TRAINING SCHOOL FOR LAY WORKERS.

The Select Committee on Training School for Lay Workers recommends the adoption of the
report of the Ad-Interim Committee, with the following amendment under the heading "Control :"
The Committee recommends that the last sentence of the first paragraph, which provides for a
charter, be changed to read that the Directors shall proceed at once to secure a charter, and to adopt a
constitution and by-laws for their own government, and that of the Training School, such charter,
constitution and by-laws to be subject to amendment by the next General Assembly.
We recommend the Rev. A. L. Phillips for appointment as Temporary Chairman of the Board.
Jno. E. McLean, Chairman.

Report of Special Committee on General Assembly's Training School for Lay Workers.
In accordance with the authority given it by the General Assembly of 1913, the Special
Committee on the Training School for Lay Workers met in Richmond, Virginia, February 5, 1914, for the
purpose of locating the school if a satisfactory proposal meeting the requirements of the Assembly
should be made.
The following resolutions were adopted :
1. That after full discussion and due publicity already given, the proposal submitted by Messrs.
Owsley Sanders, John S. Munce, Marshall M. Gilliam and W. S. Rhoads, on behalf of the Presbyterian
League and the Presbyterian Ministers' Association of Richmond, Va., and advocated by Rev. W. W.
Moore, D. D., and Rev. Russell Cecil, D. D., be accepted and the Training School for Lay Workers be
located at Richmond, Va., for a period of three years. The terms of said proposal are as follows:
(1) . "We offer a site comprising about two acres in Sherwood Park, one of the most beautiful
and highly improved sections of Suburban Richmond. This tract was valued at $10,000 by experienced
and disinterested appraisers sixteen years ago and has been increasing in value ever since.
(2) . "We engage to provide a suitable building, or buildings, with ample accommodations for
any number of students who may attend the school during the period which you specify.
(3) . "We engage to maintain the school for at least three years, providing a sufficient corps of
instructors, approved by your Committee or by the Board of Directors, to be appointed by the General
Assembly.
(4) . "We guarantee that the General Assembly shall Not be held financially responsible for any
part of the expense of the site or of the building or buildings erected thereon within these three years,
or of the maintenance of the school during these three years.
2. That the Richmond proposal be accepted, subject to the following action

taken by the Assembly's Committee on Training School, Montreat, N. C, August S, 1913 :
Control.
The General Assembly shall appoint the Directors, and approve the Faculty and the curriculum
and the general management of the Training School, con cerning which an annual printed report shall be
submitted. The management shall be committed to a Board of Directors of twelve (12) persons which
shall include two representatives to be elected by each of the Assembly's Executive Committees. The
Directors shall submit to the Assembly next following its election, a charter, constitution and by-laws for
their own government and that of the Training School.
The General Assembly's Executive Committee of Publication formally tendered to the Richmond
Committee the free use of one story in its new publishing house now in the course of erection for class
rooms and administrative offices until a permanent building can be erected. This offer was accepted by
the Richmond Committee, and included in their proposal.
A temporary dormitory will be provided by renting a residence nearby. A building already
equipped for community and institutional work for use as gymnasium, with shower baths already
installed, has been offered for payment of taxes and insurance on the building.
The Richmond Committee has guaranteed a support fund of $5,000.00 a year for three years.
3. That the following tentative curriculum in outline be approved for the guidance of the
Directors in the organization of the school:
(1) . English Bible: Its origin, preservation, literary structure and forms, books, geography, Old
Testament history, New Testament history, doctrines, use in winning souls.
(2) . Church History: Apostolic, Medieval, Reformation, Modem History of Presbyterianism.
(3) . Presbyterian Standards: Confession of Faith, Catechisms, Form of Government, Rules of
Discipline, Directory of Worship.
(4) . The Pupil: Early childhood, childhood, adolescence, maturity. The pupil at home, the pupil
and the church, the pupil at school.
(5) . Organic Work: 1. Home Missions The field in detail, house-to- house visitation,
ministering to the sick, mothers' meetings, play, music, evangelistic work. 2. Foreign Missions The
field in detail; the non-Christian religions; educational work, academic and industrial; hospitals and
dispensaries; evangelistic work, local and itinerant; training of native leaders. Special arrangements
should be made with approved established medical colleges and hospitals for training physicians and
nurses.
(6) . Christian Education and Ministerial Relief: History; present organization; methods of work;
results; needs; prospects. Sabbath School Extension and Publication : History ; organization ; methods;
needs; prospects; results.
(7) . Available Agencies, such as: (1) The day mission school, its organization, equipment
curriculum, management, support; (2) The Sunday School, its history, control, organization, equipment,
instruction, worship, methods of work, The Daily Vacation Bible School; (3) The Young Peoples' Society,
its history, control, equipment, organization, methods of work; (4) The Missionary Society for children
and adults; control, organization, management, detailed methods of work; (5) The City Mission: (a)
Hospital and Dispensary, control, support, equipment, detailed methods, personal work; (b) The Day
Nursery: control, support, equipment, methods, results; (c) Evangelism: chapel preaching, street
preaching, personal work; (d) Entertainments: indoor and outdoor games and plays.
(8) . The Country Church: Rural conditions, difficulties, encouragements, tested methods of
work.
(9) . Music and the Art of Reading and Speaking.
(10) . Personal Service: Accompanying their studies, all pupils should be required to engage
regularly, under supervision, in various forms of Christian service, and special emphasis should be given
to the work of winning souls.
(12). Correspondence and Extension Courses: All courses of study, as far as practicable, should
be made available by correspondence.
4. That the school be opened for the work not later than November 4th, 1914.
5. That the following be appointed Directors for three years, with instructions to appoint four
others :
Representing the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions Rev. J. I. Vance, D. D., Rev. E. W.
Smith, D. D.
Representing the Executive Committee of Home Missions Rev. Homer McMillan, D. D., Mr.
John J. Eagan.
Representing the Executive Committee of Christian Education and Ministerial Relief Rev. H. H.
Sweets, D. D., Rev. J. S. Lyons, D. D.
Representing the Executive Committee of Publication Rev. R. E. Magill, Rev. A. L. Phillips, D. D.
..be appointed Temporary Chairman of the Board.
By order of Committee.
A. L. Phillips, Chairman.