Grant Vaughn is a fairly new Keepa’ninny. He blogs at Passionate Moderate Mormon.

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Whenever I walk down South Temple past Temple Square, which is fairly often as I work in downtown Salt Lake City these days, I think about my Great-Grandmother, Addie May Wood (1880-1909), who walked down that street bawling her head off one day in May, more than a century ago.

In the school year of 1900-1901, Salt Lake Academy, the precursor of LDS Business College, held its classes in temporary facilities in the Lion House, also on South Temple, and Social Hall, to the south half a block down State Street. Addie May was so fortunate to be a student for much of that year. She had a basic education that had been provided by her mother, not as home school, but because her mother, Adelaide Ridges Wood, was the first public school teacher in South Davis County. And going to school in the City, even for only one year, was a great thrill for Addie May.

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Lesson 15: “I Am the Light of the World”

Leviticus 23:39-44
John 7-8
Doctrine and Covenants 1:38
Matthew 11:28-30

Purpose: To strengthen class members’ testimonies that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that by following him we can gain true freedom.

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Lesson 17: “What Shall I Do That I May Inherit Eternal Life?”

The rich young man who asked Jesus what he needed to do to inherit eternal life forms the basis of a lesson in the current Sunday School manual and in the following lesson from the 1970-71 manual for 18-year-olds.

(This may be as good a point as any to remind readers of the schizophrenic nature of this series. I post lessons from past manuals that are as closely related as possible to the lessons in our current manuals. Sometimes these older lessons are ones that might help current teachers by offering a different angle to familiar material, or by suggesting more thought-provoking questions than the current manual. Other times, though, the older lessons may be inferior to the current ones, including irrelevant stories or curiously dated discussion. Please don’t mistake my purpose in posting these lessons – they simply represent our past the same as many other articles on Keepapitchinin represent our past. If they’re useful, great; if they’re odd, well, I’m not suggesting you use them!)

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