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(1) The Sunday-school fully graded. (For complete statement on graded organization, see pp. 12, 13.)

(2) A Cradle Roll.

(3) A Home Department.

(4) A Teacher Training Department.

(5) Organized Adult Classes.

(6) A Sunday School Missionary Organization.

(7) A Sunday School Temperance Organization.

(8) Regular Meeting of the Sunday School Board.

3. Officers necessary to realize this ideal. We suggest as advisable, in order to realize this ideal of organization and all that it implies, to have at least the following officers: Superintendent; an Assistant Superintendent, who shall be Director of Graded Instruction; a second Assistant Superintendent, who shall be Director of Teacher Training; in large schools superintendents of various departments, as Superintendent of the Primary Department, Superintendent of the Junior Department, etc.; Superintendent of the Home Department; Superintendent of the Cradle Roll; Secretary; an Assistant Secretary, who shall be Secretary of Enrollment and Classification; Treasurer; Organist; Chorister; one or more Librarians; Ushers, and various committees, of which one should be the Quarterly Conference Committee on Sunday-schools required by the Discipline, and another a Committee on Sunday School Evangelism.

4. The relation of the pastor to the Sunday-school. Since the Sunday-school is integrally a part of the Church, the pastor is as truly pastor of the Sunday-school as of the Church itself. Methodist Episcopal Church polity recognizes this and makes the pastor the executive head of the Sunday-school, and clearly defines his prerogatives as such. This relation should be cordially recognized by officers and school, and every facility afforded the pastor to exercise a helpful and fruitful ministry in that department of the Church which offers him his largest spiritual opportunity.