This might lead to an achievement day when Sunday School pupils report on what they have learned during the year. Certainly it should mean a specific report on the work of the Sunday School as a whole. How many have been enlisted, how many have dropped out, how many have completed prescribed work, how many have made professions of faith, how many have identified themselves with the church as active members — does your Sunday School have the answers to such questions now? It could and should if it is to do an effective job. It is within the power of the Sunday School to strengthen the entire church by giving its members more adequate instruction. It can reduce or almost end the drop-out of those who now seem to feel that Sunday School is not worth the effort. It can attract and challenge out-siders who at present are uninterested in its program. It will reduce the church’s tragic loss of uninstructed Christians through the pull of cults, the snare of various temptations, through worldliness, or simple malnutrition. Next Sunday, no doubt, you’ll go to Sunday School. You’ll thank God, perhaps, for all it is and all it means to you who attend. You’ll enjoy the songs, the lesSon time, the fellowship. But along with this, perhaps you’ll have a new sense of the needs in your own Sunday School. And perhaps you’ll be increasingly uncomfortable about each one until your Sunday School is as good as you know in your heart it can be.
Schools such as those established by the National Sunday School Association. This is suggested not with any idea of coercing a local group to comply with standards others have established. Instead the thought is that the indi vidual church, if it wishes, may lay hold of these stand ards to measure the effectiveness of its own school and decide how it can be improved. By the same token, a limited number of standard, comprehensive examinations might be made available by some central agency for those who wish to test the progress of their Sunday School pupils in certain subjects. Such tests would be comparable to the Regents’ examina tions given in New York State except that they would be for voluntary use. Standard tests for qualifying teachers might also be of value. Some will feel that even occasional tests are out of place in the Sunday School. But why? We do not hesitate to make use of tests to qualify students for college en trance, for government service, for drivers’ licenses. Why should the Sunday School hesitate to put itself on the gold standard of achievement as well? Finally, the Sunday School should establish specific goals and standards for each teacher and department within the school. Before the year begins each worker should know exactly what he is to accomplish. At the close of the year a check should be made to see whether that goal was met.
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