English phrase
and infuse it with Occidental spirit
or introduce the child to Oriental anC
the ways of speaking and doing in ,
far-away land.
1t is an open question whether tn,
boy who mistook denied" for 'din
/ ner'' and "cock" for cook" ought tt
have been put to reading at all. TIL
common way of verses turn about i
D vicious at any time. Every mother
I son is pulling out which verse vii
4 fall to him, and losing the drift of al
; by trying to get his piece pat.
: One is tempted to parody on tn
L approved style of constructing les
J. son by the cock and "cook" inc
. dent, namely ~ If the cook set u
/ three dinners in immediate successio
: he had right to crow. (2) If Pete
ate the dinners no wonder that h
went out and wept. That is Crane
} grind method. "Why do we not ca
is stones. Because there is no muir
IS ment in stones. That is why we d
a not eat stones.n 1t is the saw an
d hammer way including the mechan
cal acrostic and similar wornout d.
vices, by means of which an averae
al of five and half moral truths al
4. evolved from a twelve-verse lesson.
o For an ideal way of teaching tax
Nathan's parable of the "Ewe LIANT
3 Samuel xii.
,v Three Gateways To The West,
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