The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-11
|VER TWENTY CLASSES
FORMED As RESULT OF
!. FORWARB MOVEMENT
cfect OF Recent Campaign Is
strongly Reelected IN Sum
day Schools Of City, Z
cHArRMAN FlsTN PLEASED
Need Of Proper Instruction OF
Boys Pointed Out By
Engene 6. Foster, 49,,

WiIIle3 tina good .eHe ~ " SS = =
Ind Heifgion. FnrYard. IA ovement can IN
naiksr. recently condacte 2 N Detrolt'
- seen m many Dranehs " OF cnuIcn
York IL Il particularly n, lticeapie IN
~ bible class department of me sun
<|sv schools. Thus Ear. over ~ new
ni6les classes have been org, niEea an
<ifefsrf schools. and those I'M charge
81 his feature of the mVEem.m t Are
ronyinced that the good -showiI'% WIN
continne. sge se- "
A. III. Finn, chairman OF the lnoie
nromotion committee Of the Men hha
Rtligion Forward Mos emsnt, Is gfeu.-
M pleased with the manner IN whl,sn
F he cllufeh workers have taken. W ~ =
Bible class work 49,.
The organisation OF so many new
Bible classes Is certainly eneouragi
4 ine.@ said MI Finn to The Times
FRIDAY afternoon: 1T shows that the
Men and Religion Forward Movement
tnmpaign has aroused new interest
"a Sunday school work, and II cannot
hc1o .6nf prove Mig Impetus to Chris
<iafffy. IN the city OF Detroit
1haf the sunday school. has most
in6ortant duty to perform towards
|[tb< bows or the present day, Is the
frm B4lief OF Eugene G. Foster, secre-
<orv ~ ths Bows !. department. Of the
. ~ M O.. Al. In this connection he
IN. sunday school should aim to
u eet the needs Of the growing boy u
F n aspects the boy TO remain with II
. One of his greatest needs Is sympa-,
INV. And this many q boy tacEs, as ne
. <nic<s these rev and difiicuff expert
entts inf'ilis IRE From thirteen to
ujneIeen NJ passes through two great
<rI<<s Onc ~ around ilfteeuLs years
81 ~ and. ms 90 DO withAthe read-.
i1etr8cnt of.alFairs In his phy sical tife-
4 me- other IS about at the aga OF
f eI8h(>en. when sthe thinking hoy gets
f Ii:foa sea az doubt, especially about
f his 1Dir1tual life. - "a
n have evidences practically every
5ax Ia NV deal.nks with boyk that Q
| 1ar<< number OF them are deprived OF
. ~ Lrn0pafh w. they need 1t these cfitf;
al {fnes- At about the age Of fifteen
fho low ~ absolutely lost in D maze Of
uuc <rfaiiifF about shinaself He II sub
{ecf4o All kinds of moods and all
EfnM OF emotions. A-great readiust-
REM "A going on in his life, and while
he NV try some OF his elders severe
III ~ must learn not TO be trenhend-
o,<ly inrpatient with him. The best
hcIo. 10 win yet VIII frequently come
<bronrh the ability OF some man to
remember back into his own boyhood
1ife.l and BY remembering, TO know Tor
certainty what this other boy Is 60
Int through. Happy the boy whose
father has this ability; and II the
father fail. I know OF no one else VINO
( IS 50 likely TO prove the real friend
+ of the boy as q wise man sunday
school teacher.
when the fellow at eighteen pro-
claims his religious doubts, we are
Iilt<r to meet the issue by laughing
III MIN and assuring him that he real
" hasn't sense enough to doubt. ~.
have heard such talk. but have
never known II 20 be OF anyaralue- N
reaching the boy I would rather sit
down with that fellow and say 1t is
ali hight: have been all through 1t
myself. but remember that you do not
have TO understand everything Just
now. There are two things to tie 70.
One Is the fact OF sin, and the other
Is The fact OF Christ as q personal
.
fitink else, After a while IL will come
otIt all right That kind OF sympathy
viii help many q fellow get past the
rotks In safety.
Home Negleets Boy. ~
"A boy needs instruction. He.needs
INSTRUCTION In the Bible. You and i.
who have come to love the Bible
shopld remember how much he really
needs II, but 1t will be we'll to recall
that the boy doesn't YET know THIS
need. He needs the Bible school and
ali 1t stands for, at this period, good
deal more than he needs anything In
the shape Of an emotional religious
meeting He needs In this intermedi
ate period thorough instruction In the
essential things OF his physical life
NORMALLY. he ought to get such in
sfructfon at home; actually, hC
doesn't We have had occasion TO take
this question up here and there
throughout the United States will
thcosands OF, boys. and find that II
many communities less than one pei
cent, have been properly instructed II
sex matters. OF course. almost ever,
boy has been Instructed, but the pit,
OF n Is that he has received his in
strsicton from incorrect or vicious
sources.
The boy needs occupation. In tn,
early part OF his teen age the occu
patton will take one form, and In tn,
latter part, A different form. Befor,
sixteen he viii want to IningIe viii
other boys In small group such al
gang OF crowd After sixteen n,
viii break away somewhat from IN,
gang instinct and begin TO think on
his life IN the terms of some othei
Individual, II he Is rightly guided
Along IN the middle OF the teen age
comes the dawn Of self-consoiousnsss
and then he may either become. su
preuely selfish or supremely interest
"a IA he other fellow. How 10 secure
10 expression OF the interest IN the
other fellow, win discuss briefly IN
the tecond part OF the address
II know Of churches that spend
thousands of dollars on their nfusfc 10
pIeeep the ear of their adult worship
reFa ana "a the sa<se time. CONNIE,
their sup1RE schoois 60 be self ,e,,p
porting nrd urge them "a give.io ME.
||I&II causes besides. The churck