Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-26
sunday SCHOOL
CONVENTION IS
TO MEET SOON
MEETING FOR APRIL 22-24
Session is to Take Place in
EatOntOn


Sims, who at that time was General
Secretary of the Alabama Sunday
School Association, was employed as
Georgia's General Secretary and be-
gan work on June LIST. Mr. Sims is d
practical man, having served as a
Sunday school teacher for about ten
years, and superintendent of a large
Sunday School in Richmond, Va,
then served successfully as Field and
General Secretary in Alabama for
about five years prior to taking up the
work in Georgia.
In Mr.. Sims work through the state
he has clloected some facts that are
not generally known. For example,
he has found that in one county in
Georgia there are only seven Sundav
Schools, and six of these are in the
largest town in the county.
In another county in Georgia there
are only ten Sunday Schools, and
only four of them run twelve months
in the year.
In still another county in Georgia
there are fifty literary schools and
only fifteen Sunday Schools, and
only five of the Sunday Schools run
twelve months in the year.
While in another county in Georgia
there are only three Sunday Schools,
according to a report from the county
ordinary, and in another county in
Georgia only one out of forty-eight of
the white population is enrolled in
the Sunday Schools.
Since Georgia Sunday schools put Mr.
Sims in the field the first of last June
43 of Georgia's 148 counties have been
organized cd the tentative orginiza-
tons re-organized. These counties
are holding institutes, county and di-
vision Sunday School Conventions ad-
vocating more and better schools.
One feature of the work of the Asso-
citation is to get the leaders of Sunday
School thought interested in these
county organizations. The leaders in
meetings assembled plan to meet the
conditions. A large quantity of free
leaflets on Banner School," and 9th
err methods of Sunday School work
are being sent out from the Office of
the Association at 613 Temple Court
Building, Atlanta.
TheGeorgia School Association is
the only organization in the state in
whic all denominations are working
together in a systematic effort to Gre
ate public sentiment in favor of de-
nominational Sunday schools in ev-
cry community where they are need
ed, and better methods in the Sunday
Schools now existing. The Georgia
Sunday School Association is a help
er, not a competitor, of any denom-
national Sunday School work. for It
does not try to organize Union Sun
day Schools, but to create public SEN
timent so UNCONVENTIONAL Sunday
Schools, of such denomination as the
community thinks best will be or
gained. The Georgia Sunday School
Association is working by way Of
SuSSSSIlOH uOJ Oh authority, IHeTS-
fore it helps many and hinders none,
for a cooperative effect on the part
of all evangelical denominatios in
Georgia Gust as they are working in
other states) for more Sunday
Schools and better methods of work
in Sunday Schools now existing.
Plans are now being made for the
State Sunday School Convention,
which meets at Elberton, Ca, on
April 22-23-24. Besides the Sunday
School workers of the state who will
take part on the program, Mr.. w. c..
Pearce Of Chicago, Associate General
Secretary of the International Sun
day School Association, will also
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