The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-04-13
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rake the Sunday schools from North
Dakota today n tomorrow the papers
OF the world would be telling the story
Of a state for sale. No one would
want, to live in a community that has
not the influence of the Sunday school
IN the building Of character n the
development Of mora strength. And
the very fact that North Dakota has
such efficient Sunday schools, that 1T
has been a leader in the development
~ new and better methods of INSTRUCT
.tiol., is the best sort Of evidence. is 1t
not. that our citizens are fully aware
Of the service of the Sunday school
in the making Of better people who
vylll in turn make the state a bette
place in which to live?
In one of those splendid short IL
dresses by President Wilson WIN
shcW him to be a master OF the fl,;I
.le English word in expressing "roa.
thoughts, the President, in speaking o.
lie Significance of the Sunday schotl'
says tina education is a fundamental
yar1 of progress and you can't maze
PROGRESS unless Q tie one generation
in with another.
The only book that can have any
possible significance as a textbook in
the Sunday school, is the Bible itself.
and as we must train U children IN
the best of the thought of the world;
we must. II we are to make progress
as a nation. ground each generation
as it comes along in h established
and tested moral judgments of the
world. The happiness of seeing a great
company OF people gathered together
IN the interest of the Sunday school is
the happiness OF knowing that these
are they who seek light and who
tnow that the lamp from which their
spirits can be kindled is the lamp that
slows in the Word of God"
The North Dakota Sunday School
association has been established just
a quarter Of a century. Yet In that
time it has organized the Sunday
school in every county in the state, 1t
has the largest percentage Of its stu
classes Of any association IN North
America, it has the only Salvation
Army Sunday school In North AM
erica that is of the International stand-
ard, and it's plan for bringing the pub
he school student and the Bible to-
gcther has been adopted in nearly
every state in the union and several
foreign countries. including June.
The North Dakota Plan.
The problem Of the Bible in the pub
lie school is a most p~erplexing one
But If we must have our denolnina-
tons. crowding n another Ia tho
small town, with poor ministers strug-
giin;. on starvation salaries, vs. must
be content to have the school remain
absolutely neutral so far as religious
instruction is concerned. It does seem
somewhat inconsistent that ouI
churches can combine in effective
work in the foreign field and get
along In a capital manner. but when II
to our own land and our "
schools. our denominations make CO.
operation impossible. However, lei
that 70 al it may. the North Dakota
Sunday School association did NOT
stop because others had failed to solve
the problem. They determined that II
they could not bring h religious in
struction into the public schools they
would bring the public school student
20 the Bible. and they succeeded splen-
dldly. .
They did It through a system Of CIV
ing high school credit for Bible study
in the Sunday school. A syllabus II
pr hrsd By the association. printed