The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

With an enrolment of s76 teachers and Sunday school workers and an average at tendance for all the week of over 1000 people at each session, the Baptist Teach CTS institute closed last night. This institute was pronounced by the secretary of the Sunday school board as being the best ever held In the south A like institute has been held in Richmond, Louisville, Memphis, Atlanta and Nash vile, but the one just closed here was easily the greatest. The sessions began every afternoon at 5 o'clock and lasted until D. m, with an hour for lunch. Every Baptist Sunday school In the entire district was represented with from one to 25 teachers, and in some cases by even a greater number of workers. The churches seem to vie with each other Tn trying to send in the most teachers. The southside, First Woodlawn and East Lake led, with the other smaller churches following.
 The auditorium of the First church pre- sented an interesting scene with 1000 peo- pie seated tablet and pencil in hand, taking notes on the speakers. It was
 
 day school history was being made. pr. J. M. Frost and his company of Sunday school workers deserve great credit for the success made here. Dr. Frost. who has been for years correspond ing secretary of the Southern Baptist Sun day School Board, has done a great deal of Sunday school work in the Southern Baptist convention. He has given south ern Baptists the very best Sunday school literature possible, besides spending hun dreds and thousands of dollars for lit- erature for mission points, The Sunday School Board has endowed a chair of Sunday School Pedagogy in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the first theological seminary to have chair of Sunday School Pedagogy. This alone is destined to work wonders in Sunday school work. If every pastor were a Sunday school expert, as every pastor will be in few years. there would be a revolution in Sunday school work; and the purpose of this chair is to make every preacher who goes to the seminary a Sunday school specialist as every theo- logical student is required to take this course.
 Mrs. Lamoreaux of Chicago, one of the best primary teachers in the world, was here and gave series of lectures on primary work at the institute at the First church. She is very interesting speaker and has thorough grasp of her subject. She knows chd-life we'll and presents her observations in a most fascinating manner. Her lectures will be of incalcu- lable value to the primary teachers of the district.
 MT. Flake, the superintendent of one Of the most progressive schools in the state of Mississippi gave series of talks to the superintendents MT. Flake is very practical and entertaining speaker and was listened to with great deal of in- terest by the superintendents present.
 5One of the best equipped Sunday school sjecialists, and who is not stranger to Birmingham, Prof. L. P. Leavell, field secretary of the Sunday School board, gave series of four lectures on the working of progressive Sunday school. MT. Leavell Is very enthusiastic and eloquent speaker and one who holds his audience from start to finish
 MT. Leavels blackboard outlines are very instructive to the Sunday school worker.
 The Sunday School Board was repre- sented by Dr. J. M. Frost, Professor Leavell and c. D. Crossland
 The Sunday school lessons for the en- tire year were gone over in a series of lectures by Dr. A. T. Robertson, profess