New Britain herald., 1916-03-11

undergarments for themselves, fur nlshlng their own materials. and 1t present are busy making an outfit for a bed which is to be used in teach ing the whole school the necessary things for a bed and the proper way to care for the same.
 After year in this class the girls are old enough to join the
 '. W. C. A. and when necessary the sewing school pays the first years dues for them.
 The work of the school is carried on by volunteer workers and nearly all of them from this church. While the value of this work cannot be realized by those looking on the city missionaries say that the little girls do take home the good prac- tical things they learn. Each month the mothers are invited and given a chance to inspect the work their
 little girls are doing and then given talk by Miss Bartlett along the line of home making, after which they are served with refreshments
 With the strength, energy and cor sclentious work that the teachers are
 giving and with Gods help it cannot fail to make better young women, better mother. better homes and q better wives, better mothers better homes and a better New Britain for it is well esta blished fact that na- tion never rises above it's homes and the homes never above the mothers Report of Assistant Pastor. The report of the assistant pastor, Charles l.. Wood, follows: Having been connected with the FT'r~in Notl, l months, the assistant pastor feels that there is but little he can report in the way of visible results. The position he holds is one of a some what general nature consisting prin- cipally of a general supervision over the Church School This report, therefore, to be coherent and apropos to the general character of this meet ing, should properly comprise some what general, but comprehensive, statement of the church school-its progress and development during the past year, it's needs for the future, and present plans for meeting those needs
 'First-The church school during the past conference year and it's pres ent status:
 Es:The school as organized at present consists, of the following divisions and classes:
 I. Cradle Roll--30 members. II. Beginners or kinderga rten-SO
 members.
 III. Primary department 50
 members.
 3 grades in this department. Boys and girls in separate classes. 6 classes in all. In general terms this is the best organized and efficient de- partment of the schoo1-aside from the organized classes like the Phila- l thea and Baraca.
 l ". | The Junior department f grades With separate classes for 1 boys and girls. Just recently or ganized as department and details not yet worked out V. Intermediate Department grades with separate classes for
 tcys and girls not we'll organized as yet.
 VI Senior Department. 1 This department consists of the following more or less well or ] ganized classes:
 1-Junior Baraca
 2-Junior Philathea (not yet or 1 ganized)
 3-Baraca.
 l 4-Philathea. l Of this department the Philathea
 and Baraca classes which have been 1 organized for a long time are doing very excellent work 1 VII. Adult Department 1 1-Brotherhood Bible class
 Adult Ladies' class C divisions. )
 3-Other classes proposed Parents
 ard Business Mems classes) The mem bership of the school,
 then, is as follows:
 Teachers and officers ...... 4o students 39O
 Total active members .432 i Cradle roll ............... 30 Grand total ................ 551
 Attendance Increasing.
 During the past year the mem ber-
 ship has increased slightly and the attendance has become much more regular Particularly is this latter
 statement true during the past five
 months. A careful study of the at
 tendance records shows the percent
 age of attendance during the current
 year to be in excess of thae of any year since 1910 which is as far back as a comparison was made. With the beginning of 1916 d 1 Boys department was formed con- sisting of the Junior and Intcrme- 1 diate boys. It has been meeting at
 9:45 a. m. The attendance has been so much better and the number of i toys attending the morning church service so much larger that it has
 been voted by the church school ] board to change the hour ot meeting 1 for all the departments of the schcoi l under the senior grade to 9:55 a. n?. /; This will make possible a closer 1ln- 1 ion between church and school.