Excerpt from The Teens and the Rural Sunday School: Being the Second Volume of the Report of the Commission on Adolescence Authorized by the San Francisco Convention of the International Sunday School Association; A Study of the Adolescent in Relation to the Rural Community Under 2500 Population and in The In September, nineteen hundred and eleven, the Commission on the Adolescent was organized in Chicago, with E. H. Nichols and Frank L. Brown as Chairman and Secretary. This Commission had been authorized by the International Convention, the source of authority of the International Sunday School Association, in the preceding June at San Francisco. The Commission divided itself into Six parts for careful study: The Individual, The Home, The Church, The Sunday School, The Community, and The Country Sunday School. The first five reported in the spring of 1913, and the report was published under the title, The Sunday School and the Teens. The report of the Sixth sub-commis sion comprises the present volume, it being deemed best to keep the city and rural problems apart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.