A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT.
Nothing is more welcome in these days than new ideas for use in Sunday-schools. What to do with the Concert, has been a question which has perplexed teachers and superintendents year after year, as the months come, one after another, in rapid succession. The verses containing “faith” and “hope” and “heaven” must be nearly all learned now in some quarters, and the new suggestion is, try a Missionary Concert, or, if you please, an American Missionary Concert.
But, how shall it be done? The answer is at hand. The pattern, even, can be sent, like Demorest’s or Butterick’s, in paper and by mail. We have one in our hands, about six inches by eight, four pages. It consists of a series of questions and answers (prepared originally by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville, Mass.) upon the nature and the work of the A. M. A., and we are almost surprised to find so much valuable and exact information compacted in this form, and in so taking and interesting a shape. Coupled with this is a small sheet collection of eight or ten Jubilee Songs, to be sung at intervals during the Catechetical Exercise. We hear that this exercise has been used with great interest and success in several Sunday-schools at and near Boston; and we commend, most cordially, the thought and plan to the consideration and use of Superintendents and Presidents of Missionary Societies. The twenty-sixth article in the programme is a collection, and a legend instructing generous youth how to address their gifts to us. A new edition is in preparation, or in press. The questions and songs may be obtained in quantity, on application to District Secretary Woodworth, at the Congregational House, Boston.
District Secretary Powell has issued recently, from Chicago, an appeal to the Sunday-schools in behalf of the “Colored Student’s Aid Fund.” He says: “It is estimated that we are reaching (by student and graduate teachers) not less than a hundred thousand children in the South. But there are two millions of them to be reached.” He urges every Sunday-school to help in this good work. To know, is the first step toward supplying the want.