The Elementary Division Organized for Service (Paperback)

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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. 1917. Excerpt: ... The Junior Department or Class "Doers of the Word, and not hearers only" Genbbal Statement DURING the past few years, the opinion has grown rapidly that the period of life, known as later childhood, affords wonderful opportunities and presents special needs for religions instruction and training. The success of the few Junior Departments in existence toward the close of the nineteenth century proved what might and ought to be done to help boys and girls who were too old for the Primary Department and too young to be merged with the "Main School" with adolescents and adults. As the Cradle Roll provides for the babies, the Beginners' Department for little children not in public school, the Primary Department for school children, unable to use the Bible easily and intelligently as their text-book, so the Junior Department provides for the reading boys and girls, who should be taught to use the Bible, not only as a text-book, but as daily companion and guide. A Sunday School is short sighted if it fails to provide for definite work for that period of life when pupils are first able to really study a Bible lesson. In this habit-forming period, almost anything can be accomplished with patience and perseverance. 85 Who Abb The Juniors Juniors are the boys and girls approximately nine, ten, eleven and twelve years of age. To adults they seem like older children in the rough and tumble period, particularly the boys who spend several hours a day in school because they must, and as many of the remaining hours as possible out-of-doors, engaging in most vigorous sports because they enjoy it. To many Junior boys, their homes are places of convenience for eating and sleeping. Junior boys are well posted about their city or town and what transpires there. If too much rep...

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