SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS FOR THE YEAR
By W. C. White
IN California our Sabbath-school year begins with April, and as one year's work is drawing to a close, it is well to plan for the next. First of all we should begin at once to secure a more general attendance. The rains of winter are now over, and the roads are improving, and this is the time to hunt up absent members and add new ones, that all may become so interested before the hurry of harvest time, that a little heat or weariness will not keep them away from the school. We are glad to learn that the idea of changing officers every quarter is a thing of the past. An officer who does his duty, will improve by experience. CLASSIFICATION AND LESSONS. Be sure that you have an ample supply of lesson papers and blanks for the scholars you have, for all you are likely to have, and some extra papers for visitors. As the lessons for youth and adults are furnished in the Instructor, and are each a continuous series, but few changes are necessary in these two divisions, except that wherever there has been a mistake in classifying and the scholars cannot understand what they study, this mistake should be corrected, and all begin the year's work aright. In the children's classes more work is necessary. Those who have mastered the lessons in "Progressive Bible Lessons No. 1," should take up number two, and those scholars that have a good understanding of the subjects treated in numbers one and two, should enter upon the study of number three. This is a superb little lesson book of 132 pages, illustrated with three maps, and covering the Bible history from the death of Moses to the conspiracy of Absalom. Price, twenty-five cents. In no case should the scholars skip from the study of the first book to the third, or from the second to the Instructor. Each scholar should be examined, and only those promoted who understand the subject passed over. New classes should be formed for new scholars and for those who need to review. We advise the schools, as far as possible, to order papers and books through your local tract society librarian. Be sure to order in time.