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FRED S. SHEPARD ’S BLACKBOARD OUTLINE Paul’s W ork:— P REACHER A S T O R R O M O T E R Anxiety for the churches. —2 Cor. 11:28
cumference of all true knowledge. Listen to His invitation: “ Come unto me . . and learn o f me.” “ If*any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God.” ' —o— C hoice N uggets If we wish to be helpful let us prepare ourselves in the most effective way pos sible. An education opens up the way, these days, especially. Those who are uneducated are at a very serious disad vantage. It is greatly important that all who wish to be leaders of others, and use ful in the church and in the state,; shall be as well educated as possible, and as they consecrate it all to Christ they are able to do larger things in His name. “ Education is the apprenticeship o f life.”— Willmott. “ In a certain university a student was alarmed at the length and arduousness o f the curriculum, and asked whether it would not be possible for him to have a shorter course. ‘That all depends,’ an swered the principal, ‘on what you intend to make, of yourself.’ When God makes an oak He takes a hundred years, but He can make a melon in six months.”— Chris- 'tian Herald. “There is no other book ever intro duced into the public schools to be com pared in educative value with the Bible. Anyone too broad for the use of the Bible is too broad and thin for education to benefit. History proves abundantly that Christianity has done more to develop great minds than all other things this world has ever seen, which is saying much. What is more, it takes minds of small caliber and makes them great. If it cannot make a mind great, there is no hope for it. The. .London Spectator has put it this way, ‘No man who deliberately refuses to think can be a real Christian; and no sane Christian can be altogether stupid.’ ”—Rev. A. W. Lewis. “ Education without religion remains in complete and abortive. Religion without education becomes ignorance and super- stition.”S-L«fiier A . Weigle. “ In this discussion the word ‘educa tion’ , is used in its broadest sense o f training for life. For using it in this way we have the most distinguished prece dents. President-Emeritus Eliot has a strong address on ‘Education for Effi ciency.’ President Maclaurin says that‘the end o f education is to fit men to deal with the affairs o f life honestly, intellectually and efficiently.’ Abraham Flexner says, that it is ‘a concrete device to facilitate the assertion of individual capacity in terms o f rational activity.’ President Thwing says that its supreme purpose is to equip the student for life. Professor Burton says that ‘by education we mean all o f the processes, within and without our institutions of learning, by which per sonality is developed.’ ”— Presbyterian. “ Education is training, the creation o f right habits. Only the few are gifted, but the dullest can be ;educated in all things, that matter.”.— Farrar. Don’t Judge By the Shell Don’t be influenced too strongly by a. handsome face. Many a rotten egg has a perfect shell.
anyone speak against the Bible, we know they are false, and are Satan’s agents. In another place Paul stayed in the home o f Philip, one o f the seven deacons. It was that Philip who preached to the eunuch as he rode in his chariot. (D e scribe in detail the scene o f Acts 21:10- 12. Make it real to the boys and gjrls, showing the great loving heart of the apostle.) Now, boys and girls, we see here how Paul loved men and women and wanted them to be saved. He knew it was dan gerous for him to go to Jerusalem, but he would rather go and even die that some might hear o f the Lord Jesus and be saved. Listen to his pathetic pleading in God’s Word. (Read slowly and with feeling Acts 21:13.) Let us say our memory verse together. As Paul’s friends prayed for him and asked God to bless and keep him, so we should pray for our ministers and work ers in the church and Sunday school, for missionaries, and for each other. We should be faithful to the work God has given us to do, and we are not faithful if we are not going after other boys and girls. (Prayer.) When Dost Thou Think? “ Southey was telling a Quaker woman how fully his time was occupied, how he studied Portuguese grammar while he was shaving, how he read Spanish an hour be fore breakfast, how he put in thé time in the forenoon in reading and writing, con versing, eating, exercising and sleeping, when she interrupted him, asking, ‘And, friend, when dost thou think?’ “Well may we ask ourselves, ‘When do we think?’. Let us find time to be alone and reflect upon the solemn issues of life. Let us begin our meditation with the thought o f ‘ God. Think o f God, His power, His wisdom, His love ; God in cre ation, in providence, in redemption, and especially in the gift o f His Son. Then think of yourself, yourself in your rela tion to God; what God has done for you and what He requires o f you.”— Edward B. Bagby in Sermon. .S&. Learn His Name First A freeman’s, teacher writes o f a col ored woman who, having learned' her al phabet, said, “ Now I want to learn to spell Jesus, for ’pears like the rest will come easier if I learn to spell the blessed name first.” A good many things come easier when we learn that name first.
How May Everyone Become Truly Educated? Prov. 4:1-13. D aily S cripture R eadings M. Study with the wise. Acts 7 :22. T. Listen to experience, Prov. 3:1-6. W. Sit at Jesus’ feet. Luke 10:38-42. T. Never stop learning. Acts 18:24-28. F. Keep an open mind. Acts 17:10-15. S. Think noble thoughts. Phil. 4:8. T houghts on the T opic <> s As Cuyler aptly put it, “Education be gins in infancy, continues all through life and none die too old to learn.” Cer tainly life' is one continuous school of learning. ‘The fact that we have com pleted our high-school course, success fully passed our college exams, and pos sibly had university training, does not prove that we have been truly educated. “ Do not ask a man if he has been through college. Ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking univer sity.” . There is more in life to be learned than readin’, ’ritin’ and ’rithmetic. True edu cation has to do with all phases of a man’s life. We may be ever so wise in the wis dom of this world and yet far from being truly educated. In addition to the mind, man’s moral and spiritual character must be trained. In the Scripture lesson we have a beau tiful picture of a godly? father instruct ing his son in the pursuit o f wisdom. The first lesson in this curriculum appears to be obedience (v. 1). The keynote of the entire book of Proverbs, written especially to the young man desirous o f making good in life, could be said to be obedience. In the public ‘ schools of Switzerland each student is taught this patriotic slo gan: “My duty is to .obey and work for God and my native land.” This motto is repeated daily, and does much to 'mold the character of those who repeat it, and is a good one for any nationality to adopt as their own. The real point in this slogan is the fact that God is placed first in the matter of obedience. Our duty to our native land will be properly fulfilled only when we first render obedience to God. Would the dreadful war have been possible had God been first obeyed?,,, The next step, according to our lesson, is that in the obtaining of wisdom the youjig man is also to get understanding. Wisdom is useless to one unless he clearly understands that which he obtains. The great secret in becoming truly edu cated is to be taught by the master Teacher, Jesus Christ, the center and cir
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