Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-05-08

By order of the Postmaster General.
~apr29.4Ss f. COWLE5, P. NJ.
CuynhoEn County sunday school Union.
The annual meeting of the CuayhOga
County Sunday School Union was held yes
terday in the basement ofthe ID Presbyterian
Church. President 7. P. Handy presided.
The forenoon was devoted to hearing the Ie-
ports Of Su~porintendants, the election of
officers &c. The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year:
Prcsidemt-T. P. Handy.
Corresponding Seeretaries-S. F~oljambe and
LOREN Prentiss.
Recording SecretHrg-Jay Odell.
Treasurer-J. B. Parish.
Central ComniHee-Samue Foljambe, Loren
P~rentiss, Jay OdelI, C. J..Comstock, James
M Hoyt, 7. Dwight Eells, l.. NJ. Pitkin, G.
W.. Whitney.
In the afternoon an interesting address
was delivered by Rev. Mr.. Bignall, of tbs st.
Clair street NJ. E. Church. His subject was
the relation Of the Pastor to the Sabbath
Schools. The requirements Of that relation
are fixed by the command of our Savior
When be asks Peter, at the sea of Tiberus,
" Lowest thou me more than these ?" and
Peter replies "Yea Lord" He says, "then
feed my lambs" In the early history of
the church the obligation to give religious
instruction to the children was imperative.
Moses TAUGHT it in the old testament, and in
the new the Savior continually impressed it,
st. Paul exborted that the children should be
brought up in the nurture and admonition of
the Lord. The speaker alluded to the differ
ence which exists between the pastors of
some foreign nations aud our own on tho
subject of attending to the details of religious
education among the children. We are be-
hind in that particular. Girard made a grave
mistake when he proposed in educating the
young, to allow them to choose without bias
What religion they would embrace, when they
sbould reach maturity and not before. The
child will choose something. If left to him
self on religious matters he will fall into Prae-
tees that will either elevate or degrade him.
Nj. Bignan considered the Sunday School
to be a great religious educator. 1t educates
the heart and refnes the feelings, while it
sducatss the head. The Sunday School is
the product Of q divine mind. It gathers
together 1000, 600 of children who are
taught religious instruction by 100000 Of
teachers. How simple was It's origin, Robert
Riggs, in passing through a labOring district
in Gloucester, England, conceived the idea
t Of getting the little children whom he met,
together for the purpose of teaching them
such truths Of religion as they might com
, prehsnd. That was the origin of the Sun
day School, and having an origin so simple it
= must have had divine aid to achieve its pres
emit success. This occurred after the great
Wesleyan revival in England, and it would
seem that God raised up the Sunday School
as a nursery Of the Church. The acorn
L planted by Riggs has grown to be a massive
oak, beneath whose wide expanding branch
es the children Of the families of the earth
. may be seated.
The Sabbath Schools are the only means to-
: day by which thousands of children receive
religious education. He spoke of the inhu-
enes which has sprung from the Sabbath
d Schools. ChiIdrsn-Sunday School scholars
are Frequently the means by which theii
parents are converted, bringing them straigh
to God. He spoke of the potent inAuenc,
which early education exercises over thu
mind Of the child. 1t is through the Sun
day School that We must hope to rePlenisl
the Church.
At the conclusion of Mr.. BignalTs remark
the President, Mr.. Handy, introduced tn
y following topics for discussion, I've minute
s. only being allowed to each speaker:
=4st. The bsst I'D eo- saau-iDs sona On
E. regular teachers for the Sunday Schools
=. Remarks were made by several presen.
ts Mr.. Smith, a teacher of several years expo
he rience, considered that the will to sucees
coupled with industry, were necessary quail
feations in a teacher. He must study Il
It. qualities Of his scholars and adapt himself
y, them.
en- Mt. Parish spoke of the necessity Of keel
IA ing children in the Sunday School for a
NO time, in order to ft them for teaching. II
Sunday School he considered to be the be
school for the Sunday School teache
Young people given to the fashions and fri
ID. oIities Of life, dancing &C., he did not co
all slider fit for religious teachers. We never Ct
expect to have efficient teachers until the
u things are diseountenaDesd.
- %. Importance Of establishing and keG
- ing M classes Of youths and adults, and
I. best mode Of promoting them.
Mr.. Prentisz spoke of the influence
- teachers upon their classes. Show me, 81
he, a good teacher and I viii show you
= good class.
is Mr.. Hoyt was in favor of having child
and adults togstherin Sunday School.
Another gentleman spoke of the course
preparation necessary in order to make an
= fcient teacher, and recommended the forI
Nd ten of a special class in which child
ale should be taught with special refsTSns'
e their becoming teachers.
I'd Mr.. Ingorsou spoke Of the influence vi
parents can and ought to eIert upon t
children to get them to go to Sunday Sch
" Pastors and superintendants may do II
= but parents can do more.
ND Reverend Mr.. Prosser spVksOn thu dut
n. pastors to make the personals cquain tame
md Sunday School scholars. BE should mi
N much with the schools and thus, judginI
= the merits of this or that teacher, he
mako useful suggestions to his con gnag'
gP- with regard to the welfare Of the SUI
n. school. He considered it to be 8 fatal