Practical lip-reading for the use of the deaf / by E.F. Boultbee.
- Boultbee, E. F.
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Practical lip-reading for the use of the deaf / by E.F. Boultbee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![ilioiigli this of itself requires and deserves a chapter to itself. Bible history is of course taught as any other history; but to give religious instruction and teach doctrine is naturally a very difficult task, and one that requires prayerful study and Divine aid in addition to one's own application. To engraft into the child's mind that there is a power greater than man's, the existence of the spiritual world, of Divine punishments and rewards, eternal life—all these are perhaps best conveyed by contrasting life (animate and inanimate) with death; by pointing to the convulsions of ISTature, the change of seasons, frost, snow, summer heat, and winter's cold, which are the workings of Almighty God. These abstract ideas can only be conveyed by speech, and will serve for many a lesson. The works of ]Nature the child feels he cannot do. The work of man he can comprehend, and to some extent realises that when he is older he may be able to accomplish or imitate. The contrast between the littleness of man and the Almightiness of the Deity soon leads him to grasp the idea of an All-wise God. Then we point out that, just as children obey their parents, so people must obey God, the Heavenly Father, and keep his Commandments; that animals are under the service and control of man; and man, by his industry and patience, has done wonderful things, yet in comparison with God he is the smallest being. D 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21506504_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
