REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION—CONCERNING CHURCH SCHOOLS

The Committee on Education would respectfully submit to the General Conference the following suggestions concerning church schools.GCB April 12, 1901, page 207.26

1. That we urge upon our people the importance of establishing church schools.GCB April 12, 1901, page 207.27

2. That we recommend our Conference laborers not to consider their work for churches complete until church schools are organized wherever consistent.GCB April 12, 1901, page 207.28

3. That we recommend the appointment of church-school superintendents in Union or State Conferences, who shall co-operate with their respective Conference Committees and training schools in the establishment of church schools, such superintendents to be appointed by Conference Committees in consultation with the ones in charge of said training schools.GCB April 12, 1901, page 207.29

4. That we recommend that in the appointment of school boards persons be chosen who can efficiently represent the various lines of work taught in those schools.GCB April 12, 1901, page 207.30

5. We recommend that our schools show their appreciation of the gift of the book, “Christ’s Object Lessons,” by encouraging their teachers and students to devote their summer vacations to the sale of the book.GCB April 12, 1901, page 207.31

C. C. LEWIS, Chairman.
C. W. IRWIN, Secretary.

A. O. Wilson: We have been exhorted a great deal about taking our children from the public schools, and that they ought to be taught under Christian influences; but there has been no provision in the past for our children to be taken from the public schools. Now, when we say our children, it means all of them, but there is no provision yet for those who can not see to study the text-books already provided. Can we not arrange in some way so that those who can not see, and who are obliged at present to attend the State schools for the blind, can get a Christian education?GCB April 12, 1901, page 207.32

W. C. White: I would like to say that we have several subcommittees with such a large amount of business on hand that they have not more than been able to begin their work. I think it would be of great value to these committees to have the balance of the afternoon, and I therefore move that we do now adjourn.GCB April 12, 1901, page 208.1

The motion prevailed.GCB April 12, 1901, page 208.2

Elder G. A. Irwin pronounced the benediction.GCB April 12, 1901, page 208.3

A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman.
L. A. HOOPES, Secretary.