SOLD - Peloubets Instructional Sunday School Lessons - $12/2

These two volumes are from a collection of Sunday School training books that were written by Francis Peloubet annually beginning in 1870 and lasting for 45 years.  These copies are from 1894 and 1899.

Francis Nathan Peloubet (1831-March 27, 1920) decided the most strategic thing he could do as a pastor was to train Sunday School teachers how to teach the Bible to their students well. So he traveled and lectured, wrote books and articles about it, and networked inter-denominationally to support the Sunday School movement any way he could. But mostly he published Notes: Peloubet’s Select Notes on the International Lessons.

The books are hardbound with cloth covers and were published by W.A Wilde and Company and Fleming H Revell Company in Boston, Toronto, New York and Chicago.

The 1894 edition covers Genesis and Exodus in the Old Testament and The Life of Our Lord.  The 1899 edition covers The Gospel of John and Hosea, Daniel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Zechariah, Haggai, Esther, Nehemiah and Lamentations.  

The earlier edition has a woman's name written in it.  Both books are showing wear and wold need to be handled gently.  The bindings are loose but I think that they would still be amazing to read through if handled with care.

The books were to be used as classroom guide fro teachers and included a class list for keeping track of attendance and tardiness.

Sometime in the 1870s, an international coalition of Protestant churches established a committee to publish a standard lesson schedule that all the churches could follow. These International Standard Sunday School Lessons meant that all over the English-speaking world, Sunday School teachers who were thinking about next week’s lesson were all thinking about the same passage of Scripture at the same time, and wondering how to teach it to children of different ages. Many authors and publishers rushed to help this vast new market of Bible students, but it was F. N. Peloubet who established his notes as the most trustworthy and useful notes.

One of the volumes has a pretty end paper and this small stamp.

There are illustrations and maps throughout both volumes.