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Behold the lilies of the field, or look at the
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or see
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or the falling sparrow, or the fig-tree, and a multitude of similar objects all around them, which were used by him in his wonderful teaching, and with such success that they were led to exclaim:
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Never man spake like this man. The whole of the types and ceremonies in the Old Testament were but a magnificent series of this mode of object-teaching. This is the whole, in substance, of object-teaching. It is Christ's mode and the prophet's way of teaching.
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It is nature's teaching, says a teacher at our side. There is _no_ teaching, scarcely, that is not, in some sense, object-teaching. Said the Rev. Dr. Chester, when describing good teaching:
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This is object-teaching, as all good teaching of the young is. You must take their measure if you would fit the garment of truth to them. Objects for teaching lie all over nature as clearly as in cubes and squares and octagons. It keeps each child pleasantly and profitably employed. It is calling the eye and senses to our aid in affecting the mind and heart. The eye is our first teacher. Hence it is indispensably necessary in an infant class to have plenty of objects. Every good mother and good juvenile class-teacher will make great use of the _eye_ and _action_ and _motion_ to teach and impress the great truths of the lesson upon the little ones. Use the eye more, and make your words few and well chosen.
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Present to the children _things_ before _words_, or _ideas_ before _names_. Even in manners and morals let the _person, life_ and _tongue_ of the teacher be the
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She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
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Sunday-school spectacles. A sprig of evergreen, or a bit of a vine picked from the bush as we pass our garden-gate for the Sunday-school, may serve to illustrate the duty of
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as the branch must abide in the vine. A little flower or grass, or a falling leaf, will illustrate, through the eye, the brevity of life, and that