p. 209 | THE TEACHERS' MEETING by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 12, 1881

THE TEACHERS' MEETING.

By Editor

Do you have a Teachers' Meeting for your Sabbath school? If not, you are losing much; your school is lacking in many respects.

1. Nothing succeeds well without order. System, method, is essential to the success of the school, and if the teachers improve the opportunity to consult with the Superintendent and with one another, they can best secure this end.

2. They will learn the condition of each others' classes, and thus come into sympathy with one another. There is nothing like a well ordered Teachers' Meeting to unite the forces of the school.

3. They will come to their class exercises better prepared than would be possible without the meeting. It is well known to all students that class exercises are more profitable than solitary study. These exercises for the teachers are obtained in the Teachers' Meeting.

4. It insures harmony of sentiment as well as unity in methods. Sometimes questions arise upon which there may possibly be disagreement among the teachers. Such questions should never come up before the school. The Teachers' Meeting is the place to settle them. To argue a point before the full school is certain to demoralize your classes.

If you have a Teachers' Meeting, do all the teachers attend it? If not, why not? It is the duty of each teacher to do all he can to secure the prompt and constant attendance of each member of his class at the school. Even so it is his duty to attend the Teachers' Meetings. Let the Superintendent inquire the reason, personally, of any being absent. EDITOR.