PLAN OF ORGANIZATION
The school is divided into three departments, Primary, Intermediate, and Senior. The Primary Department keeps the children until the New Year after they are eight years old; the Intermediate takes them through a ten years' course of study, and then the Senior Department receives them into the Bible classes.
The Primary Department, which meets in a room by itself and has its own order of exercises, is divided into as many classes with separate teachers as may be necessary for the proper care of its little folks, and all under the care of a superintendent of that department. The usual exercises of this department are of the general character customary in such grades.
In July the class which will graduate at the end of the year is formed and placed in the care of a certain teacher, whose special duty is to see that the class is prepared to graduate. The graduating exercises are public, and a neat diploma is presented to each scholar who thus graduates.
The Intermediate Department is divided into ten grades, each representing a year of study and each containing two classes, one of boys and one of girls, although there is no reason why boys and girls should not be together in the same class. There is no division of the Senior Department into grades. It contains only three classes, namely, the Young Men's Bible Class, the Young Ladies' Bible Class, and the General Class.
COURSES OF STUDY.
The principal work of the school is done along the lines of the International Lessons, which are used in all the departments, although the method of teaching them varies in the different grades.
In addition to the International Lessons Supplemental Lessons are taught in the Primary and Intermediate Departments. In the Primary Department these include the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, the Twenty-third Psalm, the Beatitudes, and the Apostles' Creed.
The following schedule will show at a glance what are the specific studies of each grade in the Intermediate Department:
| Age. | Grade. | International Lesson. | Supplemental Lesson.[B] |
| 9 | I | Learn and recite the memory verses. | First half of Catechism No. 1. |
| 10 | II | Same as Grade I. | Last half of Catechism No. I. |
| 11 | III | Learn memory verses and one thought. | Life of Jesus. |
| 12 | IV | Study persons (if any) and one thought. | Studies about the Bible. |
| 13 | V | Study places (if any) and two thoughts. | Bible Geography. |
| 14 | VI | Study manners and customs and two thoughts. | Bible History. |
| 15 | VII | Teachings of the lesson having special reference to manhood and womanhood. | History of Christian Church. |
| 16 | VIII | Same as Grade VII. | History of M. E. Church. |
| 17 | IX | Teachings of lesson bearing directly upon practical Church. | Doctrine and rules of the M. E. |
| 18 | X | Same as Grade IX. | Government of M. E. Church. |