Part 5 (1/2)
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Some explanation of the above is needed:
1 The study of the International Lessons In all the grades the first things to be learned in each lesson are the title, the Golden Text, and the lesson story, and after these are learned the teachers take up the specific grade instruction as above The lesson thought, which appears first in Grade III, is carried through all the reht for the session These thoughts are selected by the superintendent, and by hi of each quarter To illustrate: Take the lesson for September 11, 1892, the title of which was Philip and the Ethiopian After learning the title, Golden Text, and lesson story the different grades will study as follows:
Grades I and II Learn the memory verses: 35-38
Grade III Learn the ht: ”Philip preached Jesus”
Grade IV Study about the persons: Philip, Candace, the eunuch, and Esaias, and also the saht as in Grade III
Grade V Study about the places: Jerusalehts: ”Philip preached Jesus,” and ”Prompt response to call of duty”
Grade VI Study custo to Jerusale in chariot, and the sahts as in Grade V
Grades VII and VIII Thoughts-- ”Philip preached Jesus”
”Pro”
”Understand as you read”
”Act up to your knowledge”
Grades IX and X Thoughts-- ”Philip preached Jesus I can do the same”
”Prompt response to call of duty How these calls come”
”Fulfillment of prophecy”
”Immediate conversion and baptism”
”The new-found joy”
2 The Supplemental Lessons The aim of these lessons is to furnish systematic instruction upon the subjects indicated, which are ht to know, but which cannot be taught from the International Lessons Each year contains thirty-six lessons which can easily be memorized and recited in the twenty minutes usually allowed for this study The titles readily suggest the nature of the lessons
A weekly teachers'is held under the direction of the superintendent for the purpose of assisting the teachers in the right understanding of the things required to be taught on the succeeding Sunday, and instructing the that particular lesson It is a sort of teachers'and normal class combined
EXAMINATIONS AND MARKS
Written examinations upon the International Lessons are held at the end of each quarter, and one upon the Supplemental Lessons is held near the close of the year, upon each of which the scholars are marked Each scholar is also marked at each session of the school upon a scale of five credits, as follows: one for attendance at the opening of the school, one for attention during school ti the school, one for attendance upon preaching service, and one for lesson study at home These marks, taken in connection with the exaeneral work of the scholar during the year, determine his promotion at the end of the year The scholar who coraduation and admitted to the Senior Department of the school No special work other than that usually taken up in Bible classes has been attempted in any of the classes of the Senior Departreat stress is laid upon the work of instruction in the school, it must not be concluded that the spiritual work is overlooked