Daily Bible illustrations - being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology - Especially designed for the family circle (1850) (14781394981)

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Title: Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Kitto, John, 1804-1854
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York : R. Carter
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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which the elements of learning were imparted to boys, were similar to those we now behold in the East, there is little reason to question. A short account, therefore, of these schools, and the instruction given in them, will furnish the best illustration of the subject. With the substitution of the synagogue for the Template:Mosque, and the Bible for the Koran, the analogy is probably as close as need be desired. The first and earliest object of a parent is to instil into the mind of his son the principles of his religion, and the observances proper to it; and then he endeavors, if possible, to obtain for him the instructions of a schoolmaster, if the small expense can be afforded. Most of the children of the higher classes, and many of the lower, are taught by the schoolmaster to read, and to recite the whole, or certain portions, of the 104 FORTY-SECOND WEEK SATURDAY. Koran by heart. They afterwards learn the common rules of arithmetic. Schools are sufficiently numerous in every large town, and
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there is seldom any considerable village without one. In metropolitan cities almost every mosque has a school attached to it, in which children are taught at a very trifling expense. SAUL AT SCHOOL. 105 The sum of about a penny paid every Thursday is a very common school fee; and the master of a school attached to a mosque receives also from the endowment some principal articles of clothing once a year, when the boys also obtain some garments and a little money. The lessons are generally written upon tablets of wood painted white; and when one lesson is learnt, the tablet is washed, and another is written. As a substitute for this, slates have been found very acceptable where introduced by missionaries. The school master and his pupils sit upon the ground; and each boy has a tablet in his hands, or a copy of the Koran, or one of its thirty sections, on a little rude kind of desk of palm sticks. All who are learning to read recite their lessons aloud, at the same time rocking their heads and

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