The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-05
Sunday School Day Programme.

Sunday School Day Programme.
For number years past a pro-
gramme has been prepared and
Sunday in May has been observed as
Childrens' day. That has been
changed, and the first of series Of
annual programmes for use on Sum
day school day was observed at Trim
ity Methodist church May 81, with
large. attentive audience. The pro-
gramme began with an instrumental
solo by Miss Corinne Anderson Mr..
A. B. Utsey, the superintendent of the
Sunday school, in few words made
plain the theme of the programme.
The pastor, Rev. R. H. Jones, said
whatever else it may do or leave un-
done, the Sunday school is bound to
Justify itself as an evangelistic agen-
cy; it's forces may be we'll organized,
it's equipment may be of the finest,
but if the Sunday school fails to
bring it's young people into personal
relation with God through Jesus
Christ, then it is an absolute failure.
But there is no need for such failure.
According to the latest reports there
are 197,2O3 Protestant Sunday
schools in America, and the member
ship of these schools is 1,S86,821
officers and teachers, and 17,236,227
pupils. The proportionate number Of
additions to Protestant church men,
bership during the last four years,
through all sources was 1,861,S53 of
this number 1,5S2,575 coming
through the Sunday schools and the
ages of those who became members
were between the ages of IL and 16.
The church is largely dependent on
the Sunday school for it's future mem
bership.
The programme showed through
tableaux, charts, short talks, and
songs, how the Sunday school is do
ing the work of educational evangel-
ism. A tableaux was presented by
Mrs. W. D. Rhoad, the superintend-
ent of the cradle roll department. Mr..
and Mrs. H. n. Folk and little baby,
Robert Truesdale, showed how the
home is linked with the Sunday
school through the cradle roll. Miss
Alma Black, who has worked so
faithfully in the beginners depart
ment, made short, impressive talk.
She said the little children under 6
who are called beginners in Sunday
school, are beginners in life also:
They came to us for religious nur-
ture and We recognize them for what
they are. We do not force upon
them adult thoughts in adult words.
We think with them their childish
thoughts in their own words. The
aim of the Sunday school with these
little children of four or five years OF
age is to lead them to the Heavenly
Father by helping them to know God,
who loves them, provides for them,
and protects them. After Miss
Blacks talk the little beginners
marched on the platform, and with
their sweet little childish voices, en-
tertained the audience with several
selected songs. The beginners de-
partment merges into the primary de-
partment, which embraces children of
6, Z and years Of age, and Miss
Katherine Anderson, the teacher in
charge, said that children Of this age
revel in wonder stories, and stories
of real life in which simple heroic
and dramatic elements are promi-
nent. Faith during this period IS
strong and it is easy to develop a
proper childish attitude toward God
as the loving Heavenly Father. The
aim of the lessons taught in this de-
partment is to lead the child to know
the Heavenly Father, and to inspire
within him a desire to live as Gods
child. At the close of her talk little
Dorothy Johnson told the story of
| the Baby Moses in her own sweet
childish words. Mrs. Glenn Cope, in
a few well-chosen words, gave the
general characteristics of the junior
period. The junior child is and must
be more or less self-centered because
! this is time when he must pay at
tention to himself and get himself
adjusted to the world about him. The
aim of the Sunday school is to help