The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular (1877)

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XX INTRODUCTION. evenings " mid pleasures and palaces/' without roaming from " home, sweet home." Sunday-school Workers find it manageable and specially useful in explaining Bible scenes and localities, and Oriental manners and customs. The Sunday-school Concert is made intensely interesting by illustrating the recitations of the children, and by projecting hymns upon the screen, to be sung in concert. Series of Bible and Holy Land Views are very carefully selected, with special reference to the Sunday-school work. Illustrations in out- line, mottoes, hymns, etc., can also be drawn by hand, as occasion requires. These fascinating representations and exercises not only promote the growth and usefulness of a Sunday-school, but when necessary, serve as a ready means of raising funds. Scripture illustrations corresponding to the subjects enumerated in Class v, page 12, are now made very clear and distinct for Sunday-school use, in the Oil-light lantern, of which we give with the instrument and case a hundred slides, with five hundred distinct illlustrations, for seventy-five dollars. The Oil-light Sciopticon is the only efficient lantern for the lecture room that does not require constant watching and hours of drudgery. It permits the teacher to give his undivided attention to his subject, and so is in common use in first-class institutions, where the lime light is held in reserve for great occasions. The Oil-light Sciopticon is also unrivaled for Masonic and other Societies, for ordinary Public Exhibitions, for Social Entertainments, for conveniently showing up chemical reactions, living insects, minnows, water newts, etc., photographs of microscopic objects, natural and dis- eased tissues, enlargements for sketching, negatives and positives for examination and discussion in photographic