p. 24 | General Conference Sabbath-School

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 20, 1909

General Conference Sabbath-School

Sabbath Morning, May 15

A REVIEW of past lessons in the Life of Christ series was conducted by Prof. C. C. Lewis. An impressive feature of the review was the concert reading by the school of a chain of leading texts setting forth the principal events in the life of the Saviour from his infancy to his baptism.

Elder F. M. Wilcox taught the lesson for the day, based upon Matt. 3:13 to 4:11, giving the account of the baptism of Jesus and the temptations in the wilderness. One of the most helpful thoughts developed was that as Jesus was strengthened in the hour of his greatest temptation by his memory of the Father’s loving words, “Thou are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” so we may be enabled to overcome every temptation of the enemy by remembering the relationship we are privileged to claim—that of being sons of God.

In the kindergarten division Mrs. Alice Bourdeau conducted the review, after which the little ones surrounded the kindergarten tables for the study of the lesson.

An interesting feature of the exercises for the intermediate division was a missionary talk by Miss Ida Thompson, who told of the Chinese Sabbath-school in Canton, China, and described some of the peculiar customs of that country.

The attendance in the senior division was 1,306; the number in the children’s divisions, 167; making a total of 1,473. The total donation to missions was $125.67.