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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 8, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 7.

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IS IT A MODEL CLASS?

By E. T. Bedee

As we have come to visit the Sabbath-school, let us be seated in one of the classes.
The session opens with singing and prayer.
The superintendent calls for the recitation of single passages of Scripture. About one quarter of the school succeed in repeating a verse. The recitation of the lesson is now in order.
Teacher.—Sr. A., what must be the nature of the Judgment work in which the saints engage?
Sr. A.—What page is it on, please?
T.—Page 286.
(Here you notice, to your astonishment, that many of the pupils have question books open, prepared to say the lesson—read the answers from the book.)
Sr. A.—(Reads the answer.)
T.—What caution is given in 1 Cor. 4:5?
Bro. B.—(After looking for the text about a minute and a half, reads the verse.)
T.—Why are the saints forbidden to judge before the Lord shall come?
Sr. B.—I have been so busy this week that really—(Sr. A. shows her the answer, which she reads all right.)
T.—(Asks a general question to “any one.”)
This person must have been absent; for silence reigned for about the space of half a minute.
My brother, this is a sample of the way that some recite their Sabbath-school lesson. How is it with you?
E. T. BEDEE.
Rowley, Mass.