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church or, if it is at all convenient, in your home. With youth and adults try extra Bible study nights. If they can meet in a home you will find the interest will be great. If they can come to your home or the home of some member of the class once a month or so to answer questions and discuss spiritual prob lems you will discover they will become better acquainted with you, with each other and with the Lord. It’s important to enlist parent co operation. Let the parents know from the start just what you expect of them. Suggest the use of the pupil’s workbook in family devo tions. Keep in contact with the home by notes, phone calls and visits. Some teachers even send re port cards home with the pupil. A Bible for each student If you want your pupils to be come Bible students, you must see to it that each one owns his own Bible. Many Sunday schools pre sent their primary graduates with Bibles. See that they have a good binding and clear black print, large enough for the child to read easily. Their great appreciation of the gold edge is worth the extra cost. One school supplies Bibles for those who do not own one in this way: mem bers of the church, instead of send ing flowers at the death of a loved one, donate Bibles which are used to decorate the pulpit. A notice is printed in the church bulletin to the effect that these Bibles are given in memory of . . . . The names of the donor and of the one for whom the memorial is given are written in the Bible. Teach each pupil to handle the Bible with reverence and great care; treat it as if it were crown jewels. Suggest that they never allow any thing else to rest on it. Of course you set the example in your own treatment of the Holy Word. It is your responsibility as a teacher to stir a real desire on the part of your pupils to daily feed on the Word of God. Job 23:12 says:
read m y Bible. W rite up each les son as assigned. Bring it to Sunday school each week. Remember the things it teaches me, as I seek to honor Christ day b y day. Because I am sincere about this, I want to sign m y name and keep this as a reminder. Signed ................................ Giving and gaining extra help Just a few minutes in class as the new books are introduced may not be sufficient time to help all your pupils. Some may be a bit slow and need your personal at tention. Others may be careless or indifferent and need parent cooper ation. If it is at all possible, invite the one who has real difficulty in his homework to have a time alone with you so you can learn his prob lem. It may be in your home or at the church. If he has trouble lo cating the Bible references, work with him on learning the names of the books of the Bible. If he has When I awake with each new day Give me the will three things to say, “ I thank Thee, Lord; I trust Thee, too,” And— “What wilt Thou have me to do?” The first, you see, keeps worry out, The second drives away all doubt, And this completes my three-fold cord— Some useful service for my Lord. ★ difficulty in understanding the work in the book, help him with it. Make him feel that you really want to assist him in his work. Open the way so he feels free to come to you at any time. Working on a project such as making a map or puppets, painting a mural, making a scrapbook on creation, must be done as a group activity. Let the class meet in the ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ W hen I A wake by Eric S. Horn
Other pupils As an incentive to your primary age class, show your own book care fully worked out with the pictures beautifully colored. This will make them want to color their own hooks the best they can. Show the inter esting extra features such as quiz zes, maps, etc. Previ ew the quarter’s lessons, very briefly calling attention to special features. Show your pupils how to use the book in guiding them in the study of God’s Word. Sug gest that all over junior age use the Bible references as a daily de votional guide. After introducing the very first junior or junior high book, take 15 minutes to work out together the first three or four days? work. This will only leave three or four days to complete the assignment for the week and the pupil can experience the satisfaction of accomplishment. If you include points on the honor roll, he has made a good start. Next week, work out two days’ as signments together in class. This will leave five days’ work for them to do at home. Praise those who complete the lessons, and give spe cial help to those who need it. See that every member of your class has completed two lessons. Contin ue for another week or possibly two, having the pupils work out parts of several days’ lessons in class. Help them to learn how to do the work in their workbooks and to find the verses in the Bible. You want them to form the habit of completing each week’s work. Before long, all the work in their books should be done outside the class period. For junior and senior high pupils, try slipping a mimeographed sheet into their new books before you pass them out with the following state ments. Then discuss it in class. (It was used with real success in a class of junior highs.) 7 shall try this quarter to: Take good care of m y book and keep it with m y Bible. Use it daily as I
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