O | | /Fifteen --3d year--Life of the Man N | | Upper / Christ Jesus. D / | \ Sixteen --4th year--Studies in Christian A \ \ \ living. R | /Seventeen--1st year --World as a field for Christian Y | | service; problems of youth in | | social life; Ruth; James. | | Eighteen --2d year --Religious history and | SENIOR / literature of the Hebrew | \ people--Old Testament. | | Nineteen --3d year --Religious history and | | literature of the New | | Testament. \ \Twenty --4th year -- ADULT Grading and Classification and Courses now being studied by a Special Committee of the International Association. Prepared by Professor Ira M. Price, Secretary International Sunday School Association Lesson Committee. These International Lessons are undoubtedly the best on the market at the present time, although they are very far from being perfect. Gradual changes, coming from experience in the local Sunday school, will modify them considerably in the next few years, and they may actually prove to be forerunners for an almost entirely new series of courses and lessons. They have been generously received by the eager workers in the local Sunday school, as an advance on the Uniform Lessons, and where they are now being tried satisfaction, for the most part, is being evinced. A great deal of dissatisfaction has been found with the treatment of these Graded Lessons in some quarters, the Lesson Helps being too mature for teen age boys. _However, in appraising the value of these Graded Lessons, two things should be kept in mind, viz.: the selection of the Lesson Material, and the Lesson Help Treatment of the selected material._ Opposition to the lessons should never be taken because of the Lesson Helps. These can be remedied by the denominational publishing houses, if their attention is called to the weakness or mistake of treatment, and the teen age teacher can give great assistance to the denominational editors by counseling with them. Here and there the suggestion has sprung up for a Graded Uniform Lesson. That is precisely what the treatment of the Uniform Lesson was for a number of years, and is yet. It is not adaptation of treatment that is needed, but adaptation of material that is demanded--courses of study that fit the religious, spiritual need of the various stages of development. This much is positively settled.