The organized adult Bible class

Contents

Introduction 5

Preface 7

I— The Adult 9

Introduction

The Adult Bible Class movement is probably the most significant indication of our modern revival of the Bible School. We have suddenly discovered that it is possible to secure the attendance of grown-up people. We are now endeavoring to solve the problem of how to hold them. This means that they shall be so interested, not only in Bible study, but in Christian work, that they will feel it to be worth their while to come regularly to Sunday-school.

The great International Sun Jay-School Association is giving great and proper attention to this marvelous movement. With its encouragement our Bible Schools everywhere are reaching out after the grown-up people. Every school should desire to know the best methods of holding them. This book, by J. H. Bryan, is written to help such earnest people.

The author is a man of large experience in the Bible School work, having given the best years of his life to its fascinating problems. He has proven himself successful in a very marked degree, and now, in the later years, he has turned his attention especially to the Adult Bible Class movement, and ia proving himself a master in promoting this work in the State of Missouri. His book is, consequently, not one of theory, but of practice. He tails us what has been done. The helpful feature of the book is that the successes he records have been won in the average school. This invites any one interested in the Adult Bible Class to take hold of his suggestions with confidence that they can be worked out to a successful completion under ordinary conditions.

It is an encouraging sign when men of such experience write for the people who are mastering these problems.

Marion Stevenson, National Bible School Superintendent.

St. Louis, Mo., February 9, 1909.