The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25
IT Will BE HERE
Headquarters of the Junior
Association in Topeka.
1t Is an Organization for Young
People.
MANY CITIES CONSIDERED
Towns of Twenty States Re-
jected in Choosing Location.
Facts About the Work of This
Organization.
MANY CITIES CONSIDERED

Topeka is the place. The board of
trustees of the Junior association has
agreed that of all the cities Of twenty
states considered, Topeka is the most
desirable for the permanent national
headquarters Of the Junior work and
that question has been settled in favor
of Topeka for a period of fifty years.
The board of trustees of the Junior
association selected for the coming
year consists of John w. Dobbins,
president, of Oklahoma; J. R. Alb
bott. vice president. of Arkansas; N.
S. Anslyn, treasurer, of Missouri;
Frances Miller, secretary, of Topeka,
and Evangelist Ernest House of To-
peka-
The Junior work has been in oper-
alton for % months and has proven
to be an effective non-sectarian and
nom denominational work among chill
dren and a stimulus for the Sunday
schools of all denominations. Its plan
OF operation is very simple and at the
same time the most practical and eff
fective.
The plan of operation provides for
the enrolment of children between
the ages of and 1 years as juniors,
provided they would promise to attend
some Sunday school every Sunday
they possibly could attend and have
the teacher fill out a quarterly Sun
day school report card, showing q
record of the child's attendance, les
sons and behavior during the quar-
ter. At the end of the quarter the
child is required to mail the card to
the Junior association and If the rec
ord as shown by the card is good the
child is put on the Junior roll of
honor, which is published and cir
culated all over the United States and
Canada among the Juniors and the
child receives a beautiful litho-
graphed certificate of honor.
The plan also provides that the
child enrolling as Junior shall be
given copy of Matthew's gospel,
bound in a volume alone at the time
of Marks gospel then Luke's gos-
pei, and Johns gospel and so on I'M
til it will have received the whole
New Testament in one book editions.
Then the child is given the Book of
Genesis, bound in volume alone, and
book after book until he also has the
whole Old Testament in single books.
The Importance of this part of the
plan will be readily seen in that a
child will take a greater interest in
the Bible in this form and much more
Bible reading results.
The whole plan is to produce bet
ter results by providing an. inspira-
ton to the child along the proper
lines instead of using force methods
of getting the child into Sunday
school and keeping him there.
How Juniors Are Enrolled.
Any teacher or substitute teacher in
the Sunday school of any denomination
may apply for membership in the Sunday
school teachers auxiliary of the Junior
association by filling out blank for that
purpose which Is furnished by the secre-
tary of the association upon request. After
becoming member of the Sunday school
teachers auxiliary the teacher is author
lied and empowered to enroll any chill
dren between the ages of four and fifteen
years, who promise to attend any Sunday
school, Juniors and they will be
furnished with a Sunday school report
card, free books of the Bible, etc. While
children over fifteen cannot be enrolled
age may continue to be Juniors as long
they live.
Financial Support.
The principal support of the Junior as
ISOLATION comes through a large body of
men and women-rapidly approaching the
ten thousand mark-who constitute the
membership, proper, of the association
and pledge themselves to pay any assess
ments the board of trustees may make on
laws for the financial support of the
Junior" work
Evangelist Ernest House of Topeka,
who represents the Junior association as
extension lecturer and field supervisor all
over the United States and Canada, lives
days directing the enrolment of children
as Juniors" and making proper distri-
button of an appropriation just made by
the board of trustees to support the work
of the local Sunday schools among the
children over four and under fifteen years
of age.
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