International Review of Missions (Volume 5) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... one-fourth of the schools have blackboards and organs. Cards and coloured pictures from England and America have been used to attract attendance. The splendid new graded lessons for China with accompanying illustrations are serving a fine purpose in promoting interest. The grading in the ordinary Sunday school consists of classes for children and classes for men and women. Young people in their teens are not found in any number in the ordinary Sunday school, except in stations where there are boarding schools or higher educational institutions. If not in Christian schools, these young people are employed on Sunday, often from early years. The Chinese Sunday School Union is circulating 180,000 weekly issues of the Sunday school lessons. These consist of both graded and uniform lessons. This compares with a weekly issue of about 30,000 per week five years ago. The graded lessons consist of beginners' primary and junior lessons adapted from the keystone leaflets of the International Sunday School Graded Lesson series. The China Sunday School Journal in English includes the lesson notes and general Sunday school information and high-grade material for use of Sunday school workers. The pastor is usually the Sunday school superintendent. He is often a teacher as well. Until the last few years, when special Sunday school instruction has been given at the theological institutions at Shanghai, Nanking, Canton and Peking, the pastor had no specific Sunday school training. In the cities and in educational institutions, the superintendent is often a layman or some teacher. To develop the training of teachers in China, the China Sunday School Union has issued a special course of six books in English and Chinese.1 As fast as any of these books are mastered, a seal is a...