Q & A - Church Order
Questions 224 (COD Page 886)
Should the teacher for the adult class be someone other than the pastor?
64 If it’s so agreed. If the pastor wants to teach the Sunday school and then bring the message later, that’s fine and dandy if he wants to do the double service. But if he doesn’t, then have your adult Sunday school teacher, see, for your adult class. And then if–if the pastor has somebody else there in mind, and the person wants
to do it, give yourself thirty minutes, or whatever you’re going to allow your Sunday school for, thirty or thirty-five, forty minutes, whatever it is.
65 And there should be a bell set here. And when that bell is tapped, that means...or either the church bell, when it taps on the outside, that’s dismissing Sunday school. And when that bell rings, that mean everything come to order right there.
66 There be so much time then for a hymn or two, whatever you’re going to sing. Not too much time, you’ll wear the people out by keeping them too long, see. And just tap the bell, have a hymn and whatever you’re going to do, and then send your classes to the place. And immediately when that time comes, say it’s going to be at–at ten o’clock, or ten-thirty, or ten-fifteen, whatever it is, tap that bell and every teacher dismisses their class, come to the audience out here. And then...And give the report, Sunday school report, and then dismiss the whole thing, and let all that wants to stay for preaching service be next. See, then it’s in order. Question? How ma-...[Someone asks Brother Branham, “And then we have a split class, in other words?”–Ed.]
67 Oh, yes, you should have. A–a three-year-old can’t understand what a fourteen-year-old would understand. I think I got that a little farther.