. 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 . Thoualso, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it beforethee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusa-lem ; and lay siege against it, and build a fortagainst it, and cast a mount against it; set thecamj) also against it, and set battering ramsagainst it round about. (Yerses 1, 2.) It may bethat this morsel of authority shall better satisfymany objectors than tlie arguments in behalf ofthe whole sy
. 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 . Thoualso, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it beforethee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusa-lem ; and lay siege against it, and build a fortagainst it, and cast a mount against it; set thecamj) also against it, and set battering ramsagainst it round about. (Yerses 1, 2.) It may bethat this morsel of authority shall better satisfymany objectors than tlie arguments in behalf ofthe whole sysem of Yisible Illustration, presentedin the opening chapters of this book. At allevents, I would recommend any person who findshimself publicly put upon the defence of theBlackboard as a helpmeet for the teacher ofDivine truth, to try this plan: Sketch upon theboard a rough view of Jerusalem; upon one ofthe hills round aljout it place a fort; upon an-other, a mount; upon others, a camp; and at thegates put jjattering rams. Let this, if you please,represent the perils of the impenitent, or the sorestraits to which the soul is put when it turnsfrom God. Jerusalem, with its great privileges,. The Siege of Mansoul. OBJECTIONS COXSIDERED. 155 its natural and provided defences, its temple withthe in-dwelling Presence of God, its heautiful ^location and surroundings, is a very suggestivetype of the soul, and the powers and privilegesbestowed upon it. Having brought out this point,portray the scenes of siege and sack, the visionof which caused Jesus to weep over the city;show how impossible to prevent those sad resultswhen the outlying defences are in the hand ofthe enemy, and manned against it. Now let thescene (in word-picture) be changed. Let thecamp be filled with the soldiers of Immanuel;let the fort represent our stronghold, Christ;the mount, our holy ordinances and sacraments;the flag, not the black flag of the pit, but theBanner of Love; let the rams be faced againstthe foe; t
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