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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1881

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IN the day-school room the word of the teacher is the law, in accordance with which everything moves with precision. Thus habits of obedience and promptness are formed, and opportunity is given for the best use of time.

There ought to be equally good order in the Sabbath-school. Time there is so valuable, because of its shortness and the greatness of the issues to be decided, that every moment of it should be made available. If children do not learn obedience to the laws of God's house, and promptness in fulfilling its duties, they can hardly be expected to exercise these virtues in the broader sphere of God's world. Perhaps the voice of the Sabbath-school teacher cannot sound as authoritatively as does that of the teacher in the day-school, but the law of love, which was given by the great Teacher, can be so set forth that there will come to be no lagging, no unwillingness to perform all duties required. There have been, and still are, teachers in the secular school whose government of pupils is based upon the divine law, with a desire to interpret it in the daily contact of teacher and pupils.—Mrs. W. F. Crafts, in S. S. World.