Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 December 1874 — Page 6
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CKAWFOKDSVILLE, SATRHDAY, DEC. 0.
THE
s. S
TEACHER'S RRERDRATION.
AilUross Roatl at S. N. Convention at Sew Market on Nov- IS*!, by II. Hurler.
The teacher's preparation implies more than the preparation of the lesson. It begins way back in a deep seated conviction of one's entire unfitness to teach without preparation. This is evident because only when one feels the need of anything will he make much effort to obtain it and unless the teacher feels the responsibility of his position, and in view of that responsibility realizes how unfit he is for such work, he will never make much preparation. 1 remark first, that the teacher's preparation implies that he is in sympathy with his work, in sympathy with his class, and pre-eminently that he is in communion and sympathy with Christ, his own great instructor. The teacher who seeks to make the necessary preparation must comprehend the true object of his calling. If he has no higher motive than ai hour's entertainment of his class or the telling of an interesting story or the cultivation of good manners, he will not need much preparation. 15ut if he feels his work to be the traiuing of souls for Heaven, he will find the work of preparation must begin in liis own heart. He must be so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Christ his own heart must be so filled with the subject matter of the le.sson, that it spontaneously overflows, like the waters of a fertilizing stream, whose banks are perpetually covered with fruits and flowers. The teacher's preparation implies what he is, as much as what he knows. Nicodemus was a master in Isreal. He could assert for himself the most edifying orthodoxy he claimed extraordinary keenness, approving only what is excellent, and yet when Jesus would teach him the nature of, and the necessity for, the new birth, he exclaimed,
,How
can these things
be?" and the apostle afterwards rated him with mere spiritual quacks and denounced him with terrible violence. The point is that the teacher must himself have experienced what he recommends toothers. Naaman was just the man to tell lepers of the Proj liet of Samaria, who told him where to wash and be cleansed. Bartimeus was just the person to lead blind men to Jesus, who had opened his eyes.
\V« instinctively demand of him who teaches that he should first have felt the truth he profiers to others that he should have experienced the good he promises iluu he should have obeyed the command he is urging. If any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his. No teacher can give mere than he gets neither can he communicate more than he possesses. In short, if one would be a successful teacher he must have the subject matter of the lesson so familiar to his own mind that he may be able to break it tip into small parcels and thereby bring it within the comprehension of the least scholar in the class. Then with the motto "All my class for Jesus," he will seek by prayer and supplication to prepare the hearts of his pupils so that the holy spirit may do its office work and lead each one to embrace the Savior.
Do not regard these remarks as settling lie oft repeated question in regard to the employment of unconverted teachers. 1,'ie topic assigned to me lor consideration is the teacher's preparation, and an unconverted person who accepts the position of teacher has only the more preparation to make to qualify himself for a work, the results of which lie must meet at the bar of God. And here allow me to ay thai any preparation of teachcrn that does not imply an earnest deniic for thesalvatiun of their pupils must at best be very detective. Any one with knowledge sufficient might teach the g.-yraphy of the Bible, or its biography, or its genealogy. In fact he might impart much valuable Bible instruction, but unless a scholar is thereby led to embrace Christ, the truth must become a savor of death unto death unto him. "Ye must be born again," is the burden of the faithful teacher's heart. It is not enough that the pupil assents to the truth. He may admit all its sacred claims, but unless it is made the power of God and the wisdom of God to his nalvation, it must increase his condemnation at the last great day. It is not sufficient that the passenger on the .steamer has his stateroom provided with a life preserver nor will it avail him to believe that it is a useful invention, one that with proper use mi:ht save his life.
Unless he is so girt about with it, that it will sustain him above the waves in time of disaster, it might as well not have been on board at all. The faithful teacher will seek to make such preparation of his lesson, and by solemn council and kind admonition to prepare the minds and hearts of his clasB, so that they will not only assent to the truth, but that they be so girt about with it that the surging waves of sin may never overwhelm or engulf them.
Again, the teacher who makes the most thorough preparation will always r.d the least trouble in holding his class
together, while an imperfect or no preparation must always result in dull and superficial teaching, and the scholars soon be scattered in pursuit of objects of pleasure, if not of vice and crimes-
Having thus far endeavored to show the importance of such a preparation as teachers ought to make, by a full consecration of their own hearts to the work of saving souls, let me now call your attention to the more specific methods for the preparation of the lesson to be taught. And here let me remark that to make the best preparation for teaching a lesson, one must have method aud system, I as well as a time to begin. A good time to commence is the afternoon or evening of the preceding Sunday. This gives us all the week to think on what we have studied, and how we learned it, and whether any new thoughts could be added. The lamented Pardee, in his S.
S. Index, says: "First pray and read, and read and think, and pray over the lesson search the scriptures with the aid of a concordance,or a good reference Bible for the most pointed and parallel passages and references. They will wonderfully illuminate the lesson. Next use your teachers' helps, commentaries, Bible geographies, Bible dictionaries, maps, antiquities, &c. Never fail to attend the teacher's meeting, and learn from comparison of views what you could not learn by solitary unaided effort. Burden your heart with the importance of your scholars' salvation, and never leave out of view the account you must render as to the way in which*you have prepared your lesson and labored for and with your class. Of Ralph Wells it is said that lie made much of his preparation with the Bible open before him while on his knees before God, and that he often put 12 to 10 hours of solid, hard study upon one lesson. Do not depend too much on lesson papers. They are good for what they are intended, as helps, but the teacher that depends wholly on them is like the man that walks with crutches, or like the school boy that works out his mathematical problems by the use of a key. One such problem wrought out by hard study without these mental crutches, is worth a score copied from a key. Another element that enters into the teacher's preparation is to understand the characteristics of his class. Without this he is like the physician that prescribes without a knowledge of what his patient requires, or like the unskilled mariner who, though he possesses both compass and chart, may encounter all the disaster of shipwreck,. simply because lie never studied tlie use of those instruments in directing and controlling his ship. One man of large experience says, "The preparation of a lesson should always be in writing. It beds'the thought into his mind." A small note book carrie'1 in your pocket, will give you the opportunity of frequently reviewing it, and there is nothing of more importance than the review. This note book you need not and ought not ordinarily to carry into your class, but you will find it an invaluable help to you for future reference, and especially in making up your quarterly review. Another author says have a scrap book. The religious press teems with'truths, facts, incidents, and illustrations bearing on Scriptural truth and the religious life. In all your reading have an eye to paragraphs bearing on your lessons and cut them out and place them in your scrap book. These paragraphs will always have the merit of freshness, and will yield to your own heart something of their living power. The power of a Talmage or Spurgeon does not lie in their eloquence, so much as iu the fact that they draw their illustrations from the daily life and experience and business of their hearers. The worid is full of objects that may be employed by the skillful teacher to illustrate and enforce the truth contained in the lesson. Our Savior used the flowers, and seeds, and fruits, and trees, and locks, and rivers, and mountains of earth, the birds of the air, and lislies of he sea, and the sun, the moon and the stars, for illustrations. The doom of Sodam aud Gomorrah, the fate of the antediluvians and the overthrow of Pharaoh are such terrible events as were often alluded to by our Savior to enforce his teachings. So now any great calamity, as the Chicago and Boston fires, or the terrible fate that be lei the Atlantic a few years ago, involving great destruction of property and
los3
of life,
may sometimes be referred to with great advantage. They come like so many voices from eternity, crying to the impenitent, Be ye also ready, lor in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometli. No wise teacher will fail to avail himself of such solemn opportunities to press upon his class the paramount importance of immediate submission to God's claims. But tn return to the subject of how to prepare the scripture lesson for each Sunday.
Let me remark finally, in the language of Pardee, do not be tied down to any particular plan or method of preparing a Sunday lesson, but invent new and fresh modes. Never sufFer your preparation of the lesson to lapse into dull routine. It is of the first importance that the teacher of children should study child nature, child language and all the characteristics of children. It is equally important to gain the child's confidence., to draw out its sympathies and to win its heart and all this will require the most diligent, earnest, prayerful studv.
A Card.
The undersigned wishes to express special thanks to all who have paid up so promptly since the death of the late J. P. Campbell, and to such as have called with assurances that their accounts should be paid before the close of the year 1 am also under obligations, believing they certainly will not disappoint me. The country and the banks are now full of money, and those who will not embrace the present opportunity or who will not deem the matter of sufficient importance to call and see us on the subject of their indebtedness certainly must expect to pay their accounts only at the end of the law. To all such I will say that they shall realize their expectations immediately after the close of the year without further apology.
D.
HAKTEK.
.Nolico.
All who know themselves indebted to 11. M. Hills & Co. by note or book account will call and settle the same bv Jan. 1. lS7f. Otherwise the notes and accounts will be left with proper ofiicers for collection. 48w5
Xoles Due.
The John McClamroch sale notes now due have been placed with the Elston Bank for collection. Interested parties, by giving prompt attention, will save expense and trouble. 4Sw.'5
To keep peace in the family go down to S. 11. Gregg & Son's and get the celebrated Charter Emporia cook stove. It is the best made. 4Sw3
Chase, as a work boy Chase, as a student Chase, as a lawyer Chase, as a Senator Chase, as Governor Chase, as Secretary of the Treasury Chase, as Chief Justice Chase, as Republican and Democrat Chase, in private life Chase, as Christian and philanthropist. All set forth in The Life of Chase, published by Appleton & Co., edited by .T. W. Schuckers, Private Secretary of Mr. Chase, assisted, on request of the family, by Col. Carrington, of Wabash College, through whom, or his agents in Central or Northern Indiana, the book can be procured, Price in cloth, price in sheep, §7.50. Sent by express, charges paid, upon receipt of price from places where no agents have been appointed. Good agents wanted. 4SwG
For a pair of nice pants for $7 and upwards go to Mitchell & Co.'s. 4S-G.
China vases, tea sets, mustache cup and all kinds of fine China goods at S.
H. Ure'g & Son's. 4Gw8.
SO acre farm for sale or trade for town property, all in a high state of cultivation New trame house with six rooms, two orchards, three good veils, good fencing, &c. Oatl on Geo. \V. Allen at Allen & Bro.'s store. 33tf
Doors, sash and glass, horse shoes and nails, iron and all kinds of hardware for the lowest cash prices at S. H. Gresg & Son's. 4S\v3
The Kusli (o Kansas and Colorado.
The indications are that the rush to Kansas and Colorado will be greater than ever in 1874. The shortest way to reach the far West is through St. Louis, the jrreat Mississippi Valley City, of over 450,000 inhabitants, and thence west over the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Short Line, which reaches all the great land grants in the West, and runs six fast lis press trains, two more than any other road, between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. This road, in the last two years, has expended over two million dollars, besides earnings, in extraordinary improvements of roadway, in relaying its line with best quality of new steel and iron rails, on broad new ties, and in passenger equipment, having substituted for ordinary cars new recliningchair coaches, with every appliance for comfort and safety, being elegantly carpeted and fitted with dressing rooms, with toilet conveniences for ladies, gentlemen and families traveling with chilren, free of any extra chat ge. Any ticket agent selling through tickets to the West will furnish tickets by 'this excellent route through St. Louis, over the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Short Line, the best and shortest to Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, California and the great West, it being the only line running through cars between St. Louis and Omaha. For map, circulars and time tables address either F. A. Palmer, Indianapolis, Ind. or P. 15. Groat, St. Louis, Mo., either of whom will furnish any information desired.
BcY#iir*wii PliyNiciaii.
There is no case of Dyspepsia that Green's August Flower will not cure. Come to the drug store of A. W. Binford and inquire about it. If you sufler from costiveness, sick dache, sour stomach, indigestion, liver complaint, or derangement of the sy.-tem, try it. Two or three doses will relieve you.
Ague Conquer is the only remedy in the United States that contains no Quinine, Arsenic, or other poisons injurious to the system, that will cure fever and ague, intermittent or bilious fevers, etc., and the chills not return during the season. It permanently cures fever and ague of long standing. aug 9 yl
The Confessions of an Invalid,
Published as a warning and for the benefit of young men and others who sutf'er from nervous debility, loss of manhood, etc., supplying the means of self-cure. Written by one who cured himself after undergoing considerable quackery, and sent free on receiving a post paid directed envelope. Sufferers are invited to address the author.
NATHANIEL MAYKAIK,
37mG P. O. Box 1,03, Brooklyn, N. Y.
COFFIN MANUFACTORY.
CIMW FOUIKSYI LLi
COFFIN COMPANY,
UNDERTAKERS.
H:ivo ron^tantlv on nana
WOOD AND J1KTALIC
O O TVJS
AN
IMSKIiTS.
Kobe.-, Shrouds and rii'mlilng in Hip liu*ine*
•sAli orders promptly attended to.
Soliciting a visit fromhI! interested, weave KespoctTuUy yours,
aiif
ciuwKonnsviLLE COFFIN OO.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE,
Mv stock of
Dry Goods and General Merchandise,
N E W 11 OSS,
Montgomery county. Ind., mi the I., B. & W. Railway, II miles cast of Crawfordsrille and .'W mi'eswest of Indianapolis, at the crossing of the A., L. A* St. Is. Railroad
Wishing to change business, ofi'ei my entire stock tor sale, with a trade second to none in the county outside of Cnui lordsnlle. "tf UtAXIi (ill.L.
PAINTERS.
T. H. WINTOX & SONS,
Grainers and
Glaziers,
..^FRESCOING,
Plain anil Ornamental,
KILSOmiNH AX» PENCIMXW For the trade. .Shop, in MoChilland Tlall.
UNDERTAKING.
P. II. I3UKAS,
UlfDEETAKEK,
Ihus a full Jis-ortuumt oi various kinds mid mako
Metallic and Wood Cases,
—AND—
AS
li ET S.
Also lU'Itl VI, ROHKS. All furnished at the «ame rates a* the Ciawfordsville (Joliin Company. Special attention paid to eyery cull. North Washington SI., Millnr'N Itlock.
lif.tf.
LEADING INDIANAPOLIS liUo.
& Supply Co)
cASTi s\
\Railroad Gas Fitters'
SUPPLIES.
N JSotilfc
Dtlnwirr Ht.
rtA INDIANAPOLIS, IND. j__jBenfI_for_Cntnlogne and l'rlce-I.ist' IForDOORS, SASH,BLINDS,etc.X
OO TO
INDIANAPOLIS ItJlAlfCH
INDIANAPOLIS JtJlA2iCIi\
aXGoss & Piiips M'fac'ff Co
119
Eatt Maryland St., let. P4,wart and Mai am a Streets,
CO
O. W, StUITKB, K. H. Ki.iIi.ids., Send r* Pri ee List.
SAW MILL.
10,000
Saw Logs Wanted
AT Tl I 10
CITY SAW MIL.I.
TO lTUCIIAKlC Oil
Saw on the Shares.
We will lmy loss, timber the woods, orloys
delivered nt Millions on either of tin- railroads
for which we will pay she highest price in cash.
We also buy black walnut, poplar and ash lum
ber. We have now operation machinery lor He-
Sawing, Matching and Surfacing, and solicit work
rom both city and country. Weare now prepar
ed to furnish on short notice bridge, Hnrn anil
Home pattern* complete. Also, Fencing, Kence
Posts and Tickets. Special attention given to
the building ol Fancy Iron Picket Kence ivhich
costsno more and is handsomer and more dura
tion wood pickets.
Mill north aide of, College street, near the
•Imiction.
It. M. & W. C. LOCKHART.
FOR SALE.
FARM FOR SALE.
I otfer at private sale my farm, situated miles northwest from Alamo, at the erospiug lacksonville A- Crawfordsville, and Montgomery and Fountain county line roads. The above farm contains 1»0 ae.res, all under fence 1 acres in cultivation, au acres well timbered, two orchards, apple and peach, one good two-story house, out buildings, good barn, four wells of never-failing water, running water most the year.
Terms easy—very low price.
4l mos:i
BENJAMIN WILLIS.
DRUCCIST.
A. W. HIN FORD,
^(Successor to E..I. Binioid A liro.)
WHOLI-.\E AND IIETAII/-
jDRTJ GGIST,
And Ik'ulc-i I'Vi*.• •.
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I
3 2 «a, fcs
x^viix'i
OIIJS.
•NSV AG10NT Fid:
2LORE WlUi'I'l LKAI,
Tola,ara Assticlem,
SYjB£ &TCJFFS,
mtl'SSIKS,
"West of Court llotiso. 13-Gm
MEDICAL.
SI MM ONS
REGULATOR
The Favorite llonie R«?mcly. I hih mii-1v:iI«• tl nieiJii'ino is w.'irrimteil not ti contain i11U- imrtide. of mercury or any iniiirimi!" mineral subsUnue, hut is
I»U8«i:i.Y VEWETAKLE.
rontiitning
Uiohp
lO
10-ly
PHtENIX TILE MACHINE.
1 I N I If hor* povrr. Two hon*« runitoh th« M«tr for Bikini frrra 000 r*di of TUia( fit Uj. rt
htr%
a ntdj
tnmn*
cf Ukior
up the *eu of obinber tnd o? •spudiag Un piuoftr, thai comrt* in* all kkkjtM
tt
Southern roots mid horhs,
which :in all wii*G Hrovi«i*n*o ha* |)lao?'l fowitrios wh«m» liver 'Jixo:.s"s most prevail. It will cure ail aiHcsiNos cftuHefl by flrr:uigemenl of the livoraiuJ bowels.
Simmons' Lira Regulator or Micine
Is eminently family medicine nnd hy heiue kept ready lor imracdinte resort will save many un hour of snflering nnd many a dollar in time mid floi tor.-' hills.
After over forty jears trial it is Htill receiving the most uni|iialihed testimonials to its virtues Iroin persons of the liighoHt character and responsibility. Eminent physicians uoimncnd it as the mo«t
EITpclnnl for Ij'S|iopsiii or In-
Armed with thin Antidote, nil climates nud changes ol water and lood may be faced without tear. As a remedy in Malarious Fevers. Bowel Complaints, Restlessness, Jaundice and Nausea, it lias no ei|ual. It is the cheapest, purest and best family Medicine in the world.
Manufactured only by
Bud aa) adJiar
7»r* ftf Mrvke to the Macbina. tt* Bead for
OIk«Iin.
CHANDLBE TATLOB. IndianuxMs, Ind
J. II. ZFiMX .1 t'O.,
MACON, UA., anil PHILADELPHIA.
I'rioo, gl. Kor salebv A. W. HINKOD, Crnvrfordsnlle. 2«yl
GROCERY.
New Grocery
CASH BUSINESS!
J.
T. MACK & Co.
hkalkiw in
STAPLE and FA1YCV
GROCERIES
AM)
PROVISIONS,
Hughes" Block,
»©. .50.
riavingr fill e«l up
evr
rooms ancl lilled tliem Avilh new goods, to l»e sold exclusively for cash at small profits, ~\ve can do "well I,v our customers.
,m
J-
T. HACK & CO.
BUILDINC MATERIAL.
-A. CARD
To Builders and Others.
r|MU!, mi(ler:i) mil
tulip
Hum
rnrihoij
0
attention ill pttrxiii!.
on!I the
I.iiiMiiik mhI
repairing
houses, ami tne public Kern-rally, to tlioir
LARGE and COMPLETE STOCK
or
Building Material, Etc.,
Coiisiating in part of
l'INE AND POPLAR
szazusro-LiEs,
VINE
LATH,
DELPHI
XjIIMTE.
I-OIUSVILLE
GEllvlSISrT.
DOUBLE CALCINED
PLASTEB.
PLASTERING
HAIR,
PITTSUU.RG AND CLAY COUNTY
O OAL.
KANAWHA,
aud PUTTY.
No. 12 N. Washington St.,
SAGINAW,
AND BAY CITY
SALT.
All of wliidi :iriit:U\s cnti he lmd at
Grain and Pi oduce
OF ALL KINDS
TAKEN IX EXCHANGE
I) ART Ell & B110.,:
Washington and Pike Nts.,
t'rawfoij.dsviHf,
raanaKNBBMram
CR HENHOUSE.
GKEEN.fHOUSE.
Tli»'
unl!rsljiieil
litis
opcif
si. ji IIhih«:oii "\Vj« 1) i.-^Ii iiveiinc,
ctiHl.of llie I
j.,
N. A.
C. Jl: 11 ro:il, and vol i»si i-' *u lur :i 1 (ion to ciiltlvaflns plnntis und llov/ei'ts l'oi- suit'.
Flowers ill 1- pvcservt^l I li rouyli tlic Win ler s» sinti 11 oostntour i'i Hit, und 1 ol -vo r^d
111
wood CDiidllioii III tlw
BprliiK. Oflloc at JuiK't lon I lou^-c, Cl'iMfl'oi'ds villc. hid.
H. ys. SlAfXM.
REAL ESTATE.
BlUITON & URl X^irS
Real Estate Agency.
Crawlbrdsville, Ind.
I undor.signed have ft Inr^e list oi proj»r»i I for s'llo, ••ohsistin^ol'dwollinys, rhoii'^ to« I I I I I Ii oiMier buy or (*11 will tind it to their ndvruif!)'-''-UM'all on tln'in tit Uh'irothi'r. .DtH.'&t