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The Infant System

CHAPTER XV
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I would exhibit too that "good will to man" which the gospel urges and inspires, which regards the human race apart from all the circumstances of clime, colour, or grade; and which has a special reference to those who are most necessitous.

And how can this be done more hopefully than by inculcating, in dependence on the divine blessing, the history, sermons, and parables of our Lord Jesus Christ; and by the simple, affectionate, and faithful illustration and enforcement of other parts of holy writ?
The infant system, therefore, includes a considerable number of Scripture lessons, of which the following are specimens: JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.
The following method is adopted:--The picture being suspended against the wall, and one class of the children standing opposite to it, the master repeats the following passages: "And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren; and they hated him yet the more.

And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, the dream which I have dreamed; for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo! my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves stood round abort, and made obeisance to my sheaf." The teacher being provided with a pointer will point to the picture, and put the following questions, or such as he may think better, to the children: Q.What is this?
A.Joseph's first dream.

Q.What is a dream?
A.When you dream, you see things during the time of sleep.

Q.Did any of you ever dream any thing?
Here the children will repeat what they have dreamed; perhaps something like the following:--Please, sir, once I dreamed I was in a garden.


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