The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
GLASS DRONMER'S
QUEER SIDE LINE
New York Man Carries
Sunday Schools, Along
With Regular Wares.

Commercial traveller for a glass
company. Harry B. Whitney, of 28O
Fifth Avenue, New York, carries a
pide-Iine in Sunday Schools.
Six days in the week you viii find
m Whitney, sitting back in the
calm assurance of middle age and
emphasizing his talking points" on
EIass. On the seventh day you viii
md him Emphasizing his talking
points" on religion
It was not altogether because
time hung heavily when SUNDAY
found him .cn the road that M
Whitney took up his slde-line. but
because ha has always been interest
ga In the church. AS boy, in Buffa-
10 he sang in the choir Of st. Luke's
Episcopal church and he became 40
completely Unidentified with the work
OF that Church that he held almost
every office from choir boy to rec
tors warden. Later, when, he came
10 New York and his work took him
all over the country, he decided to
volunteer for some active service for
the church.
And so he appealed to the Rev. DIR.
william 2. Gardner. General Score.
tary, OF the General Board OF Relig-
ious Education, offering to make a
survey OF Sunday Schools Such helm
was Immediately accepted by DR..
Gardner and wherever sir whitney
goes he visits some Sunday School
and on Sunday evenings. writes ont
q report for the General Board Of
Religious Education.
lust now Mr.. Whitnoy's reports ore
'ni UNUSUAL interest for the EplsconaI
church in conducting n Nation Vide
iyampeisn OF education and inspira-
lion for the purpose. among other
tnings, OF helping the very SUNDAY
schools that Mr.. Whitney visits.
HIS Investigation OF Sunday Schools
az over the country has convinced
MI Whitney that organi is the
chief used. - 'He
The official STAFF. he savs
should be made up of competent
and earnest laymen Their interest,"
Should be spiritual and thew shonId
nave complete charge and power m
decide every detail under the indie.
1ous supervision Of the rector.
MY travels have shown me tina,
.eachers everywhere are greatly dis
couragedl Too often nf course. non
ana women are selected for SUNDAY
school work who are not qualified 10
teach In Sunday 1chool. Too often
TOO the clergy have neither the lin q
nor the inclination 10 supervise Tho
work OF the Sunday School and so
the Instruction becomes weak and
the attendance small.
THE training of teachers viii be
greatly improved through the Church
Normal School that is being organizeu
N several cities. Through the Church
Normal School and the Christian
Nurture Courses there will be a unity
Of effort now totally lacking.
y doubt II the Importance OF the
Sunday School is sufficiently under
stood, Il would be remembered that
the Sunday School children of TODAY
are the churchmen of tomorrow
Upon their training depends much
of the future success Of the church -
When he Is not ION the road" Mr.
Whitney interests himself in church
work in New York. He is one of the
superintendents Of the Sunday
School of the Chapel Of the Inter-
cession. If YOU can Judge his success
by looking into his home life he must
be successful indeed for all his four
sons are interested in Church work
One is vestryman. organist and
choir director of the Episcopal
church at Penns Grove, n. j., an.
other IS vestryman and superintend-
ent of the Sunday School at Grace
Church. Buffalo, third is choir dir
.ector and organist at Bridgeport
OMIT, and the fourth is Sunday
School teacher and acolyte at the
Chapel Of the 1ntercession.
To encourage Just such service l.
one OF the purposes of the Nation
Wide Campaign OF the Episcopal
church That campaign is now II
progress and It will be brought to 9
close IN the fall with an Every Mem
her Canvass that moro commercial
travellers may be encouraged to car
~ isde-lines OF religion and all the
members of the church be inspired tc
helm IN ffa work