The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-07-06
SUMNER SCHOOL OF RELIGIOUS
EDUCATION


EDUCATION
Under the auspices of the kentuc-
ky Sunday school Association Sum-
mer School of Religious Education
has been established for the purpose
Of giving all who are engaged in the
Religious Educational work of the
State an opportunity Of leBning how
t. do better work, to discover the
needs for Bible study, and make plans
for meeting these needs.
The first session of the school 10
being held at Berea, June 29-July Q.
The school is in charge of Rev. Geo.
A. Joplin, General Secretary Of the
Kentucky Sunday-school Associa-
ton. Miss Mary f. Abernethy
of Gary, Ind, Superintendent Of the
eek-Day Schools Of Religion in that
city, gave a series of talks, telling
Of the wonderful work that has been
done in that community, where >
large proportion Of the children ct
two additional hours study Of SAe
Bible each week. Schools Of a simi-
lar nature are now in operation -
over eight hundred places in the Uni
ted States. In the near future it Is
hoped there will be schools of this
kind in mAny places in Kentucky.
Prof. M. A. Honline, Superintend-
cnt of Education of the Information
al Sunday-school Association, il
giving a series of lectures on Bible
Study, Psychology and Some of the
Needs of more Religious Education
and how to meet these needs. Mr.
Honline is a speaker of remarkable
force, a deep student, and presents
ell of his subjects in a clear, fasci'
mating way. Arrangements wer'
made for the student body to heal
Mr.. Honline.
Mrs. Geo. A. Joplin has been having
two periods of instruction each day
one on Story Telling and the othel
on the Work of the Children's Divis
ion of the Sunday.school.
Miss Mary Virginia Howard, tn
| Superintendent of the Young Peo
ple's Division of the State Associa
ton. has two periods each day on tn
work Of this division of the Sunday
school. Other persons who had place
on the faculty were Rev. Neal X
MCGOWAN, of the Christian Bibl'
School Association Of Kentucky; Rev
o. o. Green, Pastor of the Baptis
Church. Richmond, and Rev. Geo. A
Joplin.
There are students in attendance
from the following counties. Jeffer
son. Madison, Leslie, Franklin, Boyd
Rockcastle, Kenton, Fayette, Clarl
and Menifee.
The visitors have enjoyed the beau
tiful campus. and appreciated tn
many splendid arrangements tina
rad been made by the college man
agement to make their stay pleasant
II would be hard to find any othel
place in the State where such :
school could be held under such idea
conditions. Those who are in at
tendance upon the school are enthu
siastic in their praise Of the wa!
they have been cared for. entertain
ed and instructed while in Bsrsa-
| At one Of the sessions Mrs. JopliI
presented the plan that the Associa
ton has Of adding one hundred thou
sand new members to the Sunday
schools of Kentucky this year. Tn
plan is called the "One Hundre'
Thousand Club" Certain person
enlist as colonels, each colonel Is b
secure ten captains and each captain
is to secure one private who is nov
a member Of the Sunday-school ant
who will promise to try to get one
new member for some Sunday-schoo
by October 3, when the State con
vention win be held in Winchester
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