The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-07-06

grammc of the exercises.
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
Preliminary Exercises.
Introductory Lecture. The influence Of the sum
day School upon the Home.
Employments, attractions and niemorie, OF
home.
Duties of parents to the Sabbath School. Writ
ten answers TO lie given.
MONDAY EVENING.
Devotional Exercises
The Mission of the Pulpit and of the Sunday
School.
Duties Of the Pastor to the Sunday School.
The Teachers relation and duty to the church.
TUESDAY FORENOON.
Devotional Exercises. Let all be present at the
opening.
The Sunday School on scrptural authority
Constitution, for what should 1t provide
Officers The Sunday School Tower A black
board diagram.
Embarrassment of Sunday School officers.
The model Superintendent.
The good Teacher, go Teach
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Devotional Exercises,
Order in Sunday Schools, The Sunday School
Chime, Remarks.
Signals
Opening and closing the school methods pre-
sented
Accessories, architecture, furniture, requisites,
&c.
Sacred geography with blackboard illustrations.
WEDNESDAY MoENINC.
Religious services.
Questions !. How do you prepare your Les
SOM ?. When do you begin? 3. How much
time do You devote to it2 Written answers re-
uuested from each Teacher.
Teaching defined.
Illustrative teaching, object, picture black board.
Institute Rotations
Preparation Glass. Uesson, John l. 35-51D
wEDSFsDAl AFTERNOON.
PRAYER lor the conversion of Sunday School
Scholars.
Bible study, methods OIL
w hat is the aim Of Sunday School instruction
Experience in the work. Each Teacher is de-
sired to give some incident in their own lab ors in
the Sunday School, of encouragement, or Of hope.
Written questions answe cred.
Closing address by the conductor.
During the session fthe Institute, james
NJ. Slade was appointed Secretary, and
Rev, w. n. Bacon, assist Secretary. A
Committee on Resolutions was appointed,
consisting of the following persons, James
VI. Slade, Rev. Mr.. Bacon, w. ri. Utley,
Rev. Nj. J.. Severance and Col. Huns.
den.
The following resolutions were presan-
ted TO the institute through the Committee
and unanimously adopted
Resolved, That We heartily approve of
the organization of a State Sabbath School
Convention, to be held in connection with
the Y. NJ c. Association at i's next an
nual Convention, represented by our
churches and Sabbath Schools be and
are hereby requested and expected to send
two delegates, the Pastor, and one lay
brother, to slid Convention
Resoied, That this Institute recomend
to the different Sabbath Schools the for
nation of Juvenile Temperance Societies
within their respective bodies; leaving
each School to adopt such constitutions
as will carry out the great idea of pro-
noting temperance among the children
and youth, thus laying deep and broad
the foundation of temperance in the sever
al communities, and saving our contry from
the monster vice, intemperance, So de-
structive TO the happiness and morals of
the rising generation, and 50 whitening in
its paralyzation of all religious emotion, and
all attempts to impart spiritual instruction
and to save the world,
Resolved, That We earnestly mge upon
all Sabbath schools, the necessity and du
ty of providing children with weekly
Sabbath sbhoOl Periodicals and that the
Pastors of the several churches are respect
fully and affectionately requested to I'M
press upon their congregations the great
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youthful mind, with religious reading,
adapted to their years, capacity and I'M
derstanding,
Resolved That We tender to Rev. Mr..
Ostrander, our heartfelt thanks for his la,
bors during his four day sojourn with us,
in the exercises of the Sabbath School
Institute that we have been deeply in,
terested in his Instructions upon the great
and absorbing theme of successful Sabbath
Schoo' instruction; feeling assured in what
we have heard from him through precept
and illustration of the great idea of thor.
ough importation of the word Of God in
lis spirit and power to the children and
youth through the Sabbath school, is in its
infancy of development, and that this
great auxiliary of the church of Christ
the Sabbath SCHOOL, is yet to stand side
by side with the pulpit in its fuller pre-.
sentation of the great question of mans
salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord
ReSOlued, That our thanks are hereby
cordially presented to the people of Mid
dlebury for their generous hospitality so
cheerfu!ly bestowed in their kind enter.
tainment during the session of the S. S.
Institutes TO the NJ, f., Society for the
use of their house of worship in which
our sessions have been held to the ladies
OF Middlebury for the gift of boquets of
flowers so richly bestowed, commingling
the beautiful in nature with the high and
precious truths Of mans redemption and
salvation, painting fallen man through the
perishingly beautiful to the enduring and
eternal,
ReSohed, That the Secretary be re-
quested to furnish copy of the proceed
ings of tie Institute for publication to the
Middlebury Register and Rutland Herald,
and that the papers of the State are also
respectfully requested TO publish the same.
The following persons were appointed
committee to issue call for a Sabbath