Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

the working power The great advantage OF
the one lesson system over the Old method was
enlarged upon, closing with a most hopeful OK
preston of the happy results in the future from
the increase of knowledge and the enlargement
IMPRACTICAL results from the application of more
advanced ideas to the work
Various contributed questions were then read
by the presiding officer of the meeting, the two
more noticeable ones being: (Which is the
greater sinner, the one who tempts to an evil ac.
ton or the one who does ?" and GLOW can
preparation of Sunday school scholars at home
and the aid Of parents in their religious nsiruc-
lion be gained?" The first named question was
addressed to Rev. Dr. E. Fisher, president Of the
St. Lawrence theological seminary at Canton
n. Y, who declined giving a definite answer
saying it depended too much on particular cir
cumstanccs influencing the act to render very
positive or direct decision possible. The moder-
ator announced that Mrs. Mary A. Lyermore'S
address this Thursday afternoon would COM
prise an answer to the other inquiry.
There was recess from twelve till two O'Clock,
when the afternoon session held in the body Of
the church was opened with devotional exercises
conducted by Rev. j. G. Adams of Lowell, after
which Rev. &. w. Perry of Lynn gave an adj
dress on the rise and progress of the one lesson
system, which was the theme of the afternoon
go over the same ground taken in his address
at the state convention, in statement and illus
tratiOn of this system. He said Sabbath school
work had grown mp vastly within the last TWEEN
ty-ive years, and especially within the last ten
years, and then proceeded to an interesting
statement of the origin and progress of the one
lesson system, started at Chicago in 1868, which
had in six or seven years so revolutionized the
mode of teaching in the schools of this as well
as other denominations, in all sections OF the
country, producing the most benefcent results
as successful method of disseminating instruc-
ton.
After further remarks from Mr. Lewis in eX.
PLANTATION and advocacy of the one.leSson sys-
TEN, it was eXemplifed by the formation OF
several classes, successfully, upon the platform
composed OF teachers from among the audience,
who went through with the various exercises
under the lead Of Mr.. Lewis and others, includ-
ing several superintendents. These interesting
exercises, followed by giving and answering
questions, occupied the remainder of the after
noon session.
The evening session began at u o'clock, with
very interesting lecture by Rev. f.. Fisher, d.
D., president of the college at Canton, N. Y, on
"Ihe study of the Bible in the education Of
children" which was full of golden truths elo-
quently and iorcibly expressed. Among other
things he cautioned against the danger and
damage of dwelling merely on the words of the
Bible without a proper acquaintance with their
meaning; he wished to have the spirit OF the
book, its moral and spiritual truths incucated,
instead ofdoctrines. The great difficulty in hui
man life was, in not living up to what is uni
yersally recognized as good in all books.
The glory Of the Bible was not so much in
the book as in the man it makes better by a
proper understanding and practice of its univer-
sally assented to maXims Of right. The Bible
should be interpreted by human nature, for
whose wants it was given. He believed all that
was good or essential in the Scriptures lor our
instruction was comprised in the New Tesla
ment, and therefore he thought teaching Of
the Old Testament to the children unnecessary,
as it contained good many thing they could
not understand, or that might embarrass their
correct understanding of the high spiritual
truths Of the New Testament
In the discussion which followed the discourse
Rev. MIR. Lewis, while commencing its general
scope, thought the Old Testament should be
studied with the new, and closed by proposing a
plan of the one lesson system, which had been
recommended. Remarks favoring the one lesson
system, as suggested by Mr.. Lewis, followed by
Rev. Dr. Bolles of Salem, Rev. G. H. Vibbert,
Rev. c. +. Stafford of Springfield and others, and
Dr. Fisher was called upon still further to OK
plain his views.
After choosing a committee consisting OF
Rev. I. E. St. John of Worcester, Latimer Bal
lou Of Woonsoclfet, Il. l., and Prof. w. r. Ship
man of Tufts college, to report officers of the
institute for the year ensuing, the meeting adj
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programme will be carried out:
MorRiRg.-This session will be devoted to essays
and addresses on practical questions.
O'Clock: Teachers conference meating-led by
MN. Mecorney, Worcester
O'Clock: Order and kind of Sunday School Ser
Ylce-Chas. Foster, Taunton.
81 o'clock The Wages of the Worker-J. II.
FarnswOrth, Springfield, vt.
10 O'Clock: Object Teaching and use of Black
board-E. G. Boles Salem,
l0H O'Clock: Sunday School Morals and Man
ners-W. X. Shipman Tufts college.
II O'Clock: The Press and the Sunday School
o. Brown Bridgeport Conn.
l21a O'Clock: Oral and written questions.
AfternOOR.-This session will be devoted to short
essays and addresses on the relation of the various
parts to the whole.
2o'clock The Pastor and the Sunday School
A. Sprague, Augusta, Me-
40; The Superintendent and the Sunday School
Augusta Lane, Gloucester
24O: The Teacher and the Sunday Sehool-C. d.
Wright, Reading, Mass.
300: The Scholar and the Sunday School-G. L.
Demarest, Manchester, n H.
329: The Parent and the Sunday School-Mary
A. LiVermore, Boston.
400; Oral and written questions.
EUeRiRg.-Ihis session will be devoted to q lee
ture on "Consecration and Preparation"-J. Smith
Dodge Stamford, ct.
What time remains will then be given to five
minute speeches on "What have learned at this
Institute"