The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-11-05
Bear Ridge Sunday School

returning from Big Bear Ridge
where he mas been the last few days,
reports splendid work being done
by the Big Bear Ridge Union Sun
day School which is being carried
on by H. l.. Ingle as superintendent.
When organized last spring there
were about forty members, while at
this time the enrolment is over a
hundred pupils of all ages, the
school house being taxed to the very
limit, so noticeable is the lack of
adequate quarters that the people
are thinking about building new
quarters, however the thinking"
has not as yet, taken on any definite
form. The average of this school
is very large, there being several
classes, but tine largest is that OF the
young people, taught by Mrs. H. j..
Ingle. A rather unique class, for
there are thirteen girls and thirteen
boys enrolled. Their teacher
promised them social as soon as
the class reached twenty-five men,
bers, so she gave Halloween social
at her home last Saturday evening.
The home was lavishly decorated
with Halloween pictures, ghosts,
candles, black cats, witches, real
pumpkin faces, shock Of corn. ash
berries, pumpkin pie, cocoa, apples.
nuts, - of course these last named
were the refreshments. The guests
were received by the ghost who
gave them a spookie reception: the
evening was given over to music.
readings, ghost stories with the
lights low, various fortune-telllng
contests, and ghost-like games in
which all could participate. Then
in the "wee sma hoors" Of the
morning the young people crept
noiselessIy homeward with happy
hearts and sleepy heads, but with
the assurance that they had had the
time of their young lives. Miss
ClarlbeI lngIe, of Charleston, Wash.
was one of the out of the com
munlty guests.
Mr.. w. K. johnson, the genera
representative OF the American
Sunday School Union, with Lewis
ton as headquarters, helped star
the Bear Ridge Sunday School las
June. He spent Saturday and Sun
day up there, addressed the Sunda!
school in the morning, and thel
in the evening at the suggestion O
some OF the young people, nclpe'
organize Christian Endeavo
Society, about sixty, mostly youn,
people, being present. Mr.. Free
Hecht was elected president, Mis-
Cartwright, vice-president, Mis-
johanna Hooker. secretary-trea
surer, and three three-member com
mittees: a membership. program
and social committee. Following
the organization and installation o
officers Mr.. johnson gave his &C
dress on "Secret of Success" i
which he set forth some of the re
quisites of successful and happ
life.
Organized in 1917 as a co-opera
ing agency of the various evar
gelical churches, the American SUI
day School Union, with headquart
ers at PhiIadelphla, has CONSTANT
pursued the policy of ministerin
to the otherwise "unreached" {
America until conditions mad
possible their care by establishe
churches. This Society is und
nominatIonal in form, inter-d
nominatlonal in work, and demon
national in results. Note some {
the things done last year thru-ol
the United States: There were 2;
missionaries in The field, some ser
ing only a part of the year; the:
meh oragnized $40 new Sunds
Schools with an enrolment of ov'
$1,000 scholars, visited and aide
8,64O existing schools, delivert
1S,449 sermons and addresses
rural audiences, visited l76.5;
families in their homes, distribute
1906 Bibles and Testaments, al
over 1000 Gospels of John, and di
tributed books, periodicals and Su
day school helps, especially adapt
to rural lite, nearly 10000
copies.
"We sometimes get the idea
says Mr.. Johnson "that the chur'
is losing ground. Last year thlrt