New Studies in the Correspondence School by C. C. LEWIS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 24, 1916

New Studies in the Correspondence School

By C. C. LEWIS

The Fireside Correspondence School is adding to its list of studies as fast as possible. Its latest additions are fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade Bible, logic, newspaper reporting and punctuation, and geology.

The Bible studies are based upon Mrs. McKibbin's Bible Lessons, and cover exactly the same ground as do our church schools. These studies are designed to meet the needs of our children who are still in the public schools and hence have no Bible study in school, and they will prove especially helpful in preparing such pupils to enter our academies.

Logic is the science of reasoning. It has been called the science of sciences because it is the foundation of all of them, their conclusions having all been reached through the application of its laws. Practically, no other subject is so generally used. All men, in private and in public life, reason about the enterprises in which they are engaged, and with their fellow men with whom they deal. But all men do not reason well. They may improve in their reasoning, however, by studying the principles upon which correct reasoning is based, and by having pointed out to them the fallacies into which men continually fall. Hence these studies are helpful to all persons of mature years and judgment, whether they be students, professional men, or laymen.

Newspaper reporting and punctuation is a happy combination. At first I thought of preparing a series of lessons on punctuation and capitalization. But my attention was recalled to the lessons on reporting prepared some four years ago by Walter L. Burgan and Carlyle B. Haynes, and given in lecture form by Brother Burgan to the students of many of our advanced schools. These lessons are eight in number, and the last treats of punctuation. After rereading them, I decided to make them the basis of a series of lessons on reporting, embracing, also, instruction on punctuation and capitalization and hints for those who write for the press. All who wish to improve in the art of preparing manuscript for publication should pursue this series of lessons.

Seventh-day Adventists have never fully appreciated the writings of Prof. George McCready Price on the subject of geology. Many do not know that Professor Price has made ready to our hands a manual of geology which would enable us to meet successfully on their own ground the arguments and objections of evolution. This book is entitled "The Fundamentals of Geology," and our latest course of lessons is based upon it.

Those who are interested in any of the foregoing subjects are requested to write for further information to the Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, D. C.

C. C. LEWIS, Principal.