The Sabbath-School Index / Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.

A practical manual offering history and guidance for organizing and conducting Sabbath-schools, combining an overview of development with detailed, example-driven instruction on administration and teaching. It covers leadership roles, record-keeping and libraries, classroom preparation and methods such as illustrative, pictorial, and object-teaching, use of the blackboard, and infant-class care. It also addresses teachers' meetings, conventions and institutes, strategies for securing attention and questioning, visiting scholars, missionary and auxiliary activities, music, rewards and finances, and common mistakes, concluding with ready helps and standardized blackboard exercises intended to assist teachers in promoting regular Bible study and religious formation among children and youth.