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The Fundamentals then she said to her, “Tell me, what was it that finally in fluenced you to do this?” “Why, it was what you said to me that day you called,” was the reply. And a Sunday School teacher was glad that she had dared to “make a mistake” for her Lord. There are many methods of evangelism of which the Sun day School makes blessed use. “Decision Day” when wisely observed has resulted in great blessing. On this day a direct appeal to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour is made from the platform to the school or the department as a whole, and op portunity is given for formal response in the way of signed cards or otherwise. The observance of such a day is most blessed when there has been earnest, faithful preparation for it in prayer, by teachers and officers. I t seems better not to have the day announced in advance to the school, but only to teachers and officers, that they may prepare for it in prayer and in personal work. But the all-the-time evangelism of the faithful teacher is the surest and most effective. Most effective, that is, if ac companied by all-the-time prayer. Prayer meetings of the teachers for the conversion and consecration of the pupils is a secret of the continuously evangelistic Sunday School. What sort of teaching is done in the Sunday School in which true evangelism is conspicuous? It is teaching that assumes that the whole Bible is the inspired Word of God; unique, authoritative, infallible. The acceptance of destructive criticism’s theories and conclusions can have no place in this teaching. The evangelistic school knows that all men (and “men” means men, women and children) are lost until saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. The teaching in such a school brings out clearly the lost condition of the entire human race by nature, and recognizes no possibility of salvation by educa tion, character, or any other works of man. It gives full
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