Miss Susie E. Ramsey. Mrs. Ethel Wright Loveland. Miss Jean E. Jamieson. ELEMENTARY DEPARTMENT. Ten Points of Interest. 1. There are sixty-seven Elementary Superintendents in the various Associations working with the International Elementary Superintendent. 2. The International Elementary Superintendent has worked in-fortyfour different states and provinces during the triennium. 3. With very few exceptions the State and Provincial Elementary Superintendents are graduates of a teacher-training course. 4. Cradle Rolls have increased 54 per cent, with a present membership of 687,627. 5. The three largest known Cradle Rolls are in the Christian Church, Portsmouth, Ohio, 825 members; the Methodist Episcopal Church, Brazil, Indiana, 818 members, and St. Paul's Church of England, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 730. 6. Seventeen Publishing Houses report 20,889 Sunday Schools have introduced the International Graded Lesson into the Elementary Grades, about 12 per cent. 7. There are one hundred and seventy-nine active Graded Unions with a membership of 7,239. 8. The first Graded Union for men was organized in March, 1911, in Birmingham, Alabama, and has a membership of eighty-seven. 9. Seventy-three Graded Unions have continued meetings longer than five years. Newark, New Jersey, is the oldest, organized forty-one years ago. 10. Fifty-one have a membership of fifty or more. The three largest are Los Angeles, California, 316 members; Birmingham, Alabama, 301 members, and Chicago, Illinois, 205 members; the latter are memberships of $1.00 each. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR DEPARTMENTS. Organization of an Advanced Division has been effected in thirtynine states and provinces. Thirty-seven have appointed Superintendents, one employed for full time, nine for part time, and twenty-seven render voluntary service. Twenty states and provinces, reporting, have counties organized. Ne braska leads with ninety, or every county organized and having a super ntendent. Inland Empire, comprising eastern Washington and northern Idaho, has fifteen of the seventeen counties, and Colorado, Minnesota and Kentucky more than one-half. For the assistance of Superintendents, leaflet No. 1, "Organization of Associations," was prepared.. This gives suggestions for work in state or province, county, district, etc. Leaflet No. 2, dealing with “Organization in the Local School," is intended to help in organizing departments and classes in this division. Classes organized according to standard may receive International certificate. More than 740 certificates have already been issued. The Advanced Division button, royal blue and white, is being largely used. More than 18,500 have been sent out from our office alone since March 26, 1910. With the organization of departments and classes, giving better teachng conditions, the teaching has been much improved. One of the greatest advance steps taken has been the introduction of the International Graded Lessons. Reports indicate that the first year of the Intermediate course has been very generally adopted and has proven interesting and valuable. Not only has there been a search for better teaching material, but greater interest has been shown in principles of teaching. Teachers are studying the pupils of this age as never before. Four books for Advanced Division Specialized have been approved by the Committee on Education. Many of the Graded Sunday School Teachers' Unions have introduced an Intermediate section, giving special help to teachers of this age. These departments have had no regularly employed International Superintendent. However, the work at conventions has not suffered for the state and provincial associations have, without exception, provided for its presentation on all annual convention programs. This work has been publicly presented more than three hundred times within the last triennium by the different members of the committee. ADULT DEPARTMENT. STANDARD OF ORGANIZATION. 1. The class shall have at least the following officers: A Teacher, a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. It shall also have at least four standing committees, as follows: Membership, Social, Devotional and Missionary. It is not required that these committees be known by these particular names, but that the class have four committees which are responsible for these four kinds of work. 2. The class shall be definitely connected with some Sunday School. 3. Age 20 years and upwards. (Where in the judgment of any local school conditions make it necessary pupils under 20 may be included.) STANDARD OF SERVICE. 1. Increase the membership by fifty percent. by January 1, 1912, or secure an equivalent increase through the organization of other classes. This is to be interpreted as an annual increase after 1912. 5. Other definite Christian work in the community. 6. Representation in Teacher Training, Study Class or Reading Course, with a view to larger service. ADULT BIBLE CLASS READING COURSE as adopted by the Sunday School Council of the Evangelical Denomina tion. "The Romance of the English Bible"-John T. Faris. "The Church's One Foundation"-W. Robertson Nicoll. "Aliens or Americans?"-Howard B. Grose. "Taking Men Alive"-Charles Gallaudet Trumbull. "The Efficient Layman"-Henry F. Cope. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The Department of Education reports an enrollment of 136,270 stu dents through the State and Provincial Associations, and more than 50,000 additional are reported who enrolled directly with the Denominational Boards; so the total number enrolled as students in the Teacher Training Courses for the triennium is above 200,000, or one in eight of the officers and teachers in America. The number of International diplomas issued through the State and Provincial Associations is: 28,014 First Standard and 709 Advanced Standard. These figures show an enrollment for this triennium double that reported at Louisville, and the number of graduates is nearly three times as many. The effect of the past has been to enroll the teachers now at work in the Sunday School, and the greater number of students have taken the First Standard Course. This course, elementary, but comprehensive, has proven valuable for information and for awakening desire for higher standards of efficiency. The significant features of the triennium are: Emphasis upon the class of students in the school, meeting at the Sunday School hour. This answers the Teacher Training problem of tomorrow. The Advanced Teacher Training Institute in towns and cities. This answers the problem of teachers of teachers. The special courses for training religious workers in denominational colleges. This gives promise of skilled leadership. An increase in the number of chairs of religious pedagogy in theological seminaries. This insures a teaching ministry. The text-books of a more scholarly character, and those adapted to specialization. The introduction of the Teacher Training work into the mission fields. INCREASE IN HUMBER OF ENROLLED TEACHER TRAINING STUDENTS 1902 1 Teacher Training Student to every 111 Teachers and Officers 1905 1 Teacher Training Student to every 64 Teachers and Officers 1908.•••• .... 1921 1 Teacher Training Student to every 20 Teachers and Officers 1 Teacher Training Student to every 12 Teachers and Officers During the larger part of the past triennium the work of the Missionary Department was cared for by the devoted labors of the members of the Missionary Committee, of which Mr. George G. Wallace, Omaha, Nebraska, is the Chairman. On February 1, 1910, Rev. William A. Brown became the Missionary Superintendent of the International Sunday School Association. Mr. Brown came to us from the office of Western Field Secretary of the Young People's Missionary Movement, now the Missionary Education Movement, a coöperative organization of all the Home and Foreign Mission Boards of the United States and |