The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-04

1 ligious census? A plan by which every home is visited, all invited to the Sun day school and church of their choice. Also a record is made of religious con- ditions in each home and give the church preferred
 Why have home visitation in Bir- mingham? Because of the great num- Der of people in Birmingham who do not go to church and Sunday school"
 The government census of 1910 for Greater Birmingham shows the total population to be 132,6S5. Conservative estimates from several sources put the white population at at least 100000" :" There are 99 white Sunday schools in Greater Birmingham The board of managers of the home visitation have reports from Fl of these and careful estimates from the others"
 From the reports just received GOV ering the first eight months of 1911, We find the total Sunday school en- rollment to be in round numbers 2o,000, and the average attendance to be 6l per cent or 12.2OO. The average Sun day school attendance since January
 
 ulation."
 1 "To have every white person in Bir- mingham in Sunday school would mean to multiply every Sunday school by eight. Think of it, pastors and super intendentsl If you had 100 persons in your Sunday school last Sunday you are entitled to eight times that num- 1 ber-S00."
 l 'Whateeorganiza is behind this home visitation and how is the work planned? Primarily this work is planned and arranged for by the Alabama Sun day School association and the Bir- mingham Sunday School association 1 What is the Alabama Sunday School l association? A cooperative organiza- ton, composed of the various denom- | nations of the state II is the only organization in existence that aims tc 1 help every Sunday school in Alabama.
 The office of the Alabama Sunday School association is in Montgomery 52527 Bell building. The president k | Col. H. s. D. Mallory of Selma. Thf chairman of the executive committee ii Judge Armstead Brown, of Montgom cry"
 The Birmingham Sunday School as sociation is also a cooperative inter denominational organization It aims tt | help every Sunday school in Brming
 ham, their motto being, 'Birmingh
 for Christi The office is 501 Empir,
 building tboth phones). MT. D, H. Mar
 bury is president and chairman of tn, l executive committed"
 At what hour and where do visitor
 report for work? At o'clock, Sunda,
 morning, October 8. Go to the plac
 announced in your school last Sunday
 If you forget where that is, read care i fully the list of headquarters and as ' siSnments in Fridays newspapers I ' IS important that you go where you ar ! directed so that the visitors will b. \ readily distributed"
 II "lf the record cards cannot be file, | out in full, what are the most import | ant questions? Name residence. de | nomination and name of church an | pastor"
 : "If q person who has promised to x
 as a visitor should find 1t impossibl l 10 go, what should they do? By al ] means get a substitute. The organi zation is depending on each visitor wh has promised to go."
 Are all homes. of all denomina tion to be visited? Yes; visit every plao in Greater Birmingham a white ne, son sleeps. Ladies will, of course h assigned where the work is easiest an most pleasant" :"