Sunday School Photographs (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ... along with him. If he has a watch, he frequently neglects to wind it, and, when ho does wind it, sets it by guess. If he would wash his hands, he neglects to scrub the dirt from them. When he puts on his garments he does not give that thoughtful attention to strings, pins and buttons, that a careful and tidy person does. He parts with his pocket money in such a slip-shod manner, that ho never has anything to put into the missionary box. When the box goes round, he says ho' didn't think about it. When he sits down to study his Sunday School lesson, which is very seldom, he groans several times over the task which is before him, then concludes that he will postpone it till Saturday evening, and take some exercise now, which he very much needs. Of course he finds something else to do on Saturday evening, or else he cannot find his books. His habits on Sunday are the same as other days. In a year he has lost half a dozen hymn books, and question books uncounted. The books which he has on hand are dog-eared, soiled, and broken-backed. He says that it is not much matter how the books look, if one only learns what is inside of them. (N. B. People who are slovenly in keeping their books, seldom know a great deal about what is in them.) This lad is a very undesirable scholar in every respect. Instruction seems to be thrown away on him. The teacher may instruct, exhort, expound, argue, and lend him good books. He will not listen to what is said to him, and when he takes books, it is only to soil or lose them, or to return them unread. In the latter case he often says they are very interesting. He pretends to listen, and pretends to read, but his mind is off on a butteruy buzz, while his outer man is in a position of attention. Ask him to-day, what yon toJd hlm yeste...