Arizona republican., 1916-10-19

urer's report will show in spite Of the l fact that less than three hundred dol ! lars If the Sl 436 collected during the year come from the convention city and county of Yuma. All the resti was collected from other sources dur ing the year. Ali bills were paid in full on the first day of October and the tithc ot our income. s143 was sent to the international office.
 Figures cannot tell the story of our progress in this state. though we can give some encouraging figures or statistics.
 We have 300 schools in the state with a total attendance of 20,000. We have so cradle rolls reported with an enrolment of l700. We have 1000 reports in our home departments 1000 and 1900 teachers manage our 300 schools. It is safe to say that we have 24.000 in all departments of our Arizona Sunday schools With | Indians and Mexicans it. gives us one in ten in the Sunday schools If we consider the 10000 Catholic and the ] GOO Mormons receiving some relig- iOus trainng. we have a total of A 900 1 or about one in six of our entire l population receiving bible teaching in some form.
 | This does not reveal the many in- l fluences for good and for the moral ! uphuilding of our young that is con- stantly going on through the home ! the school and the atmosphere creat- i cd by good people in and out of the church
 | The fact that we have so schools | using graded literature in one or more classes and the larger fact that we 1 have reported 140 teachers having ! taken teacher training and 414 now ! taking some course in teacher train 1 ing. with one school having every 1 teacher a trained teacher. is full of promise for the future of our schools and their efficiency.
 We thank God for the past and for the promise of the future. but lest we lean too heavily on our security and our prosperity, I would like to chall- enge all of you with this standard and goal for tine coming year:
 One hundred per cent of the coun- ties organibZed and helping the state | organization. one hundred per cent paying the ten per cent or ten cents per member. to the state association. ! one hundred per cent with at least | one convention during the year. Ten per cent of the schools reaching the ten point standard. Forty per cent with cradle roll Forty per cent with home department. Ten per cent with divisional superintendents and sepa- rate class rooms. Twenty per cent with teacher training classes. Twen ty per cent with at least one organ
 ized teen age class and one organized
 adult class. Fifty per cent using graded literature. Thirty per cent as many bibles as there are pupils. Ct ought to be one hundred per cent).
 Twenty per cent with definite mis- sonary and temperance work.
 This proposed standard for the
 year is pot enough, but it is some
 thing to work for and it will be a
 gain wherever reached
 ! We are not to be content until all
 the teachers are trained teachers and
 all the schools are ten point standard
 schools.
 We are working towards the day
 when every class will have a separ-
 ate class room and do definite wori
 as effectively as is done in the day school.
 The Sunday school is to occupy the
 largest place in the community and I will direct tha phianthropic work ol
 the community.
 We will not be content until th'
 day schools admit the bible, at leas
 as literature into public schools. We