Excerpt from The Young Teacher: An Elementary Handbook of Sunday School Instruction

Normal work is as much needed in the preparation of Sunday-school as in the preparation of day-school teachers. Subjects may vary, but the souls to be taught are the same. The same mind is to be reached, aroused, and quickened. The same laws are to be discovered, studied, and obeyed. Perhaps more serious and perplexing difficulties lie in the way of the religious than of the secular teacher, for he deals with another realm of being and with the relations and responsibilities which belong to it. He deals with abstract theories, with doctrines that lay hold of an invisible, infinite, and eternal world, and with ethical principles embodied in specific laws which appeal to the conscience, condemn the flesh, and give a solemn significance to this life.

He has only occasional access to his pupils and continuous, active influence is almost impossible. What he does must be done wisely, promptly, and with economy of force. He has one day instead of five to make himself felt, and on that day only one hour instead of five.

He must know what not to attempt, that what he does attempt may prove successful.

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