Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE SUPERINTENDENT ? HIS PREROGATIVES While he is the chief officer in the Sunday school, the superintendent is naturally amenable to the power which placed him in office, whether it be the assembled members of the church to which the nasi Subor. school belongs, or an official board of the church. He is also in a sense second in command in the Sunday school, the pastor being the chief officer of the church in all its departments of work. He is a subordinate more in name, though, than in fact, as his work is of a character which necessarily renders his plans operative and his decision final in nearly everything connected with the management of the school. The superintendent's position is one whose responsibilities are divisible to only a limited extent. After he has placed upon the shoulders of his associate officers every burden which can with pro- Fixed Official, Burden. priety be transferred from his own, there remains, essentially and unavoidably, a responsibility which attaches to no other lay officer in the church. This being true, hisprerogatives should be commensurate with the burden which he must carry. That is to say, having been chosen to direct the school, he should be allowed (except under conditions rarely known) without official interference to direct it. In the nature of the case he must give much more study to Sun- Necessary Pre- d school needs than can be rogatives. . . given by anybody else in the church, and possibly as much as is given by a, ll others in the church put together. It follows that he has a more comprehensive view of these needs than anybody else can have. Besides, he is called up to the bar of the church annually to give an account of his stewardship?not leaving his mistakes, like those of other ch...

Excerpt from Sunday School Officers Manual: The Training of Officers and Committees; A Practical Course for Sunday School Leaders For many years we have been stressing the training of teachers. The time has now come when the trained teacher is asking for a trained officer. A trained teacher cannot do his work properly unless directed by a trained officer. There are probably two million officers in the Sunday schools of America. Very few of these have had any training for their task. When they pass out of office there are no candidates trained for their work, ready to take their places. The future official leadership for the Sunday school and church must be found in the young people of the later teens. These are not now held to the Sunday school because no worthy elective task is put before them. This plan of specialization training is the only sane method of producing a future leadership. The course suggested in these chapters is for officers now serving and especially for young people who through the training class in the Sunday school, the city institute, or through correspondence courses shall prepare for future official service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.