Inducing to Study by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 38.

Inducing to Study.

By Editor

THE recitation is the test of study; it is also the cause. The skilled disciplinarian of the week-day school may secure perfect order in his school-room; he may have the eyes of all his pupils riveted upon their books, but still this is not proof that they are studying their lessons. It is only at the recitation bench that he is able to know whether they have studied or not; and, therefore, here is the place to exercise such means as will secure study. This principle holds good in Sabbath-schools, and if the scholars fail to study, let the teacher take much of the blame upon himself. The exact modus operandi of securing this study we do not now undertake to give. This, however, must be aimed at, and there should be an earnest perseverance in this aim. Here is a field for your inventive genius. When one has induced an individual to study, he has laid the foundation of learning.