Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-06
CHURCH FEDERATION WORK HERE
Committee Heads Tell of What Has Been Done and of Plans
 For the Future-Meetng at Second Congregational Church A. Boyd to Conduct Teacher Training Class

the church is the part which the com strongly this year. The classes in the Sunday school should be organized along definite lines and the young peo- pie led to feel that they have dennite purpose in the school. We have been using large sums towards holding the men in the church, while the boys have been dropping out. We must show the boys that there is work for them to do. The boys are willing, but they need to be shown what to do and how to do it.
 The men of the church should feeel as big brothers to the boys should take an interest in their work, ana in their leisure and in their home life. II the boy is not earning enough to live on it is up to the men of the church to see that he gets a better Joo.
 For Social Service. 4
 Rev. Edward s. Worcester of the social service committee spoke in part as follows: The social service field IS a department which calls for the most combined activity. and to follow up the desirable lines of work the com mittee has been subdivided into four departments. The amusement com
 
 wich on the whole quite satisfactory, there being but one instance where the form of amusement was consider ed seriously undesirable. The second committee is the industrial committee, and under the auspices Of this com mittee there was a speaker here on Labor Sunday.
 The temperance committee approves of the action of the Connecticut Tenn perance union in their efforts to se- cure law limiting the saloons to one for each 1000 of population. The pro posed state farm for inebriates is also desirable, for at present man goes from the saloon to the jail, out to the saloon, and back to the jail, and there is no attempt at his reformation, nor is there provision for the care of his family. The clean outdoor work of a farm would give the man a chance to brace up if it were possible.
 The fourth committee has been i'm vestigating on the lines of sexual inn morality and it's results. This evil is very evident in our city today and we feel that the first step which we can take is the education of the individual along the lines of clean living. The evils of intemperance are closely al- lied with the vices of immortality in
 
 ure, lack of knowledge of healthy amusement have their part in the sus- taining of this evil. It is for the church to keep alive the image of Jesus with which the degradation of man and the lust of woman cannot exist
 More Knowledge of Missions.
 Rev. G. H. Ewing of the Norwich Town Congregational church was the final speaker, and he reported for the mission work committee. The pur- pose of the committee, he said, is to make friends with the mission socie- ties of all the churches and to work for their support. It is proposed to keep before the public through the newspapers justN what the world is doing in mission work There are a number of people engaged in mission fields whose homes are in Norwich, and we propose to invite them to send in correspondence for publication. This will present the mission work from a sane and practical standpoint We propose to organize an every member canvass of every church for the sup bport of the mission work and two or three churches are already taking steps along this line. We hope to se- cure the appointment of a mission committee in each church for the pro- motion and systematizing of mission work We have before us three lines of work, financial, educational and de- votional. Teacher Training Course. At the close of the general meeting there was meeting of the special committee to whom the Bible study | committee had referred the matter of securing a teacher for the teacher 1 training class, and it was voted to se- | cure Charles A. Boyd of Hartford, ar i instructor in the Hartford school ot 1 pedagogy, dean of the Hartford Sun i day school training institute and for merly secretary of the New Yorl | State Sunday School association. The members of the special committee arc F. R. Starkey, chairman, and C.. W | Guard of the Bible study committe, and Henry D. Johnson of the New 1 London County Sunday School associa ton. The teacher training classe. will be conducted under the joint au. 1 spices of the Bible study committee O
 the church federation and of the Nev London County Sunday School asso
 ciation.
 The series of 20 lessons for eacl | class is to begin on Jan. and tn,
 classes will be held on Friday even
 ings. The course in the Old and Nev | Testament will occupy from 7.S0 t, l 8.15, and the courses in child study an,
 teaching methods will be conducted
 from S.15 to g o'clock. The meeting
 are to be held in some centrally locat
 ed church, just which one not havinj
 been decided as yet