The New York herald., 1876-07-01
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE.

MEETING OF TIE NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL OR
GANIzATIoN-ADDREssEs BY CHANCELLOR
CROSBY AND pR. DURYEA.
SEA GROVE, CARE MAY PorNr, N J.,) ,
juno 80, 1876.
The National Sunday School Conference reassemblcd
this morning Mr.. J. Bennett Tyler presiding The
Rev. Chancellor Howard CROSBY, D. d., Of New York
delivered the first address, description o! Solomons
temple in the light OF tho latest discoveries by which
many disputed points have been settled and the origin
Of many ecclcsasic usages OF the present day in the
way of church architecture have becn established.
The Rev. J. T. Duryea, d. d., of Brooklyn, followed
in very interesting aud eloquent discourse upon tho
use OF the Imagination in Studying the Bible" He
described Imagination that faculty by which
produce all that We have seen heard No history
especially that Of the Bible, be understood sp
preciated without the OF the imagination Ii does
not create; It only makes use Of actual knowledge.
1t is not fiction, bat truth and fact What receive
by it is as true What we sec The
most beautiful drawing Is only black marks
white paper without the exercise OF the
imagination. The whole light OF mind is from
tho lamp Of tho imagination. No teacher had right
teach the Bible without tho most thorough knowl-
edge OF tho times in which it was written, the lives
OF the mon who wrote il and to whom 1t written,
the geography OF the countries described and every
accessible tact helping to know every circumstance
relating thereto. In studying history we must know
geography We must have a map before our eyes. and
imagination. The only way TO understand
sacred history is to be able " carry our
selves. back among the people themselves,
throw ourselves back into the spirit OF the age
You must INSPIRE with Ito the people and live with
them. Bible history is conceived and written in the
imagination and understood through II. Describing
the difference In histories he conrastcd two eccIesias
teal works One was dead monotonous chronicle,
dead body lying under the scalpe OF the ana,omist the
other q living. breathing image OF the time and the
men, their thoughts and lives Dr. Duryea earnestly
advocated more thorough training OF teachers and
m He 10 an m 10
Christ who could close HIS eyes and
follow Christ from Bethlehem to the crucixion; not
rece His history merely, but feel Christ and see and
hear hin,. man without magnetism could not be
moral being. for could not be susceptible without
motive. and a motive is only forcible through the
imagination. Dr. Duryea's address replee with
the most forcble illustrations One could not
get the ng OF the Twenty third Psalm without
knowledge of the physical appearance OF the
Holy Land. Man must know something Of
its terribly dark and awful ravnes, through which
David passed. with his sheep budding about him,
when he was shepherd, TO know what u means when
he says that though be passes through the valley Of
the shadow OF death he would fear nothing. II
physical death he meant, but the vague terrors of
tho shadowy valleys
Oiher clcreymen and lay members also delivered ad-
dresses upon the best method of conducting Sunday
schoOl clase0a