BOOKS FOR TEACHERS AND BIBLE STUDENTS by William Clarence White

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 10, 1880

BOOKS FOR TEACHERS AND BIBLE STUDENTS.

By William Clarence White

We are glad to notice an increasing desire among our teachers, to become better skilled in the methods of teaching, and to provide themselves with the best aids for collecting the right matter to present to their classes. Many teachers have secured the few good books recommended in the SIGNS, and the result of thorough preparation begins to manifest itself in better teaching.

This week we make a valuable addition to our list of books for students and teachers, in Case's Bible Atlas. This book fills an important place in the Bible students' library. We have examined many books of this kind which were too expensive and yet too limited. This Atlas though quite comprehensive is of light expense.

Next to an understanding of Scripture narrative, it is important to know where the events of Bible history transpired. A general knowledge of Bible geography is essential to a full appreciation and understanding of the history under examination.

It is true that a knowledge of geography is a mere skeleton without the narrative, and equally true that sacred history is often a shapeless mass of events in the mind of the student who has not studied carefully the relative position and surroundings of the places with which the history deals. Bible history and Bible geography should be studied together, they cannot be separated.

Let a general outline of the geography of Bible lands be firmly fixed in the mind, and a new interest attaches to all Bible history. As we locate each event it seems more real. Parents should instruct their children more thoroughly in this branch of Bible knowledge. W. C. WHITE.