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Excerpt from Through the Eye to the Heart: Or Eye-Teaching in the Sunday-School This volume on the power and method of "Eye-teaching," which I am requested to "introduce to the Sunday-school public," needs no words of explanation or compliment. Its pages speak for themselves. The book is a defense of a most ancient method of teaching - so old that we cannot recall the time when men who thought and taught at all did not employ it. We find it in Eden, when God gave man his first command; at Sinai, when Moses taught God's chosen people both law and gospel by complicated and impressive symbols; in Israel, by the Hiddekel, and in Babylon, when holy prophets gave forth burning words from the invisible God; in Galilee and in Judea, when He who spake as never man spake taught the thronging multitudes the love and power and sweetness that were to be found in his own divine Gospel. Prophets, priests, apostles, philosophers, reformers, and teachers of all ages and of every nation, have used it. To-day, in the primary school, the academy, college, on the popular rostrum, and in every court of justice, it is continually employed. This book is more than a defense. It is a guide-book to all the practical details of the art. If the author errs at all it is in the excess of examples which he furnishes. He illustrates the whole field of illustration. One is left in no doubt as to what he means by a principle or a definition. He also exposes many of the mistakes which enthusiasts in chalk have made, reminding the teacher that things thoroughly good may be sadly abused. Let not those who use "Through the Eye to the Heart" forget that after all it is the Spirit, and not alone the truth, that is to reach and regenerate and enrich the heart. The clear apprehension of truth does not necessarily bring the affections and the life into harmony with the truth. For this interior and divine and most essential work we stand in daily need, both as teachers and pupils, of the "Holy Ghost sent down from heaven." For this gift - for this Teacher who shall "teach us all things" - let us look with the faith that is the "evidence of things not seen." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.