The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-14

years.
neglected. Men, women and children are
being drawn into the church and into
correct living through the winning in
fiuence of the Sunday school. The stran-
ger within the doors is not neglected.
The drummer from Boston selling laces
hung up over Sunday in Opelika gets an
urgent and cordial invitation to attend
the school, The poorest child in OpelilSa
not able 10 go to church on account of
insufficient clothing is given the advan-
tages of religious teaching. The invalid
is not neglected. If the man, woman or
child cannot attend the school in person,
the school is carried to that person
through the home department. Mrs M.
f. Smith is superintendent of the home
department. The membership in this de-
partment is almost 400. This is con-
slant feeder to the main school and is
doing most important work in building
up the main institution.
Attendance Is 422.
The average attendance on the main
year was 422. The total enrolment is $50.
The grand total enrolment, including
home department and cradle roll, is 1863
The smallest actual attendance for this
year was on June 20. hard rainstorm
prevented many from getting out. Only
297 people braved the elements and wad-
ed to the church. The net gain in at
tendance during the second quarter was
80. This was In all departments.
The average attendance during the first
quarter of this year was 43S, which is
larger than the second quarter.
/ give the figures on the second quar-
ter for two reasons First, because the
showing is smaller than for any quarter
of which have reports. have not Sc
lected large figures for big story. My
second reason is that the average Sun
day school shows increased attendance
in the second quarter. The reason for
the decrease in average attendance in
the Opeika school for the second quar-
ter is a number of unusually rainy Sun
days.
A Great institution.
Ben Greene's Sunday school is bigger
institution than | have described. 1t Is
powerful 1t is the biggest thing of the
kind in Alabama and Is known to Sum
day school workers from Maine to Cali
fornia.
There is nothing unwieldy about the
management of this school. Through 10
years of steady and persistent work Mr..
Greene and his staff of officers have built
up a system of marvellous proportions.
Everything is so perfect that each indi-
vidual pupil is made to feel his impor-
lance as a unit in that system. There is
not jar nor jostle anywhere
Business System.
The system of recording the credits
and standing of each pupil is a mighty
stimulus to efficiency and regular at
tendance. Those who receive perfect
marks for every Sunday in a year are
placed on the honor roll. Perfect marks
mean perfect in studies, department and
attendance One student of the shool
has gone down on the honor roll of the
Sunday school for 10 successive years.
He holds the record. That pupil is Hon.
T. d. Sanford S. r. Williams holds
the record for u successive years; Minella
Hamilton for eight successive years, and
Sam Williams for seven years. The
names of three students appear on the
honor roll for six successive years; four
names for FIVE years; four for four years
and Is names for three successive years.
The Quarterly Review.
The Quarterly Review, a neat PAM
fifteen years He is banker and the
son of banker He is by birth and
training a business man. System is the
keynote of success in any movement or
work according to his thinking. He has
fully demonstrated it's vaiue in the mar
velous success of this Sunday school,
In the last quarterly report Superin-
tendent Greene says;
after all, reduced to it's finality, at
tendance, that is regular attendance, is
the real test of organization. When the
people come. it is an indication that
something is working to make them
come. When they don't come, 1t is con-
elusive proof that 'nothings doing
Always Something Doing.
There is always something doing in
this wonderful school. There is as much