Excerpt from The Pupil, Vol. 1 Have you ever thought about what it takes to make a Sunday school? We are doubtless all familiar with the remark of President Garfield that Mark Hopkins on one end of a Jog and a student on the other would be a college. Would a similar definition answer for a Sunday school? Imagine a boy seated on one end of a bench and John H. Vincent on the other. What more would be necessary to constitute a Sunday school? An open-hearted pupil and a good teacher brought together anywhere at any time provide the chief requirements of what we have in mind when we speak of. A Sun day school. Besides these two factors of first importance there are others that also are important. Since there are many more pupils than there are good teachers, and since systematic plans are needed for bringing pupils 'and teachers together regularly in an advantageous place, as well as for other reasons, an organization is needed. Often when we use the term Sunday school we have in mind simply this necessary organization. Then, of course, _ the teacher is not merely to talk with his pupils upon any subject that may chance to occur to his mind. Lessons, intelligently selected, suited to the pupils' needs, are required. In making the lessons effective in the lives of the pupils there are principles and methods which should be under stood and used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.