This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...them to Christ. Therefore I would have this point not lost sight of. Strive to make all the exercises and meetings pleasing, not onty to those interested in religious truth, but also to those who are utterly careless. Let them be entertained, to cultivate in them a taste for higher and more improving pleasures than ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...them to Christ. Therefore I would have this point not lost sight of. Strive to make all the exercises and meetings pleasing, not onty to those interested in religious truth, but also to those who are utterly careless. Let them be entertained, to cultivate in them a taste for higher and more improving pleasures than street rowdyism. I cannot conclude this article better than by using the words of the " Country Parson," whose healthy, manly, touching article on the "Sorrows of Childhood" adorns the pages of the March Atlantic Monthly. "Let me say to every reader who has it in his power, directlv or indirectly, to do so, Oh! do what you can to make children happy; oh, seek to give them that great en during blessing of a happy, youth. Whatever after life may prove, let there be something bright to look back upon in the horizon of their early time. Let us try to make every little child happy." CHAPTER VIH. TO TEACHERS. (1 E usually like to do those things that we can do well. Men are able to accomplish a marvellous amount of labor, if they can only feel that they are doing it satisfactorily to themselves; and the consciousness of doing it well, increases its accuracy. But if we are struggling along, not exactly sure whether we are doing right or wrong, it is wearing and disheartening in the extreme. It is not work that kills a man, but worry. Such a one is likened by Mr. Beecher, to "a candle in a hot candlestick, which burns up at one endr and melts down at the other." Sunday School work will be extremely irk, some and tedious, unless you learn just how to do it. No matter how monotonous or simple is an occupation, those who can do it better than any one else, usually enjoy it. A singular illustration occurred recently. A...
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Add this copy of Our Sunday School: and How We Conduct It (First Edition to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by Shelley and Son Books (IOBA) rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hendersonville, NC, UNITED STATES, published 1863 by Henry Hoyt.
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Good. Size: 0x0x0; Red cloth, gold lettering and design on spine (worn and faded), illustrated, previous owner's name written inside front board and on title page, there is no other writing in the book, 253pp., index, Full refund if not satisfied.
Add this copy of Our Sunday School: and How We Conduct It (1863) to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Nick Bikoff's Books, IOBA, ships from Fairfield, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1863 by Henry Hoyt.
Add this copy of Our Sunday School: and How We Conduct It to cart. $27.00, good condition, Sold by Books for Libraries, Inc., ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1863 by Henry Hoyt.
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Very Good. Small book, about 4 1/2" X 7". Ex-Library. Text is clean, binding is strong. Green cloth cover with pretty embossed design and gold lettering. B & W illustrations. Excellent condition for age with sharp corners and clean red edges of pages.
