The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-06-08
ORIGIN OF The
S. S. CONGRESS.
Some Facts About the Sunday School
Congress--TweIfth Annual Session
Meets in Nashville, June 1918
The Beginning Of the Sunday School
Congress Movement

The aim of the Sunday School Con-
gress is to build front line Sunday
Schools, to advance modern Sunday
School methods, foster Sunday School
missions and help on the plan of child
evangelism. More than perhaps some
workers have been accustomed to hear
has been the assertion that the aim and
purpose of the Sunday School Congress
was for building front line Sunday
Schools. This has been proven by the
constant and steady growth of the for
ward Sunday School movement from
the time the Sunday School Congress
was first launched to the present Ev--
cry indication is pointing to the fact
that nothing that has been started in
the past decade has proven a greater
force for good than the present for
ward movement. A vertable corning
together of workers from every ror-
tion OF the United States where they
spend the better part of the week In A
real Sunday School of Methods has been
considered by the Sunday School work
erS and acknowledged by Sunday School
experts, attested by devout ministers of
the gospel, as the little leaven in the
loaf. The attendance of the Sunday
School, therefore, it would seem has
been on the increase since the very
beginning and from the amount of en-
thuSiasm shown at each and every ses-
sion there will be no abatement-no
not one backward step. At the SUNDAY.
School Congress every attendant be-
comes a constant advocate and worker.
There are no visitors. All are welcome
all flnd something to do, and everyone
is heard Beginning at the least and
going up to the greatest, If there are
any greatest, all are heard. Those who,
thirst for more knowledge of Sunday
School activity will find the Sunday
School Congress fountain from which
they may drink.
BOY CADETS AT THE CONGRESS-
Commanding General W. H. Craw.
ford of the National A. F. Cadet Move.
ment and his general staff have issued
general order for the Fourth ArGual
tncampment of the National A. r.
Cadets to be held at Nashville, Tenn.
In connection with the twelfth annual
session of the Sunday School Congress,
June t3-i8. Representatives of the
Boy Cadet movement In every section
of the United States are expected to he
In attendance. Some Sunday Schools
will send an entire company. Perhaps
several battalion bands will be in at
t tendance Boys In uniform will be
: seen each day and the spirited military
= discipline under religious influence will
be Injected into them as never before.
q Nothing has proven so beneficial &c the
forward Sunday School movcr,en. ps
S the Boy Cadet movement, whl;h l. 4
I part Of the Sunday Schoo! Congress.
y Each Sunday School may have as many
: companies as they feel able to support.
A book Of tactics with the huglc calls
= and other information can he obtained
t from the National Baptist Publishing
It Board, In fact, how to organize con-
pany of Cadets Is told In very simple
Z way In this book, which sells for Ten
cents.
t CRADLE ROLL AND INFANT DEPART
MENT AT CONGRESS.
n "Where are the children and what
y are they doingi" Is problem that this
department Is taking up, taking the
+. child as soon as II Is given name and
S keeping up with that child until they
: are able to turn II over to the primary
Q department of the Sunday School.e The
4 work Of the Cradle Roll and Infant De-
e partment, while new to some of the
3, Baptist schools, has become so impor.
II tant that special superlntendents of this
u work have been designated In many
n schools, At the Congress this year one
1, competent. one well trained, assisted
n by those who have had actual expert.
:, Fence will tell how 10 conduct the Cradle
n Roll and Infant Department in the va
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