Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals

PAGE I. The Historic Principles Underlying the Sunday School Movement 7 II. The Constitution of the Sunday School 14 III. The Necessity and Essentials of a Graded Sunday School...

(1) _The School as a Whole._ The close observer, looking at the entire school, notes first of all that its gains and its losses in membership are at the extremes of its constitu...

1. =The Cradle Roll.=[6] This should include all the little ones in the families of the congregation who are too young to attend the school. Their names, in large lettering, in...

(3) _Assignment of Scholars._ He should possess the final authority in the assignment of scholars to classes, in any changes from class to class, and in promotions from lower to...

(5) _Quiet Manner._ The secretary should watch the program and do his work without interrupting it. He should never appear among the classes during prayer, during the reading of...

(3) _Literary Quality._ Books are influential teachers, and a style like that of Hawthorne or Eliot will unconsciously mold the language of those who read it. On the other hand,...

(1) _The General Principle._ All good work involves the prerequisite of training. Especially is this true of teaching; and there is a reason why the principle holds with regard...

(2) _A Declining Population._ There are places where the population has lessened, making the work of the Sunday school increasingly difficult and its results meager. It may be i...

5. =Educational Efficiency.= The Sunday school is in the world with a definite work--religious education. Its religion will be based on the Old Testament and kindred literature...

1. =Train. Nec.= (1) Book. (a) Or. nat. (b) Hist. (c) Geog. back. (d) Inst. (e) Eth. rel. tea. (2) Schol. (3) Schoo. (4) Work. 2. =Tea. Tas.= (1) Stu. (2) Fri. (3) Tea. (4) Dis.