Q & A - Church Order
Questions 225 (COD Page 886)
How many classes should there be?
68 You should put your classes in...Like a little bitty class that wants to have flannelgraph, that’s too much for a fourteen-year-old boy or girl. See? You should have someone to take a class for those little babies, some old mother or something who knows how to take care of them. Other classes, I think, should be somebody who’s more able to present the Word. See? And there should be classes. To say now, there’d be like a class of from...At least three classes.
69 There should be a little bitty baby class, there should be from about five years old. And all the others under that should be kept with the mother, and taken to the nursery if it’s necessary during the time of–of the preaching, if they go to carrying on. That’s what the nursery’s out there for.
70 And I think that the–the classes should be arranged from like the little babies about five or six years old, up to eight or nine, ten, something like that. And then from ten years old on to fifteen should be in the–the teenage class. And then the adult class over the fifteen, ’cause they...if they’re old enough to–to...nowadays they can get a job and they’re wanting to vote at that age, almost; so they–they should be able to hear the Word, but come out in the main auditorium and have that.