The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-18

! MasOn ana r. n. Walcott were appointed
. Committee on Resolutions.
The delegates reported for the county
schools in alphabetical order. Interesting
reports were also made from Sherburne and
Benton counties. The Rev. Mr.. Stanley,
the County Secretary, made his report,
showing twenty schools in Stearns county,
with l 100 members.
Mr.. Plant occupied three.quarters of IN
hour in interesting remarks on "How to
Superintend Sabbath Schools"
Adjourned until o'clock.
In the afternoon devotional exercises, for
fifteen minutes, were led by Elder Green,
OF Maine Prairie, with special prayers for
Sabbath School children
The Rev. Mr.. Keeper gave an address
on sabbath School Literature-What,
and How Used" He urged the careful
winnowing of books offered for children to
read and in the second branch of TIE SUBJ
ject, favored the card" system for the distri::
button of books in schools. Remarks were
made by the Rev. Mr.. Stearns and Mr.. Ma
son. -
The following resolutions were offered by
the Committee and unanimously adopted
by the Convention:
Resolved, That the Stearns County Sab
| bath School Convention extend to Prof.
Kiehle and the other teachers of the Nor
NAL School its thanks for the invitation to
be present at the opening exercises on Sat-
urday morning:
Reso!ued, That the Convention was
highly pleased with the exercises. and
heartily expresses its best wishes for and
| its great interest in the Normal School At
St. Cloud, which fully deserves the hearty
| support of every citizeu.
Resolved, That these resolutions be read
by Prof. Kiehle to the teachers and schol-
| ars of the Normal School.
Mr.. Plant gave some excellent suggest
| ions to teachers as to how lessons should be
studied and taught. To give these prac-
teal illustration, he took Normal class,
consisting of the entire Convention, and
taught the next Sabbath's lesson, as given
in the International series-John II, 1921.
This was followed by Bible reading in the
book of John, to prove "Christ-the Son
of God: the Life If Man."
The evening session was opened with
devotional exercises led by the Rev J. B.
Bills, of Santiago, with special prayer for
Gods blessing upon the preaching of His
word.
A half hour was devoted by Mr.. Plant to
answering questions concerning the best
methods of work in the Sabbath Schools,
pr6pounded by different members of the
Convention.
A collection amounting to $40 were ia
ken up to defray incidental expenses of the
Convention.
An hour or more was pro6tably occupied
with Bible reading, conducted by Mr..
Plant.
The Committee on Nominations reported
additional Vice-Presidents, making the List
70 stand as follows: *
Rev. J. D. Stearns, Clearwater.
Prof. D. L. Kiehle, St. Cloud.
Elder Green, Maine Prairie.
Andrew Mead, Fair Haven.
Elihu Swisher, Eden Lake.
r. P. Gilbert, Psynesville.
Rev. A. J. Pike, Sank Centre.
The officers of the Convention were em-
powered to fill vacancies for towns not
represented.
Adjourned until Sabbath afternoon.
sABBA4H.-Met At ten o'clock. A half
hour prayer meeting was led BY the Rev.
Mr.. Stanley. The meeting which followed
was more especially one of the children of
the different Sabbath Schools, who were
largely in attendance. The church was
crowded, with old and young, to its full
capacity. Miss Hood who was advertised
for an address, was not present. Mr.. Ma
son spoke to the little folks on the value of
the soul, and the Rev. Mr.. Milton on the
comparative impressionability of the soul
to savinglnAuences.
Mr.. Plant gave very effective address
on "confessing Christi
AT seven o'clock in the evening the Con-
vention reassembled. Devotional exercise
Is were led by the Rev. Mr.. Milton.
This was followed by Bible reading,
conducted by Mr.. Plant, with the central
idea '"The World made for redemption"
The following resolutions were unani.
mously adopted:
WHEREAS, The Convention has listened
with great interest and profit to the Bible
readings and Sabbath School illustrations
given BY Bro: Henry Plant of 4Minneapo-
lis therefore, '~*
Reso!eed That we hereby express to him
our hearty thanks and apprecietion, Of his
labors among us, and pray that the bles-
sing Of God may rest upon bis future efforts
in. his chosen field, the Sabbath School
work.
Resolusd, That the Stearns County Sab
bath School Convention hereby extends
It's hearty thanks to the citizens of st. Cloud
for the interest they have manifested in it's
deliberations.
Resolped, That the Convention hereby
expresses its thanks and gratitude to the
citizens for their kindness, sympathy and
Resolved, That these.and the resolutions
passed by the Convention relative to the
Normal School be published in each Of the
St.. Cloud papers.
The Convention then closed it's session,
which was by all considered an exceed
ingly interesting and profitable one, Mr.,
Plant Is an earnest speaker, and is thor
ourhlv Interested in tho vorL - i