Palestine - Little folks studying at the village school in Samuel's hometown, Ramah, Palestine

One of a set of 36 cards in a boxed set called 'Real Children'...Written on reverse:.We are about 12 miles from Shiloh and 18 miles north from Gibeah in traditional Ramah..Look at this cirle of children seated upon mats, each with his slate before him, on which he is studying the Arabic characters. No elaborate equipment of school buildings, desks and blackboards is needed in the simple life of the east, only a shady corner and a few mats, with a white slate for writing. The teacher forms one of the circle and his smiling face does not suggest severity in his discipline. A jar of water is at hand, to refresh a thirsty student, just as in our old-time country school stood a pail of water and a tin dipper..Perhaps in such a group as this the little Child of Nazareth may have sat, conning a piece of parchment bearing on it pages a fragment of the Law, or the Prophets. In the New Testament time there was a rabbinical rule for the establishment of a boys' school in every town. The only test-book was the scriptures of the Old Testament. When the parchment rolls in use at the synagogue were somewhat worn, they were cut up to be studied in the school; and when too defacd for further service, they were given an honorable burial, with a ritual. The teacher in the school was an officer of the synagogue. When you read the story of Christ's visit to the synagogue in Nazareth, where he had been brought up, think that the officer who handed him the roll of the prophet Isaiah to read, may have been the man who taught the boy Jesus his letters in the village school.

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1900

Kaye, (Aussie~mobs), a "passionate collector and preserver of vintage photographs, especially those taken in Australia."

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