CHAUTAUQUA SCHOOL OF CHURCH WORK.
Rev. Geo. P. Hays, D.D., Director, Box 2529, Denver, Colorado.
This school is designed to do whatever may be found practicable in training Christians for official position in their churches, and for personal effort for the conversion of their acquaintances and friends. With this in view, it is divided into two departments, and will during the summer session of 1885 hold two sessions per day.
Official Duty.—This department will hold a morning session. Here the theory of all official authority and influence, and the best methods of meeting the same, will be studied in their scriptural statements, their abstract application in the rules of business and of the church, and their concrete illustrations in the lives of successful officers in the church and the world.
Personal Effort.—This department will hold an afternoon session, at which the Scriptural obligation to work as individuals will be carefully considered, and, afterward, the best methods of dealing with our friends as to their objections, their fears, and their indifference. In both departments an effort will be made duly to appreciate personal peculiarities, and yet for all make the experience of others as useful as possible.
The stationery adopted for the classes of ’87 and ’88 is out, and very pretty it is, too. Mr. Henry Hart, of Atlanta, Ga., manufactures and sells the paper for these classes. The satisfaction which his badges have given is the best recommendation for his stationery. Readers of the C. L. S. C. who may wish to secure either badges or paper will reach Mr. Hart by addressing Atlanta, Ga.
Alma Mater, No. 3, which has just been sent to all members of the C. L. S. C., is the first number for the current year 1884-5. Four numbers will be sent during the year, but on account of some necessary changes, the various “lessons” in every-day speech, self-discipline, etc., will not appear in the order first announced. The readings in each of the four numbers will be required, but not in connection with the work of any one month.
Members of the class of ’88 should send items of particular interest to the class to the Rev. C. C. McLean, Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. McLean has been chosen to prepare class matter for The Chautauquan. Do not let him lack for news. Those items which interest you as a “Plymouth Rock” will interest your classmates.