The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-08
ALL COUNTIESUP TO
BANNER STANDARD
Palmer Submits Report at
Meeting of Executive
Committee

Montgomery, May 7.-lSpecial) )-The an
nual meeting of the executive committee
of the Alabama Sunday School associa-
ton was held Tuesday at the offices of
the association. 525-527 Bell building. Mont
gomery. A full report of the years work
was made by General Secretary Leon C.
Palmer, showing that every county in
Alabama is up to the banner standard and
SO (Autauga Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, But
ler Clarke Cleburne, Coffee, Coosa, Gov
ington, Dale, Dallas DeKalb, Elmore, Eto-
wah, Fayette, Geneva. Lee, Lowndes, Ma
con, Madison, Marengo. Montgomery. Nor
gan, North Jefferson, Perry. Pike, Ran
dolph, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Wal
ker, Washington are Gold stars For
the first time in the history OF the associa-
ton. the field secretary. Miss Myra Bat
chelder, had visited every county in the
state during the IL months. Most of them
had been visited many times. The general
secretary had visited 81 counties. The Of
flee work accomplished during the year
was the largest in the history of the as
sociaton, over 10000 letters and postals
having gone out from the general secre-
tarys S office, not including the thousands
sent out by the seven department heads,
The circulation of the official organ Of
the association, the Alabama Sunday
School Bulletin has exceeded all previ-
Gus records. The financial affairs of the
assoc la ton have been conserVatively man
aged no disbursements having been al
lowed except upon authorization of the
state executive committee, and the dis
ht,r ba4r rftNp hap ont ct
| within the available resources of the as
sociation. All bills and obligations of
every sort were reported paid In full, with
| a small cash balance on hand. A budget
of 50, 500 was adopted for the current year,
this being the largest years work ever
planned by the association.
One of the most important steps taken
by the committee was the action to en-
ploy two additional workers, an office sec
retary and an additional field secretary.
The work OF the association has grown
so that the present field force is inade-
quate to meet the many calls made upon
them, and the increase in office work
has made the position of office secretary
an imperative need. Prof. r. ID. Webb
of Auburn, superintendent of the Auburn
Baptist Sunday school and professor of
English in the college at Auburn. was
unanimously elected state field secretary.
ing as an educator and as practical
Sunday school man. His Sunday school
a Auburn is one of the very best in that
section of the state. As president of the
Lee County Sunday School association,
he brought the county up to the gold star
standard last summer and under his
leadership the average banner school per-
centage of the county has been raised %
per cent in II months. Professor Webb
served as volunteer field worker of the
state association nearly two months last
summer, and made an enviable record as
practical Sunday school lecturer and
organizer While he has not definitely
accepted this call to the field secretary
snip, II is believed that he will do so.
]. NJ Sherrell of Montgomery was elect
ed and accepted the posluon of office
secretary, his duties to begin May 20. Mr..
Sherrell is a Fayette county man, a MEM
Der of the Methodist church at Fayette,
but now occupying a business position in
Montgomery. He is a member Of the DeX-
ter Avenue Methodist Sunday school, and
an experienced office man.
w. w. Campbell of Tuskegee and DIR.
b. NJ Ohnle OF Montgomery were elected
as members of the state executive COM
mittee.
The action of the state convention In
voting the next state convention TO Mobile
was ratified and confirmed, and the ar
rangement of dates and programme re-
rerred to the central committee.
Two resolutions of especial Importance
were unanimously passed by the commit
eee one calling attention TO the urgent
necessity of definite soul winning in the
Sunday school as the goal OF all effort,
and the other reaffarming the funda-
mental principle of the teacher training
department of the association namely,
that the Alabama Sunday School assoca-
ton stands for and advocates denomina-
tional teacher training.