The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-25
THE STATE
5. S. WORK
No Successor to State Secre-
tary Ferguson Chosen as
Yet. Meeting Dates.
MUCH GENERAL INFORMATION

a successor to the Rev. 3. Morris
Ferguson, who resigned as general
secretary Of the New Jersey Sunday
School association, to take up larger
field of work in the Presbyterian
church, has not been chosen, and dur
ing the interim. the Rev. Samuel D.
Price, of Camden, recording secretary
of the association, is planning for the
work of the coming spring months.
Miss Alice B. Hamlin, the state ele-
mentary superintendent, has visited
several sections of the state, for the
purpose Of attending special meetings
of the graded unions and being present
at county executive committee meet
ings where she helped plan institute
tours and spring conferences.
At the last convention held in East
Orange, board of directors for the
school Of methods was organized. This
board has entire charge of the work OF
the summer school, which will be held
in the high school building at Asbury
Park, July 9Th to 18th. Miss Eliza
beth Denny Paxton, of Princeton, is
president of the board.
Alta meeting of the board Of direct
ors, held recently, the program was
outlined and among the teachers and
lecturers secured for the work are
Rev. Milton S. Littlefeld, of Bay
Ridge, N. Y, Professor H. Fl. Horn,
of the New York university, and Miss
Margaret Slattery, Of Fitchburg, Mass.
The days of the school will be divid-
edinto periods as follows 80 to 1925
section work. 1920 to 1l:25 open parli
ament. 11:3O to Il devotional bible
study. In the afternoon there will be
mission study classes, lecturers and
elective courses in the special depart
ments of work in which the delegates
are engaged in their home Sunday
school.
The new International graded les
sons for the intermediate department..
will be presented. In this section will
be included work for boys, class organ
ization, Y. M. G. A. correlation, SER
vice for organized classes and other
topics Of like Importance. This COM
mittee was named to prepare the work
of the elementary sections for the
summer school Miss Elizabeth d.
Paxton, Miss Alice B. Hamlin, Mrs.
j. Woodbridge Barnes and Miss jose
phine L. Baldwin.
A thorough canvass of the Sunday
school plans and methods throughout
the state will be made during the
early part of February, when the dis
trict meetings will be held in four sec
tions of the state as follows
February 8th-At Vineland, where
the counties of Gloucester, Salem, At
lantic, Cape May and Cumberland are
expected to be represented.
February 9th-At Burlington, where
the counties of Hunterdon, Burling
ton, Ocean, Mercer and Camden are
expected to be represented.
February 15th-At Dover, where the
counties of Sussex, Warren and Morris
will be represented.
February 24th-At Newark, where
the counties of Passaic, Bergen, Hud-
son, Essex, Middlesex, Union, Somer-
set and Monmouth will be represented.
Opening at Vineland on February
Sth, and closing at Newark, February
24th, the several days will be spent by
al ~, 4ir1nr IN,
touch with the individual Sunday
schools, through the superintendent
of the departments and county officers.
Each Of the departments of the state
will be included in the plans for these
district meetings and the problems
which confront the smaller school as
well as the city school will be studied
and solved by experts.