Article June 17, 1950 Issue

Beauty and Cheerfulness Pervade Sunday School Rooms

Many churches are now improving their Sunday School rooms. Some are providing new buildings for the Sunday School; others are improving the space they now have. Because of the number of inquiries about the decorating and equipping of Sunday School rooms which come to the Sunday School Activities Division of The Mother Church, the following excerpts from letters sent us by branch churches are printed.

A brief description of the former Sunday School may be helpful in visualizing what has been accomplished. We had a large square room with dark covering on the floor, faded yellow walls, dark brown chairs, old-fashioned lighting fixtures, dark fumed-oak desks, and various types of card tables for the classes. The desks for Sunday School officers and committee workers were placed in a row along the back of the room. The platform was too high and was not advantageously placed. We agreed that we were ready for a progressive step, for the furniture was outmoded, the colors drab, and the whole arrangement was not representative of Christian Science.

As a first step the arrangement of the room was reversed. A new platform now appears where the desks had been and is covered with rust-colored carpeting. The superintendent's desk is finished in flat white to correspond with the wood-work. The walls are a soft pastel green, and on the wall behind the desk in gold lettering appear Isaiah's prophetic words (54:13), "All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children."

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