Training Sabbath-School Teachers
THE Sabbath-school system has been inconceivably less efficient than it might have been, owing to the untrained character of its teachers. Every town, every society, ought to have a Normal school for training teachers. A man may be big with knowledge, but what is that to the child, if he has not the art of communicating it? Sabbath-school teachers, when they are beginning to work themselves into a system, or have nearly attained it, perhaps "marry a wife," and therefore "they cannot come;" or they lose faith and give up school, or they get lazy and excuse themselves by the complaint that they see no fruit, practically forgetting the injunction, "Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season ye shall reap if ye faint not."—Sel.