Training the Teacher

#79.# Under #Hezekiah#, however, we see great reforms going on. He removed the high places, cut down the groves, and even brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made,...

#27. Joseph in Prison.#--Once more, through no fault of his own, Joseph suffers further degradation. To prison he goes. We said "through no fault of his own." This is an underst...

#14.# If one reflects for a time upon his own methods of acquiring knowledge, he will begin to understand the operations of the human soul. When one reads that knowledge enters...

#53.# The only other case to which attention is called here that of the longest of all the periods of oppression,--the second under the Philistines, which lasted forty years. He...

#His Third Missionary Journey# began at Antioch, and is recorded in Acts 18:23 to Acts 21:26. It included a stay of three months in Greece, and ended at Jerusalem, where he made...

(2) Now comes the division of the monarchy, brought on by the folly of Rehoboam, Solomon's son. Because of his refusal to lighten the heavy taxes, ten tribes revolted and establ...

(3) _Maturing of the will power._ This makes possible self-control, gives power to act independent of the impulse and influence which always determines a child's actions, power...

#47.# From these laws of the soul we may also learn how to make the soul grow in a certain desired way. We can also discover the laws in the materials which we use to cause grow...

#71. How to Close.#--The lesson review or application should be followed by a short prayer. Then sing a sweet, familiar hymn bearing upon the truth you have tried to impress, th...

#78. Drill# is the process through which the teacher aims to assist the pupil in the acquisition of power and skill. The new truth, when first apprehended by the pupil, must be...

#7. Opportunities of the Beginners Age.#--(1) _Shaping character through influence._ There are two ways of touching a life--the one through definite instruction, which must be u...

#145.# There, too, were _the Apostles_, who were filled with despair at the fate of him who they had hoped would redeem Israel. Now their hope perished, and they gave way to dar...

#20. Flags and Banners.#--Every school should have the flag of the nation displayed at each session. Many schools use the Christian flag, also, made of white silk with a blue fi...

(3) _The opportunity to establish right habits of life._ The pathways of service through which the Christian life ought to express itself must be definitely and painstakingly tr...

#99. Missionary Libraries.#--Some of the choice, bright, interesting missionary books which are now very abundant should be in every Sunday-school library. If selections are pro...

There are three principal views concerning the Song of Solomon or Song of Songs: (1) As a spiritual allegory, teaching God's love for Israel; (2) As an allegory with Christ as t...

#Teacher-training Needed.#--No more serious problem faces the Sunday-school to-day than the question of securing more teachers and better teaching. We owe it to those who are ca...

#Prelude# of angelic ministration. Message to Zacharias (Luke 1:5-20). Annunciation to Mary (Luke 1:26-38). Angelic chorus on Bethlehem's plains to shepherds (Luke 2:1-18). Warn...

#120. The Year of Obscurity.#--Before examining this at all, it will be well to consider the state of national life into which the life of the Master was projected. It was not l...

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The remarks in the first paragraph of the section under The Pupil, just preceding, apply equally here. Outside help is desirable, but simplicity in treatment must be maintained....