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True Education
as Jesus and His disciples went to the synagogue—across the fields,
along the shores of the lake, or through the groves. Blessed indeed
are fathers and mothers who can teach their children God’s written
Word with illustrations from nature; who can gather under the trees,
in the fresh, pure air, to study the Word and sing praises to the Father
above.
By such associations parents may bind their children to their
hearts, and thus to God, by ties that can never be broken.
As a means of intellectual training, the opportunities of the Sab-
bath are invaluable. The Sabbath School lesson should be learned,
not by a hasty glance on Sabbath morning, but by careful study on
Sabbath afternoon, with daily review or illustration during the week.
Thus the lesson will become fixed in the memory, a treasure never
to be wholly lost.
In listening to the sermon parents and children should note the
scriptures quoted, and follow the line of thought, to repeat to one
another at home. This will go far toward relieving the weariness
with which children often listen to a sermon, and it will cultivate in
all a habit of attention and connected thought.
Meditation on the themes thus suggested will open to students
treasures of which they have never dreamed. They will prove in their
own lives the reality of the experience described in the scripture:
“Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me
the joy and rejoicing of my heart.”
Jeremiah 15:16
. “By them Your
servant is warned, and in keeping them there is great reward.”
Psalm
19:10, 11
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