
Sunday-School Success (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and OfficersBy Amos R. WellsLength7h 43m
About this audiobook
Amos R. Wells's *Sunday-School Success* is a practical yet intellectually purposeful guide to the organization, teaching, and spiritual aims of the Protestant Sunday school. Rather than treating religious instruction as mere routine, Wells considers the classroom a formative institution in which biblical knowledge, moral character, and communal responsibility must develop together. His prose is direct, exhortatory, and richly supplied with observations, principles, and usable suggestions, combining the accessibility of a handbook with the earnestness of a religious essay. The book belongs to the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century movement for modern Sunday-school education, when churches were responding to new ideas about childhood, pedagogy, teacher training, and social reform. Wells was a prolific American Congregational writer, editor, and Christian educator whose career was closely associated with religious publishing and the improvement of church instruction. His experience with ministers, teachers, families, and local congregations evidently shaped the book's practical emphasis: he writes not as a detached theorist, but as an experienced advocate for disciplined preparation and sympathetic engagement with young people. His work reflects the era's conviction that effective Christianity required both personal faith and intelligent educational practice. Readers interested in the history of American Protestantism, religious pedagogy, childhood studies, or voluntary associations will find *Sunday-School Success* especially rewarding. It offers a revealing account of how churches sought to cultivate belief and character, while its humane attention to teachers and learners preserves its relevance for anyone concerned with meaningful moral education.
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Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length7 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 10, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sunday-School Success (Annotated)
26Chapter XIII
2Preface
27Trigger-Teaching
3Chapter I
28Chapter XIV
4The Teacher's Crown
29Galvanic Teaching
5Chapter II
30Chapter XV
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6Who Should Teach in the Sunday-School?
31Serial Teaching
7Chapter III
32Chapter XVI
8Preparing the Lesson
33Teaching the Psalms
9Chapter IV
34Chapter XVII
10Something about Teachers' Meetings
35Those Temperance and Missionary Lessons
11Chapter V
36Chapter XVIII
12A Teacher with a Schedule
37Topical Lessons
13Chapter VI
38Chapter XIX
14My Lesson Chart
39Introducing Thoughts
15Chapter VII
40Chapter XX
16Chapter VIII
41Illustrations and Applications
17Getting Attention
42Chapter XXI
18Chapter IX
43Righteous Padding
19Keeping Attention
44Chapter XXII
20Chapter X
45The Sunday-School and the Newspaper
21The Importance of Questioning
46Chapter XXIII
22Chapter XI
47On Taking Things for Granted
23A Good Question
48Chapter XXIV
24Chapter XII
49Utilizing the Late Scholar
25Inspiring Questions
50Chapter XXV