p. 18 | Help for the Sabbath School and Missionary Volunteer Society

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Feb 25, 1915

Help for the Sabbath School and Missionary Volunteer Society

By M. E. KERN.

THE abstract does not appeal to young people as does the concrete. Here some Sabbath-school teachers and other workers for the young fail. In the present series of Sabbath school lessons on the life of Jesus, and in the Reading Course work on “The Desire of Ages,” we should endeavor to make the story of our Saviour very real to our children and young people. Many a boy or girl who seems to have lost interest in the “old, old story,” would be delighted to take a trip to Palestine and visit the places where Jesus spent “those sinless years beneath the Syrian blue.”

Very few will ever be able to take such a trip, but modern invention has almost succeeded in bringing Palestine to our own homes. Like the telephone, which gives us direct access to distant persons through the sense of hearing, the Underwood Travel System gives us direct access to distant places through the sense of sight.

For instance, the “Travel Lessons on the Life of Jesus” consist of thirty-six of the very finest stereoscopic views of the most interesting places in Palestine, in the order, as nearly as possible, in which Jesus visited them. There is a book of over two hundred pages which goes with this set of views, describing what can be seen in each of these stereoscopic views, and connecting everything with the life of Jesus. Much historical and geographical material is given. Then there are in the book four patent maps, with all those thirty-six positions marked, and indicating just what part of the map your vision takes in as you look at the picture through the stereoscope.

Surely it would arouse the enthusiasm of any boy or girl to take up position No. 4, for instance, on the hill above Nazareth, and look south over the village and away on to the plain of Esdraelon (or the valley of Megiddo), of so many Biblical associations. Here are the very hills where Jesus played, and the perspective is so perfect it seems that you are really there. Let the child look at this while you give the information about the scene, which you get from the book of Dr. Forbush and “The Desire of Ages.”

The Missionary Volunteer Department has secured the agency for these views, and can furnish them as cheaply as you can get them of the publishers. The set above referred to, with a stereoscope, all complete, is $8.35. There are other sets giving 100 and 140 views of Palestine. In fact, this travel system is being extended over all the world. It is largely used by Sunday schools and other schools. Address the Missionary Volunteer Department for literature giving further information and price lists.

M. E. KERN.