Evening star., 1922-10-18
sunday SCHOOL
NEEDS OUTLINED
Standards of Education Must
Be Raised and Methods Bet
tered, Says Magi|I.

Need of raising the standards of
Sunday school education was pointed
out to the conference of the Allied
Christian Societies engaged in COM
munity work at the New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church today by
Hugh S. Magili. secretary of the In
ternational Sunday School Council of
Religious Education.
Reports We're received from several
organizations and addresses also were
! delivered by DR.. f. {. Linderman. New
! York city. and Bishop Francis J. Nc
Connell. PittsbuI gh. Pa.
DR.. Linderman told the conference
| that the constant fear of conflict SO
, fills the minds of the people that they
cannot think how to counteract it. He
said that he was starting now on a
two-year program of study to deter
mine how conflict may be used To pro-
duce something. just as fire is used to
develop steam under the boilers. and
thus produce energy. 1t is the func-
tion of conflict to develop new ideas,
he said.
Schools Fall Short.
The best friends of the Sunday
school recognize that it is falling
short of its possibilities; that it is
not always well organized and under
work is not always carried on by
trained teachers with adequate equip
Incnt and nrUper support. and that its
methods are sometimes haphazard and
ineffective, often failing to command
the reSpeSt of children accustomed to
the superior education methods and
standards of the public schools" said
Mr.. Magiil.
THE future of the nation" he went
on. is dependent upon an intelligent
Christian citizenship; love of God and
the upbuildinE of His church and love
Of country and the preservation of
Americas highest ideals are back of
the nationwide movement for re-
ligiouS education. Far-visioned states
men of today recognize and frankly
concede that the hope of modern
civilization lies in an intelligent
understanding of Christian principles
and their application to the solution
of the complex problems. national and
international. that confront US
Field In Large Cities.
The greatest field for extension
work of the Young Mems Christian
Association is in the large cites,
c. X. Calhoun. New York city. told
Mrs. w. C. Culbertson of this city
reported on the work of the Womans s
Interdenominational Mission Union.
eXpla ming particularly the work
dlIoHS lNt- ftptiS
The program committee and exc
cutive secretaries are meeting at
luncheon this afternoon. and follow
ing a general session at 2 o'clock to
receive the general committee re-
port the delegat-s went 20 .i.- White
House. where they We're received by
the President.
Conference Ends Tonight.
The conference will come to a close
with a meeting tonight at S o'clock
at the First Congregational Church,
10th and G streets northwest, at
which addresses will be delivered by
DIR. Roy b. Guild, New York city; DR..
John VI. Moore, Brooklyn, y. Y, and
Bishop James Cannon of Norfolk. Rev.
George NJ. Diffenderfer will preside
and the International Association
Quaret will sing.
The remedy for Europe's illness,
DIR. n. Boynton said at the meeting
last night. is international good will.
Only comradeship can cure, he said.
Rev. Ashby N. Jones of Atlanta, Ga,
said that the task of the church is to
make a new world, in which the war
spirit cannot live.