The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07
Saturday, Class Is Nezp Feature
 Tn Sunday School Courses
By FLORA MILNnR HARRISON

with Sunday school management; class for teachers of adult departments. in which all matters connected with this work are taught; a section for men who teach boys. where all interests and &C., tivities aside from the lesson proper are studied; and division for boys from 15 to % years who are training for leadership in Sunday school work.
 On Wednesday morning the graded union meets, and the lesson for the fol- lowing Sunday is taught to the teachers of the various Sunday schools throughout the city. The teachers are grouped in classes according to the departments in which they teach, and the lesson Is con- ducted to meet the requirements of the teachers of the different departments. In addition to this graded study of the next Sundays lesson are the training classes and study courses like those given on Tuesday evening. There is a class for those working in beginners depart ments, in which the work pertaining par ticuary to beginners is taught. There is another for those who teach primary ella sses, where they are taught class man. agement and other phases of primary work. One class is for those who teach junior pupils-boys and girls from to 12 years. MT. Holt is superintendent of this division of the city association. An other class is for women who teach girls, and the interests of these classes over the city are studied.
 In still another class are all who teach or are interested in women's Bible classes and there is one division for workers and visitors in home departments the depart ment provided in every large Sunday school In the city for those who are un- able to attend Sunday school and who study the lessons in their homes. In these classes are taken up all phases of Sunday school work relating to the several de- partments, aside from the lesson itself which Is taught in the graded union.
 These lessons on Sunday school activi- ties and management or conduct are given in courses of b weeks each. A teacher, officer or other person in at tendance must take satisfactory notes on at least' 12 or the 15 lectures, before receiving a certificate and progressing to the next course of 15 lectures. Each of these courses of 15 weeks takes a certain phase of Sunday school work, by depart ments. and treats it intensively and ex- tensively, far more than was possible in the annual association meeting of one week. The completion of a definite amount of work in successive 15 weeks courses entities to diploma.
 As all this work is on Tuesday even- ings and on Wednesday mornings, there are many Sunday school workers. espe- cially business girls and teachers in the literary schools who are unable to at- tend. To give all this work on Saturday afternoons. when all school teachers and many others have holiday would be impossible. An effort is being made. how ever, to give as much of it as practica- ble. and to that end the Saturday class for teachers in Junior departments and who are unable to attend the Wednesday morning class has been started. This class is taught at the First Presbyterian church from 1:15 to :45 on Saturday aft f- -rr officers in junior departments through out the city, who cannot attend on Wednesday. MT. Holt Is the teacher of this class, and gives the same work that he teaches on Wednesday morning. The 15 weeks course just inaugurated began with the junior pupil, the child between g and 13 years; and the first five talks are on his habit. memory, conscience. social side religious side. Next will be the junior teacher. with talks on the teach er's preparation and the teachers duty to the superintendent of the junior de- pertinent, to the class, to the pupils home, and to himself.
 The next three lessons are to be on the class, including membership. class activ- tiles and class management.
 After this will be three lessons on the junior department, its organization, its equipment, and it's programme. Last is the relation of the junior department to the Sunday school.
 At the end of the course credit will be given and second course of the same length and dealing with other lines of junior work will be inaugurated. This work will lead to diploma just as does the Wednesday study. Junior work as it is for the children through their ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth years seems an especially important part of Sunday school work, and yet that seems true of whatever Sunday school work one con- siders. It Is well that the Saturday work began for junior teachers. and as soon as practicable similar classes will be opened at the same time for workers in other departments.
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