The Clay City times., 1913-07-10
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
HELP EDUCATION
Suggestions by Louisville Con-
mercidI Club.
BENEFITS OF CO. 0-OfERkTIOa.
Kentucky Sunday School Association
Has Done Excellent Work, and Its
Influence Can Be Extended Through
the Efficient Aid Of Public School
Teachers and Superintendents.

tHHueHCe IAN DC GNeeHuSu '"N"S'
the Efficient Aid Of Public School
Teachers and Superintendents.
The educational wave Is rising In
our old state For long time each
and every organization that waS help
ing the movement has been working
independently. Now there is II desire
10 get together. The following report
of a special committee Oh the work
of the Sunday school association aud
that Of the Louisville Commercial club,
will explain itself.
The Kentucky Sunday School asso
ciatieIr has a splendid orgaHiztiion
Every county has some form ofslor-
ganfaatiOn.p Many Of the peopekS hn
are Interested I'm all the best intefaSiS
cf the county are numbered anlong
those whofsre connected with thfs9,s
sociation. These psss,,ns can bekgv
Ell Il broader view of what the xSfn
day school. the pubfic school ana The
home could do for the entire cOminu
nifty. reaching into the physical. men
tai. social and spiritual development
Not only the city pastors. hut the
rural pastors, who are in measure
leaders In the communities. are con
nectcd with the Sunday Srhool aSso
citation. and In many cases the public
school teachers. superintendent of the
county schools aud others engaged In
educational work.
The Commercial club Is reaching
through its wide system of publicity,
the prizes II has been offering. and
the correspondence conducted. many
who are interested in truest education
but whose viewpoint is different from
that of Sunday school workers.
The Kentucky Sunday School asso-
citation holds conventions in almost
every county in the state every year.
attended by thousands of the better
citizens. In addition to this several
hundred district conventions and near
ly thousand rallies and conferences
are held. This association also pub
fishes the Kentucky Sunday School
Reporter with circulation OF about
5000 per month.
These two organizations could great
ly strengthen and advance the work
both are doing by securing one or more
persons In each county who would rep
resent both organizations. Under the
direction of such persons a survey Of
many counties might be made finding
the present conditions and forming
common basis for future work. At the
conventions held time could he given
for the discussion of topics of vital in
terest tor tile uplMldiug of the com
munity. school. home aud SUNDAY
school and the length of the ronvrn
ton be increased t0 two. entire days
rhe same thing could lp ,lnnr IN dis
irict convention, rallies and Institutes
BY holding conferences where II wider
range Of topics would be ,Me~rnica
Zach would be able to reach many
hnt have not yet bpcp'np increased
rhen each could help the o,her.
Therefore we SuegrSl:
First.-Thai In the future ou an ,prL
grams OF institutes. col,rntions. aiuI
rallies there be given n Ia. .i, rTIaliI.
- the cOrelation Ot secular AMI rrli.
,.i0uS education in thu stale a.nn. lrh
mite lines aud that, thi> ~ ur he ~
'!"ned To n person well iu,oruird ~
both religious and stclllni .d,H9iIrrn
Ia such way there nlii.hl b- the nlI
lIortunity of bringing Ia the M r.it,".i
of people who have. never thmigli 'l
the matter the value ol Snch corrrLi
NON. BECAUSE OF tile wide up.,o iuli
~ which the Sunday sclnn Sp,.aa,r
has of reaching audiences in he s,n,"
this wOuh be the surest wny cf .rr ~
M enthusiasm. disseminating m:ornl
thm aud removing prejudice
Second. That IN the future Hi nil
rl,Tting OnventiOls--distrrI r"ur
aud state there he chpSeb >lIurr u
hpldents who shall promote the ''u"l,
Grafton of secular and rel ons r,iIEa
Ihinal forces along delin'ir lines
ThirL THAT whenever oplnrtnni' iS
urlse the possibility OF the uSr of lh"
church as a social center br enphn
slyl'd and encouraged. making n an,Sl
NE opening for the dissemination ~
r.lpcational Ideas.
Fourth. - That at the state convrn
I'm this w"rk he made distipl f,m
i'i' % the program and II possible a
. 'pnItnlrnt session le g'r"' -
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