NEW TESTAMENT LESSONS by William Clarence White

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 11, 1880

NEW TESTAMENT LESSONS.

By William Clarence White

WE would call the special attention of all Sabbath-school workers to the following facts:—

1. With the Lesson Sheet for October, the Lessons on Prophecy were brought to a close, and the classes of the Fourth Division are advised by the General S. S. Association to leave whatever course of lessons they are now studying, and all unite in studying the lessons on New Testament History. The resolutions passed at our last annual meeting at Alameda include the following upon this point:—

Resolved, That we recommend the 3d, or Youth's, Division and the 4th, or Adult, Division to unite in the study of the New Testament lessons, and thus by joining our forces be better prepared to carry on the work successfully.

2. The 3d, or Youth's Division, will have to go over a few of the same lessons that they have studied before; but the strength gained by a union of the divisions will more than compensate for this apparent loss.

3. There are such frequent delays in the mails that it will be best for the schools on this coast to recite the lessons two weeks later than the date at the head of the lesson.

Among the advantages of this plan are the following:—

1. Both youth and adults will be furnished with the most interesting and profitable lessons that could possibly be found.

2. Uniting the two in one large division will add to the interest of review exercises.

3. Having one less division to look after, the superintendent can give more attention to each.

4. Uniting more teachers on one lesson will increase the interest of the teachers' meeting.

As these lessons which have been so often called for are now furnished, and our schools are under such favorable conditions to adopt them, we hope to see the interest of all who have been looking for them increased in the Sabbath-school work.

W. C. WHITE, Pres. Cal. S. S. Association.