New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-22

interna tional system which assigns the same lesson
to all the different grades DR.. schauifier receives
many applications for boys from crygoods firms
which have found that those recommended by this
school especially trustworthy. A card record
is kept Of every member OF the school and of
every child who has been member in the past
Before boy is recommended mis- record is ex-
anined. Only those whose records satisfac-
tory are recommended by the school
Within recent years many schools under
taken TO introduce the study of the Bible at home
by those who cannot attend the Sunday school.
such as invalids- Probably the Sunday school hav-
irg the largest home department in the world is
that connected with the East Side work OF the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church II has q
membership OF about eleven hundred. In charge
OF the work is assistant pastor. five paid mis-
sionaries and between forty and fifty visitors. A
complete card catalogue Of the members is kept In
which tabuIated all data referring TO each in
dividuaL Every month the members visited in
their homes. Although it has been IN existence
only three years. it has reached than six hun
dred homes in the region between East Seventy
sixth and East Eighty-sixth SITS. which abso-
lutely unconnected with any other religious organ
ization Into these families have gone more than
FIVE hundred Bibles. Most Of the members work.
ing people who have had common school educa-
ton. They largely Of Northern European an
cestry. Among them those Of Swedish. Nor
wegan. German and Bohemian parentage. There
are also a few Italians and Hebrews.
one Of the disintegrating influences In city Sum
Side. whose congregations have gradually moved
away from the vicinase Of the church, is the long
distance many OF the pupils have travel reach
their schools. DR.. Macarthur. pastor OF the Cal
vary Baptist Church, said the other day that a
large proportion OF his congregation lived from two
to eight miles from the church His church adopted
the plan Of paying carfare TO those attending its
Sunday school A member offered to pay the car
fare Of those children who lived too far away to
walk Then it was said that some OF them would
walk and the money for other purposes. DR..
Macarthur said that those who desired to save
their money for mission other philanthropic
purposes and willing TO walk In order to do
this. allowed to do So Doubtless the spirit
which leads to join a Sunday school few
weeks before the annual picnic and the Christmas
festival may have proved inducement to a few
boys to join for the fun Of being paid for going
to Sunday school,
The Sunday school Of Calvary Church has several
features out Of the ordinary. On Sunday mornings
Of the small rooms Of the church is turned into
a creche. where mothers who cannot leave their
babies at home may leave them while they attend
the regular church service. This school
OF the first, If not the first to open kindergarten
department and to organize home department
Its home department has nearly seven hundred
members, many Of whom are nurses and others
whose employment is such that they cannot attend
the sessions Of the school The school makes a
feature OF its general exercises aiming to make
them an attraction. 1t has choir and an organ,
piano, three V1Olins and a piccolo. one OF the
classes which the school has aimed to reach has
been students who are in the city studying. For
these Bible classes have been formed They are
fully organized, and have social side, as well as
religious The young women's class. or club
as il is called is intended especially for young
women who are far away from their homes, study
ing music. painting. o attending schools here,
but have opportunities for social life Prominent
women Of the church open their homes TO them
from time tine. with the intention OF relieving
the cherries atmosphere Of the bedroom Of a
I boarding house.
The Sunday school library has also been the
source Of many a joke. Books about boys who bore
charmed lives and were never overtaken in a fault.
and those who always met with some such salutary
I punishment drowning when they CHANGED TO go
I fishing Sunday being weeded from the IL
braries 10 some extent. The Carnegie libraries are
proving rivals TO some Sunday school libraries
which are without backbone. The Calvary Sunday
school has given up its library. and, instead is
giving each OF its pupils monthly periodical con-
tanning short illustrated stories. articles on the
Sunday school lesson. etc. which is published by
an organization connected with the Baptist de-
nomination
Calvary Sunday school also has congregational
Bible class. which numbers about one hundred and
twenty-five and which meets Immediately after the
church service. There a number OF large con-
gregationaI Bible classes. more OF less known John
Wanamaker, who is the superintendent Of Bethany
Sunday school. Philadelphia conducts one which has
an average attendance Of perhaps seven hundred
! Charles II. Knox. assisted by his wife, conducts
class Of this character in the Knox Memorial Re
formed Church. this city. which numbers more
than twelve hundred members. When the new
building Of the church erected. in 1888, room
was built fo- this class. In the summer time,
when the teachers taking vacation, the large
and well organized school connected with ST.
1 Georges Church also meets a congregational
school place of the usual lesson, lectures
the lives OF such men as Lincoln, Grant etc,
are given. This school has two supplied choirs OF
boys. which assist in the opening service of two
% the departments. large Bible class is con-
Quoted by John D. Rockefeller, jr-, in the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church He is building a home
for il near the church.
Teachers meetings for studying the lessons are
held in many Sunday schools each week The New
York Sunday School Union holds every week
meeting for teachers which is addressed by DR..
schaUfzer. This is attended by from two hundred
10 three hundred person.
There Is an impression that in some schools su-