7-18-1910 FOOD FOR LAMBS; 77 OB, A GUIDE TO INFANT TEACHERS IN THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG CHILDREN. By L. A. HOLDICH. WAS NOT OUR LORD A LITTLE CHILD, CHRISTIAN YEAR. New-York: PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PHILLIPS. SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by CARLTON & PHILLIPS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. PREFACE. THESE Lessons, although originally intended for infant classes alone, can yet be employed for larger scholars. The selections from Scripture may be used to advantage at all times, and the additional lessons will give variety to the instructions of inexperienced teachers. In an infant school, oral instruction must be mainly relied on, and each of these lessons is arranged to be thus taught. Yet, if necessary, they can be committed to memory, and recited to the teachers. It is of the greatest importance that children should distinctly understand the words they sing, those they utter in prayer, and those contained in the Bible verses which they are taught; otherwise, but little profit is gained, although they may present a very interesting appearance, while singing sacred words of which they know not the meaning, and repeating prayers which they do not understand. I confess that I had yet a wider aim in this selection. I thought that it might assist some pious mother in her efforts to enforce heavenly truth. As I wrote, memory recalled Sabbath evening hours, when similar instruction was given by a sainted mother to the mind and heart of her child. Like a picture it rose before me, the quiet room, the folio Bible, the meek and loving face, the gentle voice that spake the words of Jesus to an infant ear. The seed was buried, but not lost. The child lives to rejoice in the Sabbath evening instruction of a Christian mother. Sunday schools are blessed institutions, but they should be strengthened by the teachings of the fireside. The mother's lips must enforce the teacher's counsel. May this little volume be blessed by God, and become profitable "for instruction in righteousness," both to the teacher and the taught. NEW-YORK, January, 1856. |