Christian Education by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1905

Christian Education

By F. G.

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference. FREDERICK GRIGGS, Chairman, C. C. LEWIS, Secretary.

Some Suggestions for Church-School Teachers

FORM a floriculture class in your school. Gather the seeds now which you may wish to plant next year. Make a collection of such plants as may be kept in your schoolroom during the winter.

Give the children something to do in the great missionary campaign which is now being inaugurated. Those who are old enough may do something in the way of canvassing and distributing literature. The younger ones may unite in making articles for the poor, collecting papers and other printed matter which is to be distributed by the older ones, or gathered for shipment to those desiring literature for distribution. It is not so much what, as that something is done, and that this great campaign is kept continually before the pupils.

Begin the collection of a library for the school. This should consist of our own denominational works, and of those books which are of an interesting and instructive nature along lines of science, history, biography, and, in fact, any useful knowledge. These books may be gotten from patrons and friends of the school, many of whom may have one or two books that they can spare from their libraries. Various proper ways may be devised for raising money, from time to time, for the purchase of such books as are needed for the library, which can not be had otherwise. Let librarians be appointed from the pupils for the care of the books. Every child should be taught to begin the acquisition of a good library, and this school library should inspire him to do so. He should be taught not only to collect good books, but to know what is in them.

F. G.