A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . nister might bettertake the farmer from his plow and put him in the pulpit than give himcharge over a Sunday-school class without some special training. In theformer event, he would not be dealing with such plastic and impression-able material. The Sunday-school is the strategic point in the churchsfield of work but it is not receiving by any means the careful attentionthat it should receive. It is quite as important to train the teachersof th
A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . nister might bettertake the farmer from his plow and put him in the pulpit than give himcharge over a Sunday-school class without some special training. In theformer event, he would not be dealing with such plastic and impression-able material. The Sunday-school is the strategic point in the churchsfield of work but it is not receiving by any means the careful attentionthat it should receive. It is quite as important to train the teachersof the young as the preachers to the old. Other organizations: there are 38 young peoples organizations witha total membership of 1,381. These societies meet for the most partweekly. Forty-nine churches are without any form of organization fortheir young people. Womens societies number 68 with a membershipof 1,525. These are chiefly of two sorts. Ladies Aid Societies andMission Study Societies. Thirty-three churches are without anywomens organizations. But very little effort has been made to organize 94 Where fhe Chi Idren are- Tota. I on—. tZTn^o^/TneTt f-
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