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SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD 371
stituency to know that the Coleman books will be published by the Sunday
School Board and will continue to carry the name Robert H. Coleman for all
that it has meant and still means in the gospel music field.
"THE ROMANCE OF A CENTURY"
After much difficulty and delay, the film, "The Romance of a Century," o
American Baptist beginnings and showing the highlights of one hundred years
of Southern Baptist life, was completed and released September 1. Fifty 16millimeter
and two 35-millimeter prints were made and have been in almost
constant use all over our territory and in several foreign fields. When properly
shown, the film is very effective, and certainly it has achieved an outstanding
denominational service. It was sponsored and prepared by the Executive Committee
of the Southern Baptist Convention and produced by Filmcraft Productions
for the Sunday School Board. Our Board bore the expense and has fostered
its use. The rentals have not nearly paid for its production, but its contribution
has been most helpful.
PERIODICAL CIRCULATION
We have experienced an increase of 2,093,586 in total periodical circul
for 1945 over 1944 as indicated in the table given in this report. We are humbly
grateful for this growth. It reflects the increased enrolment, reported elsewhere
in the Sunday schools and Training Unions of our Southland. The total circulation
of all periodicals was 26,193,273 for 1945 as compared with 24,099,687
for 1944.
Study the figures! The Sunday school Adult Quarterly averages more than
one million copies per issue! The Beginner Bible Story gained 114,558 for the
year, and that is just for ages four and five in the Sunday School!
The Sunday School Builder's fine increase is due to a combination of three
other periodicals with the Builder, yet its total circulation is going to top the
total of all four.
The Training Union adult quarterly increased 114,871. The monthly Training
Union Magazine and every Training
SUNDAY
Union
SCHOOL
periodical also enjoyed a good
increase!
Uniform Series
The following table gives a clear record of increase in circulation.
Quarterlies 1943
The Better Home .'. 467,074
Adult Quarterly 3,654.922
On the Wing with the Word 506.906
Visitors Lesson Leaflet 212,169
Sunday School Young People's Quarterly....1,573,025
Intermediate Quarterly 1,909,398
Sunday School Intermediate Teacher 166,573
The Intermediate Counselor 64,550
Junior Quarterly 1,806,661
Junior Teacher 147,685
Primary Quarterly 817,495
Primary Teacher 72,304
Lesson Picture Roll 10,970
Beginner Bible Story 1,242,912
Beginner Teacher 105,497
Beginner Teaching Pictures .) * 17,068
Cradle Roll Home .+ 376,609
The Elementary Guide 57,605
Open Windows 495,059
On Duty for God and Country 779,989
Monthlies
The Teacher 1,136,153
Sunday School Builder 431,795
Sunday School Young People and Adults ..' 290,087
Weeklies
Upward 220,996
The Sentinel 297,170
Storytime 443,156
1944
499,818
3,768,684
606,886
300,173
1,509,635
1,999,397
165,868
43,840
1,788,341
141,633
859,895
75,030
13,881
1,285,415
110,634
19,059
399,129
45,016
568,696
1,001,620
1,166,567
571,106
207,329
232,001
328,888
556,611
1945
518,702
4,009,349
701,375
277,254
1,594,841
2,156,134
177,335
Discontinued
1,892,727
146,509
936,915
79,666
19,415
1,399,973
121,601
23,562
462,539
Discontinued
691,791
1,037,772
1,241,068
911,551
Discontinued
251,049
378,047
713,471
First
Quarter
1946
129,770
1,050,100
177,650
67,690
421,800
569,350
48,366
Discontinued
471,500
38,077
244,150
20,908
5,155
356,430
32,073
5,950
118.648
Discontinued
182,816
116,500
324,814
254,907
Discontinued
65,708
99,032
206,035