The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18


| In opposition to this type of nose we
find the snub nose, which shows unde
velopment, crudeness. 1t is the nose of
the child rather than of the developed
man. When ii is seen in adults we find
| the childlike mind accompanying it.
| The owner does not achieve great sue
| cess. but is content to keep on in his
humble way. From this class come the
manual workers who lay the founda- :
tion of the wealth of the world. Their
work is necessary. but they cannot di-
rect others. They follow where they
are led or driven. Theirs not to reason
| why, theirs but to do and die
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denied by those on the inside that high
| er criticism formed part of the con-
troVersy in its relation to the com
mittee, although that subject constant
| ly gets into the council and involves
the publishers.
| This international Sunday school les
| son business, with its allied publica-
| tions, its Sunday school associations,
runs into millions of dollars and
reaches to the ends of the earth. In
| 1T all Americans have taken the fore
most part from the first and still
take it.
Six commissions representing every part
of the world. appointed by the last
| WI III NQHudN ScflOOl tDnNeniloii, HdNt
just made reports t mission boards of
the world on methods of extending Sun
day school work into all mission fields.
Members of the commissions include the
Rev. DR.. F. B. Meyer and Sir Robert
Laidlaw of London, the Rev. b, NJ. Tip
pie of Rome, who is the Methodist leader
| who figured In the Roosevelt incident
| two years ago, and Bishop Hartzell OF
! Africa. The Pittsburg manufacturer, II.
| j Heinz is chairman nj a central
missions presenting all of the reports.
For some years mission boards have
| labored to get missions into Sunday
| schools, especially into those of large
| American city churches. with the aim OF
making children better Informed about
missions and eventually obtaining larger
| money gifts for missions. For a decade
or more Sunday school leaders have COM
planned that they got little consideration
| in missionary conventions. Otter they
| have charged that the most important
matter of all. instruction of children in
the Biblef was left out of propaganda
| of the missionary societies. Now these
Sunday school leaders go the limit, and
to the mission boards present definite
plans for Bible work on mission fields.
| They make no mention of larger instruc-
| ton on missions in Sunday schools al
| home.
These commissions propose that mis-
| sionaries be more generally instructed in
Sunday school methods before being sent
OUT that theological semnaries give more
| time to such instruction.: that colleges
under mission board direction insist upon
| Bible classes are parts of courses of study
and that boards maintain one or more
| Sunday school specialist on each field.
| The commissions state that China ana
Japan are more and more copying Ameri-
can public school methods in giving secu-
lar instruction only, and that therefore
there is added reason for action by the
churches. In behalf of Bible instruc-
tion.
The Christian Endeavor society and
its newspaper organ have taken up
the go-to church idea. The first Sun
day in February for such Sunday, fixed
by the Chicago Christian Endeavor
union, is found by number of cities
too near al hand to get ready. Hence
later February Sundays are proposed
by some cities. Every day are heard
reports of committees in various cities
showing new movements trying out the
idea. Into it, in their respective ways.
Jews and Catholics are joining with
Protestants. Already there is talk of a
common Sunday for the country and for
all bodies.
The new things that are developin 6
in various cities are the forming of a
telephone corps that extends invitations
over the phone, raising a fund where
necessary to pay phone tolls; commit :
tees to interview heads of corporations
that employ labor on Sunday to urge
that employment on specific Sunday
be reduced where possible: posters on
automobiles. billboards and stamps on
envelopes to call attention to the cam
paign. Ministers are being coached on
what to preach, some in cities where
the Sunday Is approaching being In
correspondence with ministers of cities
that have already had the Sunday. The
president of the federal council presi-
dents of railway corporations, and gov
ernors of states are giving their writ
ten Endorsements of the plan.
| Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore. Cardi
nal Farley or New York and Cardinal
O'Connel of Boston have united in for
| NAL encouragement of Catholic laymel
and laywomen to take larger parts in
the work of the church. Two new move
ments, growing out of this encouragement
have started up within fortnight. One
is national Catholic club plan, aiming
to bring into federation Catholic clubs
in all cities. A name for the fedora
tion has not vet been chosen, but call
for a convention is soon to be issued.
Meantime Catholics of cities wherein are
not strong Catholic clubs already are be-
ing urged to form such clubs. The move
ment may in some cities take in other
than clubs, but its probable 100000 mem-
bers when fully organized will comprise
the well-to-do men of the Catholic church
Of the country The aims are social
and religious
The other new plan relates chiefly to
work by women. 1t is for teachers in
public schools who are Catholics to as
certain who among their pupils who are
or Cathoifc parentage do not attend Sur
DAY school. They are required to find
out the names outside Of regular school
hours. Having done SO, they are to form
I such children into classes and in the
nearest parochial hall to undertake Sun
day school instruction of them. Officials
of school boards are saying that since the
work is done outside of school hours
they have no Jurisdiction but that pri-
vately they regard the plan as worth,
one. Within the last decade Catholic
have much enlarged their educational
TX for children, many public school
chers taking part in Sunday schools