The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-18

President of the Young Peoples Department of the First Methodist Sunday School
 Evans leadership, are eager to con- tinue their work for them this year. And the Happy Doers," with their teacher, Miss Matte Edwards, are planning more surprises in celebrating birthdays at the Old Ladies' Home. Be- sides this interest, the Happy Doers" are making scrapbooks for the Chill dren's Hospital, and are not allowing a single month to pass without some unselfish report of service for others.
 COLLECTING TIN FOIL The Leaders are collecting tin foil to send pr. Eaves for the tuberculosis camp. Mrs. J. A. Lewis, the teacher, who is helping to devision these Leaders" of the church tomorrow told us of the baskets | that her girls had distributed among the poor. of the visits they had made to the sick, ana of their interest in the hos pitfalls of the city.
 "The Dorcas Girls like the woman of Joppa fer whom they are named, "are full l of good works and aims deeds" and are the most fortunate of young people in | having two teachers like Mrs. J. C.. 1 Frazier and her assistant Mrs R. B. 1 Watt. A French war orphan has been | the particular interest of this class for l some time, and when it became necessary to give up thelr beloved protege, an other was adopted in the kindergarten Of | Hiroshima Japan. So that now, some ljt- tie doll looking almondeyed girl ~in | lowered kimono is happier in the "Flow- | cry Kingdom because of the "Dorcas ! Girls in America.
 l One more girls class. Very important. ! too, they are training to become the ] teachers of tomorrow Miss Hallie Scruggs is instructor of the teacher train 1 ing class of Willing Workers" We are l as lonesome as can be. if we don't visit the alnhouse at least once every month, ' assured one of the girls for all the others | who smiled their approval.
 ] Now for thse boys, Six classes of vide awake with them. Three classes of inter ] mediates we visited first. "The Come l Clean Class" just "C. c. C." for short, recently organized by MT. J. E. Taylor. | were busy arranging programme of l ''the Pinks" under Clarence Travis, against the Whites" under Harry Whites leadership. in a contest for gain l ing the larger number of points in at l tendance lesson and collection. Both l sides claimed victory at the beginning. but, of course, Mrs Barry and I being neither prophets nor sons of prophets, were too wise to answer their appeal for l a forecast of results.
 CLEAN LIFE CLUB
 | Charles Stapleton's intermediates, the "C. I, C." or Clean Life Glass;" is one of the famous cla sses MT. John Taylor or ganizcd in the church. These two inter mediate classes, the "C. c. C." and "C l.. G." with the Chain Class taught fy MT Albert Branscomb, hold meetings every Friday evening at o'clock to plan some weekly service that boys can dc
 for their church.
 The elder boys-in the freshman class of you please, at college, are I. w. W.s "No' II Won't Work explained one who I laughed at my surprise at the class name but Interstate Winataska Workers" ' Will Work" then, is perhaps the resolri tion of these hoys for the camp that is interdenominatonal under the auspices oi
 the Birmingham Sunday School Assocla
 ton. MT W. c. King is preparing this I. w. w. group of young men for leader
 ship at Winataska next summer.
 The Kimball class taught bv MT. E
 Miller is composed of 15 Sterling HlSl School boys who went through the wal period without a teacher and stood to- gethar. A banquet at the Christmas sea
 son celebrated happier times for them.
 First Methodist Young Men," is ar
 enthusiastic class of 40 taught by l. E
 Ramsey, who is known for and wide a' the former teacher and organizer or tn'
 Ramsey class rcw taught by Judge Hugt
 Locke Hunter Armstrong is assistan
 teacher of the First Methodist Youns
 Men, and the class is divided into two
 groups with Wallace Journey and J.
 Lewis ss leaders A campaign is now
 on with these roys to build the member
 ship up to 100, and business meeting is
 held by them every Friday evening a
 the Y. M. c. A.
 PERSONAL WORKERS LEAGUE
 The little visits to these interesting
 classes seemed all too short when thu
 president of the department called tn
 classes to assemble for the concluding l service. As treasurer. Dick Stockhan
 called on each class for report O
 the day, and after the song. Onward Christian Soldier" Rev. James D. Hun , ter assistant pastor of the First Meth
 odist Church, made stirring appea
 for volunteers to join the Persona Workers League. Forty boys and girl
 responded. and were enrolled as thos
 who are willing to invest personal eff 1 fort in the evangelistic campaign U
 the church A school of instruction will be carried on for the benefit o
 these workers by MT. Hunter. in prepa
 ration for the revival services to b held in the First Methodist Church i
 early spring.
 'This is really the great aim of al our work" assured the president Al bert Rranscomb. ''To line up the boy
 and girls for active Christian service
 Nineteen of them have joined tn
 church from this department recently
 and at the Christmas service, when a
 appeal was made for the gift of sell
 60 boys and girls volunteered for defi
 mite life service"
 The gift of self-the whitest of al
 white Christmas gifts to the King, Tn
 gift of self when life is young and tn
 road winds into the wonderful future
 Swiftly came to my mind the words o Jane Addams in one of her books. whicl proclaims; q am the Spirit of Youth With me all things are possible" Afte
 quoting such truism. Miss Addam l warns: We may either smother th' divine fire of life or we may feed if | We may stand stupidly staring as i l sinks into the murky fire, or flare. | into an intermittent blaze of folly, ol we may tend it into a lambent flame to make clean and bright our ding, I city Streets
 1 The young peoples department of the Firs. Methodist Church is one of the channels that wholesomely provides for life's play days, while it develops char