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is asked how the needs of the pupil are to be discerned, our answer is that the most significant single indication is the pupil's interest. For the religious teacher there is no more significant word. "Interest, like hunger, is an expression of need." The second thing to be said is that when in our study of the pupil we clearly understand a particular need of his religious life, we know the kind of lesson material required to meet it. The definition of the need defines the character of lesson material.
It is related that one day at the front in France, when death and destruction were all around and none knew how soon he might be summoned into the presence of God, several soldiers desired Bibles. But .only one was available. ,To solve the difficulty the only Bible was torn into sections, each soldier receiving a section. In a way which might be cow-
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pared to this we have in the past selected lessons for our Sunday-school pupils. With our thought only upon dividing the Bible into lessons we have given one brief
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