(1) _Departments._ The graded Sunday school is organized in certain distinct groups, of which the most important, for our present purpose, are the Primary, Junior, Intermediate, and Senior Departments. To these will be added the Beginners and Adult Departments when the subject comes up for a complete treatment. Each of these departments should have, if possible, a separate room; but if these rooms cannot be provided in the building, the pupils should be seated by departments in the different parts of the one room. Perhaps it may be assumed that there is a separate room for the Primary Department; then let those who have most recently come from the Primary be seated on the right block of seats; the Youths or Intermediate in the middle; and the Senior classes on the left block, or vice versa. The younger classes of the department should have the front seats, the older those in the rear, in regular gradation. The school may be arranged in the order shown in this diagram: +---------------------------------------------+ |+-----------+ +------------+ +------------+| || OLDER | |FOURTH YEAR | |FOURTH YEAR || |+-----------+ +------------+ +------------+| | | |+-----------+ +------------+ +------------+| || OLDER | | THIRD YEAR | | THIRD YEAR || |+-----------+ +------------+ +------------+| | | ||YOUNG WOMEN| |SECOND YEAR | |SECOND YEAR || +-----------+ +------------+ +------------+| | | |+-----------+ +------------+ +------------+| || YOUNG MEN | | FIRST YEAR | | FIRST YEAR || |+-----------+ +------------+ +------------+| | SENIORS INTERMEDIATES JUNIORS | | | | +-----------------------+ | | | PLATFORM | | +---------+-----------------------+-----------+ (2) _Classes._ The number of classes should be fixed for each department, and their relationship established, so that when a group of scholars is promoted to a higher grade in the same department, or in the next department, they do not enter as classes, but as individuals; not to form new classes in the department, but to be placed in classes already formed. This plan will keep the classes in the Senior Department always full, and avoid the unfortunate skeleton classes of the ungraded school. It will also impress upon the pupils the importance of faithful work.