Produced by Charlene Taylor, Douglas L Alley, III and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Sunday-School Success Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers By Amos R. Wells Author of "Business," "When Thou Hast Shut Thy Door," "Social Evenings," etc. [Illustration] NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO Fleming H. Revell Company Publishers of Evangelical Literature Copyright, 1897, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY THE NEW YORK TYPE-SETTING COMPANY THE CAXTON PRESS Preface In these pages I have described the methods of the most successful teachers and Sunday-schools I have known. While a large part of the book is the direct fruit of my own experience in Sabbath and secular schools, it sets forth, as every teacher will understand, what I have learned from my failures rather than from my successes. Though the volume has something to say on all the great Sunday-school problems, it does not pretend to be a complete manual; indeed, who could prepare one on so stupendous a theme? If it justifies its appearance among the admirable treatises already published for Sunday-school workers, it will be because it presents with frankness the methods found helpful by an average teacher, who never had charge of a large school or a large class, but in district school, small college, and small Sunday-school has struggled with the practical problems of a teacher, and in some of them at least, like Sentimental Tommy, has "found a way." A large number of these chapters have appeared in the "Sunday-school Times," and others in the "Sunday-school Journal" of the Methodists, the "Pilgrim Teacher" of the Congregationalists, the "Westminster Teacher" of the Presbyterians, the "Baptist Teacher," and the "Golden Rule." I am grateful to these periodicals for permission to include this material in my book. AMOS R. WELLS. BOSTON, September, 1897. Contents PAGE I. THE TEACHER'S CROWN 9 II. WHO SHOULD TEACH IN THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL? 14 III. PREPARING THE LESSON 21 IV. SOMETHING ABOUT TEACHERS' MEETINGS 32 V. A TEACHER WITH A SCHEDULE 39 VI. MY LESSON CHART 42 VII. THE VALUE OF A MONOTESSARON 46 VIII. GETTING ATTENTION 52 IX. KEEPING ATTENTION 57 X. THE IMPORTANCE OF QUESTIONING 64 XI. A GOOD QUESTION 69 XII. INSPIRING QUESTIONS 75 XIII. TRIGGER-TEACHING 80 XIV. GALVANIC TEACHING 85