The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

I Velopment of the Sunday school life of the continent.
 Among the marked influences that have been sent out directly by the Interna- ttonai Assoclarton in the development oI Sunday schools in the remotest districts, are recalled the International Uniform Lesson System. Home Department Work, the organization of the nterdenominas tional Graded Unions, now employed in most cities: the Sunday school summer schools, the adoption and publication of the first of international graded lessons and the founding of the International Training School at Lake Geneva, Wis. WORK FOR TEMPERANCE Temperance education and sentiment, with their resulting wave of prohibition, are in great measure due to the Interna- tional Uniform Quarterly temperance lessons, provided in 1880 by the interna- tional lesson committee. and missionary education in the Sunday school received
 life and impetus through the organiza- ton of an international missionary oe- partment in 1910. Religious education m seminaries and colleges has also been Q direct result of the continuous call of the Sunday School Association for trained
 leaders and preachers along Sunday school lines.
 Evangelism has ever been the keynote of the association. and decision day. declaration day and the forward move ment in local Sunday scnoois are prod ucts of this organization
 The International Association's con tributions to kindred organizations has been worthy of consideration In 1911 RI. was one of the participating factors in
 enc men and religion forward move ment, and in 1886 the Worlds SunGay School Association was born in the brain of the chairman of the International As- scciation's executive committee. the first worlds convention being held in London in 1889
 What is the value of the International Sunday School Association as factor in the promotion of the spiritual life of the continent? No measuring rod can es- innate it. but one who has been in close touch with it's splendid accomplishments answers:
 GREAT BUSINESS FIRM
 There is business firm with head. quarters in Chicago which has IS, Al ,S36 customers listed on it's records.
 Tt deals in a commodity the value of which is never questioned. Although it has not attempted to secure a monopoly in any form, it has no competitors except its own record of yesterday.
 The firm has branch offices in every state and province in North America, in cluding Cuba, the West Indies and Ha- waii.
 'ItS employs 300 paid workers on full time, but popular is the enterprise that together with branch offices it commands the service of 267,307 others throughout the continent without remuneration.
 'Its branch offices in turn deal with s,592 smaller organizations, each with its own official staff, and these units have a direct communication with the puptic 175, ,eS5 retail establishments with a corps of 1,690.T39 helpers
 Under the auspices of the firm an av- craze of 1. .626 efficiency conventions are held every month in the year in as many different sections of the North American continent.
 "The product of the organization is so choice and it is needed so much in for eign as we'll as domestic fields. that it's manufacture, which is not patented, has been duplicated in the uttermost parts of the world
 What Is this great organization, and what is the product It is the 1nterna- ticnal Sunday School Association. and it's product is Christian character.