The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18

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MISS MAUDE NJ. WEBER
study is a wonderful thing, t h e
teacher and principal have stately
Baptists Lead
Of the 142 students enrolled the
church membership or preference
is as follows: Methodists, %; Bap-
fist, SO; Advent, 3; Church of
God, 1; Presbyterian, 27; Mormon,
2; Pentecostal Holiness, 9; Luthe-
ran, 3; Holiness, 3; Episcopal g.;
Seventh Day Adventist, /; no pre-
ference, 4.
Another unusual development
showed that 81 enrollees are mem
bers of no church! 1t is a significant
fact, proving that growing young
find God and to follow a real Chris
tan plan of living and thinking.
Each pupil, church members and
O church members, filled out an
information card the first of the
year which were sent to the pastor
of his church or to the church he
preferred. Many have since Joined
churches or have become active in
religious work.
The teaching Of the course is alb
solutely non-sectarian. T h e text
book is the Bible itself. 1t is being
taught with two definite detectives
in mind: first, to acquant each pu
pill with the factual contents of the
Book; second, to point the applica
ton of those contents to the pupils
lives and to enable them to resis1
temptation and to manifest the
highest possible quality of Christian
character.
Matchless Literature
The teacher, of course, makes
every effort to acquaint each chile
with the matchless literature of the
Holy Scriptures-the prose a n
poetry, the history an dthe prophecy
and the drama.
In this respect Miss Weber ha:
succeeded SO well that -.
The writer asked Miss Weber tt
have one of her classes write a few
words about the curse. The re
spouse was so wholesome and un
restrained, the sincerity so earnes'
that to read through those paper.
makes a funny lump come to the
throat.
Miss Weber is wonderful. S h
makes the course ven more inter
esting than ordinarily. :" IS h {
knows her Bible! She explains al
hard things and gives it to us in {
clear light. . :" ''The Bible is almos1
like a fairy tale, each book being
another chapter. Pr
The students, so many of the chill
dren wrote. have also organized
Bible club which meets each Mon
day. The doors are open to all. II
this club we study Gods word ant
try to answer questions that are
troublesome both about the Bool
itself and about our lives" Miss
Weber said that the club boasts
splendid attendance each week, is
conducted entirely by the students
But just how is the Bible present
ed to the students? How is it thai
! teen-age pupils find a high schoo
study so interesting? Is it the pre-
sentation? The discovery of t h {
Bible as a great literary work an6
spiritual power? Or it it the review
ing of oft-told religious tales?
From The Beginning
It is, in brief, all of these things
From the opening sentence of thu
Book-"In the Beginning, Cod
through the entire work, the Bible
is the story of the world and man
the creation of the earth and its
Ornaments, it's birds Of the air anc
the beasts Of the field; it is tn
story of man from the first homo
sapiens down through the centurie.
of his growth, his well-being, hi
loves, wars, h a te S, jealousies
triumphs, failures-his salvation.
It is the story which is told in thu
greatest of literature. And it moves
majestically, this story of nan ant
his earth, SO majeetically that sit i
like a fairy tale. ="
And there is another story it tell!
which. the students recognize. 81
inspires the person to become nor
interested in going to Sunday schoo
and church. 1t tends to awaken new
friendships and gives a kindness il
a persons character. :" "It make
you happy.
Lectures, diagrams, blackboar,
drills, spontaneous discussions plu
the usual tests and quizzes are ern
ployed freely by the teacher. To pu
the classes on their mettle the,
draw maps of the Holy Land
and maps of the seats of Christian
ty are given them to approximat,
historic spots connected with tn
lessons. (Locate Canaan, Jerusalem