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\10 METOKA AND GALEDA MAGAZINE [[image - black & white photograph of a few rows of 41 people, all adults, in suits (men) and long skirts (women). All are African-American. The ladies, not the men, wear hats. The 8 individuals in the back row stand behind iron railings on a sort of balcony in front of the entrance of a stone building; the front 5 rows sit and stand on the lower level. All the men's shoes visible are highly polished]] [[caption]] Let Your Class Look Like This One.[[/caption]] [[column 1]] Metoka-Galeda Department, Nashville, Tenn. Dear Friends: Please find a copy of our program inclosed in this letter which we are sending you. We ask that you will print same in Magazine. I am happy to say our work is doing fine and we are moving forward. We hope to be able to give you an elaborate report of our work for the next quarter. We are looking forward to read the report of the Congress in the Magazine. Hope sometime it will be possible to have Mr. Henry Allen Boyd with us. If you have them on hand, we would be glad to have a half dozen copies of the Metoka-Galeda Song, and oblige. Yours for the work, A. H. HINESMAN. Our program follows: An Educational and Literary Mass Meeting was given at the Bethesda [[/ column 1]] [[column 2]] Baptist Church, 456 York Street, Jersey City, N. J., Sunday, June 24, 1917, at 4 p. m., under the auspices of the Metoka and Galeda Classes of the Sunday school. Song...... ...... ... ....Audience Scripture... ... ... ... .. .. ..... Prayer... ... ... ... ... ... ..... Song... ...Monumental Junior Choir Introductory Remarks... ..Chairman Solo...... ... ...Mrs. Louise Smith Recitation... .....Miss Minnie James Paper...... ...... ....Mr. R. Miller Duet... ... .....Junior Galeda Class Recitation........Miss Sarah James Violin Solo...... ... ... ...... ... ......Mr. Brown of New York Recitation... .....Miss Esther Bates Selection.....Mrs. Davis, of Newark Song... ...Monumental Junior Choir Paper..... ......Mr. Harold Branch Solo....... .......Bro. Chas. Boush Solo...... ........Mrs. E. L. Brown Address.... .......Rev. W. S. Smith Instrumental Solo...... ... ........ [[end page]] [[start page]] 11 METOKA AND GALEDA MAGAZINE [[image - black & white photograph of several rows of adults, all African Americans in smart clothes (men in suits, women and some men in hats). The front row has hats, possibly straw hats, at their feet. Many of the men wear bow ties. Everyone appears to be wearing white tops and dark skirts/pants below. Most, if not all, have armbands that read GALEDA. At least one pennant reading METOKA can be seen. They are assembled in front of a brick entrance with a semi-open double door. A poster, or memorial plaque, can be seen (but not read) displayed beside the doorway]] [[caption]] When We Are Together. [[/caption]] [[column 1]] .....Mr. G. W. Clark, of New York Offertory.......Music by Junior Choir Closing Song...Metokas and Galedas Collection $3.16. [[/column 1]] [[column 2]] Metoka Class: Mr. Harold Branch, President, Dr. A. H. Hinesman, Teacher. Galeda Class: Miss Sarah James, President, Mrs. Mamie Middleton, Teacher. [[line]] ARTICLES IN REVIEW. [[line]] [[column 1]] THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT-I. "Brother J., the trouble with our Sunday school is that we need a new superintendent." This piece of information was vouchsafed to the writer not long since by anxious worker in the Sunday school. A very superficial observation of the school in question certainly revealed decided shortcomings in several places. Here are some of the defects noted as jotted down at the time in the writers notebook. 1. The School was fifteen minutes late beginning its session. 2. But two out of eight teachers were present at 9:30 a.m., the hour of opening. The superintendent himself was ten minutes late and two-thirds of the scholars were late. 3. When theopening [sic] song was announced there was such a din and buzz from conversation and other confusion that very few pupils heard the number of the hymn, and the noise had to be drowned out by the sound of the piano. 4. Only sixteen people joined in the responsive reading, when there should have been two hundred, and four joined with the leader in repeating the Lord's prayer. 5. The writer, judging from appearance, decided that only two teachers had studied the lesson, as the classes they taught listened close- [[/column 1]] [[column 2]] ly to its exposition. The other teachers talked at random about many things other than the lesson contained or suggested. The members of their classes looked around all over the house or whispered to each other while the lesson progressed. 6. At the conclusion of the lesson the confusion was so great that no one heard the number of the hymn announced. 7. When the session was over the pupils grabbed their hats, wraps, papers, etc., and rushed pell-mell, helter skelter, out of the building and down the street home, followed by three-fourths of the teachers, who thought that every religious obligation of the day and occasion as taught by the prayer book and Scriptures had been most fully met by their perfunctory performance as teachers and general hangers-on. (Note: The two teachers whose classes hung on every word they uttered remained for church.) 8. The two hundred and fifty song books used by the school were left as ugly litter over the pews, and the two portable blackboards were left right in the way for poor, crestfallen Brother Blank, the pastor, to wrestle with. Much costly literature also was left on the floor and seats. Like Smith's pigs, the crowd appeared to be "clean gone," until next Sunday's bell called their unwilling feet tardily back to the same exasperation again. [[/column 2]] [[end page]]
