Prayer

A Sunday School Teacher's Prayer

Make of my heart an upper room, I pray,
Swept clean of pride; let self be but a door
Through which young lives may come to Thee this day
To know Thee as they have not know before.
    Speak through my voice that they may hear Thine own;
    Shine through my life in beauty and in truth,
    That they may see the Saviour Christ alone,
    And in the glad impulsiveness of youth
Rise up, as did those fisher-lads of Thine
Who left their boats and nets to follow Thee;
So may they walk beside Thee, these of mine
Whom out of all the world thou gavest me.

Author Unknown.

A Sunday School Teacher's Qualifications

… … But far above all, it should be a Christian person not in name only, but in deed and in truth – one whose heart has been touched by the Spirit of God, and who can love the souls of little children. Any teacher who lacked this last qualification, I would look upon as a curse rather than a blessing - a centre of blasting and coldness and death, instead of a centre from which light and warmth and heavenly influence might emanate.

Robert M. McCheyne.

If I am to go to the heathen to speak of the unsearchable riches of Christ, this one thing must be given me, to be out of the reach of the baneful influences of esteem or contempt.

McCheyne.