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Counsels on Sabbath School Work
much good will be accomplished. But it is not enough to have the
Sabbath school move like well-regulated machinery. There should be
practical workers; the teachers should be of that class who have a living
connection with God, who have an appetite for study themselves, who
will give time and moral earnestness to their work, and who will not
be satisfied unless they see something accomplished....
[185]
It is important that the exercises in our camp meeting Sabbath
schools be conducted with order, promptness, and efficiency. Then the
right mold will be given to Sabbath schools in the different churches,
as the people return to their homes. Do not allow business and other
interests to crowd out the Sabbath school interest, so that it shall
be considered a matter of no special consequence.—
Testimonies on
Sabbath-School Work, 12-14
.
Local Institutes Suggested
Instruction in regard to conducting the Sabbath school should, to a
large degree, be given in the home churches; for the labor can be made
more direct and the results will be more permanent if instruction is
given at home. This work does not require the services of the ministers;
they should be free to attend to the spiritual interests of the people.
They are to teach others what to do. They must instruct the people as to
how to come to the Lord and how to lead others to Him.—
Testimonies
on Sabbath-School Work, 113, 114
.
Sabbath School Conventions
Question. [
Note.—Following remarks of Mrs. E. G. White to The
General Conference Committee, at Lake Goguac, near Battle Creek,
Michigan, July 14, 1890, questions were asked by various ministers,
and answered by her. The questions pertaining to the Sabbath school
work are here quoted.
]—Would you think, Sister White, that taking
up the detail work of drilling the Sabbath school workers would come
under the same head? [That is, drilling canvassers, and missionary
workers, and holding cooking schools at our camp meetings.]
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Answer.—Exactly; it is not the place for it. That is to be done; but
it has its time and place.