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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
6
J M Way urges South Carolina Sunday school workers to secure separate rooms for the Intermediate Department with a piano in larger schools, blackboard, library, carpets and decor. He notes supplemental lessons must address growth humor honor and hero worship and suggests studying Bible heroes and geography until a new graded course is issued.
Mrs. H. W. Shannon urges careful junior care in Sunday schools. Emphasizing childhood as a pivotal period, she links habits, memory work, literature, and Biblically based instruction to form character. She calls for skilled teachers, separate junior rooms, adequate equipment, and active home contact to harness youth potential for God and society.
J M Way outlines a continent-wide push for trained Sunday school teachers. He argues that teacher quality drives church education, urges graded courses, and details organization, course content, class conduct, and graduation practices to improve outcomes and attract non-attendants.
Miss Ida Ormand outlines methods for guiding 6 to 8 year olds in a well organized Sunday school. She stresses age appropriate structure, separate rooms or screened spaces, visual aids, trained staff, and a program linking singing prayers offerings and Bible lessons to develop character and missionary awareness.
J M Way outlines steps for a Beginners Department for ages 3 to 5 in the South Carolina Sunday School movement. He stresses simple lessons, frequent activity, use of imagination, proper teacher size, room setup, and a two-year course. He urges cradle rolls to enroll every infant and ties early training to lifelong church involvement.
A historical overview traces the cradle roll from biblical times to its church movement roots, crediting early Methodists and Sabbath school teachers for formalizing the record of infants. It emphasizes childhood as foundational, urging guardians to enroll babies, valuing early influences from church, family, and school.
Mr J M Way of the South Carolina Sunday School association speaks at York County convention on denominational interests aligning with the Kingdom. He argues the movement should aid all who further God’s kingdom and notes the role of Bible classes, Cradle Roll, Home Department and Teacher Training in advancing Sunday school as a world wide missionary institution.
The speaker urges unified effort by Christian people to grow Sunday school sentiment and notes the movement’s vast network of conventions and two million volunteers. He explains the clearing house analogy for efficiency, praises the Uniform Lesson, and calls for prayer, non-criticism, broad-mindedness, financial support, and active convention attendance.
An old Zapoteca chief recounts how Mexican Indians punished a mozo who killed a visiting American botanist. They captured the murderer after four runners returned with him bound, staged a public execution with four stakes, and burned him with lime until flesh desiccated. The bones were discarded in a mountain hole.
The piece traces the Ottoman rite of girding the sword from the era of Mohammed II, notes earlier symbols and leaders, and describes Eyoub’s tomb, the Mevlevi Chelebi, and the Istanbul precincts around Eyoub Mosque with reflections on the city’s sacred and living memory.
A man with a glassy eye and solemn demeanor put down a sovereign at the Charing Cross booking office and asked for a ticket. The clerk pressed for a destination and the man asked quietly which stations were available.
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