Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-11
EXTEND MOVEMENT FOR
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLS
VIII Be Held This Year in Seventy
Cities, With Constantly Grow.
ing Patronage.
LAUNCHED HERE LAST YEAR
Utilize Buildings Otherwise Standing
Vacant. Keep Children on Streets
and Give Employment to College
Students AZ Instructors.

Children OF distant Chile and OF even
more distant japan are this summer
taking up an American idea, and at
tending daily vacation Bible schools.
This Ii 4 new form in which the United
States enters South American enter
prise. With children Of this country.
children OF these countries are to dress
dolls to go TO European children next
Chrixtman. and make another Christ
mas ship possible.
These vacation schools. such az were
held In Richmond last summer. will be
held this summer in seventy cities, and
there will he $50 schools in all. perhaps
more. New cities include Canadian
ones. and some American cities where
In new plans are making include De-
trcit, Columbus, Cincinnati Cleveland,
Lexington. Augusta and Macon. Ga:
Mobile. Buffalo and San Francisco.
Still another new feature this year is
the college help. Students in dozen
or more wellkrown colleges not only
furnish teachers. but bear expense of
the salaries OF such teachers from
among their student numbers. and OF
other cost of such school.
USE BUILDINGS OTHERWISE
LEFT STANDING IDLE
The daily vacation Bible schools util-
Ire church buildings and halls that
would otherwise stand vacant. They
gather boys and girls off the hot
streets every morning for six weeks
during July and August. They give
young men and young women in col
leEes and seminarics, who arc in need
Of financial help. employment for the
summer: a chance to earn some money
and valuable experience. The plan
utflizes lot Of things. protects chill
dren. who would otherwise be in dan
ger. helps deserving college students
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Boys and girls coming to such
schools arc taught Bible and Bible
stories. to sing and to play instructive
games, and useful handicraft. In this
last feature will come tho dressing OF
dolls for children in Europe. Children
are given the work they do. or else
they contribute them to children's
homes. crippled children and children
sick In hospitals. In some cities this
season. for the first time. schools for
held. Here are made prominent pstri-
otfsn, American history in story form.
and American morals.
NATIONAL. ORGANIZATION
FORMED TO PROMOTE NOV EMENT
There is a national orEa animation to
promote these schools. with head
quarters in the Bible House. New York
The main spring of the movement, the
man who suggested the plan that has
now spread SO far. is the Rev. Robert
g. BoVille. D. d. Prominent men OF
many cities clerSymen and laymen
have Joined him. The work costs lit
tie per child. the advantages are many,
and 1t Is no wonder the plan is going
to other countries. Colleges furnish
ing teachers include Vassar, Mt. Holy
oke. Wellesley, Bernard. Swarthmore.
Yale and others. In many cities spe-
cial training Institutes for teachers
are held Just before schools open. which
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July. In practically all cities where
there ar. schools appeal is made for
material 10 be used by the children,
especially dolls for children in Europe.
which children in this country will
drees Practically all churches are
taking UP the plan, and with the COM
ing OF the Gary plan of the public
schools the need will be even greater.