Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
ESTABLISH COLLEGE FOR
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS
Boston University Endowed for Purp9se
OF Supplying Expert Training to
Those Who VIII Instruct.

a long-felt want in the religious
and church life of New England as we'll
as the country at large is soon to be
filled through the medium Of Boston
University and the Sunday School SUI
per,ntcndents' Union of Boston and its
vInicity, In the establishment by the
former through n 100000 endowment
raised by the latter of a school for
the training OF teachers OF religion
With special reference TO Sunday school
instruction. THIS school is to be called
a department OF religious psychology
and pedagogy. Its general management
will be vested in the trustees of the
university. but two representatives of
the Sunday School Superintendent
Union of Boston and it's vicinity are to
be on the standing committee of the
school. the other members to be the
dean OF the School of Theology, two
members of the board of trustees and
the president ex oficfo. This commit
tee will have authority in consultation
with tho head OF the department to
determine how many extension courses
shall be offered by the department to
the members OF the Sunday School Su-
perintendents' Union and the officers
and teachers In the Sunday schools OF
all denominations In Boston and its
vicinity.
The most practical and pressing
needs of these Sunday schools will
receive first attention in the planning
practicable the courses will be given
at such times and places as will suit
the convenience OF those who desire
to enroll In them.
NECESSARY TO DEVELOP
ADEQUATE EDUCATIONAL PLAN
The originators OF this school say:
THE future welfare of our country
the coming generation. If our boys
and girls are to grow up into trust
worthy. unselfish and morally efficient
citizens, they must learn how to take
God into account. The noblest traits
OF character and highest forms of So
ctal service are based upon personal
religion, of some kind.
The teaching OF religion has been
removed from the public schools. The
average home does not provide for Ii.
Hence upon the Sunday school falls
practically the entire responsibility for
the religious training of the young.
Without In any way discounting the
noble work already done, II can be
said that the Sunday school has not
had the facilities to become educa-
tionaily as efficient as has tho public
school 1t must depend upon voluntary
teachers and officers, most of whom
have no special training for these posi-
tons such as Is supplied for teachers
IN public schools by the State normal
schools. The Protestant Church is now
losing over so per cent OF her young
people because 1t has not yet developed
an adequate system OF religious educa-
ton.
The Sunday school needs expert as
sistance In the training of it's teachers"
FINDING GOD.
(Grace Cook Allen, in Southern Wo-
mans Magazine.)
The stars call men to God In lonely
nights
And meath the shining beauty of the
And in the s:eadfast silence of the
hills,
In far off out of. doors,
Apart from other men,
God seeking souls find God, and wor-
ship there.
Yet not in solitude alone-for Gods in
men.
The face-to-face of reverent lives,
In moments hushed and grave.
Shows God In man most God-like, most
to love.
And from the gathered two or three,
Strong searching souls depart as
though in PRAYER