WHAT IS TEACHING?

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1880

WHAT IS TEACHING?

In his address at the New Jersey Sunday-school Convention, Dr. Vincent said in reply to this question:—

If I give my boys five gospel truths, and they know them, I have given them five new ideas; but that is not teaching. I meet them during the week, and they recall them through my suggestion. I may give them five new ideas which they may constantly recall; yet that is not teaching. I may give them ideas which will set them to thinking during the week, so that on the next Sabbath they will have five other ideas, a kind of harvest, as it were, but though that approaches teaching, it is not yet teaching. But if I give them Bible truths which makes them think, and say if this is true something else must be true, and if that be true, on what do I stand and what will become of my soul? When I give them the truths in such a way that they not only remember them, think about them, evolve other truth from them, but apply them to themselves—that's teaching.