ct, but the Sunday-school leaders lack vision and they lack the
progressive spirit. If only the teachers and ministers realized the
value of the Sunday school and its acceptance with the people, there
would be needed no other machinery for building the country community.

The Sunday-school should be a close parallel to the day school. If the
day school in the community has any progressive features, the Sunday
school should use these and improve them. Between the two there should
exist the closest sympathy, not formal or definitely organized, but
actual and expressed in parallel lines of work. Where the day school is
graded, the Sunday school should accept the same grading, strongly
organizing all its classes. The pupils in the Sunday school should pass
by successive promotions from teacher to teacher and from grade to
grade.

If the day school in the country is unprogressive and is taught by a
succession of indifferent persons, the Sunday school should practise
under the guidance of religious leaders those principles of modern
pedagogy which should be used in the common schools. Graded lessons,
the organization of material and progressive development of religious
truth from the simpler to the more complex, should find their place in
every Sunday school. The opportunity for service to the whole community
thus offered through the Sunday school is excelled by none in the
country community.

The upper classes of the Sunday school should be organized. Young men
and women especially, who are in danger of finding the Sunday school
irksome because their intelligence has passed beyond its control, should
be organized in classes which on week days have a club or society
character. The Sunday school should use as an ally their tendency to
organization and should satisfy their social needs by giving them
regular and approved opportunities for meeting and for pleasure.

Another principle which the Sunday school can practise for the benefit
of the community is the centralization of religious teaching. Even if
the common schools are not centralized, the children for the Sunday
school should be brought to the church from outlying regions in hired
wagons every week. It is better that a large Sunday school be maintained
under efficient leadership than that a number of small schools with
indifferent teachers should be maintained in various school districts.
The larger body can have better leadership. It is more closely under the
super