(e) For the teacher to expect the pupil’s interest in the Gospel theme to equal his own. It is contrary to sinful nature.
(f) To expect home work by pupils, unless it has been prepared for by patient effort.
(g) To expect conversion as the immediate result of teaching, and to grow discouraged and abandon the work because the expectation is not at once realized. God’s way and time are his own.
(h) Not to expect conversion as the ultimate result of teaching; and hence to fail to direct every effort to that end.—“In the morning sow thy seed,” etc.
III. Thought and Action.
It is a mistake (a) to think teaching easy. It has taxed the noblest powers of the noblest men.
(b) To think it an insignificant or puerile employment. The two greatest names of the ages, heathen and Christian, were nothing if not teachers: Socrates—Immanuel.
(c) To think the Sunday-school a children’s institution only. The three great Christian institutions are the home, the church, the Sunday-school, and the constituency of each is the same.
(d) To be irregular in attendance at Sunday-school.
(e) To be unpunctual.