School for Christian Workers Announcements

Depicted is an announcement for the School of Christian Workers, now Springfield College, in Springfield, Massachusetts. The school was created with the object to train young men for the duties of the general secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA), gymnasium instructors, and superintendents of Sunday Schools and pastors helpers. The announcement gives an overview of the Sunday-School Department and of the general courses needed to become trained in one of the specialties mentioned above. It also discusses the demand for skilled laymen to become workers in these fields.The School for Christian Workers was incorporated on January 28, 1885 and it opened on September 8, 1885. The building, on the corner of State and Sherman in what is now known as Mason Square, cost $43,485.09. It contained sleeping accommodations for 44 students, recitation rooms, offices for the instructors, a large gymnasium, baths, and a complete suite of rooms for the Armory Hill Young Men's Chr