Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1916 — A Letter to the Sunday School Workers of Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

A Letter to the Sunday School Workers of Jasper County.

Next Sunday many of the townships will hold their annual Sunday school conventions. The county oflL cers are anxious that these conventions should be a conference of the Sunday school workers rather than entertainments. Therefore it is not necessary that there should be a large crowd present in order that good may result. On the contrary, it is often true that large crowds detract from the value of the meeting if they are made up,of disinterested persons, although there is always an inspiration in numbers. There has been a uniform program planned by the county council, whicn will be used in every township. This lpeans has been used to call the attention of the Sunday school workers in every part of the county to the portance of the work which the state is striving to have done in every school for their own improvement. The work off the various departments is to be presented by the superintendent of the department and if nothing has been done this will give the officer a chance to become familiar with his own work in preparing for the convention or to try to formulate plans for the work in the future if it has been neglected. The visiting county official will have an opportunity to learn what has been done and to help sugges improvements. In many of the towmships much more could be accomplished if the workers would put themselves in touch with the new methods of doing things. The usual monotonous opening exercises followed in many schools could be varied by requiring the missionary superintendent to present the work of missions once a month. The temperance superintendent to have charge at regualr times and give news and plans of temperance work. A teacher o training exercise could be given forclosing exercises if there is no time for a class during the week. The organised class can be made a helpful social factor in the rural communities, especially. Some organized classes are doing great things in our county but there are others that have gotten no further than organizing. The Sunday school has a vast opportunity for usefulness. Let us not be indifferent. Every school is expected to send a representative to Muncie to the state convention, which convenes in that city this month. We can not expect to improve if we do not see “what is doing” outside our own locality.—Press Supt. Jasper Co. S. S. Association.