Everything that has to deal with the Organized Class or group is applicable.  The Organized Class is the unit and beginning of all organization.  The boy gang, or group, is common to both city and rural district.  There is no problem in either place, if there is no group of boys.  The Departmental groupings may not be feasible.  Usually they are not.  There may not be enough groups of boys to form a club or Boy Scout Troop or a chapter of a boy order.  Generally this is true.  And, after all, it is a distinct gain to the Sunday school, as the grouping that is made by force of compulsion is the Organized Class or group.  The chapter on the Organized Sunday School Bible Class will apply itself to the rural school, wherever there is a half dozen boys and it is given a chance.

The chapter on Bible Study will likewise fit into the rural situation.  No matter whether the boys be urban or rural, they demand Bible Study that will fit into their religious, developing needs.  Perhaps Bible Study courses with rural application need to be arranged, and I am led to believe that the illustrative material should be vastly different from that used for city boys, and of a rural character.  However, there has been too much written and spoken of the difference between rural and urban boys.  The differences discovered by the writer seem to be all in favor of the country boy—­more wholesome surroundings, more quiet and less nerve-destroying interests, and more time, because of fewer commercial amusements to really discover things for themselves.  The average rural boy has read more and knows more about current events than the city-bred lad.  The country boy should not be provincialized by his Bible Study, or anything else.  He should be given as large a touch with the world of men and letters as any one else.  The illustrations used in Lesson Helps, etc., should have some bearing on the life he leads, that the application of the study may germinate in his daily life, else the study will have little meaning, but he needs no separate, distinct courses.  It is not a different selection of material, but a different treatment that is needed.  The Denominational Leaders will sooner or later be forced to heed this cry from the largest section of the Sunday school field.  Until they do Graded Lessons will not gain materially in the open country.

On the other hand, where there is only one group of adolescent boys in the Sunday school, Graded Lessons are practicable, as well as necessary to the best religious development of boyhood.  The grading is cut down to a minimum, and it merely means fewer classes studying the same lesson.  It would mean just the one group, with a new course each year.  The difficulty is not with the lessons, but with the school officials and the teacher.