Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
NEW SYSTEM IN
SUNDAY LESSONS
Committee Outlines Modified
Graduation Plan With Four
Age Groups For Study

How are Sunday school lessons
made? Sunday school pupils and
many workers frequently ask this
question. Increased interest and
curiosity in the method of planning
Sunday school lessons probably will
result from the announcement re-
Gently made that the present system
of Uniform Lessons are to be sue
ceeded, beginning with the new year.
by the Improved international Uni
form Sunday School Lessons.
The plan and outline of lessons
used in all the principal Protestant
Sunday schools are prepared by the
International Lesson Commlttee'
composed OF forty members repre-,
senting both the Sunday school
Council of Evangelical Dominations
and the International Sunday Schooi
Association, as well as indlNldual
denominations affiliated with the
Council. The Council is composed
of persons actively engaged In sun
day school and other forms OF re-
Igious work: as editors, executive
secretar ries. professors in theological
seminaries educators of prominence,
and are from all parts of the unltcu
States and Canada. Twenty-elSht
denominations are representa- III
the Council, which meets each year
in January. -, .,.,
For the past forty-five years the
Lesson committee has prepared les
son plans for a siN-year cScie IL,
sunday schools using the UNIFORM
SYSTEM of lessons, which means every
class in the school using the same
study subject, the same Bible passage
ond the same golden text, schools
use the International Graded Les
sons. authorized in 1908, and cor
responding in grading to tne pupiiS
schools. But heretofore there lids
been no graduation in the Ohi'oi IL
system. ,,-..,,o
Tho Lesson committee has pre-
nated a plan and outline for an
eight-year cycle, beginning WIN
IaIS which is a modified gradatlon,
or departmental. system, with to''r
age groups for the study plan.
The Lesson committee determines
the subjects for study, with Ihe Pu
nose of giving the student consecu-
t;,'e study of the Bible through the
neriod of the eight-year cycle sci
acts tbe Scripture material TO pe
the basis of study for each GROUP
the golden texts for the whole schooi'
and the memory verses Tor the PiF
mary and junior pubils: 49, not
The lesson committee does hot @
write the lesson. 1t only plahs L,a,. ~
outline, as described above.
each denomination has its own pc
c,,Iiar sunday school requirements
occording to it's theological teach-
;nqs and educational programs Inc
writer's secured by given denoInln@a- @
zion write the lesson helps along the
lines of the denominatlonai teacll- .
inps and methods, using, OF course'
the outlines given by the lh'ei i''''
ional Lesson Committee: -o
Tho manning for the prepala
,,on of the studies in the various
sunday schools require a great deaI
of time and labor from the leaatns G1S
re,igious educators in the OhlIeu
states, Canada and Europe
BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN w
Norning-Prelude. Barcaroiie' W.
Wolstenholme; anthem LoEeN ~
,,oor' from Redemption'D, Gounoo;
pea pea, Mr. Gibson; offertory, Chant
Sons @ paroles, c. B. Forbes; postlude'
postlude d. Robert Munro:
Fvening = Prelude, (a( Prayer
ri ohengrin'D, Wagner, OBJ Medl-
totirn in Flat, George F. Vincent;
anthem. 20 How Amiable. Surette:.
Quartet, Now the Day Is 49,
IIeaton; offertory, Andante CaiiSa
~ Edmond Lemaigre; postlude,
Postlude in c. T. Edwin solly.
Mrs. Mary Z. Bumbaguh. chorls-
ter. Howard f. Bronson, organist'
FOURTH REFORMED
uorning-Prelude, Andante Cam
,abiie Tschaikowsky; offertory, An
dante. Mendelssohn; anthem one
brosel: TIE Deum Laudamus, jack
son; postlude, Grand Choer in F.
Salome. ,, 1,,o,
Evening-Prelude, Prelude rag
ler; offertory, Andante, Salome; an
them "God Shall Wipe Away All
Tears," Field; postlude, Fugetta'
Woodman.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
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at Penbrook, in the State OF Pennsyl-