Arizona republican., 1916-10-19

classes. Those taking special work 10 prepare them to become better teachers reaches up into the hundreds of thousands At least another million are in the organized adult classes.
 The best Sunday schools are becom- ing so well organized that no need of the community needs to suffer The real Sunday school is ready to enter into all phases of social service and more and more will the gospel he preached through the Sunday school social service department
 No great fact has made such an. Suppression on the church and the world as the one which shows US that 70 per cent of all those who enter the kingdom and the church. come in during the teen age. We know too, that this is the age we lose half million out of our schools. out of our home and out of our Sunday schools each year. It is the great leakage period of life and it is the great opportunity of the church We can boast that one thousand Sunday school scholars are converted and join the church every- day in the year and that over one million have come into the church from the Sunday school in the last thlee years. Six hun dred thousand new scholars came into our Sunday schools last year. It is a well known fact that SO per cent of the church members come from ! the Sunday school and that 95 per cent of the ministers received their { training in the Sunday school. It is also well known that E per cent of the churches had their origin in the Sunday school
 The above figures ought to impress all, but 1t might also be said that the reach of the Sunday school is world wide and the program fig for the | world. the chruch and the child. Christ is the central fact of the | Sunday schools theology and Christ | places the child in the midst of the l disciples work and today thrusts the 1 child in the midst of the Sunday schoo teachers work. The Sunday school has pioneered the way for the church and furnished the church, not i only with most of it's members, but | furnishes 1t with it's best members It's the practical federating agency of the church. It furnishes the largest social opportunity and is the eyangel- istic promise or the new day II fosters temperance. stewardship and benevolence of the church. Missions | are given a place in the program oi | every well organized school. No com mnnity can afford to be without q Sunday school
 The mighty army of volunteer work | CTS in the Sunday school may not al
 be what they ought to be and may no
 be doing all they might do, at tho
 same time there is no finer devotion
 and lofty spirit of self sacrifice thar
 that made by the Sunday schoo
 workers. The most valued friends have ever made are those have mad,
 through the Sunday school If wt
 paid them only one dollars per week
 it would take sS7.O0O.OOO year to pa!
 them
 Most of the Sunday school worker.
 in this state are splendid men ant
 women and I have felt honored ir
 being permitted to work with thest
 good people. I feel sure that the!
 will rank with the Sunday schoo
 people of any state. Many Of then
 have or are taking the teacher train
 ing course. Many more are thinking
 and talking about it.
 The year has witnessed progres!
 along every line of the Sunday schoo
 work. There are more schools. mor'
 officers and teachers, more teacher training classes and more in the class
 es, more in the cradle rolls and homo
 departments. better equipment fol ] class and scGool better work alont