The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-04
JOINT CAMPAIGN BUSY YESTERDAY Concerted Religious Action
 All Over City THREE BIG FEATURES Bible Training School, Pocket Testa- ment League and Religious
 Census of Birmingham Ere
 Arousing Interest

The churches of Pratt City joined to- gether in one great congregation at
 the morning service hour yesterday. the
 churches of Vivian at the same hour and the churches of Woodlawn at the
 night service in furtherance of the joint campaign of the Bible training school,
 Pocket Testament league. and Religi
 ous census of Birmin gham. And in the afternoon, rallies of Sunday school and church workers were held at Ensley. West End and Birmingham proper by | the same workers.
 The local members of the Excel 1000
 voice chorus sang at Pratt City and Ensley, under the direction of W. k. Crumley; at Wyam, under the direction
 of MT. Springer and at Woodlawn. un- der Prof. Stephen Allsop Prof E. O. Excell's latest book. Coronation Hymns. was used al all meetings.
 Religious Census of Birmingham D. w. Sims, general secretary of the
 Alabama Sunday School association; p. | F. Green, state secretary of the Pres byterian GU. S. A.) Sunday schools. pre-
 sented the taking of the religious cen
 sus of all Birmingham in October.
 Every home and every place where any
 ore lives will be visited in the inter- ] ests of church and Sunday school work | by every denomination within one hour
 on given day by 5000 church and Sunday school workers. The adult | Bible classes of the Protestant Sunday | schools will be asked to do their work | for their denomination. All will work
 together in this great undertaking, and
 the actual visiting vii be done by vis- itors going in pairs. each of a different | denomination. Every person visited will
 be given both a cordial verbal and writ | ten invitation to attend church and | Sunday school, going to the church of his choice. The name. address, nation
 ality, religious affiliation, if any, age. | and facts as to church and Sunday school attendance vii be recorded on cards and the cards then transmitted to | the proper church for further invita- | tion.
 | Then every denomination will have an | accurate record of it's numerical
 streng in Birmingham, who it's people | are and where they live. This infor-
 nation will be made the basis of a
 campaign by every church in the city I
 well as campaign of evangelization.
 Pocket Testament League l E.. E. Wheeler and Leon c. Palmer, general secretary of thes Birmingham l Sunday School association, aroused great
 interest at this meeting in the launching
 of the Pocket Testament league in Bir-
 mingham. This league is only five years | old and has already encircled the globe and bids fair to become one of the great I est forces in Christianity. It's genius lies
 in it's simplicity. Members agree to make | it the rule of their Ives to do just. two | things, first read one chapter in the | Bible every day and second, to carry a ] Testament Bible all the time. Syste- | matic daily reading of the Bible and the presence of the word of God on ones
 person are the two great principles of l the movement. The belief Is that it is | just as necessary. if not more so, to read | the Bible every day as to eat. And then
 it is thought that the presence of the Bible about person will have won- | derfully helpful influence on the daily
 lives of all members of the league-that | this will make them more faithful and
 better in many ways and will tend strong | " tO iHdhe tHenl dctlNe WOTk- | CTS
 l The league will be launched in Birming- | ham on Sunday, October 8, under the
 supervision of MT. Wheeler, who Is su-
 perintendent here.
 Bible Training School James Bailey and M Lee Bonner pre-
 sented the International Bible Training
 school to be held here October to 10.
 Plans have been perfected for larger
 and better session of the school than
 the one held at the First Baptist church
 last December, winch was the largest ever
 held anywhere in Sunday school work. Prof. E. O. Excel of Chicago and his | pianist, Alvin w. Roper. will again have
 charge of the music. with the great 1000
 voice chorus now being trained for the
 occasion. Pupil study. child life, the | science and art of teaching and Sunday
 school methods and organization and the Bible will be the subjects treated by the
 most eminent authorities of America on