THE BATTALION.
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Thoughreason was lost, they felt that the surges and billows
of his eloquence carried them to another world; that earth
seemed darkened to them when they touched its confines
again, and that the close of the oration dropped them from
the gorgeous rays of beauty into the “Valley of the Shad
ow of Dath.”
LECTURE BY DR. BITTLE.
“Let him that is being taught the word communicate
in turn to him that teachethin all good things.”—Gal. 6:6.
The writer of these words means to assert the very rea
sonable truth that the teacher who consecrates himself to
the work of instructing others needs a living, a support,
bread and meat or the means of obtaining them, just as
much as the day-laborer. He asserts elsewhere, (1 Cor.
9:14) that they “which proclaim the gospel should live
of the gospel.” It is equivalent to saying that so long as
it has pleased God to instruct men through human agen
cies, through men \yho are flesh and blood like their pu
pils, and have frequently expended much in preparation
for that work, God expects teacher and pupils to share in
those good things which support the body. It is to be a
decent business transaction and not a matter of sentiment.
The preacher may for a while, live on the glow and fervor
of consecration, as two recently married people live on
affection, but it cannot last. The necessity becomes soon
er or later apparent, that he who is being taught the
truth should share in all good thing's with him who
teaches.
B«t the words of my text surely bear a higher meaning