Foreword
It is significant that in the ever-widening activities of Seventh-
day Adventists, God, through his messenger, has given instruction,
encouragement, and counsel to those connected with each branch of
major importance. The work of the Sabbath school is not lacking in
this respect. Not only in the earlier numbers of Testimonies for the
Church was counsel given regarding the Sabbath school, but also in
instructive articles from the pen of Ellen G. White, that appeared
through the years in the Sabbath School Worker. In 1900, many of
these articles were assembled and published in a small volume, which
has become well known as Testimonies on Sabbath School Work.
for nearly forty years Sabbath school workers throughout the world
have sought the valuable counsel of this little volume in building this
important organization to the place of strength it occupies today.
Since the publication of Testimonies On Sabbath School Work,
added instruction pertaining to this line of activity has appeared in
the writings of Mrs. E. G. White. The requirements of the Sabbath
school work throughout the world field indicate that the time has come
to gather together these later counsels affecting the activities in this
department and to combine them with those in the original work. The
present volume, Counsels On Sabbath School Work, is the worthy
product of this endeavor.
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The material appearing in this enlarged volume has been topically
arranged, and a table of contents prefaces each of the six sections into
which the counsel has been divided, in order to make it more readily
accessible for study or reference. Sabbath school officers and teachers,
church officers, and conference workers will find this book invaluable
in their endeavors to build a stronger Sabbath school. Teacher training
classes will find it an essential part of their source material, and every
church member may study it with great profit.
The General Conference Sabbath School Department heartily ap-
preciates the work of the board of Trustees of the Ellen G. White
Publications in preparing this compilation, and we send it forth with
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