Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-03-18
BAPTISTS PLAN SUNDAY
&. SCHOOL INSTITUTES IN SOUTH

Nashville, Tenn, March l5-In what
is believed to be the largest effort that
has ever been undertaken in behalf of
better rural Sunday Schools in the
South, n program of teachers Institutes
calculated to reach hundreds of rural
communities in every state cooperating
with the Southern Baptist Convention
is announced by DR.. l. j. Van Ness, cor
responding secretary of the Sunday
School Board.
This larger work, aimed TO inject new
life into the Sunday schools in the rural
districts by providing them with better
informed officers and teachers, is made
possible through the larger proceeds of
the Baptist rs Million Campaign and
will be carried out by the field forces of
the Baptist Sunday School Board in
cooperation with the boards of the va
rious states. Additional workers will
be put on in each state and helpful,
practical teachers institutes will be held
Mt strategic points in each state, the
hope being to reach officers and teach
ers from all surrounding communities
at every point Mt which the institutions
are held.
Many of the states have already COM
pleted their plans for this enlarged
work. Virginia will put on 20 addition
al workers for this summer program,
Tennessee will put on 49, Oklahoma is
already well under way with her plans.
and each of the other Southern and
states will soon be ready
ito launch the rural Sunday School work
ION more larger scale than ever before.
Last year, through such series of in.
'stitutes, 10000 rural Sunday schools in
the South were reached. With the larger
number of workers available this year,
1t isJanticipated $4,000 such schools will
,be infused with new life and better
iteaching methods.
70 make possible an adequate num-
,ber of trained workers with which to
put on this program of enlargement in
the various states, q thirty day normal
training school will be conducted in
Nashville, beginning May 81. A large
faculty of Sunday school experts has
already been engaged for this school and
men and women from every Southern
and Southwestern state will attend it.
Filled with the inspiration from this
normal school the workers will 90 out
to the various states for the conduct of
the Institutes there.
AS further aid in the DEVELOPMENT
Of both rural and city Sunday schools.
Dr. Van Ness announces the establish.
ment. by the Sunday School Board, of
n department of Sunday school admins
tration, in charge of Arthur Flake.
member of the field force of the board
Mr.. Flake was formerly superintendent
OF the Sunday school of the First Bap-
tist church of Fort Worth, Texas, which
has an enrolment of nearly 5000. lie
will be glad to assist any school in
solving its problems of organization,
equipment or administration.
Columbia, March IA special train
will take South Carolina Baptists to
Washington in May for the Southern
Baptist Convention, which begins May
18th. The special train will probably
start from Abbeville, operating over the
Seaboard and picking up delegates at
various points where connections are
made with other railways Three ear
loads of delegates have already signed
up with DIR. j. I. Jester, at Greenwood
who is in charge of the special train.
Columbia, Newberry, Chester, Laur-
ems, Abbeville, Clinton, Mccormick, An
derson and other towns in the upper
half of the state are expected to fur
nish delegations for this special train.