The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-04-07
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Special Column Every
Week For S. s. Items
The Adaptabiiity of the II. ID.

The incidents and suggestions |
wish to give will come very ap-
propriately under the above caption.
! have found that the Home
Department is no more difficult to
keep going than any other depart
ment in the modern Sunday school.
1t has an equal place in all respects.
with all the other departments of
the modern Sunday school. This is
the point we are trying to get many
workers to see.
The Home Department is adapt
able to the age. We are living in
fast age. The twenty hour trains,
the flash of the telegraph, the auto
mobile-these all give us the idea
of haste when we hear of
them or see them. The Home De-
partment is of just as much value
to the up-to-date school as the tele-
graph or fast travelling facilities are
to the public This is fact which
has been settled in my mind from
experience in the work of the Home
Department.
The Homo Department is adapted
to all classes of people. The poor
have been neglected by the Sunday
school for a quarter of century.
L mere Is lOW al dWdhtIllS dlOuS
the line, and workers are endeavor-
ing to get the poor into the King
dom of God. In a Home Depart
ment under my control now, there
are two families which are too poor
to have clothes to go to the Sunday
school 1t is a source of JOY to
| these families to know that they
can belong to the school in these
! circumstances. They contribute
their mite.
The Home Department is not only
adaptable to the poor but to the
AGED and intirm. Many of these
would be in the Sunday school if
they could. This department has
brought joy and sunshine into many
life. ! have known of such in
stances.
It is adaptable to all localities. 1t
/ is possible to have a Home Depart
ment anywhere. The country is no
/ exception. In my work of getting
Home Departments started in the
| schools, | find that the town and
city schools are the slowest to be-
| gin the work. Yet two largest de-
| partments of this county are in city
schools. have had country
churches for the past five years;
these churches have been in two
counties. | have found it possible
to have a Home Department in these
schools. The work done is worthy
of note. In one of these schools the
Home Department was run by the
superintendent of the department
alone. She was an aged woman,
but her means and life were CON
secrated to the Masters service.
She travelled about five miles to
reach some members Of the depart
ment. | have at present, in two
schools, Home Departments doing
commendable work. The depart
ments are not large but are grow
ing. In a revival a year ago we
had several converts who Joined the
church. They attributed the cause
to the work of the Home Depart
ment. So the smallest as we'll as
! the largest country school may have
Il Home Department. The school
with few workers as well as the one
? with many. The work can be car
ried on in all conditions of weather
The workers will come. At pres
ent ] superintend a growing Home
Department and do the work that
cannot get any other to do. But
am training workers for the future
They do not really realize that they
are being fitted and enthused fol
future service. About the first
| thing to do is to pray for the work
ers to come. DR.. Clark the Sunday
school man, names four requisite!
workers should have, namely, relig
= ion, conservation, common-sense anC
grit.-Rev. l.. E. Yahn, Supt. Home
Dept, Venango county (ReprinteC
2 from Pennsylvania Herald"