The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-10
"CRADLE ROLL"
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sionable and will drink in every word
said, while grown person will &C.
cept or reject at his discretion. EQUIP
ment for these departments was
strongly urged and the Importance of
the Cradle Roll department was
shown, the speaker declaring it to be
one Of the greatest assets Of the
church.
This Cradle Roll should be for
babies under three years of age, with
a young mother, If possible, In charge,
to solicit the interets of the mothers
and enroll the babies of the church
neighborhood and anywhere else that
the baby is not connected with a
church.
The Importance of meetings held
with the teachers of the other depart
ments, and of the meeting of the
cradle roll assistants and the
superintendent at least every
other week, to keep in touch with each
other, was dwelt on by the speaker.
The Power of Babes.
But" she said, "the heart of the
cradle roll work is to go into the
homes of these babies, for through the
cradle roll worker there may be saved
to the church valuable souls. Then,
the child on the cradle roll may I'M
consciously reach grown-ups who can
not be reached in any other way. 1,
is to be hoped that the day will come,
too, when the cradle roll will have a
fund for sickness and death among its
needy members"
MANY church-goer," Miss Frost
said, "who has slipped away from the
church has been brought back through
having a child on the cradle roll. A
young mother should be the superin-
tendent of this department because a
mother can reach another mother
quicker"
The Baraca Class.
Mr.. Landrum Leavell then talked on
the same subject and Miss Frost an
swered any question asked her, giving
suggestions when asked. Mr. Leavell
told of the Home department of the
Baraca class in a large city church.
To this Home department belonged
the motormen and others who had to
work on Sunday. This kept these men
who were deprived by necessity of the
privilege Of attending Sunday school,
in touch with the class, for they could
study their lesson during the week
and have the privilege of the Home
department of the Baraca Glass.
Promotion Feature.
A feature of this elementary work
is the annual promotion day in the
Junior department. A public exercise
at which the children are promoted
from the Junior department and the
three-year-old babes are promoted
from the Cradle Roll and take their
places in the Junior department, is
held
If the Home Department workers
and the Cradle Roll workers go into
the homes and visit as they should, |
the children of the congregation will |
be kept track of well, for the day |
child is born is not too soon for it to |
be enrolled. 1t is not only in the
poorer homes that the Cradle roll |
worker is so welcome, for in many of
the rich homes, the children never
hear the Bible stories, and 1t falls to
The lot of the Cradle roll worker to |
ell them. The mother does not have
line, probably, for her social duties
Dr. other reasons, but the Cradle roll
worker can visit the children on the
oil, with the aid of assistants, and
ell them these stories. Here is the
chance.
So. visitation and remembering the
hid on special occasions, birthdays,
tc., are the superintendent main
York, besides finding out the children,
nrolling them, and keeping a record
the baby's birthday. On Children's