The Sunday School Teacher Author:John Todd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: they may know that no changes will take place without great deliheration and thought. 5. Growing humility.—Otherwise his station, the deference exacted and pa... more »id, and the influence exerted, wil' make him a Diotrephes. He must cultivate piety in his own heart, and hecome like the angels who are ministers to worms of the dust, and are good ministers in proportion as they are humhlo. True exaltation and greatness consist in great humility. 6. An example in all that is good.—He should ho fervent, simple, unaffected in prayer, increasing in a knowledge of the Bihle, prompt, liheral, nohle in chaxity, untiring in lahours, warm in Christian intercourse, growing in all theChristian graces, and living for the salvation of the earth. Such should he the Superintendent of the Sahhath School. CHAPTER IV. QUALIFICATIONS OF GOOD TEACHER. In the enumeration of the qualities desirahle in a Sahhath School teacher, it is not to he supposed that every teacher will possess them all in due proportion. Few characters are perfectly systematical; and where there are great excellences, there are usually great defects. The latter must he overlooked for the sake of the former. The success of men in doing good to the souls of men, from the apostle down to the distrihutor of tracts, depends greatly upon the state of the heart. Indeed without a right state of heart, all other qualities will for the most part he useless. I hegin to descrihe the Sahhath School teacher, then, by saying, that I. lie should he a decuh'dly pious man. The office of a teacher is, and must he, one ofself-denial; the lahour necessary to acquire thelessnn to he taught, to understand the hest way of communicating truth, the stupidity, restlessness, listlessness, and trying appearance of the class from week to week, ...« less