Show T IL TIlE THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS Down in South Carolina a college professor gave ave the tIme following cx exercise to fifty students before beCore him In examInation examination exam exam- and allowed them twenty minutes in which to tomake tomake tomake make answer Tell dl briefly brielly the lie stor story of or a Adam Eve and the time Garden of oC Eden b Noah oah c Samson d David and Goliath e Moses and Pharaoh lIe He adds that every student made an intelligent answer to his questions In thirty cases the thc young oung men gave a IL concise statement of each cach character mentioned with enough of oC comment to prove pro appreciation of the time re relation relation relation re- re lation of that character to tho tIme history of his period and of oC the world And mid the tho minister adds I I hazard nothing In sa saying that the lie Bible DIble is tho ho only monument of or literature ancient or mod modern rn on which the same samne number of students would have ha exhibited so large larse larsea a fund of general knowledge My mt I own observation leads lead me to the belief f that the time current Ignorance of or the tho Bible Biblo among college students I is not an Ignorance o of supposedly familiar stories of or orthe the tho Old Testament or of the thc New Testament nor Is it itan itan an un I Ignorance primarily of Bible doctrine or of Bible sanctions sanc sanc- ions It is an ignorance 1 of Bible history as a continuous continuous ous otis whole 2 u of Bible geography 3 of or the distinctive t types pes of Bible DIble literature and andI 4 I 1 of the bool books of or the Bible as al units The rue Sunday school of tho time future will devote not le less attention to the former Cormer things but bul more moro attention to the latter things There Is the value of studying the Bible There i is the time value of or Sunday Sunda schools There Is is the value of religious training Men Ien will not be worse for fOl it Vit H certainly The They will be richer In iii their Information in their acquaintance with important personages personas in a history which affects the life of ot the race They will be broader and boiler better men maca What Is true of tho the young oun men of or South Carolina is true truc we believe of or men everywhere More lore of or them have ream read the Bible and become informed as to Bible history than any other work worl The They know more about H it Thc They have havo secured much of or that information in the Sunday Sunda schools It is a hopeful tendency of or tho time a age e. e and it is a able ble blessed ed incident in the life lire of ot Salt SaH Lake that many men and women of mature maturo years are arc in Sunday Sunda school cla classes They get s-et information which they need They rhey V become familiar with one of the classics the classIcs tho greatest s that is t embalmed in all literature And those who have hilve prepared themselves for Cor imparting instruction along alons- these lines are doing one of or the most valuable s services po possible among men It is not needful that the re Is an addition to church membership It is Important however that tho mind be enriched d with the treasures of or the most wonderful wonder wonder- ful book in the world worM |