In these pages the author has described the methods of the most successful teachers and Sunday-schools he has known. While a large part of the book is the direct fruit of his own experience in Sabbath and secular schools, it sets forth, as every teacher will understand, what the author has learned from his failures rather than from his 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 such a stupendous 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.”
