The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-06-11
RELIGIOUS men REQUIRED
BY THE WORLD TODAY
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treat all men as he thinks the Christ
would treat them. The Golden Rule
needs an addition put to it, and that
addition is Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart and thy
neighbor al myself 1t is loving God
that makes a man big. A moral man
lives down to his environment. A re-
ligious nan lives up to his ideal. Both
treat their neighbor as themselves;
the difference is in the size OF the
self One Is a little unstandardized
man; the other a great Christlike
man.
I Need Religious Men,
TN my judgment, It is the mis-
sion Of the Sunday school to make re-
ligious men and women, not moral
men and women. In order to do this
boys and girls must be given a spiritu.
al view of life. must be taught the
Christ, and be inspired by Him.
I'm order to accomplish this re-
suit, give the boys and girls a spir-
itual view of life,. we must proceed to
accomplish this result through two
processes: az Process Of instruc-
ton. and (2) process Of worship. The
Sunday school must combine these
two activities. Any Sunday school
be a failure as a religious organiza-
ton. The Sunday school teacher who
cannot pray with her class and for
her class should learn how. or quit.
You say that by making this state
ment I may discourage a lot Of
teachers and they will resign and
leave vacancies You had better re-
office and be a vacancy.
There are many things that you
must do If you are to be q successful
Sunday school teacher. Two things
you must Accomplishment must
teach. must give instruction, and
teach worship. The difference be-
tween the work of a day school
teacher and a Sunday school teacher is
that the Sunday school places Worship
on the program. n the day school
teacher does not.
God in the sunshine, in the storm. in
the rain, In the flowers, everywhere,
and when he has this thought in his
mind, he can &c nowhere but what
everything he sees will pull God into
his mind. instruction is valueless UNI
less it is surrounded with an atmos-
phere Of worship.
we must use the same principles
and same methods in teaching in the
Sunday school that are used in teach
ing a day school. People have the
same heads and anne brains on SUM-
day that they have had during the
week. n h same methods must be
used in teaching them. There was a
time when the three RS. Reading.
'Riting and 'Rithmetic. with possibly
the fourth r. Rod, with which to rub
In the others. was required Of a
teacher. Now three Ms are required
to be understood by a teacher, either
day school or Sunday school-Mat-
ter. Mind, Method. knowledge IL like
the measles. You can't give 1t unless
You have got 1t. Teachers must know
their lessons. Teachers often come to
Sunday school without preparing their
lessons, and blow thin, hot air upon
the boys and girls until they blow out
the door. and then wonder why they
don't come back the next Sunday for
some more. They are required to
drink from an empty goblet, and in
vited to come back the next. Sunday
and have another drink from the
same empty goblet Of knowledge. 1t
is to their credit that they oftentimes
DO not come back. You are not giving
teachers that know the Book. They
must be master Of the thing they are
trying to teach.
.'The teacher must know the mind
Of the child she is trying to teach.
Methods must be used intelligent
~ In Sunday school as they are in the
day school. Lessons are graded with
this in mind. The successful teacher
must understand the three Ms.
'"rhen, to all this, must be added,
II n 10 to be a successful teacher.
q passion Tor the souls Of the boys
and girls, . sympathy that will cause
him to give his life in order that these
boys and girls lay come to know
Christ. A. successful teacher must DO
a whole number as q Sunday school
teacher, ana to accomplish this must
be . student Of Gods Word; must
study books on child nature and life.
and must understand methods OF
teaching. must be q specialist In his
line.
Teachers Of North Dakota, if you
are to be successful Sunday school
teachers. be whole numbers and then
know upon which side Of the boys
and girfs to stand to make your lives
count u positive factors"