Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-12

solve. We need reference Bible, in
order to find out what all the different
writers say upon a certain subject, SO
that we can compare them together and
get the full weight of its meaning. One
speaker said we needed knowledge in
the Sunday schools. Educated teachers
should be employed, if available. and
that they should be all trained and dis
ciplined and should go IN to the school
prepared for the work. That we need
ed good superintendent, good teachers
and scholars. Bro. Curtis said he liked
the question just as it reads, that we
should try and build up what had fall
len, down. That reading about the lives
of noble men were incentives to do bet
ter ourselves. Jesus to be taken as an
example that our lives may. honor and
glorify God. Bro. Butler said that
there are great many things that We
all can see that we need, but the Savior
was the great need. We need greater
spirituality in order to have the power,
we should pray to be filled with the
Holy Ghost that He may set fire to our
hearts that we may drift more in the
spirit. Let us seek for this heavenly
fire to descend upon our schools, we
want the Lord to touch fire to the truth.
Bro. Austin then told an amusing anec-
dote that happened in camp meeting
in relation to dry prayer which had
been offered.
4th. 1.-The true aim of Sabbath School
Teaching" In the absence of Bro. Mil
llken, Bro. Chamberlin responded, and
said the true aim should be to teach the
word of God as it is revealed to us, and
in order to teach it we want the fire
that had been spoken of. We must get
direction from God in order to 60 right.
He showed by an apt illustration of the
father and son that we should be care
full how we travel so that our children
can safely follow in our tracks and to
do sabbath school teaching at home in
our every day life. Bro. Hovey said he
had been asked when boy, "W hat
was the chief end of man," and he an
swered according to the old catachism
"to glorify God, so as to enjoy his pres
ence forever" The great work before
US should be such that we may rejoice
in eternity.
Bro. j. W. Annis, former resident
of West6eld, but now living in Usage,
Ia. being called upon, said he was glad
to meet the Sunday school workers of
this county, that he had been engaged
in the work for some time. He thought
some of the important elements of the
work left out, that children should be
taken in to Sunday school to learn them
manners as we'll as to save them, that
we should also seek for the gray-headed
old men and women that they too may
be saved. Some of our most pious men
and women are not fit for teachers in
Sunday school. No person should under
take to teach class in Sunday school
without throwing the whole soul and
energy into saving every member of the
class which can usually be done. Mrs.
Hidden thought that our Sunday schools
should be made more interesting. and
thus encourage our children to 60. That
they should be told pleasant and profit
able stories, thus making the sabbath
school the nursery of the church. We
want the best teachers and the best
talent engaged in this great work. Bro.
Bates thought that the question had
been answered as fully as it could be in
so short time, that the true aim of
sabbath school teaching was to teach
Gods word, and not SO much to interest
them by telling them stories as to inter-
est them in the word of God.
The convention then adjourned to
meet at $50 p. m.
Evening session. Song and Praise
service led by Bro. Walker, after which
he read part of the 119 Psalm, follow.
ed by appropriate remarks.
Then followed the Raikes Centenary
Service, the two first subjects as Sc,
down in the programme being combined
in one, namely, the Past and Present
of Sunday schools, responded to by Bro
Austin. He spoke of the meeting ir
London. Eng, and the address of DR.
Glass upon that occasion in which ht
claimed that the idea of Sunday school:
was as old as Moses and was found il
his writings. That Ezra was nothing
less than Sunday school superinten
dent, and those connected with him hii
Sunday school teachers. He went on t.
show that Sunday schools were estab-
lished long before Raikes' time. Ii
the 10th century at Milan, and severa
other places in the old world and one II
our country in the state of Pennsylva
MIA in the year 174O. He also gave /;
short biographical sketch of Rober
Raikes, who began his career as Sun
day school worker one hundred years
ago, telling where and when born, ane
! how educated, that his father was th,
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