The encyclopedia of Sunday schools and religious education (Volume 1); giving a world-wide view of the history and progress of the Sunday school and the development of religious . t, or the helpfuldeeds they have done at home. The storyof the preceding lesson is told by them inconnection with this conversation—notfluently, but in detached words, assistedby gesture, and perhaps by crude draw-ings. Songs that illustrate and impressthe theme and Bible verses are inter-spersed, till the whole forms an intimate,instructive, and helpful period, which isno less interesting and important
The encyclopedia of Sunday schools and religious education (Volume 1); giving a world-wide view of the history and progress of the Sunday school and the development of religious . t, or the helpfuldeeds they have done at home. The storyof the preceding lesson is told by them inconnection with this conversation—notfluently, but in detached words, assistedby gesture, and perhaps by crude draw-ings. Songs that illustrate and impressthe theme and Bible verses are inter-spersed, till the whole forms an intimate,instructive, and helpful period, which isno less interesting and important thanthe story itself. The remainder of the hour consists ofa simple greeting and dismissal, sponta-neous and childlike prayers, and needfulrest exercises. The program, in a properlyconducted Beginners Department is socarefully concealed and the homelike at-mosphere so apparent, that to an ordinaryobserver there seems to be none; but song,conversation, Bible verses, prayers, story-telling, and all the rest follow one anotherso naturally as to seem quite , in order that the most impor-tant things may be given due time and notbe crowded out by unessentials, there is a. Beginners Department 87 Beginners Department program, which is wisely planned butwhich is necessarily elastic. The organization of the Beginners De-partment is also kept as unostentatiousand informal as possible. When the de-partment is small one teacher is sufficient;where it is larger an assistant plays anddoes the work of a secretary; in very largedepartments there is often a secretary anda pianist, and frequently a number ofyoung girls sit with the children in thecircle, and assist in such ways as put-ting on wraps and distributing papers,and are responsible for the attendance ofsmall groups of children. Such assist-ants do not teach, but obtain in this waya knowledge of children and, throughobservation, some insight into teachingmethods is gained. The ideal environment of the Be-ginners Dep
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