Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
AUDRAIN AGAIN A LEADING
SUNDAY SCHOOL COUNTY
Audrain is Again Numbered Among
Leading Sunday School Counties
of the State.
MISSOURI A LEADER
General Secretary's Reports Shows
Missouri Stands High Among
Associations Of N. A.


At the general session of the Sun
day School Convention held at the
Presbyterian Church Tuesday after
noon, over which William H. Dam
forth, of st. Louis, president of the
Missouri Sunday School Association,
presided, Marion Lawrence, of Chi
cago spoke on "The North American
Field" Mr.. Lawrence is general sec
retary of the International Sunday
School Association, and has the
supervision of the entire North Amer
ican field. There are 1S,441,036 Sun
day School scholars and workers in
this field. Mr.. Lawrence described
the work done in this field by the
Sunday School workers throughout
North America.
Lansing F. Smith, of st. Louis,
Chairman of the State Executive
Board, discussed "Our Missouri Field"
The Recognition of Counties was
held Wednesday afternoon at the
Presbyterian Church. Audrain Coun-
ty is again listed in the Front Line
Counties. Six new counties have been
added to this front line position; they
are Dade, Davies, DeKalb, jackson,
Monroe and Charlton.
This makes total of twenty-seven
front line counties in the State.
They are Andrew, Atchison, Audrain,
Barton, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Char
iton, Clark, Clinton, Cooper, Dade,
Davis, DeKalb, Franklin, Holt, Jack
son, Jasper, Lawrence, Lincoln, Mon
roe, Nodaway, Platte, Ray, st. Fran
cois, and Stone.
To attain front line position. a
county must have all ten points Of the
County Standard, which is:
/. County organized and annual
convention held.
| 2. Annual statistical report to the
| State Association.
| 8. Annual contribution to State
Association.
A. County represented at State
Convention.
| S. Organized by town4hips, (or
districts), each holding an annual
convention or institute.
6. At least four departmental SUI
perintendents at work.
Z. 40 per cent Of schools with Cra-
Idle roll.
8. 20 per cent Of schools with Home
Departments.
Q. 10 per cent of schools with thu
Teacher Training Classes.
10. 20 per cent of schools with
'Teen-age or Adult Glass organized
and holding certificates.
To become a banner county the first
A and any other points of this stan
dard must be reached. There are now
, twenty banner counties in Missouri, {
gain of seven over last year. They
are: Adair, Gentry, Green, Harrison
Howard, jefferson, johnson, Laclede
Mcdonald, Macon, Montgomery, Nor
gan, Pulaski, Ripley, st. Charles, st
,, Louis, Shelby, Taney, Vernon aut
Washington.
In the report of Herman Bowman
!. General Secretary of the Missour
Sunday School Association, made OIL
Wednesday afternoon, it was reveal
ed that Missouri stands eighth anon
: all the associations Of North Amer
lea in the number Of Bible classes or
ganized. In the teachers trainini
work the Missouri Association stand
fifth in North America in the mum
ber of classes and fourth in the mum
ber of pupils enrolled in these CLASSES
On Wednesday evening at tn
general meeting to be held at th
Christian Church, DR.. Frederick !
Kershner, of st. Louis will give th
! second of his New Testament talk
/, "How We Got Our New Testamen
/ The Canon" explaining the laws
o the New Testament. Miss Mem
+ Brockway, of Philadelphioa, will tai
: On "A Visitor From Mars, telling
: the work of our Sunday Schools
" they would appear to one as unfami
l. lar to them as visitor from anotht
world
The meeting of the Elementar
Conference, was held in the Christie
II Church, Miss Harriet Edna Bear
4 Of st. Louis, elementary superinten'
o ent, presiding. Talks were made /
Sunday School workers from all par
D. OF the state.
The meeting of the Secondary Co
ne ference was held in the Presbyteri'
er Church this afternoon, Miss Blanc
re A. Green, of Kansas City, Second
ry Superintendent, presiding.
The Adult Conference, held in t
IS, Methodist Church, under the super'
IL sion Of D. B. Groben, of Kansas cit
Adult Superintendent.
The College Conference, for mel
= bers of the college faculties, w
~ held at Hardin College, Wednesd
- morning, Professor A. W. Vaughn,
-~ Cape Girardeau, presiding.
The County and Township Conf'
ence, composed of County and tow
ship officers met in the Bapt
Church Wednesday morning with III
man Bowman, general secretary, pl
siding,
The College Students Conferen
held their meeting at Hardin Cole
Wednesday afternoon, with wa
McGraw, of Liberty. presiding.
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