SABBATH-SCHOOL TEACHERS.
By D. F. Ewen
SABBATH-SCHOOL teachers should possess tact and perseverance, and some talent for their work. They should also have an ordinary education, and true Christian ideas of love and duty. Teachers, if they wish to be successful, must have a settled and definite purpose, and labor arduously for its accomplishment. They should seek to make those under their care intelligent students of the Bible. The teacher’s manner should not be repellant, nor his teaching formal and uninteresting. He should not go to the class without being prepared on the lesson. If he does this, satisfactory results cannot be achieved. Sabbath-schools should not only be places where Christianity is taught, but they should also be places where young Christians are developed. The minds of the young are not filled with worldly calculations; their eyes are quick to observe, and their hearts are alive to good impressions. They soon discern the difference between a teacher who comes into the class with no knowledge of the lesson, and one who has made ample preparation; between a teacher whose words are cold and lifeless, and one who speaks from a heart glowing with love for God and for precious souls. Let the teacher see to it that he guides his impressible charge in the way of life.