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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14581, 21 July 1909, Page 2

only being trained for t.ho time, but fov all eternity. Tho Sunday schools wcro educational institutions, and wcro of a ' valuo as great, as the State schools. 'fho 1 (Treat <lcfeot of the State school system was ' that it r.e-jlcctod oiig whole side of ho ' child's nature, ar.il that was tJio spiritual ' side, ami tho .Sunday school catno in and ! suppliod what was wanting in the St«to I school system. Teachers wanted to feel tho ' iniportitHw of tli&ir work and to feel what ' the children we're and what they wcro going to be by and bye. Wrapped up in a child',; miiu'l was untold power, and it jay with the teacher to make or mar it. Then tho tcachcr wanted to have a clear idea of t.ho end he was aiming at. A great number of our schools were failing becatiEo they were not linking the children with Uinst Himself. There must be a real cnumiveur on the part of every teacher to "'p child to a dofinito derision for i •tT'" , I'Mohcr could speak to tho enul of the plan of salvation, cdiow tiro Power of Jesus Christ, anJ explain what llis love liioanr. He could speak to llio child quietly, fn-mly, a !U I direet.lv, and ti.T.m ""'J 0 ' ajl ,u ' l i ivc for Christ. , n tcachsr wanted training. Ilkit was not oi'.o w ,l ra did not Mod it, 110 referred | 0 the different natures tret ™tji m children, a.iul raid that the vexv fir.-t t..:an'' taught Hie Stave school Wchtw EL* -V'* lin ?.° f resistance. . " n f. tiiis teaching so to 1 : , 5 a bl 0 to know t.,ioir children. Then {lie Sunday school teacher waited this trainin-r for ino.ncdo of teaching, and it would "nwiko ' Caelum; more offecliive. Fourth never let the child ?0 from the Micol mi Sunilaj afternoon without impressing uro;i .Mint ir. was f 0 lwi illl!o (U , ivo ;f J haJ L,_.J taught if. The .-uptvjiie a tcashor coui.cl mako was that, he knowledge t.!,.-> life, character Mill felll of Christ, and forgot to , ake llw child realise f.luut this knododgo was xo be put into active practice ki M a |jf„ 3 cro tWo, four secrrfs 111 6chool tcflcllin o " refreshments wcro then handed