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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 19, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 3.

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Special Preparation.

No man can teach either old or young who trusts to his general knowledge and his fluency of speech. Less can he do so with the young. The truths to be taught must not only be familiar, but prepared so as to be intelligibly communicated to the youthful mind. When the late Dr. Chalmers was professor of moral philosophy at St. Andrews, he kept a Sabbath-school, and his biographer informs us that, though the scholars were of the poorest children in the neighborhood, “Dr. Chalmers prepared as carefully as for his class in the University; some stray leaves still existing on which the questions for the evening are carefully written out.” A teacher must gather materials for aiding his work of educating the young. He must not serve God with that which cost him nothing. He should have beaten oil for the sanctuary lamp which he holds before the young. —Steele.