p. 15 | Free Sample Pages

Pacific Press Publishing Association

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 32.

Free Sample Pages

of the New Church-School Readers

THAT the new Church-School Readers—True Education Readers Nos. One, Two, and Three—are appreciated is evident from the fact that almost 4,000 copies have been ordered to date. To those who have examined these Readers this is no surprise because of the following facts:

The first three of this series put the child in possession of a complete key to the English language.
They also include all the work in language, spelling, Bible, nature study, and physiology that need be taught up to and including the third grade or school year.
They are attractively and helpfully illustrated.
They are admirably adapted to home study.
And above all else they familiarize the child with the most important Bible truths.

The other numbers of this series,—there are seven in all, one for each of the first seven grades or school years,—are not yet ready but it is hoped they will be this year.

REPRESENTATIVE OPINIONS

Here are the opinions of a few of our leading educators as to the value of this series:

Frederick Griggs, Chairman Educational Department General Conference, says: "From the examination we have been able to give to the readers, we feel no hesitation in most heartily recommending them. We believe that the series, when it is fully published, will be not only thoroughly pedagogical, but will be most highly valuable in the way of truth teaching."

C. C. Lewis, President Union College, says: "I was very much pleased indeed to receive a copy of the True Education Second Reader, and to read your letter in regard to it. I will do all I possibly can to aid in the circulation of this series of books. I am glad to know that there are to be seven in the series—one for each grade. I believe that this will be a great help to our church schools throughout the world."

Prof. E. D. Sharpe, Normal Director Pacific Union College, says: "After having examined the True Education Readers, Nos. One and Two, I take pleasure in stating that I consider them, as far as matter and arrangement, to be first-class, and for our Christian schools the very best that have been published."

"We shall be glad to use them in our Normal Department, and recommend them to any others that may be desirous of securing readers. Wherever I go this coming season, I shall try to interest our people in them. I trust that the Lord may bless you in making these books what they should be, and placing them in the homes of the people."

W. D. Curtis, Educational Secretary of the Lake Union Conference, writes: "I have examined books One and Two of the True Education Reader Series, and am pleased with the mechanical make-up. They are of a convenient size, and seem to be well bound, two very important points in text-books for primary grades. The paper is good, the type large and clear, and the illustrations attractive."

"The development, which means much to the teacher, is worthy of more than a passing notice. The phonic, word, and sentence methods are the most natural, and hence most readily grasped by the pupil. His ear is trained by the phonics, and his eye by the word and sentence methods."

"The plan of correlating language, geography, spelling, writing, physiology, Bible nature, and to a certain extent, number work, is one which will be hailed with delight by the over-burdened teacher; as at least a partial emancipation from an over-crowded daily program, while the patrons will accept it as an economical feature of the series."

"Another praiseworthy feature of the Readers is, the authors, in the selection of subject-matter, have drawn from the true and beautiful in nature and the Bible. This is so far removed from the general plan of the school readers now on the market, which are filled with fairy tales, adventures, and fiction, that the True Education Reader Series occupies a unique position in the field."

"There is no doubt but that they will come into general use in the schools of the Lake Union."

FREE SAMPLE PAGES

If you wish to examine into the plan of the Readers more closely, ask the Pacific Press Publishing Co., Mountain View, Cal., for free sample pages. They will be sent promptly.

The books are profusely illustrated and strongly bound in cloth.

No. 1 contains 204 pages, at 75c post-paid. No. 2 " 256 " 75c " No. 3 " 304 " 90c "

These books may be obtained from any State Tract Society, or from the Pacific Press Publishing Company Review and Herald, and Southern Publishing Associations and their branches