The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-27
Tells HOW TO HOLD
INTEREST IN WORK
OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS


Religious education without more
intense activity in the Sunday school
is all in vain,' Prof George Platt
Knox, ID. s.. director of religious edu-
cation OF the international Sunday
School association, said in his address
at the Y. NJ. G. A. Friday afternoon.
He was continuing his talk of the
morning session of the meeting OF
the Wayne County Sunday School as
ISOLATION
Prof. Knox stated that a system of
religious education should be installed
IN the Sunday schools and emphasized
that the teachers should realize the
value of defining the method of what
is being done
He said: THE need at present is
for system which would build up
the Sunday schools and their influ-
ence in a community. To do this,
definite system must be followed.
First to be done will be to sort the
children in order TO be able to adj
minister the correct teaching to the
various kinds of children.
How to Hold Them
IF group of children has been ac-
customed to being together in their
everyday school work and at enter
tainments. the thing to do is to allow
them TO remain in company on Sun
day in the Sunday school as well.
This must be done to hold them in
the Sunday school. Another way to
hold them is to make things so at
tractive that they will desire TO be
present at each Sunday session.
Prof. Knox used four phrases TO APP
ply 10 the holding of children in the
Sunday schools. They are: Get them"
sort them" hold them" save
them" We are only reaching one
third of the children in this country.
This is a shameful situation. 1t is
wrong to get children into the Sun
day school by any means other than
those which you will keep up in the
future, If you use a bait they will
disregard the standing of the school
and will soon drop out
Another way to hold a Sunday
school class together is to appoint
each member to responsible position
or have him on a committee which
takes work to keep things moving and
which will be responsible duty to
keep him interested in it at all times.
Set Aside Hour.
ITO get 2 child to study its Sunday
school lesson, the parents should SET
aside one hour on a Saturday evening
in which the entire family would study
the lesson and make the child desire
10 do the same, where otherwise. if
the parents do not study the lesson,
the child will deem it unnecessary.
We are not, at present, eVangeliz-
ing our children, and this thing is
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have personal contact with Christ;
they must know Jesus as a living,
vital personality.
Most of cur crimes of the present
day are committed b. persons under
81 years of age. and the one big thing
which stands out in Importance today.
is the necessity of getting the younger
set into the Sunday school and teach
them the right from wrong. Get more
people into the church! That is the
big thing which must be attained.
Albertson Speaks.
r.. T. Abertson, general secretary
of the Indiana Sunday School associa-
ton, spoke in the morning on the
Sunday organization, its needs. pur-
poses and the system which should be
followed in the future.
Miss Nellie &. Young, state supeTin-
tendent of the chidrens division,
spoke briefly on the work which was
being done in that department and ex-
planned the plan which was being fol
lowed over the state.
Wayne G. Miller. state superintend-
ent of the Young Peoples division,
spoke on the work of the division an
explained the various good things
which had been done by the division
during the past year.
Prof Knox, Miss Young and Mr..
Miller. will talk at the meeting which
will be held at the Reid Memorial
church Friday night. The meeting
will be open 10 the public and will be
free of charge.