. Object and outline teaching; a guide book for Sunday-school workers. Designed to explain, defend, and exemplify the use of objects, the blackboard, maps, and pictures in Sunday-school teaching . trust the light-house as to sail byits light. Is your life-voyage thus guided byChrist ? Are you a Christian ? If so, the com-mand is : John xvi. 24. Then you are to try tosave others; to be a little light-house in theworld. {) The story of a fishermans daugh- 348 EXERCISES IN PICTURE TEACHING. ter on the coast of Cornwall. Her father waslost for want of a light. She ever after kept arush-light i
. Object and outline teaching; a guide book for Sunday-school workers. Designed to explain, defend, and exemplify the use of objects, the blackboard, maps, and pictures in Sunday-school teaching . trust the light-house as to sail byits light. Is your life-voyage thus guided byChrist ? Are you a Christian ? If so, the com-mand is : John xvi. 24. Then you are to try tosave others; to be a little light-house in theworld. {) The story of a fishermans daugh- 348 EXERCISES IN PICTURE TEACHING. ter on the coast of Cornwall. Her father waslost for want of a light. She ever after kept arush-light in her window to warn the fishing-boats of the danger. Sing the hymn :— Jcstis, lover of my HOtil,Let me to thy bosom fly, &c. No. 8. JhE !^1QHT£0U3 gHAJLX. XCII. 12. The following extract gives most beautifullyand forcibly the lesson of the palm :—* At one part the winter torrent had cut deepinto the soil some three or four feet; and, indoing so, had laid bare a complet<i side section ofthe roots of a i)alm. We examined these withgreat interest, as they are quite unlike any other «Tlje DeHert of Sinai (p. 191), Iloratius Bonar, I). I). Carter& Bros., N. The Palm-tree Christian. the righteous shall flourish. 351 tree-roots we had seen, and peculiarly fitted toabsorb every drop of moisture that the sand eon-tains. In general form and structure they putus in mind of the dahlia and ranunculus, con-sisting of long fleshy strings or ropes, shootingstraight down into the soil, in numbers quitebeyond reckoning, and extending over a largecircle, whose width we could not ascertain, butwhich, as in the case of other trees, correspondsprobably to the width of the circle formed by thebranches above. What an apparatus for draw-ing up the moisture of the desert, so that not adrop is allowed to slip away! Casting the eyeup from that wondrous network of roots to thelong green tresses above, ever fresh and verdant,the psalm or song for the Sabbath day comesto recoll
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