South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-15
URGES GRADED LESSONS
/. IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
The Uniform Study of the Bible
Has DiSpeIIed the Chaos of
Sunday School Teaching.

THE graded lessons in the Sunday
scnooI are like the seed 10 the soil
fitted 10 the conditions and the most
suitable for hardness against the ele-
ments OF the weather, it is the seed of
the Sunday school best selected for the
child in years, and takes it step by
step through the years of youth 10
maturity" said George y. Burnie be-
fore the ST. Joseph County Sunday
school convention at the First Pres
byterian church, Friday morning.
I'm the beginning Of the Sunday
school it was the purpose 10 teach the
a. b, c's. next came the period or
memorizing. DAYS of discriminating
memorizing of the Bible. memorizing
of the entire new testament and great
parts of the old. In the next period.
there was Bible catechism followed by
church dogma or theological cat
chism which was later followed by a
system OF Bible study for Sunday
schools. This is the system of to-
day. In 1872 at a convention of the
international Sunday School associa-
ton at Indianapolis It was decided TO
adopt, adapt or prepare series or
lessons along with the Sunday schools
Something which would De uniform
and which would lead Sunday school
teaching out Of the chaos in which 1t
had been for years. The result was
the compiling of the international
Uniform series OF Sunday school les
sons in use the world over today.
Nothing has done more for the
Sunday school: nothing has done so
much to bind the Sunday schools to-
gether, as this system of uniform
study today 1t has dispelled the chaos
which existed before and now with It's
system. instruction is followed out
along definite lines of study. Also 1t
is the factor that has made denom-
national study in the Sunday school
possible"
Kenneth GorreIl Talks.
Those who see the big broad vision
OF possibility, see the vision that will
unite us, and united we can reach the
highest standard of efficiency" declar-
ed Kenneth Gorrell before the conven-
ton and following the address of Mr..
Burnie. Mr. Gorrell's subject was
THE Sunday School Vision"
THE big vision of the Sunday school
is to take the child and by the teach
ing of the lessons in the school to
make men and women who will be
lIdlIlIk
carry on the great kingdom OF the
world
Great as the Sunday school is. it
is only in the beginning. There's a
great chance for growth, even though
there are 100000 members in the
world and half of them are in this
country alone Yet the statistics show
that only one out Of every six attend
Sunday school. And in st. Joseph
county the report Of the secretary Of
.his convention showed that the aver
age was just slightly below that of the
country Yet l hope you are busy
people and the purpose Of this con-
vention is to feed the minds of you
workers and teachers and TO UNI
scramble the condition which exists
here"
The Friday morning session of the
convention was largely attended. The
devotional services were in charge of
Rev. W. II. F'reshley Owing TO the
time of the session being taken up by
the two speakers it was found impos-
sible to hold the round table discus
sion which was scheduled to be In
charge Of Mr.. Burnie.