First Standard Manual of Teacher Training, by Wade Crawford Barclay (HC, 1916, $2)
Even in 1916, it was thought important to know:
psychology and the scientific method to get to know a child's nature,
the relation of literary form to interpretation,
the various versions of the Bible-
The King James Version published in 1611.
The Revised Version, directed by English scholars, published in 1885. (It was so popular that newspapers published its New Testament complete in one issue. Three million copies were sold in less than a year.)
The Standard Revised Version, the American version published in 1901.
(Why so many versions? As time went by, new manuscripts were found, making Hebrew translations more and more accurate, at least according to some.),
the importance of missions,
(The first American missionaries went to India. Later ones also went to China, but with more than 119 million more people of Asia and Africa left to contact, work was not done.)
and the history of the Church, from ancient times to "modern".
(Interestingly, the book states that prior to the revolution, Methodist churches were losing members, because of their preachers' ties to England. This trend was reversed after the war. The first official Sunday Schools in America where started by Virginia Methodists in1790. These schools, though, were not the hour long sessions of today. No, they went from 6 am to 6 pm, with four hours in the middle off for church and a meal.)
At least now I know what the RSV Bible is. Check out this informative book, to be found in the Christian religious section, in the Bible study section.
