The Unfolding Life by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
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page 58 of 109 (53%)
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1. Bible truths needed first in the life of a little child have been carefully selected and arranged in their logical order. 2. As many lessons as are needed to make each truth clear and to fix it in memory are devoted to it. 3. The setting for the truths to be taught is given in stories, not abstract statements. 4. The same Golden Text is used for all the lessons teaching one truth, is simple, intelligible and, by repetition in connection with several lessons, can be fixed. 5. The pictures accompanying the lessons are very choice both in theme and execution. Since the only ideas the child will receive of the lesson must come through his senses and bodily activity, and since, of his senses, sight and touch make a clearer impression than hearing, large use should be made of them. Further, as this is the period of imitation of definite acts, the lesson should present forcibly and fascinatingly, an activity within his power to imitate. The end sought, as a result of the nurture of this period, is that the child may become truly a child of God, and never know a time when he did not love Him. This may be achieved, for the heart of a little child is open and peculiarly sensitized to the matchless story of Jesus Christ. When it is |
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