Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School. Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066159245

Table of Contents

       PREFATORY

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       XVI

       XVII

       APPENDIX

       I. THE HISTORIC PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL MOVEMENT

       II. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

       III. THE NECESSITY AND ESSENTIALS OF A GRADED SUNDAY SCHOOL

       IV. THE GRADING OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

       V. THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE GRADED SUNDAY SCHOOL

       VI. THE SUPERINTENDENT

       VII. THE SUPERINTENDENT'S DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

       VIII. THE ASSOCIATE AND DEPARTMENT SUPERINTENDENTS

       IX. THE SECRETARY OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

       X. THE TREASURY AND THE TREASURER

       XI. VALUE OF THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARY

       XII. THE MANAGEMENT OF THE LIBRARY

       XIII. THE TEACHER'S QUALIFICATIONS AND NEED OF TRAINING

       XIV. THE TRAINING AND TASK OF THE TEACHER

       XV. THE CONSTITUENCY OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

       XVI. RECRUITING THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

       XVII. THE TESTS OF A GOOD SUNDAY SCHOOL

PREFATORY

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      In the preparation of this volume the purpose was to supply a convenient handbook upon the organization, the management, and the recruiting of the Sunday school, to be read by those desiring information upon these subjects. But after the larger part of the work had been prepared a desire was expressed that the method of treatment be so modified that the volume might be employed as a text-book for classes and individual students in the department of teacher-training. It has been the aim of the author not to alter the work so materially as to render it unfitting for the general reader; and with this in view the series of blackboard outlines for the teacher, and the questions for the testing of the student's knowledge, have been placed at the end of the book. In the hope that both the reader and the student may receive profit from these pages the book is committed to the public.

      Jesse Lyman Hurlbut.

I

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      THE HISTORIC PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL MOVEMENT

      1. Magnitude of the Sunday-School Movement. At the opening of the twentieth century the Sunday school stands forth as one of the largest, most widely spread, most characteristic, and most influential institutions of the Anglo-Saxon world. Wherever the English race is found the Sunday school is established, in the Mother isle, on the American continent, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in Australasia. In the United States and Canada it has a following of fourteen million members, representing every religious denomination. Its periodical literature has a wider circulation than that of any other modern educational movement. It touches every class of society, from the highest to the lowest; and its largest membership is found among the young, who are of all ages the most susceptible to formative forces. It is safe to say that this institution has exerted a powerful influence upon the majority of the men and women of to-day, and is now shaping the character of millions who will be the men and women of to-morrow.

      2. A Modern Movement. Great as it appears in our time,