Our Sabbath-School Department.
By Editor
FOR a long time our chief thought in preparing matter for the Sabbath-school Department was to make the department one of interest to the general reader, since but few of those who were studying the lessons could receive the SIGNS in time to make use of the comments. The many encouraging reports, however, from those on this coast who did make use of the notes in preparing their lessons, made us determine to begin with the new series of lessons to make this department of practical interest to the Sabbath-schools all over the land. Circumstances made it impossible to put this plan into execution at once, but this week we are "on time." By omitting the lesson immediately following the one commented on last week, it being a review, we this week print the lesson which appears in the Youth's Instructor of same date. We believe this advance will not be unappreciated by the multitude of Sabbath-school scholars in the East. As before, we design to comment in such a manner that those not connected with any Sabbath-school may not feel that there is any portion of the paper in which they have no interest. The fact that the lessons are printed in full will add to the interest of this department. The many readers of the SIGNS who may not be favored with the weekly visits of the Youth's Instructor, may thus pursue by themselves a systematic course of Bible study.