The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-23
SCHOOL OF METHODS
WILL OPEN TODAY
First Methodist Church
Crowded at First Meeting
ADDRESS BY DIR. LEE
Ensley Church and Sunday School
Awarded remnants for At
tendance at Meeting
Yesterday

The School of Methods VIII open
for the first session at $3.50 O'Clock
this afternoon at the First aptist
church and will rrn through Friday
This is expected to be the greatest Of
these schools ever held in Birming
ham, and will come under the aus
pieces of the Birmingham Sunday School
association. Dr. James NJ. shelburne,
president of Howard college. is dean
of the school. More than 1000 Sunday
school work ers are expected to gath
err here for the courses offered, while
some of the most prominent speakers
and Sunday school workers Of the Uni
ted States are here.
One of the largest Sunday school
meetings ever held in Birmingham
was held in the First Methodist church
yesterday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock.
Only people over Is years of age were
invited to attend this meeting and the
church was full to overlooking Sun
day schools of all denominations from
Wylam to East Lake were represented.
The features of the programme were
the singing of the Arion club and two
addresses by DIR. James w. Lee of st.
Nashville. Both Of these speakers will
be at the School of Methods at the
First Baptist church during this week.
A showing of the years work was
given by the different departments of
the Birmingham Sunday School asso-
citation.
remnants were awarded the Ensley
district and the Ensley Methodist
church for having the largest number
present. Ensley district, of which S.
s. Heide is president. had more peo-
pie there than any other district. Ems
ley Methodist, of which Rev. B. r.
Waites is pastor and L. G. Smith is
superintendent. had more present than
any other Sunday school
The following programme will open
the School of Methods this afternoon
at the First Baptist church:
3:30-Prayer.
3:35 to 4:10-''Head, Heart, Hand"
Mrs. Phebe Curtis.
APO to methods; beginners, Miss
Susie Juden; primary. Miss Allie May
Taylor; Junior, Mrs Phebe Curtis; girls
work, Miss NJ. e. Kennedy; adult, Leon
c. Palmer; home department, Mrs.
$40 to 6-Psalms, Dr. Lincoln Hull
ley.
6:10 to 6:55-Lessons. Beginners
graded, Miss Susie Juden; primary
graded. Miss Allie May Taylor; Junior
graded. Mrs. Phebe Curtis; interme-
diate graded, Mrs S, P. Moore; senior
graded. Miss Freda Bose; information
al uniform. RI Ryland Knight.
6:55--Supper.
7:30--Prayer.
7:40 to 8:2O-Conference, Elementary,
Mrs. Phebe Curtis; girls work, Miss
NJ. i. Kennedy; boys work, Rev.
Claude Orear; adult, Leon C. Palmer;
executive. p. r. Green; musical leaders,
Rev. Lewis Dockery.
$3.50 to 9:15--"Laying Up Sunshine"
DR.. James w. Lee.
Following is the regular faculty of the
School of Methods, as recently announced
by DR.. Shelburne. In addition, there will
be various other speakers, who will ad-
dress the school from time to time:
DR.. ]. M. Shelburne, dean, president of
Howard college; Miss Freda Bose,s Mont
gomery, secondary division superintendent
Alabama Sunday School association; Mrs
Phebe Curtis, Columbus O., elementary
superintendent Ohio Sunday School asso-
citation; the Rev. Lewis Dockery, pastor
Hamilton Memorial Baptist church; P. e.
Green. educational secretary for Alabama
and Florida. Presbyterian church; Thorn
we'll Haynes, Birmingham. president OF
Birmingham college; DR.. Lincoln HUXLEY,
DeLand, Fla, president John B. Stetson
university; Miss Susie Juden, New Or
leans, La, elementary superintendent of
Louisiana Sunday School association: DR..
Ryland Knight, Ciarksville Tenn, pas
tor First Baptist church; Miss Minnie e.
Kennedy, Nashville, former general sec
rotary Birmingham Sunday School $3.50
citation. director OF elementary work M.
r. church. south; DR.. James w. Lee, st.
Louis. presiding elder ST. Louis district,
M. e. church, south; Mrs. S. p. Moore,
Birmingham, educational secretary Ala
bama Sunday School association, presi-
dent Birmingham Graded union; the Rev.
Claude Orear, Birmingham. pastor Avon
dale Methodist church; Leon c. Palmer,
Montgomery general secretary Alabama
Sunday School association; Miss Allie
May Taylor. Nashville. Tenn. elementary
superintendent Cumberland Presbyterian
church; the Rev. c. Wolford, Birming-
ham. Sunday school field secretary North
Alabama conference. M. e. church, south;
Mrs. Jessie Wright, Birmingham, home
department superintendent Birmingham
Sunday School association.