Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Page: 63
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CENTRAL TEXAS CONFERENCE JOURNAL
Legislation.
We are highly gratified at the forward steps taken by the
last General Conference concerning Sunday School work, and
we predict that this legislation will result in great progress in
this department of the church's work.
Children's Day.
We believe that the observance of Children's Day should be
much more general than it is; and we sincerely trust that the
new provision by which all the offerings of Children's Day shall
be used in promoting Sunday School work will greatly stimulate
these offerings.
Wesley Bible Classes.
We are delighted to note the remarkable increase in the num-
ber and membership of Wesley Bible Classes. This movement, in-
augurated only four years ago, has had a phenomenal growth,
embracing at present about 4,100 classes with 133,000 members.
The presence of so many men and women in the Sunday School
is a great inspiration to the boys and girls of the younger classes.
We are hoping for great results from the organization of the
Wesley Bible Class Federation of the Central Texas Conference.
Correlation of Bible Study and Public School Work.
We cordially approve the plan now in operation in the States
of Colorado, North Dakota and in the cities of Belton and Aus-
tin of our own State, by which credit toward graduation in the
public high schools is given for the successful completion of Bi-
ble study courses in the Sunday Schools; and we urge our peo-
ple to endeavor to promote this movement in their several com-
munities wherever it is practicable.
Southern Methodist University.
We heartily endorse the movement to endow a chair of Re-
ligious Education in Southern Methodist University, and we urge
all the Sunday Schools within the bounds of our Conference to
give this movement the generous support which it so well merits.
Sunday School Extension.
The Board has employed W. E. Hawkins to act as Confer-
ence Field Secretary for the ensuing year; and we request all the
Presiding Elders, pastors, and Sunday School workers of this
Conference to give him their hearty co-operation and support in
his responsible and arduous work to the end that he may help
to build up and render more efficient the Sunday Schools of our
Conference.
In this connection we urge every Presiding Elder to call to-
gether at his earliest convenience, the pastors, District Secre-
taries and Sunday School Superintendents for the purpose of
planning a series of institutes, missionary and educational ral-
lies, to stimulate interest in Children's Day observance, the com-
pletion of our endowment of the chair of Religious Education in
Southern Methodist University and all other interests of our
Sunday School cause.
Sunday School Periodicals.
We heartily endorse and commend the enterprise of the Gen-
eral Board in planning important improvements and additions63
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