SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHER
AND STUDENT

     Let the Bible be your text and these outlines serve only as a guide in the study of the Bible. Supply yourself with a good Bible.

     Keep your Bible at hand not only during the study and preparation of these lessons but also in the recitation period.
Make it a point to cover one lesson each class period. There are fifty-two outlines, one for each week of the year, and in a class that meets weekly, better results will be obtained if too much time is not spent on any one point but the lesson studied as a whole. Many of the questions that arise for discussion during recitation will be dealt with in subsequent lessons or a subsequent part of the same lesson. General
discussion can best be invited after the lesson is first covered entirely.

     The lessons are not burdened with questions for discussion. It has been an aim of this work to avoid stereotyped recitation. The questions that follow the lessons are for the purpose of helping to prepare the lesson as much as for the class discussion.

     If the teacher will urge the students to bring their Bibles to class and during the class period will have the passages which are cited read aloud, the best impressions will be made an the lesson will proceed more easily. Too, this will do much toward familiarizing the student with the text of the Bible, which today is very much needed. Many of the passages cited can be assigned at the beginning of the lesson and looked up beforehand and then at the proper time used to establish and emphasize the point at hand.

     The greatest advantage will come from the emphasizing of what the Bible says on the point rather than permitting a free expression of opinions with reference to it.

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