The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-14

, Home and Foreign Missionary socistisi
held their anniversaries.
The anniversaries OF the board o.
home missions, church extension Ant
Sunday school boards are scheduled FOL
Thursday night.
Or. w. Q. BovArd.
Ono OF the features OF Thursday
session was an address by Rev. VIII
liam s. Bovard, d. D., corresponding
secretary OF the board OF Sunday
The address in part Is ~ follows:
Adequate Program.
In considering what might be called
an adequate program OF religious in
struction, II IL necessary TO have In
mind At least the three great educa-
tiona agencies dealing with childhood
and youth-the homo, the school and
the church. In addition to these spe-
clflc agencies We must not overlook
the fact that all sorts OF community
contracts outside and apart from the
home, the school and the church have
In them educational possibilities for
good or bad. and must. therefore, DO
reckoned with. In short, We must con-
slider our program In relationship to
childhood and youth wherever they go
and whatever they do. Their education
is going on all the time outside these
regular institutions as well as inside.
We must not be diffident to the educa-
tive influences that affect them. as they
form a part OF the community. II We
may think OF the community apart from
the homes. schools and churches. we
should count II in, as We consider our
program OF religious instruction.
Program for the Home.
Tho recent general conference made
a very strong procurement upon the
question OF home religion. 1t author
ICED the board OF SUI day schools to pro-
board is accordingly putting out a man
ual and covenant cards by which we
hope to enlist thousands OF families and
tens of thousands Of individuals to OBJ
serve regularly individual and family
and to carry out a program of
instruction in the home:
Il. The first aim of this worship
league is to secure tho observance of
in the home, by the individ-
uals and by the family AS a whole.
~. The second aim OF the Family
league Is to invest the con-
versation OF the home with religious
a means OF education is
the conversation OF the home. and how
little educational value II contains and
still less OF value for religious educa-
ton and training.
"3. The third aim OF this Family
Worship league Is to give religious
value to the family reading.
"A. The other aim of this league Is to
encourage the families TO be careful OF
their conduct as to its impressions upon
the children and youth. Parents make
asting Impressions upon their children,
either for good or Ill. by the way they
treat each other, and by the way they
.reat the children In the daily conduct
Program for the Schools.
THE fact that the public schools have
,ur children Ave days each week for
line or ten months each year for some
welve or fifteen OF the most impress
,lonable years OF their lives makes 1t
for US to continue the sup
,ort OF the public schools and remain
Indifferent to the religious problem in
'olved. The bible cannot be kept out OF
he public schools II We want to put 1t |
n. 1t may not be there in book form. |
nut its main message Is in the litera-
ure and history which always make an |
important part OF the school curricu-
UNI. 1t can go In in the character |
nd conduct of the teachers and pupils
Who are the product of Christian homes
nd Christian churches. Our program
or religion in the schools should be a
program Of getting all the Christian
eachers in the schools we can possibly
Mist; to impress upon all the Chris
Ian pupils their responsibility for set
ing forth Christianity in its best light
I'VE should also. where possible, ar
ange with the public school authori-
les for weekday religious Instruction
he Garry method is a notable ex-
mple. but, in some features cannot he
duplicated in many states, but there
re ways Of getting the cooperation OF