The Lord's Day Lessons appearing in WORD AND WORK have been prepared with special thought and care. It is the aim of these lessons to put much in small space. The lesson text is taken from the American Standard Revised Version--the most excellent translation of the Bible in common use. Alongside of the lessons are questions, numbered to correspond with the verses. These questions form the chief portion and represent the chief value of there lessons. They take up less space than comments; at the same time they bring out the sense of the Scriptures more effectively, and in such a way as to exercise thought and provoke research. What we find for ourselves is of much more value to us than what is told us outright. The questions also call attention to many helpful side-references. The answers to the questions (unless very general and obvious) are always found either in the corresponding verse, or in the references given; sometimes in both. There are also a few short notes on each lesson.

      We should like to put these lessons into as many hands as possible. To this end we publish them in separate form also--eight-page folders, containing one month's lessons, fifteen cents per dozen, or, in quantities of 20 and up, one cent a folder, postpaid. That amounts to twelve cents a year, or at the former price, fifteen cents. We shall endeavor to publish the best and at the same time the cheapest lesson-helps obtainable.

      This issue of WORD AND WORK goes to several thousand who are not subscribers. A sample is of course an invitation to you to subscribe. The price is 75 cents the single subscription, or 50 cents each in clubs of four or more. We have a good commission offer to make to agents, and there are many fields which an agent would find very workable and fertile. In fact there is just now a real demand for just such a clean Bible-expository magazine as we propose to put out. By God's grace there shall not be found in these pages anything questionable, whether in advertising, or of personalities.

      Our friends have been very kind; and they have already shown themselves to be neither few nor far between. We are, under God, indebted to them for the means--in the form of cash subscriptions and contributions--with which to get out so large an issue this month without involving us in debt at all,--a thing which we earnestly wish to avoid. Many have taken advantage of our club offer and have sent good lists. One friend sent a club of fifty. We believe that with this, the first Louisville issue in hand, our friends and agents will be able to roll up even larger lists for February, and we are reserving several hundred copies for those who may ask for samples to aid in soliciting subscriptions,--as well as to supply all now subscribers whose names are sent in before Feb. 1, with this issue if requested. [36]

["The Lord's Day Lessons." Word and Work 9 (January 1916): 36.]

      The electronic version of R. H. Boll's "The Lord's Day Lessons" has been produced from microfilm of Word and Work for 1916.

      Pagination in the electronic version has been represented by placing the page number in brackets following the last complete word on the printed page. Inconsistencies in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and typography have been retained; however, corrections have been offered for misspellings and other accidental corruptions. Emendations are as follows:

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      Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

Ernie Stefanik
Derry, PA

Created 18 January 2002.
Updated 22 June 2003.