(Open your Book for Work and Study that the pupils may see your first lesson neatly written and the pictures pasted. Even though you have had the children together during the week as suggested on page 22, in order that you might help them work out this first lesson in their books, it will be an encouragement to them if you examine each book and commend the work heartily when it is possible to do so. If any have not yet done the work it is of the utmost importance that you have them stay after Sunday school or see them either at their homes or your house before next Sunday. To allow the first week’s work to be neglected will leave the child to conclude that it is not very important after all and that you do not really care whether it is done or not. As soon as possible the children must learn to do the work without assistance, but at the beginning they will need both help and stimulation. Speak of the fact that if they do all the work in the Junior Course and keep their books, they will have a little library of twenty-three books illustrated with many beautiful pictures. Tell them of the exhibit of Work Books when the work of all the Juniors will be shown to other people in the Sunday school and to the parents and friends of the children. Whatever you can do to make the child see the value in his book and arouse his pride in his work will be a great help to him in establishing habits that make for strength of character. To allow a pupil to fail to do his work is to encourage a neglect of duty and indifference to just obligations, which will inevitably weaken his moral fiber.) LESSON 2 The Garden of Eden =Teaching Material.=—Genesis 2:4-25. =Pupil’s Reading.=—Genesis 2:9, 15-25. =Memory Text.=—And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2:15. LIGHT FROM OTHER BIBLE PASSAGES Proverbs 14:23; 18:9; 22:29. Ecclesiastes 9:10; 11:6; Romans 12:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 12. FROM THE COMMENTATORS Man is not made simply to enjoy life; he is to labor and work. Even such a garden as the one described in verse 9 gives scope for man’s activity; he is to till it, to develop its capacities, and adapt it to his own ends, and to keep (Isaiah 27:3) or guard it, against the natural tendency of a neglected garden to run wild, and against damage from wild animals or other possible harm.—_The Book of Genesis_, _S. R. Driver_.