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The Bible Teacher
The best ministerial talent should be employed to lead and direct
in the teaching of the Bible in our schools. Those chosen for this
work need to be thorough Bible students; they should be men who
have a deep Christian experience, and their salary should be paid
from the tithe.
The Bible teacher should be one who is able to teach the students
how to present the truths of the word of God in a clear, winning
manner in public and how to do effective evangelistic work from
house to house. It is essential that he be skillful in teaching those
who have a desire to work for the Master how to use wisely that
which they have learned. He should instruct the students to approach
the study of the Bible in the spirit of humility, to search its pages,
not for proof to sustain human opinions, but with a sincere desire to
know what God has said.
Early in their experience our students should be taught to become
Bible workers. Those who are consecrated and teachable may have
success in active service for Christ while pursuing their courses of
study. If they spend much time in prayer, if they humbly take counsel
from their instructors, they will grow in a knowledge of how to work
for souls. And when they go forth into the great harvest field they
may with confidence pray, “Let the beauty of the Lord our God be
upon us: and establish Thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the
work of our hands establish Thou it.”
Psalm 90:17
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In our schools the work of teaching the Scriptures to the youth
is not to be left wholly with one teacher for a long series of years.
The Bible teacher may be well able to present the truth, and yet
it is not the best experience for the students that their study of the
word of God should be directed by one man only, term after term
and year after year. Different teachers should have a part in the
work, even though they may not all have so full an understanding
of the Scriptures. If several in our larger schools unite in the work
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