The Monitor Register

NEW JERSEY SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION

The Annual Convention to be Held in Atlantic City, November 15 to 17, 1910—The New General Secretary was Officially Installed on September 1st—The Annual Convention of the Salem County Sunday-School Association Will Be Held in the Woodstown M. E. Church, on Wednesday, October 26th

Louis H. Koehler, formerly of Hartford, Conn., assumed his duties as General Secretary of the New Jersey Sunday-school Association September 1st. A luncheon was given him at the Arkwright Club in New York by the President of the Association, Mr. George E. Hall. Others present were Edward W. Dunham, treasurer, Trenton; Edward W. Barnes, Chairman of the Finance Committee, Perth Amboy; Rev. Samuel D. Price, corresponding secretary, Camden, and Edward W. Cooper, a member of the Executive Committee of the Essex County Association, South Orange. During the dinner Mr. Hall, as president, handed Mr. Koehler a mammoth key as index of his office. Thus was the new General Secretary officially installed

MR. LOUIS H. KOEHLER GENERAL SECRETARY

Mr. Koehler takes up the work after having served the Fourth Congregational Church of Hartford for five years as the paid superintendent of their Sunday-school numbering over 1300.

The first work of the newly elected officer will be to get acquainted with the workers in the various county associations and he will have the opportunity for doing this in attending the twenty-one county conventions, the first of which is held September 5th and the last November 5th. After this he will meet the Sunday-school workers of the State when they gather for the annual convention at Atlantic City, November 15th to 17th.

MISS ALICE B. HAMLIN ELEMENTARY SUPERINTENDENT

The various county associations are now busily engaged in gathering the statistics from every school in their jurisdiction. Each Sunday-school in the State of New Jersey has been given a report by the township secretary to be filled in. Then the township secretary is a medium for receiving the annual contribution from each Sunday-school for the work of the county, State and Interstate Association.

The standard which has been used for years has been a request of three cents per member from every officer, teacher and scholar in each school. Any school which contributes at this rate is given an honor certificate when the county convention assembles. Last year thirty-two per cent. of the schools in the State received such recognition and the percentage will be still higher this year.

The money is used for all necessary expenses of the county association, then an amount which was pledged at the last State convention is given to the New Jersey Sunday-school Association and it in turn sends $750 a year to the International Association. The monies are used in the various organizations for maintaining and developing the organized Sunday-school work both locally and in larger fields.