Comments on: Gospel Doctrine Lesson 13: How We Taught This Topic in the Past http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/03/22/gospel-doctrine-lesson-13-how-we-taught-this-topic-in-the-past/ Where our past is never very long ago Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/03/22/gospel-doctrine-lesson-13-how-we-taught-this-topic-in-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-8335 Ardis E. Parshall Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:07:08 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=1263#comment-8335 Hunter, the “home Sunday School” manuals for the mission fields in this period included a page with every lesson that the families were supposed to fill out and mail to Salt Lake, reporting their activity and asking any questions they had about the lesson or anything else — since these home Sunday Schools were usually the only Church organization in mission areas, most families didn’t have anybody to go to with their questions, so this “pen pal” system filled a real need.

This 1936 lesson comes from a manual for a prospective missionary class, and apparently they incorporated real questions received from those home Sunday School families into the lesson — more realistic than questions made up by the General Board, I guess. Sometimes the questions seem to match the lesson they accompany, but sometimes they don’t, much. This time, they don’t, do they?

]]> By: Hunter http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/03/22/gospel-doctrine-lesson-13-how-we-taught-this-topic-in-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-8333 Hunter Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:58:30 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=1263#comment-8333 I liked the 1899 and 1936 “evidences” approach. These evidences were impressive and spoke for themselves of Joseph’s calling as prophet.

(By the way, where did the “Questions from the Mission Field” section come from? I couldn’t tell if it was part of the last lesson.)

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