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Identifier: sundayschoolbuil00evan (find matches)
Title: The Sunday-school building and its equipment
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Francis
Subjects: Sunday school buildings
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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door which leads to a safe iron fire escape.The room is lighted by eight Gothic windows. The wood-work is a soft brown-toned oak, the walls painted in flatcolor to harmonize with the panelings. A good yellow-brown carpet covers the floor; simple net curtains softenthe light which comes through the many diamond panes ofclear glass. The room is furnished with 120 speciallydesigned little Gothic chairs in the same soft brown color. A unique feature of this room is the generoususe of the best art in its decoration. A beautifulfireplace is centrally located. On the wainscotingof three sides of the room are installed forty-fourbrown carbon prints of the life of Jesus. Openingfrom this room are enough classrooms to alloweach grade to withdraw to its own room, leavingthe larger room for the Beginners circle. JUNIOR DEPARTMENT Some of the most important work in the Sundayschool is done during the four years of this depart-ment. More study may be expected and more 30 The Sunday-School Building
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Shcpley, Rutcn ^ Coolidge, Architects, Boston, Mass. Fig. 6.—Plymouth Church, Minneapolis, Minn. Junior Room Needs of Departments 31 information is absorbed by the pupils duringthis period than in any other to which theSunday school ministers. A separate depart-mental room is absolutely essential in whichworship can be conducted without disturbingother departments or being disturbed by them.The same suggestions made earlier concerningcloakrooms may be used in this case to insuresoundproof partitions. The room should be capable of division into fourseparate grade rooms by removable partitions.Experts vary as to the separation of the sexes forclass work in this department. The writer regardsthe separation of boys and girls as desirable at thisage. In such case the provision of four additionalclassrooms opening from this departmental roomwould be ideal. Where the divisions are made asfirst suggested, screens may separate the classesin the same room. These classes will be seated attable

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