Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-31
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.
Great Men, Great Themes and a
2 Great Occasion.
Satusday and Sundays Programme--Rey.
Z Drs Wright, Miller, Baldwin, fysin.
ger snd Abbott Discourse on
s - Various Themes. ssa
AFULL DIGEST OF THE. PROCEEDINGS
Speeial % the Reaisfer.

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there!
Iyenture the prediction that when this
assembly programme concludes, and the
old-fashioned camp-meeting begins, there
will be one hundred people in attendance
on the latter to where there is one on the
former.
The most distinguished men, the most
learned lectures, the most edifying pro-
eramme can't begin to draw, with the songs
and shouts and hallelujahs Of the CAMP !
meeting.
The audiences in attendance at the AS
sembly exercises is seldom excelled any
where for intelligence, culture and rein-
ment. 1t is drawn principally from the
cities. The lecturers are such men as peo-
pie in other places are willing to pay to
hear at the rate Of dollar head. These
old forests will probably never echo to the
exercises of more learned and edifiying
programme than that this Assembly is
furnishing. The Mountain Lake Park As
sociation has paid very literally for it-for
these men do not come here for nothing.
Nevertheless it don't count when compared
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meeting crowd is now on the outskirts,
tuning up their throats, loadening their
larderS, Oiling their farm wagons, OK carts
and brogan boots, waiting impatiently for
these "darned literary fellers' TO get done
with their nonsense and get out OF the way.
Look out | say, for the camp-meeting host
on the 10th OF August.
only One Drawback.
There is only one drawback to having
immense crowds here every day from the
surrounding country, and that is the lack
of railroad facilities at the Park station.
The Association has been much disappOint-
ed in the schedule provided by The b. Il ..
road. They expected every train to stop
here. They expected that the tourists at
Deer Park and Oakland, as well as at all
other sections on the road, would be able
TO come. spend the day or a part of it, and
return without staying over night. But
so far from having any accommodations for
day visitors even those who are located Oh
the ground must 60 to Oakland or Deer
Park TO obtain the train they want Per-
haps, during the campmeeting season, the
railroad company may be pressed into Of
fering better accommodations.
Saturdays Programme.
The exercises at the auditorium to-day
were quite up TO the average The lectures
are sandwiched every day with the normal
class exercises, conducted by some OF the
distinguished Sunday school men.
One of these classes assemblies at 9 A NJ.
Then, at O:3O A. NJ, the first lecture is de-
liyered. At P. VI. there is another normal
class exercise. At 3:S0P. NJ. there IS an
other lecture. Then follows a service OF
song ut $50 P. NJ. At P. NJ. there IS
teachers conference, and then the lecture
at ; p. NJ. closes the day 5 exercises.
You may Judge from this programme
that there is not much time for lOatng to
those who want to take in the services at
the auditorium.
Saturdays Lecture.
Rev. A. A. Wright, of Lynn, Massachus-
etts. began a series OF four lectures on the
revised New Testament In the lecture
this morning he discussed the scope OF re-
vision, giving a very clear and terSe eNpOSi-
ton of the reviSory commission. 1t was
intended to prepare his audience for the
comments and conclusions which will fol-
low upon the character Of the revision He
will next discuss the "blemisheS Of the
new version, then the beauties OF the
new version" and conclude on Tuesday
next with a discussion OF the question,
the ole Bible or the new: which,
Rev. George W. miller.
The Rev. George W. Miller, A. NJ. pastor
of Grace church, Wilmington, Del, the
lecturer of the afternoon, has singularly
interesting history. He was Union sol
der: was converted in the army; was
wounded fearfully in the Wilderness and
given up to die, but declared that he was
destined to live and preach the Gospel. He
studied theology in the hospital, and en-
tered the itineranCy after the war was over.
He has acquired singular skill and has de-
veloped remarkable power as an orator.
Possessed of fine presence, good voice, ex-
uberaAt Imagination and religious fervor,
L 4 ~ coll al elf |
The topic of Mr.. Miller's lecture this
afternoon, was
Method In Preparation and Teaching.
He said. method is the application of the
principles of science, but method may be
either mechanical or intelligent.
The power OF method depends upon the
method in which it is handled. Method in
the Sunday School teachers work involves
the application of the principles Of biblical
Interpretation and instruction.
There are two general considerations in
our work of preparation. We are gathering
knowledge to communicate to others.
Hence there must be defniteneSs of ideas.
The subject of our study is the word of
God which demands spiritual mindedness.
In the preparation of the particular
lesson we must study: The words them
selves; apprehend the order and relation
| Of the statements and bearings of the con-
texts; compare the parallel passages and
get at the spiritual sense. What pure gold
lies at the bottom of the crucible when we |
have applied our tests and finished our in |
yeStigations. Nonder is a target with |
white centre and several concentric rings; |
the outer ring may represent the philolo-
| gy and grammar Of the lesson; the ring |
nearer the centre the geography, &C., of |
| the lesson; the one still nearer what We |
| call the analogy of scripture; but there is |
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meaning-and we have not fairly hit the |
mark until we have sent the arrow of in |
yestigation into that.
Our next work is to shape the lesson for |
| teaching. The refined gold and not the |
| alloy, points, and not surfaces, should be |
| the stock in trade Of all our teaching.
The very essence of q successful prepar- |
| alton for teaching is that il is not over |
| born by details or absorbed in fragmentary
| incidents, but that the scattered facts take
| their place in the orderly structure Of the
! lesson. The application of every lesson is
| in one or all Of four directions: Doctrine,
| reproOf, correction and ediication.
| We are now prepared for teaching. There !
| is what may be called the turnspit method
| OF teaching, and there is the ragbag method,
| but the demand is for artist work, not Job
| work. There are two well-defired and
| tested methods of teaching-the logical and
] pictorial. Both should be used. But the |
| pictorial method has 3 moulding influence
| on the child's mind long before the logical !
method could have any power. Our order
/ must respect the two-foldnesS Of the child's |
/ nature, mental and spiritual. Instruction
should usually precede impression. We
must not make too much OF the mere un-
/ derStanding OF the child. God reveals Him
I self in our spiritual evidence. He need |
not become theologian in order to be- |
I come a Christian.
The next thing is the spirit in which
/ we teach. () Our own: The class is usu- |
| ally portrait of the teacher There must |
be both quantity and quality of being in |
US. Our spirit must be one of confidence |
| and earnest enthusiasm.
| (2l We must teach in the spirit of child |
hood. There is a whole thinking and 1ues. |
tioning world in the chjld's spirit, and we |
must come into that world il we would put !
our thoughts in the child's way.
And lastly We must teach in the spirit of |
God. Painstaking Is well, but painstaking |
loses its pains without the baptism of the |
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