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taught, then he was y $zs
guilty of wasting W
much Of his time, sa
for he worked at
teaching in season 60 ~
and out Of season. DR.. Foreman
He was 4 product
lof the Sunday School, In q sense.
During his childhood he would "a
to the synagogue school weekday
and especially on Sabbaths: w
know that by the time he wal
grown 4 was his custom" to At
tend synagogue service.
And In every Jewish COM
munity the synagogue was the
place where for two hundred
years ana more, children and
youth and older people had been
taught the Word Of God.
II Christians today are faithful to
Chrisfs example, we also will keep
at the job Of teaching our religion
to every child within our reach.
Body and Soul
READERS Of the gospels win note
- that when Jesus went home
from the synagogue on the Sabbath,
his days work was not done. He
would spend hours, sometimes till
far into the night, healing people
brought to him for cure. Jesus min
istered to mind and soul. Jesus
was interested in personalities
whole people, not saK-people. Our
minds have to be fed, but we live tn,
bodies, and bodies have no little to
do with personalities. Jesus was
not content with teaching sick peo..
pie; he made sick people well. So,
the church today, il it is faithful to
Christ's principles. will consider
people - complete personalities.
The Common People
XYE FIND that Jesus did not In.
" sist on university audiences.
Indeed, he never spoke 10 a univer.
sity audience. His teaching was
always in the midst Of groups of
very plain people. There were great
universities in those days. but it
was not necessary for any one to
be q graduate Of one OF them in
order to enter Jesus school, or to
understand what he taught. He
taught the plain people plainly.
In al eur teaching We try 70
use the pupils language and to
put our Christian ideas In the
thoughts that the pupils can un-
derstand.
At the best seminaries. young
ministers-to-be are carefully taught
how to put the great Christian doc.
trines In ways that the simplest peo-
pie can understand. Teaching over
peoples heads Is not teaching them,
at al.
God and Education
JESUS did not try to teach people
y carpentry. or arithmetic. or g.
ography. No doubt he could have
done SO. But he had something
more important on his mind. some.
thing which he alone could teach.
He taught religion, or In other
words he taught the truth about
God, and about man. and about
right relations between God and
man. So the teaching church.
whether In the Sunday school or IN
J the books written by its scholars or
IN Its schools and colleges. when II
follows Christs example. is always
teaching eligion first and foremost.
! We do not believe that religion Is q
secondary issue. something you car
'take or leave"
Religion on Two Feet
JESUS did more than talk. He
} lived. His whole life and charac.
ter were saying more loudly and
plainly what his words said.
80 the Christian church 10
day, when II Is faithful to Christ,
must translate into actual living
the faith she teaches in Sunday
school lessons, I'm catechisms
and books and sermons.
| What we do. as Christians, speak:
louder than what we say. Every
Sunday school teacher needs to- re
member that what IS said on Sun
day 10 important. but what tn,
teacher does on Monday is NOR,
impressive by far. The reason VIII,
Jesus was more effective than JOIN
the Baptist was that John. after all
was a Voice. while Jesus was I
Friend. Are you who teach other
about God simply Voice? A pho
nograph could do as well.
Copyright by the International Coun
Gil OF Religious Education on behalf o.
90 Prosestant denominations. Released
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