The Sabbath-School by C. H. Jones

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 9, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 22.

The Sabbath-School.

By C. H. Jones

SPECIAL NOTICE.

SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

AT the last session of the International Association, it was voted to publish the Sabbath-school lessons for the senior classes in the foreign languages in pamphlet form, thus making them uniform with the lessons in English.

For the first two quarters of this year, the lessons were published in that form and handled by the Tract Societies, but the sales being so light, and the expense of translating and printing the lessons in this form so heavy, the International Association has already lost over four hundred dollars by the operation. It will, therefore, be absolutely necessary to make some changes at once.

Several plans have been suggested, but the most feasible one, and the one which we think will give the best satisfaction, is this:—

1. Publish the lessons as we do in the English, quarterly, without cover, charging five cents per copy, post-paid. 2. Call it a "Quarterly Journal," and have it registered as second-class matter in order to save postage. 3. Take it wholly out of the hands of the Tract Societies, and let the subscriptions be taken and forwarded by the Sabbath-school officers without commission. 4. Print from type, making no plates or matrices. 5. Furnish the European from the American edition, and thus save the expense of plates.

In this way all commission will be saved, and the association will receive the full price of the pamphlet.

A committee was called together in Battle Creek, Mich., May 19, 1890, to consider this question, and the above plan was unanimously indorsed.

Now we propose to give it a thorough trial, and hope to have the hearty co-operation of all those interested in the question. Unless this does succeed in reducing the expense very materially, then we shall be obliged to return to the old plan of publishing the lessons in the foreign periodicals.

The lessons for the next quarter in Danish, Swedish, French, and German, will be published at the Review and Herald Office, Battle Creek, Mich., to whom all orders should be addressed. Price, five cents per copy, post-paid.

Each school desiring lessons in any of these languages will now order direct from Review and Herald Office, sending the money with the order.

C. H. JONES, Pres. Int. S. S. Assoc.