The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20

diminished. And all are fed and filIed .. As a lesson in frugality, the uh- used fragments are ordered to be gather ed up. Bach hesitatIng apostle holds in his hands the tangible evidence of the reality and magnitude of the miracle
 The Teachers Lantern.
 Lovely evidence is here oGathe implicit confidence which maintained between Je- sus and His apostles. They came to Him. They told Him what they had done. what they had taught They were sure of His sympathy. If they needed correction, they knew it would be done in love. i. The eldest disciples have no monopoly. however. of Jesus's sympathy. He Is touched with a feeling for us too. We can come to him also; to "tell Jesus Is gtiil the disciples blissful recourse. {. The same considerateness which Jesus showed for the health and comfort of His toilers. He still feels for those who in this latter day are engaged in, His ser vice. seasons Of respite are indispensa- bie for the highest affectiveness . |. But apostles nor preachers have a mo- nopoiy of Jesusg sympathy. lt sweeps out to inciosa ell e0ytn ana conditions of men. Jesus was aa GanupAnslonate to- ward the i've thousand as toward the twelve. So His Eavior-heArf goes out to- ward the great unchurched masses to- |day, Five crackers and two dried herring,-tafk of feeding Eve thousand with thefni But ada to shs crackers and fish the aimightinsss of Christ. and the proposition ceases to be ridiculous The resources of the church for spiritual aus- tenance for the thousand millions of earth are petpably inadequate. until the Eavior's power ana pleasing ie added to the equation. Then there is enough and to spare. The heaveullneas Of this miracle is evident in it's orderiiness. There was no unaeemly scramble, ineauallty, or waste. All was precision. method. order |. Grace at meals iB one of the sweat est and most impressive services of fam- fly religion We have yesua's example for is. If Paul could observe it in the midst of c shipwreelk. there can scarcely be a. domestic emergency which would justify it's omission. |. 1. The spiritual Higni6cance of tEEs whole scene is finely set forth in Mary A. Lafhbury's noble hymn: Break Thou tho bread of life. dear Lord. to rae."
 I Tn the great throng which followed Je- sus along the shore that day. boy had gumption enough to tuck a lunch in his sash before starting. When he heard that the Master wanted his little store for some purpose. he gladly gave it up. With Che boys gift Jesus worked one of his kEedteet uFocleAs
 To this day every young person has some gift or talent which, if brought out of hiding and devoted. can be utilized in a practical and helpful way in the spread of the kingdom of goodness and mercy.
 Child Study and Sunday School Methods.
 The determined effort now making to put the Sunday school in more perfect accord with the Science of Teaching bids flair to usher in as new and advanced an epoch as the initiation of the uniform lessons' in 1s72. The theory of education which now maintains. resultant from child study. Is that the mind is thing Of fife. growth and unity, and that the function of the curriculum is. primarily, to provide nutrition, and, secondarily, to provide formal discipline. and this in con- neetIon with and not apart from the pro cess of nutrition There is also recoRni- ton of the stages of growth, and the es- sentially different methods of treatment for the successive stages. The new edu- cationai method proposes to have the children of their own motion exercise their own powers. Not to drive a certain number of truths into a ehild's mind, but 10 have the chiid 90 out with an absoFb- ent mind to take up of his own accord and asslmilate what Is put in his way, The revolution which the adoption Of