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.

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

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Preface

In these pages I have described the methods ofthe most successful teachers and Sunday-schools Ihave known. While a large part of the book is thedirect fruit of my own experience in Sabbath andsecular schools, it sets forth, as every teacher willunderstand, what I have learned from my failuresrather than from my successes.

Though the volume has something to say on allthe great Sunday-school problems, it does not pretendto be a complete manual; indeed, who could prepareone on so stupendous a theme? If it justifies its appearanceamong the admirable treatises already publishedfor Sunday-school workers, it will be becauseit presents with frankness the methods found helpfulby an average teacher, who never had charge of alarge school or a large class, but in district school,small college, and small Sunday-school has struggledwith the practical problems of a teacher, and in someof them at least, like Sentimental Tommy, has "founda way."

A large number of these chapters have appeared[Pg 6]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 amgrateful to these periodicals for permission to includethis material in my book.

Amos R. Wells.

Boston, September, 1897.

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