Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . hen normalclasses and teachers classes are found everywhere, per-sons are apt to suppose that these are new things underthe sun. Present names may be new, but the desire ofteachers to do better work, and the desire of Churchleaders to help them in plans for this better work, areby no means new things. At present the Sunday-school department of the Presbyterian Board of Publi-cation is its great missionary department. It is foundthat the colporteurs of former times could have theirefficiency promoted by
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . hen normalclasses and teachers classes are found everywhere, per-sons are apt to suppose that these are new things underthe sun. Present names may be new, but the desire ofteachers to do better work, and the desire of Churchleaders to help them in plans for this better work, areby no means new things. At present the Sunday-school department of the Presbyterian Board of Publi-cation is its great missionary department. It is foundthat the colporteurs of former times could have theirefficiency promoted by commissioning them to holdSabbath-school conventions, organize schools and 3i8 PRESBYTERIANS. supply these schools with libraries. In 1887 tne Gen-eral Assembly adopted the report of a committeewhich recommended the changing of the technical nameof the Board from The Board of Publication, to TheBoard of Publication and Sunday-school that time onward all contributions have gone tothis Sunday-school department and its mission Westminster system of Lesson Helps is one of. COLLEGE OF EMPORIA, EMPORIA, KAN. the very best now offered to the public. Childrensday in June has become a recognized institution in allthe Sunday schools. The collections taken on that dayare not large from any one giver, but when gatheredtogether they furnish the chief means for the wide-spread work of this department throughout the wholecountry. The theological seminaries have sessions forabout eight months of the year. This gives a goodlong vacation in the summer. It is excellent experiencethat is to be secured by theological students spendingthis vacation as a season of work under this Sunday- MISSIONS AND CHURCH BOARDS. 319 school missionary department. Numbers of thesestudents find most helpful employment each year inthis direction. They go back to the seminaries under-standing- their future work, and appreciating theiropportunities. The report of the Board for the year1891 gives the
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