The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-12
'As We Are Entering Today Upon the Second Semester of Our Work the Birmingham Graded Union Emphasizes It's Mission and Announces It's Slogan of Better Sunday School Work and Everybody Is Invited to Jon Us
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

if F YOU are ever fortunate enough to
 II have a visit from those two nice women, Mrs. F. T. Glass, presi- dent of the Birmingham Graded uniof' and Miss Hattie Weakley, secretary, and hear them talk about the WotE that this splendid organization mas done during the past IS years, l feel sure you will want to join the union and be numbered among it's workers.
 Mrs. Glass will enthusiastically tell
 you how deeply she is interested in the
 Graded union and how during the 1lrst
 semester of this year Dr. Robert N.
 Simpsons lectures have been such an
 inspiration and such splendid en-
 coura cement: she will also tell you
 how earnestly the teachers have
 worked and how studiously the pupils
 have applied themselves, for there IS
 one mission and one slogan always be- fore the Birming gham Graded union. Better Sunday school work.
 Mrs. Glass's sweetness and gentle ness, her loyal Christian fort1tude anu devoted love for the Sunday school has made her one of the most belovef women in this entire city, and many a heart has been cheered on the rough way, and many a hard, knotty proD- lem has been solved for wayfarers on the high road, by this lovely and loVa- | ble woman, whose influence is feit far and near-in fact wherever sne l5 known.
 Beginning today" Mrs Glass said ! to me "our second semester is inauS- urated and everybody is looking for ward with great pleasure and interest | to our work. The first semester which has just closed was filled with 1n- | spiration and encouragement. Dr. Simpsons lectures were masterpieces; | we enjoyed them to the fullest extent; his scholarly exposition of the Bible and his deep knowledge of his sub- | jects made him splendid leader for ! us, and appreciated his efforts. pr l James F.. billiard will deliver the | course of lectures for the second sem l ester, and our instructors will include ] Miss Myra Bachelder. general secre" tary of the Birmingham Sunday School 1 association, who will have charge of 1 the teen age classics; Mrs. John M. l Guthrie, Mrs. oscar Reinhart, Dr. Lola 1 Taylor and myself.
 | "The time has come in Sunday school l work when trained teachers are abso- l lutely demanded" Mrs. Glass saId, 1 "and these lectures and specialization courses are the greatest opportunity ; ever offered to the teacher who is de- sirous of becoming proficient in her work. Specialization is the demand of the day; the teacher in the great uni versailles is not asked to study any thing but the one subject they teach chemistry, philosophy astronomy, mathematics. literature; so it is with the Sunday school teacher, the trained teacher studies for the junior work; the 'teenr age work, the adult work. The teacher must show efficiency in his special line and unless he does. l he can never hope to become satisfac- tory either to himself or his pupils,
 During the war Mrs Glass con tinued "the influence of the Sunday school was felt by our soldiers even to the battle front The story is told of a regiment of soldiers who assembled after some great battle for worship, and when it was suggested that the
 Twenty third Psalm would be repeat
 ed, The Lord is my Shepherd; l shall
 not want many of the men wept and
 said afterward that it took them back
 to their Sunday school days when under the instruction of some sweet
 dear teacher they had been taught to repeat this beautiful Psalm. The op-
 portunity for Sunday school work to- day is greater than it has ever beer