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Thursday, December 3, 1914. RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE Page Eleven S. S. Department (?,i!,i,cted by M- w- Brabham, Field Secretary, Raleigh, N. C.) Officers of Sunday School Board .- 3P-C00PER' Chairman, WiJmincton C. F. Bland, Secretary, Washintrton L. ij. Roper, Treasurer, Roper. N. C HAY STREET CLASS CONTEST. The Men's Bible Classes of Hay Street Methodist, First Baptist and First Presbyterian Sunday-school of Fayetteville recently concluded an in teresting and helpful contests. We called it an inter-class contest for short. The chief points of merit were attendance and enrollment of new members. The results were to be determined on a percentage basis, based on the attendance the first Sunday of the contest, which lasted four weeks through the month of October. On the first Sunday the attend ance was:: Baptist, 55; Methodist, 45; Presbyterians 35. The number steadily increased to the fourth and last Sunday (observed as Bible Class Rally Day) when the attend ance stood: Methodist, 212; Bap tist 193; Presbyterians, 157. The total at the beginning was 135, af the close, 5G2, a gain of 427. Re ports from each class were announc ed weekly through the local press, and interest grew with the progress of the contest. The president and teacher of en oh class constituted a general commit tee in charge of the contest, with sub-committees on advertising and finance. Weekly meetings of the general committee were held and special advertising by newspapers, display window cards, bill boards, moving picture screens and was re sorted to with good effect to awaken and enliven public interest. A class banquet was to be the culminating feature, to be provided by the three classes, at which the winning class the Presbyterian should be the class of honor, and receive their blue ribbons and the greetings of their late rivals in well doing. As a preliminary to the contest, a series of class visits were exchang ed last summer between the three classes, with the teacher of the vis iting teacher teaching; followed by union services at the three church es through the month of August, attended by the three classes in a body, who met at a central point (the old market house) and march ed together by classes through the city to the Church. The contest aroused new interest in the Men's Classes, led to the or ganization of new classes, and was followed by live meetings of the re ligious impulse among the men of the city. The Men's Bible Classes of the city are now talking of raising a Belgian Belief Fund of $R00 as a practical exemplification of world hotherhood implied in the gospel of Christ. Q. K. NIMOCKS. Fayetteville, N. C. Annual lowvt of the Sunday School Board. Your Sunday School Board de sires to submit the following re port: 1. We appreciate the co-operation of all who have aided us in anyway in carrying out the work we had out lined for the past year. We are glad to report a steady increase in Sunday-school membership, organized Bible Classes. Teacher Training Classes and Standard Sunday-schools. There are approximately three hun dred Wesley Bible Classes enroll ed with the Wesley Bible Class De partment, which have an enrollment of over six thousand members. We have between three hundrd and four hundred students who have been en aged in systematic Teacher Training work during the year. 2. We are glad to express to you our thanks for the increase in the special offering for Sunday-school ex tension taken on the fourth Sunday in January. The amount realized from this source was a little more than $500. We sincerely trust that our pastors and Presiding Elders will aid us in increasing this amount to not less than $1,000 during the com ing January. The amount paid in this year was paid by less than one third of our schools; if each school would do something, it would aid us materially in solving our financial problems. This fourth Sunday in January deserves to become a popu lar one and we believe that It will. 3. Briefly stated our goal for the next quadrennium for the Sunday schools of our Conference is as fol lows: A Federation of all Wesley Bible Classes of our Conference, with an annual meeting of the same. Every District thoroughly organiz ed with departmental officers. Every Circuit holding an annual Sunday-school Institute under the di rection of the pastor. A net gain in Sunday-school mem bership of at least 4,000 each year. An Increase of 1,000 members each year in our organized classes. An increase each year of 1,000 in the Cradle Roll membership. An increase of 3 00 members an nually in the Home Department. An offering each year of at leapt $5,000 for missions through the Sunday-schools. A Childrens' Day and offering in every Sunday-school each year. A definite effort to bring about the conversion of every one connected with our Sunday-schools and a deep ening of the spiritual life of all our people. 4. It is our purpose to be of ser vice in every way possible and we plead for a sympathetic and earnest response from each of you in our endeavor to carry out these plans. This may be done by helping us to get an offering from every Sunday school on the fourth Sunday in Jan uary, as many of you have done for the past two years; by continuing the fine work you have been doing in behalf of Childen's Day; by at tending the institutes and confer ences held for Sunday-school work ers; by making use of our Field Secretary in every possible manner and falling in with the plans which he may announce from time to time. With the January offering increas ed to $1,000 a year and the Childen's Day offering brought up to about $3,000 per annum, the finances of the Board will be sufficient to carry on the work as at present contem plated. 5. An announcement of great In terest to all will be the great in terests Trinity College through Presi dent Few is manifesting in Sunday school work. Plans are maturing for some definite work at that insti ution cn a larger scale than at pres ent carried on. Our Field Worker is to move to Durham and through the kindness of Trinity will have an of fice and some office help. WTe be lieve that this step will eventually mean one of the greatest forward steps ever known in our work. 6. We also wish to say that we appreciate the aid of Trinity College in making it possible for us to have Drs. Hamil! and Bulla with us for an institute last June. Our regret is that more of our people did not attend. 7. We invite the attention of all to the new chapter on Sunday-school as found in the new Discipline. 8. The presence and address of Dr. Ilamill at this Conference and upon our anniversary occasion, we appreciate greatly. We rejoice in the additional honor which has come to him during the past) summer, that of being elected honorary head of the International Sunday School Association. 9. You have our sincere thanks for the splendid earnestness mani fested by so many of you in behalf of Sunday-schools and pray that the spirit of achievement may continue and that the advancement of our Sunday-schools may always be in His name, for it is only in that Name that we can do the great work He has committed to us. Respectfully submitted, W. B. COOPER, Chairman, C. F. BLAND, Secretary. Holiness is not anything a man can do; it is the divine gift which he receives the indwelling of God Ex. CHURCHES Wn J. M. McMICI McMICHAEL ARCHITECT 901-902 Commercial Nat. Bank Blfc. CHARLOTTE, N. 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