The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-14
The Training of the Young is
Going on Apace in North
Dakota.
FROM SMALL BEGINNING
Primary Work Explained in
All It's Phases by the
Secretary.
(By Rev. John orchard.)

That which began with class of
and outcast of the motherland, has
come to be one of the most potent
factors in the moral and spiritual
education of the being.
When Robert Raikes of Gloucester,
England, organized the modern Sun
day school he built better than he
knew. He had in mind the keeping
of the boys and girls off the streets
and lanes of the city, rather than
definite religious teaching.
The outcome of this tiny seed sown
in 1880 is the present developed
Sunday school movement of the
world, with its 25,O00,O0O of Bible
students.
Through this agency the church
and homes of all denominations ana
people are brought into cooperative
touch with one another, each looking
for and adopting methods that have
for their final consummation the
greatest moral and spiritual welfare
of the youth of the commonwealth.
Sunday school extension is the
main purpose of the general denomin-
ational Sunday school workers in the
organization of Sunday schools all
over the state, whilst Sunday school
education, organization and spiritual
ization are the special features of the
international or organized work of
the North Dakota Sunday School as
ISOLATION.
During the past five years Sunday
schools have gained numerically So
per cent in the state of North Dakota.
These are times when schools are
organized in districts by undenomin-
ational agencies which have no
lasting foundations, because they are
not under the fostering case of church
or pastor, but as rule the North
Dakota Sunday schools are organized
with due care, have the definite oyer
sight, and are recognized features in
the early days of town for the up
building of the community.
1t has ever been the purpose of the
active forces of the church in this
state to enter a town or city before
the disqualifying, distorting agencies
of blind pigs, slot machines and
gambling device take too fast hold.
Their aim has been the building up of
the very best interest of town by
it's clean citizens and we hope a yet
cleaner band of children.
North Dakota's Sunday school con-
stituency has total following of
S1,S72 students, 1901 teachers and
officers, 1902 schools. This includes
all of the English speaking people
of the evangelical churches, and all
of the evangelical foreign speaking
people of the state, If one may in
clude the Catholic student bodies, we
have over one-fourth the total popu-
lation of North Dakota enlisted in the
interests of Bible research.
The greatest motive force behind
all this is the International associ-
alton, the American headquarters be-
ing in Boston, those of Great Britain
in London and for Canada, Toronto
embracing the English speaking and
civilized foreign speaking people OF
the world.
This united body plans for the
worlds conquest in Sunday school
lines, guarding the interests OF
Europe, Asia, North America, Ocean
lea, with total of 262,131 schools
2,426888 teachers and officers, 22.-
739,323 scholars, making a grand
total of 25,614,916 Bible students
studying the same lesson from the
| same OlU UOOh.
Out of the International association
has come all the newest and modern
movements of the day, consisting Of
the uniform lesson system, the or.
ganized movement, teacher training
home department, graded work
normal plans, enlarged college work
chairs in pedagogy, studies in phsy-
chology and other movements that
have made the Sunday school work
second to none as moral education.
al and spiritual power.
The International association has
as its working force 1913 specialists
whose business 1t is to watch ovel
the state organization, open new and
and tried methods, extend the Bible
study movement to the end of the
world, through its many agencies and
motive forces.
Seven of these specialists give
their entire time to the work, travel.
ing last year over 165 900 miles and
giving over 5000 addresses. Mex
following the International is the
state organization, and speaking gen.
orally we can say that every state
in the union but two have complete
organizations. Most of these states
have paid officers who are the In.
struments through which the in.