Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-11
INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT.
Best Methods of Organizing It and Sc
curing Its Conduct.

Best Methods OF Organizing u aho o.
curing Its Conduct.
]. M. Way, General Secretary of South
Carolina Sunday School association,
before York County convention.
The Intermediate Department Is
for bows and girls 13, IA and Is years
| of age, and does not belong in any
sense to the Elementary Department
| of the Sunday school. There shoulo
| be three grades and at least three
three teachers for this department.
It should be organized as a whole,
and have its own superintendent. Inc
officers should consist OF a superin-
tendent and secretary-treasurer, elect
ed by the Sunday school board. or by
whatever method this board may
adopt. There should be three COM
mittees, as follows: Membership, De-
yotional and Social. The teachers
should be chairmen Of the committees
and each committee should have In
addition to the chairman member
| from each class Of the department
Other officers may be elected and otn-
er committees appointed, II as the
work progresses, they shall be need
ed.
Organization will give this depart
ment a new meaning. 1t Is tne Pc
riod of adolescence in the child's life
and the boys realize that they are
passing from boyhood to manhood,
and the girls realize that they are
ceasing to be girls and rapidly becom-
ing young women.
More than one-half Of the church
membership Is brought in between IL
and 16 years Of age.
Physical Traits.
This is the period Of exceptions
rather than the rule. 1t Is easy TO
! note awkwardness, lack OF SELF
control, and blushing. Grown people
are sometimes amused at their crude
Jokes, shocked by their giggling, and
horrified by their loud laughter.
These traits should not bring criticism
upon the boys and girls, for God made
them so. In company the boy reels
that his hands and feet are much
larger than they really are, and when
he talks, his voice may key an octave
higher or an octave lower than he in
tended. AS the members of this de-
partment are just ceasing to be boys
and girls and are becoming young
men and young women, 1t Is easy 10
understand why they lack self-con-
troll. II they are carefully directed
over the period Of adolescence they
will not lack self-control in the fu-
ture. Should they fail to receive this
careful direction during the period OF
adolescence, they will always lack the
ability to control themselves.
Social Traits.
At first the sexes are mutually re-
pellant. Later the boy sprouts a
moustache, the girl reaches sweet
sixteen, and the remainder OF the
story need not be repeated here.
There is fervor and intensity, but
one wants life out Of doors, another
with books, another with the trades,
and so on through all the great cata-
logue of human endeavors and
achievements.
Self-consciousness, egotism, brood
ing, continual thinking about self,
are characteristics of this age. These
things may run into self-depreciation.
or vanity, or self-conceit. Romance
comes f. very strongly and the teach
| er must look out for tendency to-
ward the wild life.
Heroism and noble life appeal very
strongly to this age and If properly
developed the result will be a good
boy or a good girl.
Look out for independence, for the
mingling Of self-consciousness and ro-
nance brings restlessness under au-
thority The boy resents control and
chafes under authority. Instead or
b.. aking his will, guide 1t and you
may keep a boy at home to useful
| life. when otherwise he might run
away to get freedom from restraint.
This is both a hopeful and dam