. 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 . n ; the hojx? of therighteous and the despair of the wicked. (2) Thepower through whom this is wrought,—Christ; 388 EXERCISES IN PICTURE TEACHING. who is life to the soul; who is life also to the body,—for even the body lives, and shall re-awakefrom the dust at his voice. No. 11. fHE pIgHEg. This and the following are also from the notel^ook of Mr. Appia. The sketch on the right isan inscripti
. 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 . n ; the hojx? of therighteous and the despair of the wicked. (2) Thepower through whom this is wrought,—Christ; 388 EXERCISES IN PICTURE TEACHING. who is life to the soul; who is life also to the body,—for even the body lives, and shall re-awakefrom the dust at his voice. No. 11. fHE pIgHEg. This and the following are also from the notel^ook of Mr. Appia. The sketch on the right isan inscription from the catacombs. The handsabove carry bread to lay with the fish. I haveoften been asked the meaning or appropriatenessof the fish as a Christian emblem. The originof the symbol is doubtless the metaphor whichour Saviour used in the case of the being fishers, the saints, in carrjdng outthe metaphor, would be known as fish. TheHoly Fish were taken in the Gospel Net andsecured for the Master. The acrostic as givenabove, is of very ancient date. The correspond-insr letters and words are as follows :— ndusXg LOTOS 0£OU X0U2 JJf 0ky liios ? Ichthus/-The Holy Pishes,. Christ the Alpha and Omega. THE ALPHA AND OMEGA. 393 I^ J —Iasus= Ch—Christos ^ —Theou=of — S —Sotar=(our) reads: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Saviour. No. 13. KEV. XXII. 13. The custom of putting lamps in the tombs,was practiced by many of the ancients. Thoseof the heathen dead bore some heathen device,or image of Jupiter or other god. The aboveis a sketch of a sepulchre lamp found at Rome,bearing a Christian device. The monogram which the wreath surrounds isa combination of the Greek letters Chi and Rho. XP—Chr, the first two characters in the 394 EXERCISES IN PICTURE TEACHING. Greek word, Xpcarog (Christos),—Christ. The let-ters on the left and right are a, Alpha, and o,Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek
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