THE INTERNATIONAL S. S. LESSONS.
By Editor
WE wish to call the attention of our workers to this department of the SIGNS, not for the purpose of urging them to use personally the helps which the SIGNS gives, but to use the department to introduce the paper among their friends and neighbors. There are difficulties with the Sunday-school lesson helps generally, as published in other papers; they help the people but very little to an understanding of the word of God, or even of the lesson Scripture. They do not explain scripture by scripture. They simply give opportunity, as a leading New York paper remarked, for the teachers to indulge in so many sermonettes, giving opinions of God's word, instead of teaching his word. In the helps in the SIGNS we endeavor to make the lesson as simple as possible, and at the same time teach as much of the saving truth of God as we can. The lessons will not go out of the way to strike at some erroneous doctrine, and so prejudice the student. The object is to make the truth as it is in Christ—simple, forcible, effectual, ever honoring and exalting God's precious word. Is not this a means by which your neighbor might be led to become interested in the SIGNS? As he found help on his lessons in the paper—as not a few Sunday-school teachers have—would he not be led to think that the SIGNS could help him in other respects? We believe that these lessons in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES may be made of great help in getting interested readers and seekers after the truth in multitudes of homes. May God help our people to use every lawful means to spread his truth; for the time is short.