THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 32, Issue 7, 1 September 1941, Page 3

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Drastic Action Needed.

Tlie Bishop of Wellington is rightly troubled with the decrease m the number of both scholars and teachersin our Sunday Schools. Probably other dioceses are m much the same position. He says: "Ought not the best minds of the diocese to be exercised during the next year or two over this question of the children of our Church? I do not suggest that the Sunday School is the only, the ideal, method' of. teaching our children. The problem goes far deeper. It is concerned with the education of the nation as a whole. I should have liked to have dealt with this larger aspect of the question ija my address, but I haye 1 assured the Prime .Minister that' T shall not raise this issue while he is absent at the call of. national duty from the , Dominion. But whatever else may be said about it, there is no doubt that the training of the

children of our Anglican families is a question demanding' drastic action. The appointment of a youth" or a Sunday school t organiser could - only be an alleviating factor. We have, to face quite squarely and unafraid the challenge which, these figures present and the problem as to how the children -of to-day are going , to develop into a community of practising Anglican Christians. I am reminded of a question asked by a girl as, m company with her mother, she left a fashionable church m London, "Mummy, who is going to sit m those pews when the people of your age are all dead?" >