Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals   By: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut (1843-1930)

MODERN SUNDAY SCHOOL MANUALS

Edited by Charles Foster Kent in Collaboration with John T. McFarland

ORGANIZING AND BUILDING UP THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

By JESSE LYMAN HURLBUT

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NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM

Copyright, 1910, by EATON & MAINS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE I. The Historic Principles Underlying the Sunday School Movement 7 II. The Constitution of the Sunday School 14 III. The Necessity and Essentials of a Graded Sunday School 21 IV. The Grading of the Sunday School 30 V. The Departments of the Graded Sunday School 37 VI. The Superintendent 46 VII. The Superintendent's Duties and Responsibilities 53 VIII. The Associate and Department Superintendents 63 IX. The Secretary of the Sunday School 69 X. The Treasury and the Treasurer 75 XI. Value of the Sunday School Library 81 XII. The Management of the Library 91 XIII. The Teacher's Qualifications and Need of Training 98 XIV. The Training and Task of the Teacher 105 XV. The Constituency of the Sunday School 113 XVI. Recruiting the Sunday School 122 XVII. The Tests of a Good Sunday School 129 Appendix 135

PREFATORY

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

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.