Excerpt from How to Run a Little Sunday School

The worker in the little neighborhood Sunday school, ambitious, earnest, perplexed with many difficulties, ought to have a book on Sunday-school method all his own. In point of fact he needs a whole literature. It was necessary that modern methods in general and grading in particular should be worked out first with reference to conditions in the large and well-appointed Sunday schools. This having been done, the time is ripe for an independent literature of the little Sunday school, in which its principles of operation, its strategic factors and its most effective modes of work shall be studied directly, and not merely by parenthetical chapters and paragraphs. To such a literature this book is a modest and at present a rather lonesome contribution.

The size of the little school interest in America is worth considering. In the great states of the plains and in part of the South the Sunday school of fifty members is the prevailing type. The International Sunday-School Association"s statistics seem to indicate that half the Sunday-school population of the United States is enrolled in Sunday schools of sixty-five members or less. Even in populous New Jersey, with the highest average membership of any state, the schools of fifty or fewer enroll five per cent. of the total Sunday-school membership. For Canada the proportion is even more impressive.

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