Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-29
New Courses in
Church Work at
Newark Institute
Sessions Held in Third Presby-
terrain to Educate Sunday
School Workers.

An exceptional chance to prepare
for effective service In Sunday school
and other forms of religious work is
presented by the Newark Institute
for Religious Education. This is a
permanent Institution, with board
of directors, a constitution and a regu-
lar weekly evening session from Oc-
tober to May. Every Wednesday eve
ming from 1880 to $40 q company of
people gathers for self-improvement
in the Third Presbyterian Church,
Broad street, opposite the city Hall.
Already this year they have enjoyed
the teaching of Professor Edwin l..
carp, Phi. D., of the department of
religious sociology in the Drew Theo-
logical Seminary Rev. l.. b. Hills.
of the First Presbyterian Church;
Miss Ruth Tapping, religious work
director of the Y. w. c. A., and Rev
Jesse l.. Hurlbut, D. D., Sunday
school specialist and author. $50
On Wednesday, December 8, three
entirely new courses will be offered.
The first Of these Is planned to give
broad view of theplong and steady
march OF the church through the CEN
turtles by looking at few of the
most famous leaders of twenty Chris
tiap centuries. The instructor in this
department will be Rev. IL. Frederick
Hoops, pastor of the German Evan
gelical United Brethren Church, in
this city who has given special study
to the subject in the Bible Teachers
Training School, New York city.
The second course is designed to
assist in the solution of the problems
peculiar to superintendent and other
Sunday school officers. Among the
subjects discussed will be onganiza-
ton, management. discipline, pro-
gram, finances. graded courses and
teachers meetings. The text book,
Sunday School, which is rapidly be-
ing accepted as the latest standard
work over the United States, was
written by DR.. J. L. Hurlbut, of this
city. The instructor in this depart
ment is and has been for two years
president of the. New Jersey Sunday
School Association. and has been for
many years superintendent Of the re-
markable successful Methodist School
at South Orange, He is regarded as
one of the most efficient Sunday
school mem in New, Jersey.
The third course is designed es-
pecially for teachers, and officers of
adult Bible classes The board of
directors of the institute has real
lied that one of the most difficult
problems before the Sunday school at
present Is that adult Bible class, and
on that account have secured Isaac b.
Burgess the State secretary of the
New Jersey Sunday School Associa-
ton. Mr., Burgess is fitted by long
experience for this particular line of
work. In addition to a long ex-
perience in education he was chair
man of the Bible study section in the
men and religion campaign In Rhode
Island. He was chairman of the sub
commission on the teacher for the
ternational Sunday School Associa-
ton. Among the topics discussed |
will be class organization and man
agement, the duties of class officers
and committees, class activities, rela- !
ton to brotherhood movement, avail p
able Bible study courses and Bible
class literature. 4
The institute provides each eve \
ming for specific help to teachers in |
every department.. Under the direc- |
ton of Miss Josephine l.. Baldwin !
classes are regularly provided for |
teachers of beginners G-5), primary |
cages 6-s)s junior (9r12), intermediate |
d3-1s) and senior Q7-2o). These
classes are taught by practical Sun
day school people, who have given |
special study to the problems of the
department in which they teach.
No need of any teacher or officer In
Sunday school appears to have been
The director of the in
stitute is Carl Herman Wintsch, and
associated with him in the directorate
is a trained group of specialists in
religious education.