The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
|New Sunday School Building
 For First Methodist Church
By CAROLYN B. ELLIOTT

On the first floor, too, the children of the primary department will find | entrances into their big assembly room through the beginners room, and also through the main entrance hall Accommodations will be offered 13O pupils in the thirteeen primary class rooms. so arranged that they may be used separately of collectively. off the main entrance hall will be two commodious parlors, "a joy for ever" to the ladies of the church for missionary meetings, committee meet ings. for club and class gatherings, for social afternoons. and prayer services
 Each parlor will have a seating ca- pacity of 125 and the rooms may be
 combined in one large assembly apart ment
 opening from the ladies' parlor is the vestibule of the third outside en- trance that will lead into the most de- lightful room of the lower floor-the
 Epworth hall Here the boys and girls
 of the adult department and of the Epworth League will meet round the
 great open fireplace for many social
 evenings together. as well as for bus mess sessions and other services. The
 dining room and kitchen that adjoin will invite frequent dinner parties and
 class luncheons for as many 500
  though dumb, offers savory sugges- tions of the happy evenings that will be spent in the big banquet hall up- stairs. Rather, the big auditorium up- stairs, that will be used not only for banquets, but as a lecture hall with a spacious stage, ante-room and fire proof exit. A fire proof motion picture | machine booth will be also connected with this inviting room, that in it's do n ntah ha play-room for younger people, or d.
 vided, by means of rolling partitions into spacious c1assrooms.
 The remainder of the second floor will be for the benefit of that army | of boys and girls enlisted In the junior department. A big assembly hall, an office, 8 supply room, and twenty-four classrooms where any two may be combined to make one room of double | capacity, will be the gathering place for some of the future men and women of the church.
 Altogether no Sunday School build ing in the south will be better equipped in accommodations for the promotion of spiritual and mental development, and for ministering to the need of young life for wholesome recreation. With frontage of fifty feet on sixth avenue, the buildings will cover almost the enllTe ueptu ol the lOl that CALCULUS back 190 feet to Fifth alley.
 The building committee feels con- fident that the proposed structure will comfortably provide not only for the needs of the Sunday School and the in- l ereasing church activities now, but for
 many years to come. In assuming the responsibility of the present generation i for the future this committee stated: l While the great achievements of l First Church have been such that the l history of our city's remarkable growth i and progress can never be written | without telling the story of our church. ] yet it is to the future that we must l look now. We are told that Birming- 1 ham within the next few years will
 be city of 500000 souls, and we must
 do our part in providing a spiritual home and Christian training for the | uncounted hundreds of people-young
 and old-who will be constantly knock
 ing at our door. Truly we have an opportunity for service unequalle1 l throughout the realms of the church. | The great opportunity is at hand, and | will be fulfilled in the greater Sun l day School for First Church."