The Sunday school chapter of Church history is now being written. Itcomes late in the volume, but those who are writing it and those who arereading it realize—as never before—that the Sunday school is rapidlycoming to its rightful place. In the Sunday school, as elsewhere, it isthe little child who has led the way to improvement. The commandingappeal of the little ones opened the door of advance, and, as a result,the Elementary Division of the school has outstripped the rest in itsefficiency.
Where children go adults will follow, and so we discover that the AdultDivision was the next to receive attention, until today its manlystrength and power are the admiration of the Church.
Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that the middledivision, called the Secondary,and covering the "Teen Age," has beensadly neglected—the joint in the harness of our Sunday school fabric.Here we have met with many a signal defeat, for the doors of our Sundayschools have seemed to swing outward and the boys and girls have gonefrom us, many of them never to return. We have busied ourselves to suchan extent in studying the problem of the boy and the girl that the realproblem—the problem of leadership—has been overlooked.
The Secondary Division is the challenge of the Sunday school and of theChurch today. It is during the "Teen Age" that more decisions are madefor Christ and against him than in any other period of life. It ishere that Sunday school workers have found their greatest difficulty inmeeting the issue, largely because they have not understood the materialwith which they have to deal.
We are rejoiced, however, to know that the Secondary Division is nowcoming to be b