Keeping Sabbath-School Lessons on Point
"Whether the class consist of children or adults, it is usually a great mistake for the Sabbath-school teacher to allow the time to be spent on incidental matters not directly connected with the lesson. Such matters must come up, but they should be disposed of briefly. The time for the lesson is short, and, in order to encourage a careful study of the lesson, it should be understood by all that no one in the class can turn it aside from the main points involved in the text for the day. We have known the whole time to be spent on some unimportant matter in the first few verses, thus not allowing the most vital and interesting things to be reached at all, though they may have received careful study. This may be an excellent way to discourage any thorough preparation, but as a rule it answers no good purpose, and the less there is of it the better."—Congregationalist.