Transcriber's Note.
Chapter XIV ("The Blackboard") contains a number of blackboardexercises drawn from various sources. Their layout has been standardised.
Apparent typographical errors, and inconsistent hyphenation, have beencorrected.
POINTING OUT
THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF
SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, WITH APPROVED MODES
OF INSTRUCTION, EXAMPLES IN ILLUSTRATIVE,
PICTORIAL, AND OBJECT-TEACHING; ALSO THE USE OF
THE BLACKBOARD, MANAGEMENT OF INFANT-CLASSES,
TEACHERS' MEETINGS, CONVENTIONS,
INSTITUTES, ETC., ETC., ETC.
By R. G. PARDEE, A.M.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. C. GARRIGUES & CO.,
148 South Fourth Street,
1868.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
J. C. GARRIGUES & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
WESTCOTT & THOMSON,
Stereotypers,
PHILADELPHIA.
Jas. B. Rodgers, Pr.
52 & 54 N. 6th St.
A few years ago the author prepared a little Manualentitled "The Sunday-School Worker Assisted," etc., whichwas so favorably received as to call for a large edition withoutany special advertising. What has seemed to be a mostimperative call has again come up, from various sections ofour land, and from many denominations of Christians, for afuller and more complete work, illustrated with examples.If our pastors, superintendents or teachers, wished for specificdetails of all the departments of the Sabbath-school,they complained that they were compelled to purchase adozen English and a dozen American works, and eventhen there were important topics of information still unreached.Besides, books written a quarter of a century agowill not fully meet the requirements of an intelligent Sabbath-schoolman at this day. The cause is making constantprogress, and many real improvements have beenmade during the past few years which are worthy of specialrecord and notice.
Never before has the Holy Bible been so exalted, so taught,so applied, and made so interesting as now. Never beforewere our best Sabbath-schools devoted to such pure, simple,child-like worship of God as now; and never before was thehigh and holy aim of immediate conversion of the scholarsto Christ, and then their thorough religious training, keptsteadily in view, as it is in many Sunday-schools at thepresent time.
The Sabbath-school, as the true working-field of theChristian churches ("The Bible School," as Dr. Chalmerscalled it), is now the grand rallying cry of the faithful.
The aim and design of this work is to observe, collate,and condense, as far as possible, the best thoughts, experience,and observation of Sabbath-school laborers andauthors, not only in this country but also in Great Britain,and to combine these with the observation and experienceof the writer during the last forty-five years. The authoris greatly indebted particularly to the London Sunday-SchoolUnion publications, and to The Sunday-SchoolTimes of Philadelphia, as well as to most of his fellow-laborersand writers in both countries. Gladly would hegive credit in every instance, but their works have been soread and their thoughts gathered up, preserved, and notedfor use during many years, and their views so assimilatedwith the author's and made his own, that h