The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

of the Sunday School, Cunningham and North, twelve lessons, taught by Dr. Cooper. A study of the constitution and functions of the Sunday school designed to enable every member of the Sunday school to understand his relation to the entire organization, One unit. Note These units have no reference to high school or college units, but to the stand ard course1N
 PART OF COLLEGE
 Every student will sbe expected to provide himself with textbooks, note books, etc. As this is an integral part of the college, it will be administered as such, and will be governed by the regulations of the college. A fee of s will be charged, half of which will be payable at the opening of school, the other half in advance of the opening of the second semester
 This extension school of the college has been fully authorized by the Gener- Sunday School Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, to operate upon the basis of a permanent standard training school. It's work will be so arranged that at the end of the first semester those who have satisfactorily completed the work offered may be awarded the incomplete diploma and at the close of the second semester to those who have accomplished the WorK assigned will be awarded the blue seal diploma issued by the general board in the standard teacher training course. The International Sunday School Asso- citation joins with the board in issuing these diplomas and places it's seal upon them. Should students. of other denom- ination desire to enroll. it will be pos sible to arrange with another denom- fnr interrhap0p of credits so that upon the basis of work done in the school their own denomination will issue to them its diploma.
 NO COLLEGE CREDIT
 Tn view of the somewhat popular na- ture of the work to be done, and in the absence of any specific requirements for entrance, the faculty feels that it cannot for the present at least allow college credits in the extension school.
 As this task presents itself in the Sunday schools. it's problems is prima- rily one of finding and training a new generation of teachers who will under stand the nature of the religious life in their pupils and who will have mastered the materials and methods necessary not only to impart an understanding of the truth, but to present it to the transformation and completion of the
 
 The Southern Methodist Church has endeavored to ! solve this problem through it's system of standard train ing schools. Realizing the inadequacS of the training received through mere attendance upon courses of lectures. however fine these may be, the church has provided training similar to that found in the best institutions of learn ing in which through study and reel tation a real educational work is ac- complished
 STANDARD TRAINING
 Standard training schools are being rapidly developed over the country where large numbers of Sunday school teachers may be reached. To date, more than thirty such schools have been held. These have enrolled a total of more than 5000 students of whom more than 2.500 have been awarded credits for one or more units of the standard training course.
 These schools have so impressed he leaders of Sunday School work that all most without exception they have been made permanent and during the next year it is expected that their number will increase from thirty to eighty more.
 The opening of such a permanent training school in Birmingham on Sep- tember If marks a red letter day in the religious educational standards of this district.