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Carrie, suppose that you were a painter with your canvas before you, what picture would you draw from the 22d verse? She replied,
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Christ sending his disciples and the multitudes away.
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Mary, what from the 23d verse?
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Christ on the mountain, alone, in prayer.
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Jane, what from the 24th verse?
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The ship tossed with the waves.
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Lily, what from verse 25?
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Jesus walking on the sea. The next,
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Peter sinking, Jesus saving; and then,
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The sea calm, all safe in the ship, worshipping Jesus. From these the lessons drawn are
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Secret prayer,
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Looking to Jesus for help in danger,
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Not seeking danger, and that
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Jesus is God, to control the wind and waves. The doctrine is the Divinity of Christ:
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Of a truth, thou art the Son of God.
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Pictorial Teaching,
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and it is emphatically so with children; for little children learn the most that they do learn through the eye. Bunyan quaintly says:
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Come to the mind and soul through Eye-gate as well as through Ear-gate. This is the most pleasant and effective way of giving and receiving some kinds of knowledge. It cultivates, also, the important habit of close and accurate observation. Says the Rev. Dr. Hill, the President of Harvard University:
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It is the thought of God in the object that stimulates the child's thought. The great object is to teach the child more than you can express in words. In illustration, he says:
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I was walking yesterday with my little girl, and showing her plants, insects, and birds as we walked along. We were looking at lichens on the trees, when she suddenly, and without hint from me, said: 'The maples have different lichens from the ash. I mean to see if I can tell trees by their trunks, without looking at their leaves.' So for a long distance she kept her eyes down, saying to the trees as she passed: Elm, maple, ash, pine,' etc--never failing. The difference was easy to _see_, but the difference could not have been so well expressed in _words_.