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The Dark and Bright Side in
Sunday School Work
By D. W. SIMS, Georgia Secretary.
The Dark Side.
The general secretary was in a
meeting recently in which five Sun
day schools were represented and the
five schools combined only registered
one point on the banner school chart.
The one point was that one school
was “Evergreen” (running twelve
months in the year).
In another meeting a Sunday school
was represented that has a member
ship of 40, and of that number only
two were grown people. Another Sun
day school in the same meeting re
ported a church membership of 200,
and a Sunday school enrollment of 40
—only one member in the Sunday
school for every five church members.
In another meeting one superintend
ent said: “We have discontinued our
Sunday school for the summer, as the
weather is so hot.”
Another superintendent said: “You
can drive 14 miles south from this
meeting before you come to a Sunday
school, and take the same road and
drive 15 miles north before you come
to a Sunday school” —29 miles on one
public road without a Sunday school.
The Bright Side.
There were 24 Sunday schools rep
resented in Henry County Conven
tion, July 12th and 13th, and one su
perintendent said: “Our Sunday school
has more than doubled since we put
up the banner Sunday school chart we
secured from the secretary of the
Georgia Sunday School Association.”
A division president said: “I visited
Cyrene’s President Believes in Work
ing and Praying.
The new president of Cyrene Insti
tute, the splendid school in Decatur
country for Piney Woods boys and
girls, has taken hold of the work with
a vigorous, enterprising hand.
Having been a prominent educator
in Tennessee, Prof. Stanton brings to
his new field an impressive wealth of
energy and consecration. The Early
County News has the following con
cerning President Stanton’s visit to
Blakely:
Prof. T. A. Stanton, the new pres
ident of Cyrene Institute, spent Sun
day in the city, and on Sunday night
he delivered a splendid address on
“Christian Education” at the Baptist
church. There being no services at
the Methodist church on Sunday night,
his audience was a large one. Prof.
Stanton comes to Southwest Georgia
from Tennessee and says he finds a
most hospitable people in this section.
Several Early county boys and girls
have been students at Cyrene Insti
tute during the past few years, and
have been pleased with the advan
tages afforded them by this excellent
school. If there are any readers of
the News who are planning a higher
education for their boys and girls, they
will do well to consider the advan
tages of Cyrene Institute.
Prof. Stanton believes in the twin
virtue of prayer and work, and he has
issued the following appeal:
I am asking that the interested
friends, and those who have confi
dence in prayer to join me in daily
prayer for the spiritual and temporal
interest of the institute. I hope that
NEWS FROM THE WORKERS
each school in my division and put up
a banner Sunday school chart and 1
am glad to report that as a result
the enrollment of one school has
grown from 30 to 62, and another from
55 to 148.”
At the Floyd County Convention on
July 15-16, twenty Sunday schools were
represented. Seven pastors were pres
ent at one session. One of these pas
tors serves six churches. New offi
cers were elected for the county as
sociation, and they are now working
to bring the county up to the banner
standard.
Banks county was duly organized on
July 11. About 200 people from 10
Sunday schools were present and took
part in the historic event. County
convention was set for Sept. 30 and
October Ist.
The First Methodist Sunday school
of Elberton, with which the state con
vention was held last April, has sent
a check for SSO as an offering to the
state association —another evidence
that Elberton appreciated the state
convention.
Seventy-six new subscribers for the
News were secured in a few hours by
a live committee of young ladies at
the Rockdale County meeting on
July 17th.
Fulton, Newton, Baldwin, Floyd,
Elbert, Hancock, DeKalb, Cobb and
Dodge counties are all work desper
ately to reach the banner standard.
Office Georgia Sunday School AssociaJ
tion, Atlanta, Ga.
you will join this band and write me
that it is your purpose to pray daily
so
1. Spiritual blessings upon trustees,
faculty, students and servants.
2. Temporal blessings, that the
Lord may guide many students to the
school for training and that the spirit
of the Lord may enlighten all minds
desiring to know the truth concerning
the institute, inasmuch as there are
those things and influences that are
constraining some from a positive de
cision to enter the institute.
3. Financial blessings—that money
for the heavy obligations, now pend
ing, may be had; that money may be
turned to the institute for enlargement
and endowment, even from those who
have not given before, and that those
who have given may feel to give
again; and that success and health
may attend all those interested in and
serving the institute.
Hoping to hear from you favorably
at an early date, I am,
Yours for service,
T. A. STANTON.
Cyrene, Ga.
GREAT MEETING AT INDIAN
SPRINGS.
Thinking that readers of your good
paper would be interested in an ac
count of the good meetings we have
just had at Indian Springs church, 5
miles north of Loyd, I write you about
it. And inasmuch as you, Mr. Edi
tor, were with us at this church two
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR AUGUST 7, 1913
Southern Christian Citizenship
Conference
TO BE HELD AT CITY AUDITORIUM IN ATLANTA SEPT. 19-21.
SPEAKERS OF NATIONAL REPUTATION.
In speaking of the great Southern
Christian Citizenship Conference to
be held in Atlanta in Septemjber, Mr.
S. T. Nicholson, general secretary of
the Civic League of America, says:
The greatest marvel of the last cen
tury is the unprecedented development
of the material side of civilization.
There has been no corresponding mor
al and intellectual growth. Dr. Al
fred Russel Wallace in a recent book
on “Social Environment and Moral
Progress,” says: “Our whole system
of society is rotten from top to bottom
and the social environment is the
worst the world has ever seen.”
Among the subjects that he mentions
are adulteration, bribery, insanitary
dwellings, gambling, prostitution, al
cohol' sm, suicide, etc.
“The multiplied and closer relations
into which we have been thrust have
created new problems which the pop
ular intelligence does not understand,
and new obligations which the popu
lar consicence does not accept.” The
greatest need of the times —a generic
civic need, which includes every de
sirable reform, moral, social, political
and industrial, is the promotion of
good citizenship and the education of
public opinion and of the popular con
science.
We have missed great opportunities
in not utilizing the public school sys
tem of the country to build charac
ter and to aid in' making good and
honorable men and women. A recent
writer predicts that some day it'will
be recognized that the state must in
self-protection undertake the moral
training of its children, or its citi
zenship will deteriorate below the line
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE CIVIC LEAGUE OF
AMERICA.
Membership fee for men or women in the League, which includes
free subscription to The Golden Age, is $2.00 for twelve months; SI.OO
for six months; 50 cents for three months. Please make remittances
payable to the Civic League of America, and if at a distance from
Atlanta, remit by New York exchange or by Post Office or Express
Money Order.
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S. T. NICHOLSON, Secretary:
I hereby authorize the enrollment of my name as a member of the
Civic League of America, and herewith enclose sto cover
membership dues and free subscription to The Golden Age for
months.
Address THE GOLDEN AGE, 65j/ 2 Walton Street, ATLANTA, GA.
years ago during our memorable pro
tracted meeting, I knew you would re
joice to hear the glad news.
Our last meeting began Sunday, the
13th, and ocntinued for two weeks. We
had good congregations, especially at
night. Our pastor, Bro. E. T. Moore,
of Andersonville, Ga., did all the
preaching. Mr. Jennings Clark, of
Ashburn, Ga., was a great help as sin
ger. His solos were very sweet and
touching. It seemed that in all the
five years of our pastor’s work with
us he had never preached such con
vincing sermons. Twenty-two joined
by baptism and three by letter.
The memory of your visit still lin
gers with us, and we hope to have
you again sometime.
With best wishes to The Golden
Age.
MRS. W. H. MILLER.
Loyd, Fla., July 30, 1913.
of safety. It is more important, he
says, to make citizens than scholars
and artisans.
The Civic League of America stands
for good citizenship, the cultivation
and expression of healthy public sen
timent, diffusion of knowledge and
promulgation of truth, for righteous
civil government, promotion of univer
sal prosperity, social service, sound
morality, and the common good.
The situation demands strenuous
and well-directed action; and with the
objects of the league properly carried
out, reform along these lines can be
speedily implanted on the thought of
the nation as the most important is
sue before the American people to
day.
Much work has already been done,
and it is desired to continue operations
through public lectures, conferences
and conventions; through field secre
taries, and the distinguished body of
men upon whom the league will be
able to draw for discussion of sub
jects pertinent to this movement;
through press bulletins leaflets and
pamphlets; through Civic League mem
bers, and the co-operation of public
spirited citizens in every community.
For sometime past arrangements
have been going forward for the
Southern Christian Citizenship Con
ference to be held under the auspices
of the Civic League of America, at
the Atlanta Auditorium Sept. 19-21.
The program of proceedings, general
discussion, and addresses from speak
ers of national reputation will be an
nounced in due time and a large at
tendance is anticipated.
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