The work of the Sunday School teacher is very important. To be prayerfully prepared and promptly at our post, thus impressing the children with the importance of punctuality; to have our class-book carefully kept and to be obedient to the superintendent, filling out all blanks just as they have been prepared, insures a well-ordered school. No one can teach obedience, an important element of all true character, unless he is himself trying to be obedient. No one can teach respect and reverence who is finding fault with the church and its officers. The teacher should have in mind the perfect church and his perfect brother and sister. It is not necessary to talk error to children to teach them to avoid it; the unexpressed thought will sometimes be the most powerful influence.
A Sunday School teacher should be a broad-minded, Christ-like person, in order to develop, not dwarf, the thought of the little ones. If a teacher is narrow in thought, the child will be more or less dwarfed.
Success or failure as a Sunday School teacher depends upon this one point; viz., ability to teach the child to work for himself and others.
