The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-04-17
.sUNDAy-sCHOOL DAY" MAY :
ORDER OF SERVICE.

Leader-There are about 100000
Sunday Schools, with an enrolment
of 30,000,O00 in seventy nations of the
world. And the Sunday school army
is now growing at the rate of 1,000,-
900 per year.
School-What is the Worlds Sun
day School Association?
leader-The Worlds Sunday School
Association is an organization OF
Christian men and women, represent
ing all the Sunday Schools in the
world, having for its aim the promo
ton of missionary spirit in the Sun
day Schools on the home field and a
Sunday School spirit on the mission
fields.
School-What is the field of the In.
ternational Sunday School Associa.
ton?
Leader-The International Sunday
School Association operates through.
out North America with its 122,575, $50
inhabitants, and Where there are Ill.
144 Sunday Schools with an enroll
ment of 16,431 ,010, or more than one
half the Sunday School enrolment Of
the world.
SchooI-What are some signs OF
progress of Sunday School work in
North America?
Leader-In this field there are be.
ing added to the membership of the
churches Sunday School members at
the rate of 1,074 each day.
Men-Every Sunday School that Is
keeping in step has its organized class
of men studying Gods Word on Sun
day, enjoying Christian fellowship
continually, and together serving the
community where they live.
Women-Everywhe churches are
providing for those who teach and
those who are to be the teachers of
religion in the days to come.
Boys-Temperance teaching is be-
ing thoroughly and effectively done;
and it is interesting and down to the
minute.
Girls-Through the whole curricu.
lum is definite, positive missionary in
struction The missionary spirit, the
Christ spirit, is the spirit of the mod
ern Sunday School.
Men-All over the country there Is
an awakening among men and women
to the needs of boys and girls in their
teens and these men and women feel
sense of responsibility for the min
istry of the Sunday School unto the
all-round development of the boy and
the girl.
Women-The little children have
lessons, teachers and equipment suit
ed to their needs.
School-How many people are ex-
pected in the Sunday Schools of Ken
lucky to-day?
Leader-One million, more than
twice the present enrolment.
School-Who appointed this day as
"Go-to-Sunday-Scho Day."
Leader - The Kentucky Sunday
School Association
School-What is the Kentucky Sun,
day School Association?
Leader - The Kentucky Sunday
School Association is an organization
representing all the Sunday Schools
CT Kentucky. 1t stands for co-opera.
ton. 1t encourages and stimulates
woSk among the schools throughout
the state, by bringing the strong into
helpful contact with the weak 1t
stands for the best in equipment,
teaching and management.
School-What has the Kentucky
Sunday School Association accom-,
plished?
Leader-It has made the Christian
people of Kentucky dissatisfied with
the inadequate religious instruction OF
the days of old and inspired them to
seek improvement in every direction
1t has faithfully presented TO all,
the best in every department of Sun.
day School work, making the common
heritage whatever of good any worker
anywhere has discovered.
1t has induced hundreds of schools
to extend their sessions from three or
four months in the year to ten or
twelve months. 1t has intensified de-
nominational loyalty and at the same
time driven sectarianism to cover by
giving to the world a demonstration
of the beauty and the power of CO
operation.
1t has brought within the reach of
every officer and every teacher of ev-
cry Sunday School in Kentucky con-
ventions and institutions.
In short, If the Sunday Schools of
Kentucky are any better, or any more
popular to-day than they were fifty
years ago, 1t Is in part, at least, be-
cause of the work of the Kentucky
Sunday School Association.
School--Is our school part of this
organization?
Leader-Every Sunday School in
Kentucky has benefited by this organ
ization and is a part Of it. There is
no joining it, nor any withdrawing
from It, There is just the question
o., nhn tai