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8        METOKA AND GALEDA MAGAZINE.

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all the enthusiasm of a new undertaking and along with it the unsystematized way of attacking the work. From year to year the work has grown in number present, in enthusiasm and method of procedure until now we have not the shapeless mass with which we started but a well regulated body of young people striving for perfection.

The Metokas were in company with the Galedas in department work, hence one can't be spoken of without including the other. I can only point out some milestones of progress and here I wish to say that milestones can only be spoken of as they relate to progress, because the fellow, organization, or cause that makes no progress has nothing to do with milestones. The Metokas find milestones of depth as the organization reaches down into the minds and hearts of young men. They find milestones of breadth as it increases the vision of young men and causes them to lift their eyes unto the hills. They find milestones of height as the spirit of conquest seizes their every faculty and they sing as they triumphantly march, "Take the world for Jesus."

The number of Metokas present this year surpassed any previous meeting. While many who had been with us in the past years had advanced to the place of Superintendent, there were others to take their places. We felt that out of the great number enrolled we would not need for representatives in all states where Metokas needed to be presented to all forward looking S. S., and where possible City or State organizations formed. Let our slogan be this year "More City and State Organizations."

The Bible lesson and expert lectures were made special features of the Metoka and Galeda department this year. We attempted to show both in Bible study and in lectures that the word of God bears a vital relation to the organized class. While other organizations for young men cease to attract after passing that special period, by the constant association with God and his word the Metoka Class becomes so much a part of the young
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man until he says "For me to live is Christ." The organization holds by the Christian vigor that it instills into young men.

The organization and business meetings of classes were simplified by special demonstration. There was stress put upon the necessity of selecting officers well suited to the places they were to fill. Not take a good Secretary and ake him President because he acted well as Secretary. Likewise let the good financier remain as Treasurer and reward his merit in some way without promoting him to another office. Let the Committee be elastic enough to make place for every person becoming a member of the class. The systematic distribution of work should be the end sought in all organized classes. This is done for the individual benefit as well as to keep up class spirit and interest. On Thursday night the Metokas and Galedas rendered an ideal public program to an appreciative audience. This we know will encourage many young people to go home determined to entertain their Churches and communities with similar programs rendered by their best local talent.

It has been my practice to speak in general terms of the Metokas at the Congress but when we have such loyal support as many have given for years since it has been my pleasure to direct the work the temptation to point out those who trun aside year after year from busy walks of life and labor side by side with us is great indeed. All who read these lines may not know but loyal Metokas who met me at Nashville, Vicksburg, Beaumont and possibly Muskogee know it is of you whom I speak.

Now for a long pull, a strong pull; all together for Metokas in great numbers more perfect organization, and more loyal service to Christ in this the 13th Congressional year. We asked for a thousand or more Metokas and Galedas at Nashville, while we did not have a thousand visitors a thousand or more joined us in the parade on Sunday afternoon. This time we wish more classes organized and more Metokas at the Congress. Will you be there? R. M. Reddick Director Metokas.
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The future outlook for the Metoka and Galeda Classes is very bright. Many new classes 
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are being organized and the young people are rallying to every call of the organized work.
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Many encouraging reports come from those who attend the recent session of the Sunday School Congress held in Nashville, Tennessee. The influence of this great body is being widely felt, and the time is not far distant when there will not be a Sunday school in the denomination that shall not send a representative to gather some of the good things given out by Bible class and Sunday school experts in this great religious gathering.

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[[image - drawing of a rectangle with globe and script: "Where on Earth" were you last Sunday? We sure missed you. (over ]]

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The Galeda Class of the Mt. Olive Church, Nashville, has been forced to give up its president, Mrs. Edith Smith, who leaves the city to reside in Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. Smith was president for two years and the class did much work under her administration. The class presented her with a handsome token as an appreciation of her service. While any organization regrets to give up its leaders, the Metoka-Galeda organizations bear the distinction of taking in to give out. It brings young men and women in as recruits in religious work, trains them for pastors, deacons, Missionary and Christian leaders, and then sends them out to "take the world for Christ." We hope Mrs. Smith will take along the Magazine with her and carry also the Galeda spirit in a way that it shall be compelled to burst forth in the western city, sending its fragrance into many a heart.

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The First Baptist Church, East Nashville, Tennessee, had its annual picnic at Hadley Park, July the 2nd. A number of Metokas and Galedas were on the Committee or Arrangements. Superintendent Fite had his Cadets out in uniform, Mr. Shelby his Ladies' Drill Corps, and the children, many in number, frolicked and enjoyed in merry-making upon the green, while a more enthusiastic 
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social set, indulged in baseball, tennis, swinging and strolling, unmindful of the older set who sat looking on and losing themselves in pleasant reminiscences.

Camptain Shelby of the Drill Corps, and W. S. Ellington, Jr., Captain of the Boy Cadets vied with each other in military tactics, each exhibiting master-work in handling their forces. Both seemed to still be in the spirit of the Congress. The day was spent in healthful and pleasant recreation and the day spent at Hadley Park by the Sunday school forces was a day of joyful remembrance.

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We note with interest the recognition given Mrs. Hilda Hinton, and Mrs. G. W. Alexander, two prominent Galedas of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the recent Progressive Baptist Convention held at Shelby, Mississippi. Mrs. Hinton served as organist and Mrs. Alexander as director of the chorus. The Metoka-Galeda life is a life of service, and the Magazine is glad to announce through its columns any act of Christian service performed by its members.

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We are also mindful of the work Mrs. Mabel D. Webb is doing for the organization in Florida. Mrs. Webb has the work at heart, and often sends very encouraging news to the July Number of the Magazine. Mrs. Webb is also beginning to put the Magazine into the hands of the young people of Florida, and we hope the Baptists of the "State of Flowers" will encourage her by providing themselves with this religious Journal and at the same time help the department in getting this, their mouthpiece, into the hands of the people everywhere. The Metoka-Galeda Bible Class Magazine is the only Negro Bible Class Magazine published in the world and you owe it to yourselves as well as to the denomination to increase its circulation. Mrs. Webb will visit the conventions of her state, please see her and look the Magazine over; let the department have your subscription.

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We are producing a letter from the Bethesda classes at Jersey City, N. J., as follows:
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