The Sabbath School by W. C. White.

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1880

The Sabbath School.

By W. C. White.

OUR PRESENT WORK.

As we near the commencement of another quarter, it may be profitable for us to review the successes or failures of the one which is now drawing to a close. It will pay each teacher and officer to examine his work, and notice carefully what progress has been made during the last three months by himself, by his class, and by the whole school. If there has been a marked improvement in studying the lesson, or in the regularity of attendance, and an increase of interest in the school and the services of the Lord's house, we should study carefully the means employed and the influences used to accomplish these results, that by more earnest efforts and improved methods, still more may be gained the coming quarter. Nothing short of constant, steady, and permanent progress should satisfy the ambition.

Besides a steady improvement in the methods of the school, we should aim at a large increase of membership, and the establishment of many new schools during the spring quarter. Now that the winter is past all of the old members who have been kept away by bad roads and their distance from the school, should join the school for summer work. A committee may be appointed by each school to look up all the Sabbath-keepers in reach of the schools, and encourage them to attend. The whole school should be active and earnest in the work of bringing in new scholars. Visit your neighbors, tell them about your school, give the Instructor to their children, and invite them to visit your school. Whenever visitors come make them at home, meet them cordially, give them a place in your best class, and then furnish them with the lesson for next Sabbath, and urge them to come again.

Gather in the little children, many who were too young to attend last year may be brought in and formed into infant classes. W. C. WHITE.