The Sunday School at Work Author:John Thomson Faris General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Westminster Press Subjects: Sunday schools Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mil... more »lion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT WOKK THE SECRETARY AND HIS ASSISTANTS T Rev. A. H. McKINNEY, Ph. d. THE SECEETAEY AND HIS ASSISTANTS INTRODUCTORY In any work for God what the worker is counts for far more than what he does. Character and consecration are more valuable assets than cleverness and brilliancy. The "good and faithful servant" received the Master's commendation and reward. At the same time there are diversities of gifts and differences of operation. Not every good man is fitted to be the ideal secretary of a Sunday school. There are many misfits in this office as there are elsewhere. Better be an efficient something else than a secretary that interferes with the best possible progress of the Sunday school. Many secretaries have begun work in Sunday schools without training. They have had no one to direct them. The literature pertaining to their work is meager. Hence they go along as best they can, but that "best" is not what it might be. These chapters are prepared to help secretaries to know themselves and their work, and to suggest some principles from which may be formulated rules and methods of procedure. These principles are as applicable to the small school in the country as to the larger school in the village or to the very large school in the city. A successful merchant who had just investigated aSunday school, with mind alert, eyes open and tongue ready to ask searching questions, said to the superintendent, "Tell me in a sentence the secret of the success of this school." Instantly the reply came: "Attention to details." ...« less