THE following is condensed from outline adopted by the Educational Department at its last general meeting. All supplementary books are eliminated. Such books as are published by the Pacific Press Publishing Company are given in capitals. Books they can secure are italicized.
First Grade.
Bible Nature.—Simple Bible stories. Ten subjects from the Old Testament, and ten from the New Testament.
Reading.—Blackboard work, followed by “TRUE EDUCATION READER SERIES,” NUMBER ONE (price 75 cents). Correlated subjects: spelling, language, numbers, writing, drawing, and busy work.
Industrial Study and Work.—Gardening, sewing, paper and cardboard work, care of schoolroom. Correlated subjects, numbers and drawing.
Music.—Rote singing.
Second Grade.
Bible and Nature.—Stories of Christ as Creator and Saviour; oral work.
Reading.—“TRUE EDUCATION READER SERIES,” NUMBER TWO (price 75 cents). Correlated subjects continued from first grade. “Augsburg’s Drawing Manual,” Number One (price 75 cents, postage additional) for teacher, with accompanying tablets or cards for pupils. (Tablets 15 cents each, postage additional.)
Industrial Study and Work.—Continued from first grade.
Music.—Rote singing continued.
Third Grade.
Bible and Nature.—Stories of creation, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and reformers.
Reading.—“TRUE EDUCATION READER SERIES,” NUMBER THREE, (price 90 cents post-paid). Correlated subjects: language, numbers, spelling, writing, drawing, and geography. “Augsburg’s Drawing Manual,” Number One, for teacher, with tablets for pupils as in grade two.15
Industrial Study and Work.—Continued from second grade.
Bible.—Creation to Joshua. “McKIBBIN’S BIBLE LESSONS,” NUMBER ONE (price 50 cents post-paid). Correlated subjects, spelling and geography.
Nature Study.—General view. “Bible Nature Study” for teacher (price $1.00). “NATURE STUDY NOTE BOOK,” NUMBER ONE (price 40 cents, post-paid). “Elementary Science,” Number One, in preparation. Correlated subjects: spelling and drawing.
Reading.—“True Education Reader Series,” Number Four (not yet ready, use Number Three).
Arithmetic.—Mental and elementary.
Industrial Work.—Gardening, chair caning, sewing, basket-making, care of schoolroom.
Penmanship and Drawing.—Class organized, work alternated. Spencerian system. “Augsburg’s Drawing Manual,” Number Two, for teacher (price 75 cents, postage additional). Tablets for pupils.
Music.—Sight singing. Scale, key of C.
Fifth Grade.
Bible.—Joshua to restoration of Jerusalem. “McKibbin’s Bible Lessons,” Number Two (not ready, probably One and Two will be combined in a single volume. Follow outline found on pages 6, 7, and 8 in NUMBER ONE). Correlated subjects: spelling, drawing, and geography.
Nature Study and Geography.—General view continued. “Bible Nature Studies,” for teacher. “NATURE STUDY NOTE BOOK,” NUMBER TWO (price 40 cents, post-paid. “Elementary Science,” Number Two, in preparation.)
Reading.—“TRUE EDUCATION READER SERIES,” NUMBER FIVE (price $1.00). Correlated subjects, language and spelling.
Arithmetic.—Work of fourth grade continued.
Industrial Study and Work.—Continued from fourth grade.
Penmanship and Drawing.—Continued from fourth grade. “Augsburg’s Drawing Manual,” Number Two, for teacher (price 75 cents, postage additional). Tablets for pupils.
Music.—Work of fourth grade continued.
Sixth Grade.
Bible.—Life of Christ. “McKibbin’s Bible Lessons,” Number Three (not yet ready. Use outline found on page 8 and 9 of “McKibbin’s Bible Lessons,” Number One). Correlated subjects: spelling and geography.
Nature Study and Physiology.—Work of fifth grade continued. “BIBLE NATURE STUDIES” for teacher. “NATURE STUDY NOTE BOOK,” NUMBER THREE (price 40 cents post-paid. “Elementary Science,” Number Three in preparation.) Correlated with geography.
Reading.—“True Education Reader Series,” Number Six (not yet ready; use Number Five.) Correlated subjects language and spelling.
Arithmetic.—Practical. Any standard text begun.
Industrial Study and Work.—Gardening, sewing, basket-making, and woodwork.
Penmanship and Drawing.—Work of fifth grade continued. “Augsburg’s Drawing Book,” Number Two for teacher. Tablets for pupils.
Music.—“Smith’s Practical Music Reader.”
Seventh Grade.
Bible.—Elementary Lessons from Daniel and the Revelation. Elementary General History. Correlated subjects: spelling and geography.
Reading.—“TRUE EDUCATION READER,” NUMBER SEVEN (not yet ready; will be about November 1).
Language.—“BELL’S LANGUAGE SERIES,” NUMBER THREE (price 80 cents).
Arithmetic.—Practical. Any standard text.
Spelling.—“Reed’s Word Lessons.”
Industrial Study and Work.—Work of sixth grade continued.
Penmanship and Drawing.—Work of sixth grade continued.
Music.—Work of sixth grade continued.
Eighth Grade.
Bible.—Acts of the Apostles and Doctrinal Subjects. “McKibbin’s Bible Lessons,” Number Four (not yet ready), “EARLY WRITINGS” (price 75 cents, post-paid).
U. S. History.—Any standard text.
Physiology.—“Kellogg’s Physiology,” Number Two (price 80 cents, postage additional).
Language.—“BELL’S LANGUAGE SERIES,” NUMBER THREE reviewed and completed.
Arithmetic.—Practical. Any standard text completed.
Spelling.—“Reed’s Word Lessons.”
Manual Work and Study.—Agriculture, woodwork, sewing.
Penmanship and Drawing.—Work of seventh grade continued.
Music.—“Practical Music Reader,” completed.
Ninth Grade.
Bible.—Life of Christ. “Kern’s New Testament History,” Book One (price $1.00, post-paid). “DESIRE OF AGES” (plain without illustrations, $1.50, post-paid).
Botany and Civil Government.—Standard texts.
Mathematics.—Simple Accounting and Advanced Arithmetic.
Advanced English.—Rine’s “Essentials of Our Language” (price 75 cents, post-paid).
Manual Work and Study.—Agriculture, carpentry, blacksmithing, cooking, and sewing.
Sample pages of “TRUE EDUCATION READER SERIES” will be sent free on
Girls
By Mrs. A. J. S. Bourdeau
The Dangers That Menace Them.
By Mrs. A. J. S. Bourdeau.
(Concluded from Last Week.)
IF I could rightly picture to you the extreme loveliness of a young girl yet in her teens, who has been rightly trained in womanliness from infancy, I would be painting one of the grandest pictures possible. Occasionally we meet her—that dear young girl. See, her eyes are bright, her manner is free, and “the joy and tingle of life is ‘way down to her very toes.’” Full of life, health, vivacity, tempered with unselfishness and gentleness.
“Fifteen is the bud of what the flower will be at thirty,” and “womanhood is almost in sight at that age.” O, the possibilities for good or ill in that one fair creature!
To become a strong, noble woman, she has her daily Bible verse for meditation and for strength. She prays alone in the morning and in the evening, for sweet, tender grace to be brave, to be true, and to be great in God’s sight. The mother who has taught her child to seek this heavenly aid for herself, has most strongly fortified her against all life’s dangers.
She does not fritter away her time reading trash; for by reading trash she will not reap a noble womanhood. She reads the best books now, that she may relish the best books when she is older.
This sweet young girl has been taught to make an atmosphere of sunshine and cheerfulness about her. She gives of herself. One friend said to one of these girls: “If I had money I should always send flowers to my friends who were ill; but, of course, I can’t.”
“Well,” she replied brightly, “when my friends are ill I can’t send flowers either, but I usually sit down and write them little letters. I generally tell them something nice about themselves to cheer them; and if they’ve ever helped me, made me happy, why, I mention it, and tell them I love them, or something like that. Of course, it is not the same as a bunch of flowers, but it is better than nothing, and it costs only a two-cent stamp.” A bright, loving note would often bring more cheer to an invalid friend than costly flowers.
She is exquisitely tidy and clean in raiment, and the slovenliness of missing hooks and buttons can never be charged to her.
She believes in the dignity of work.
She is not necessarily scholarly, but she possesses a sweet disposition, which is more to be desired, because it creates an atmosphere in which others can be happy.
She is not ashamed of being honestly poor. She has grace to get along without the new hat that she can not afford. She has been taught self-denial when the purse is well-filled, as well as when it is empty.
She is not so conceited that she imagines herself an object of constant scrutiny. Her thoughts are not confined to such a narrow outlook, or “inlook,” as to how she is looking and acting, or of what others think about her.
She possesses a spirit of voluntary self-sacrifice. Her unselfishness is shown in her daily ministrations to her family and friends, the little unobtrusive courtesies that give pleasure—the comfortable chair and slippers ready for her father at night, the pillow at the opportune moment for her mother’s tired back, the bouquet for the father’s desk, the new plaything for the fretful baby, the remedy for the brother’s hurt finger, the threaded needles for grandmother. She allows her mother to pass in and out of the door before her; she gives her elders the comfortable chairs; she assists her mother into the car or carriage and carries her parcels.
As Mrs. Sangster says, “She is young and dear and sweet, and well-poised, and consecrates all she is to God.”
I have pictured what a girl should be. If good fills the heart and mind, there is no room for evil.
So, the training of our girl in all the traits of womanliness will provide for her an “invisible coat of mail” from which every danger will fall harmless to the ground, and leave her pure and unscathed.
Longing for Home.
By Mrs. M. Sollars
WE are longing for our home land,
Blessed Jesus, Saviour, Friend,
We are striving to be faithful
And endure unto the end.
Tho the battle rages fiercely,
Yet we know it is not long;
Soon the conflict will be over,
Soon we’ll sing the victor’s song.
See, around us signs are telling
That the time is almost here,
We may lift our heads with gladness,
Our redemption draweth near.
Give us freely of Thy Spirit,
Souls to win for that great day,
While the harvest-time is waiting,
Help us bear the sheaves away.
Give us strength to gather quickly
All who will believe and come,
Finish quickly, Saviour, quickly,
We are longing for our home.
MRS. M. SOLLARS.
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By Editor
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BEAUTIFUL BIBLE MOTTOES.
They are selling everywhere. Three agents ordered 5,000 each. One agent has taken, in less than eight months, 6,783 mottoes. If you send us a good recommendation from the elder of your church we will mail you one dozen on thirty days’ time.
Address, Hampton Art Company, Hampton, Iowa.
Beautiful Bible Mottoes
No home complete without them
There is no better time than the present to sell them. They sell readily everywhere, and agents are making good wages. An inspiration to higher living in every home. Nearly 75 styles of mottoes in English, and two each in German, Danish and Swedish. Ten dozen beauties, $7.00. Sell for $25.00. Five dozen, $3.75. Sixteen samples, all different, $1.00. All prepaid. Safe delivery guaranteed. Particulars free.
Address, Home Art Co., Box 114, College View, Neb.
ADDRESS WANTED.
Any one knowing the whereabouts of Orren McBride, 23 years of age, last heard from one year ago in Ferry, Wash., will confer a favor by writing his mother, Margaret McBride, 218 Orchard St., Alma, Mich.
Additional Book Information
For additional information concerning any of the above books, address your state tract society.
Dedicatory Services.—On Sabbath, September 7, our new meeting-house at Mountain View was dedicated, and on Sunday, September 8, we dedicated our new office building to the important purpose for which it was erected. These dedicatory exercises were not only very interesting, but they were exceedingly instructive and helpful. We only have time for this brief note this week; next week we will have quite a full report of the exercises, together with some illustrations.
The Weights
The Weights.—When the Lord enjoins us to forsake the follies and vanities of this world, it is that the way may be made easier for us. He does not wish to deprive us of any pleasure that will help in the journey of life; we are only to put aside the things that would hinder in running a race for life. "Wherefore, . . . . let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." Heb. 12:1.
Modern Guns and Earth’s Final Conflict
The Cruiser Raleigh has a five-inch gun that has broken the world's record for guns of that caliber. During the last target practice this gun made six shots and scored six hits in twenty-five seconds. Fifty years ago it took nearly a quarter of an hour to load the heavy guns of that time. First the powder had to be rammed into the gun thru the muzzle, and then the ball had to be rammed in by the same method, and it took lots of time. A single modern gun can do far more execution now than a number of whole batteries could have done a half century in the past. These engines of destruction are all to come into furiously intense action in the closing days of earth's history. Is it any wonder that God's word tells us that in that time the blood will flow so deep that it will reach even to the horses' bridles? How soul-satisfying it is to know that we can stand with God in that time, and under His sheltering protection be kept free from that awful conflict!
Our European Letters.
By Editor
OUR European Letter in the SIGNS of September 4 shows the significant tendency of Protestantism (so called) in Switzerland, one of the strongholds of the Reformation. That which goes by the name of Protestantism there is no longer such, only in name. That mighty power that was with the strong men who changed the whole course of religious thought in the sixteenth century has been allowed to leak out of the minds of the great mass of those who claim to be following on in the footsteps of Luther and Melanchthon, of Zwingle and Calvin and all the rest. The first great apostasy was predicted by Daniel, John, and Paul, and was a leading part also in the teaching of Christ when telling to His disciples the events that would be seen in the world. That first apostasy produced the Papacy and the resultant Dark Ages. The prophets tell also of a second apostasy that will so weaken Protestantism that it will swing back into the papal fold, and the Papacy will regain all her former power, and to that former power will be added the strength that is represented by the intensity of the combinations of these days. The developments in this phase of the fulfilling prophecies of our day are most intensely interesting, and should be studied and watched carefully by all those who expect to stand true with God in the closing battles of the conflict of sin that has cursed this world for all the ages since man fell. The power and influence of the Papacy is to be fully restored, and it will be absolutely world-wide. Its consummation is one of the very last fulfillments of the prophetic word before the Lord comes.
In our issue of September 18, we also had a significant article, telling of the decadence of the blind faith in the Papacy that is so noticeable in Italy. The prophecy calls for the restoration of the Papacy before the end of time, as every student of the Bible ought to know. But this restoration is to be brought about thru the prestige that is given to it in this country. And while it may be apparently weakening in some small portions of other lands, it is in this nation that we are to look to see it gaining in strength and influence and power till all the world will be brought to pay homage at its feet.
Our European Letter found on page ten of this issue tells of the conditions in England, and the unrest and rioting in one of the important sections of Ireland is mentioned. In presenting the facts that make up the doings of the various sections of the world it is our aim to give those things that are of general interest, and in the main to mention things that have a bearing on the fulfilling prophecies of these days. We do not always make mention of the prophecy in presenting facts, for we are addressing a class of readers that have been studying the prophecies with us, some of them for many years, and we know that they will see the bearing of what is being reported.
The doings of the world to-day are freighted with significant import. They should be studied closely in the light of what God has foretold concerning them. God has shed great light upon these times, and if we would escape the terrors of the darkness that is coming upon the world we must stand in that light.
T.
Deceptions
Deceptions.—When a person accepts a grand truth, the first thing which Satan does is to endeavor to obscure it, or make it of none effect, by placing between that truth and its Author some great lie. It was a glorious truth which Mahomet grasped when he learned that God was one, and that idols were nothing, but that truth was made utterly worthless by the falsehood that Mahomet is His prophet. The error severed the truth from God, the Author of truth. The coming of the Lord is a precious truth, but Satan has induced many to accept of certain unscriptural doctrines, like "the return of the Jews," "Anglo-Israelite" domination, "secret rapture of the saints," "age to come" and others. Beloved, be not deceived. Truth is effectual when connected with God. Separated from Him by cherished error it is but an empty form. The word of God teaches one way of salvation thru all the ages—the way of obedient faith.
