In any graded course of study the pupils are expected to earn promotion from grade to grade by attaining a certain required average in their work. In the Junior Course the Pupil’s Book for Work and Study is, as the name implies, both a guide in study, and a means of fixing in mind the knowledge which has been gained. To meet the requirements of this book the pupil must do the daily Bible readings, learn the memory text or texts each week, do whatever reading is required, and learn the hymns that are printed in the book. At the beginning of the course the pupils should understand that the doing of the work for which the Work Book calls is a requirement for promotion. In all schools seventy-five per cent out of a possible one hundred is accepted as a passing average. Therefore, three out of four Work Books satisfactorily completed during the year entitle the child to promotion. Knowledge that the requirements of the Work Book must be met in order to earn promotion is with many children one of the strongest incentives that can be presented to them for doing that work regularly and well. Recognition for Extra Work Every child should be incited to do more than merely meet the requirement that passes him from one grade to the next. It is to furnish this stimulation that extra honor work is provided. If the child chooses to complete the fourth Work Book he earns an honor in that way. If the hymn given for illustration is illustrated that gives another honor. Learning the optional memory passages, prayers, and hymns is a third method of gaining honors; and regular attendance upon the church service a fourth. I. STORIES OF THE BEGINNINGS LESSON 1 THE CORRELATED LESSON At the beginning of this lesson the teacher and each pupil should have his Bible in hand. Let us look at this book of ours which is the finest story book in all the world. What name do you find on the back of the book? The word Bible means “The Book,” and that is the best possible name for God’s Word, because it is the Book of all the world, the one of which more copies are made, sold, and read than of any other. In the last hundred years 316,000,000 copies of the Bible were sent out by the different Bible societies of the world. Now let us look at this wonderful Book. Turn to the title-page and we will read together what we find there. Containing what? So there are two great divisions in this book of ours, one called the Old Testament and the other the New Testament, and it is just as you would think from the names. The Old Testament tells of things that happened long, long before those that are told about in the New Testament. (Drill on the names of the two parts of the Bible until the class is familiar with the words.)