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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 MOV