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Teacher-Training Series

FOR THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SUNDAY
SCHOOL LITERATURE COMMITTEE OF THE
BOARD OF THE LUTHERAN PUBLI-
CATION SOCIETY

BOOK TWO

THE PUPIL AND THE TEACHER

BY LUTHER A. WEIGLE, PH. D.
Professor of Philosophy, Carleton College

THE UNITED LUTHERAN PUBLICATION HOUSE

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

It is with a sense of satisfaction that we present this series of Sunday School Teacher-Training handbooks. Their preparation has been in response to a frequently expressed desire on the part of many of our pastors and teachers. The committee has felt the difficulty of the task and the many conditions to be met. Much consideration has been given to the work, and not a little revision has been found necessary. To enter a field already largely occupied and vindicate our claim that such a series is needed, is no small task. These books have been made, not because there are not already many excellent books on teacher-training, but because none of them covers all the ground we deem requisite. Nothing needs to be more carefully guarded than the character of the literature we give to our Sunday schools. Especially is this true of the helps for the study and teaching of God's word. We lay emphasis upon child-nurture from the viewpoint of our Church's teaching, that baptized children are members of the Church of Christ. The responsibility of the Sunday school in teaching the child is the responsibility of the Church. The teacher, therefore, should know not only his Bible and its message, not only the laws of child-thought and the best methods of influencing the unfolding soul, but he should know what his Church stands for and what it teaches. With this conception of our responsibility we have chosen the subjects and the writers. The work speaks for itself. We believe it will be found adapted to the better equipment of our Lutheran teachers. The series consists of four books, as follows: "The Book and the Message," "The Pupil and the Teacher," "The School and the Church" and "The Lutheran Church and Child-Nurture." The aim of these books is to furnish the teachers and officers of our Sunday schools with a working knowledge of the Bible as a book and as the message of

God to men; of the personality of the pupils, and the principles and methods to be applied in teaching them; of the organization, aim and work of the Sunday school, and of our Lutheran views of the child's relation to the Church.

SUNDAY SCHOOL Literature CommitteE.

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