The Weekly Instructor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 16, 1879

The Weekly Instructor.

AT our last annual meeting, the General Sabbath-school Association recommended the publication of a weekly Instructor. This sheet is now published in behalf of the Sabbath-school interests, and its importance to the schools cannot be overestimated. Every Sabbath-school (and there should be one in every company of S. D. Adventists) should have a club of the weekly Instructor.

The question is often asked,—

WHAT SHALL WE DO FOR LESSON BOOKS?

We have not enough for all the scholars, and can buy no more from the Office. We answer, Take a club of the weekly Instructor. The Instructor will contain weekly Lessons for children, designed for those between the ages of ten and fifteen; and Lessons for youth, suited to those who are fifteen years old and upwards. Once a month the Lesson Sheets for Bible Classes will be placed in the Instructor as a Supplement. Thus everything we have in the line of lessons will be found in the Instructor except “Lessons for Little Ones,” which is published in book form.

The Instructor will also contain much interesting and instructive matter relating to the Sabbath School interests, besides its usual amount of original and carefully selected reading, with occasional letters from the children.

Do not send for too small clubs. You should not estimate how many copies you need by the number of families that send children to the Sabbath School. Clubs of sufficient size should be ordered, so that each scholar capable of studying for himself can have a sheet, and so that your neighbors and their children who may be induced to come in and take part with you, may each have a copy.

WE APPEAL

to our ministers, tract-society officers, and Sabbath-school officers especially, to immediately take hold of this matter. A responsibility rests upon you who have influence. God will hold you responsible not only for the influence you have, but for what you might have if faithful in these things. Therefore, in view of the day of judgment and the salvation of precious souls for whom Christ died, we appeal to you to take an interest in these matters which materially affect the usefulness of our Sabbath-schools. Usually, churches should have not less than twenty-four copies. This will cost you but one dollar per month, or three dollars per quarter. Small churches or companies need twelve copies. This will be but fifty cents per month, or one dollar and a half per quarter. Families living at a distance from the church, and having a different post-office, can have their copy or copies mailed to their address for ten cents extra per copy, when ordered through the superintendent. The object is that the children may keep up with the class and recite at home, in case they cannot attend the school every Sabbath.

SPECIAL OFFER.

Individuals living alone, who wish to arrange for a Sabbath-school for their neighbors and neighbors’ children, can subscribe for a club of five copies at sixty cents each. This would cost but twenty-five cents per month, or seventy-five cents per quarter.

The money for their subscriptions can be paid to the librarian, or sent directly to the Office. In the latter case, the tract society will take no responsibility in the matter. We send this week to each of our tract-society officers, ministers, and librarians, sample copies of the weekly Instructor, with blanks for orders for clubs of the Instructor. We ask for the hearty co-operation of every lover of present truth, that before February, 1879, we may have 15,000 copies on their way to the different schools and homes of our people.

S. N. HASKELL.

A SCORNER seeketh wisdom and findeth it not.