The Boy and the Sunday School eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 152 pages of information about The Boy and the Sunday School.

The Boy and the Sunday School eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 152 pages of information about The Boy and the Sunday School.

Attend Sunday school (yes or no)?

If yes, where? ______________________
Information gathered by
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NOTE.—­Once this information is gathered it can be kept up-to-date by arrangement with the moving companies and the water, gas and electric light companies.  A monthly report from these companies, or a stock of post-cards kept with them, will do the work.  Another method is an annual checking up with the city directory.

(b) Home Visitation for Enlistment.  This is best accomplished by personal invitation, letter, attractive advertising, etc.  Assign to teen age worker.

Training Classes

3.  A training class or training classes, central or by districts, should be arranged to specialize for teen age leadership.

(a) Adolescent Leadership Course (50 lessons) according to International Standard.

(b) Demonstration Course in physical, social, mental and outdoor activities.

Service Programs

4.  Practical programs should be prepared and offered to schools and organized classes to stimulate the membership of the Crusade.

“For none of us liveth to himself.”  “For unto every one which hath shall be given, and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him.”  “Service” is the magic word around which real life swings.  By giving, one gets.  The investment of service, as individuals, and as a class, will bring big dividends in the development of one’s personal life.

Missions Program

Promote (a) a course of study of “live” home and foreign mission material; (b) systematic giving to missions; (c) the study of the foreign population of your city, particularly of your own neighborhood; (d) teaching non-English speaking men and boys to read and write; (e) the investigation, and, when possible, the handling of needy cases in your community.  Anything going out from the class to the other fellow comes under this head.

Temperance Program

Get information along the lines of:  (a) bodily self-control; (b) the injury of tobacco on the growing tissue; (c) the inroads of alcohol on the growing and mature body; and (d) the economic, material and moral waste of intemperance of every kind.

Purity Program

Hit hard for (a) clean speech, clean thoughts, clean sports; (b) for a single sex standard; (c) chivalry and cleanliness among the sexes; and (d) adequate education on sex matters.

Programs along these three lines will be furnished on application to the State and Provincial Sunday School Association offices.

=Preliminary Plans For Crusade=

To get things in motion, two lines of action are suggested:  First, plan for a conference of older boys and workers with boys for the community which you desire to cover.  The program should aim to lay before the conference the plan of the Organized Secondary Division Class; methods of work should be discussed at group conferences; the Crusade Challenge presented at the banquet; and the session should close with a rousing inspirational address.  Second, formation of an Inter-Sunday School Council, the purpose of which is to plan and promote work for Secondary Division Classes in the city.

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