How often are churches generally compelled to change their const.i.tuency?

What are some causes of the changed conditions in cities and country places?

What should be done in growing communities?

What are the conditions, and the remedy for them, in a declining population?

How may a population change socially while increasing numerically?

What is the duty of a Sunday school in changing communities?

When may a church or a Sunday school rightly abandon its field?

What is the first duty of the Sunday school in relation to its field?

What is its duty to the population in its field, wherever the population can be reached?

What elements in the population should be provided for in the plans and efforts of the school?

XVI. RECRUITING THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

BLACKBOARD OUTLINE

1. =Nec.= 2. =Los. fr. Sch.= (1) Sear. in sch. (2) Foll. abs.

3. =Char. Gro. Sch.= (1) Eff. (2) Attr. (3) Prom.

(4) Sp. occ. (5) Sp. hel.

4. =Reach. Bey. Sch.= (1) Adv. (2) Inv. (3) Vis.

5. =Dang.=

REVIEW QUESTIONS

Why is it not only desirable but necessary to seek for increase in the membership of the Sunday school?

What is the percentage of change in Sunday schools annually?

For what should search be made in the school?

How may the absentees from the school be looked after?

What traits in a Sunday school will naturally draw to it scholars?

Why should the Sunday school be made a prominent feature in the church?

What are some special occasions in the year to which attention should be given?

What special methods of building up the school may be employed in certain localities?

How may the school be advertised?

What are some advantages in a personal invitation?

What plans for the visitation of the field are suggested?

What caution should be given concerning methods of recruiting the Sunday school?

XVII. THE TESTS OF A GOOD SUNDAY SCHOOL

BLACKBOARD OUTLINE

1. =Rep. Char.= 2. =Org.= 3. =Ord.= 4. =Sp.= 5. =Edu. Eff.= 6. =Char.-buil.=

REVIEW QUESTIONS

What is meant in the t.i.tle of this chapter?

How many tests or criterions are here named?

What are these tests?

What is meant by the representative character of a Sunday school?

Why is organization necessary to const.i.tute a good school?

What is included in a graded school?

To what extent is order a requisite?

How may the demand for order be carried to excess?

What is "spirit" in a Sunday school?

What const.i.tutes efficiency in Sunday-school work?

For what purpose is the teaching and work of the Sunday school?

What is included in the building of a character, as an aim of the Sunday school?

How should these tests or traits be viewed?

What ill.u.s.trative pa.s.sage is given from the New Testament?