The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-07-20

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he cracked the nut and 10! the kernel
was decayed and rotten. One must be
sure that the illustration he uses will
stand cracking.
Mr.. Clark, of Denver, then spoke a
few moments on ''How to secur atten-
%tion," and, graphing with the subject
in his usual energetic way, he managed
to say a great deal in a short time and
to the point. After a humorous des-
cription of the way teachers prepare the
lesson, he went on to say that interest
on the part of the teacher was
q very good way to obtain attention
from the scholar, and compared getting
a hayward scholars attention to the
landing of a trout. Getting the child
into the class was like getting the fish
hooked; but he might have to be
played" a good while before he was
landed. lie believed in individual
teaching as well as previous thorough
study of the lesson.
~ MhS LhCi hlONGu ny IhtN' Iballho
that Rev. Mr.. McLane be received as a
delegate and invited to take Il seat in
the convention. Carried.
Mr.. McI4ane then made some re-
marks on the subject of attention, and
Rev. q. NJ. Sanders followed with a
few words on the same subject.
Rev. Banks then moved adjournment
until s O'Clock p. m.
WEDNESDAY-EYening Session.
Session opened at 8 p. m. Singing,
"One more days work for Jesus
and "All the way my Savior leads
The president then read the
second chapter of the Epistle to the
Ephesians and prayer was offered by
Rev. MIR. McLane.
The subject of How to use illustra-
having been left over from the
session, its discussion was
opened by Rev. Mr.. Craft, of Laramie.
The speaker thought it was something
like trying to teach Il boy how to shoot.
1t is easy enough to show him the gun
ana the target. and that's all you "a
do. The ability to hit it comes only by
practice. So with illustrations. In
order to learn how you must begin and
the best way to use illustrations is to
use them.
Mr.. Clark then followed, and in
speaking of the subject illustrated it in
this way: A young man wishing to
use a Christmas tree for an object les
son, asked the children how the tree re-
himself. After some hesita-
ton n little fellow ventured to say,
because its green" Even illustra-
must be simple and also plain in
order to illustrate.
A hymn was then sung, and letters of
regret read from Revs. Cornell, Con-
verse and Lyons, who could not be
present. Also a report OF the Union S.
Mt Rawlins.
Rev. G. IL. Seymour then took the
stand and read Il paper on the ''Sunday
in our day" in which he con-
sidered it as Il necessity to religious
in n community. Sunday
schools do not exercise simply an in
iividual influence, but through the
Of conventions and representa-
lions, its influence flows through the
land and eliminates and centres in the
American Sabbath school union. He
also spoke of the wide spread of Sabbath
school literature. 1t origin unlike the
is not divine; we may use it or
not without violating any divine will.
In Il sort of history of the Sabbath
he said it was comparatively a
modern institution; scarcely 100 years
Did as yet. still though comparatively
modern II has made rapid advances and
already has done a great work for the
and God. 1t has by no means
escaped the critlcising of modern times
still it has advanced. 1t has been criti-
cised as I its literature, its hymnology
and its tendencies by some of the most
journals of the age. The Sun
day school is the child of TIE church,
it is held, and should be under the
management of the pastor, which it
evidently is not; as the pastor is moth
ing than any other member of the
school. This, they say, is usurpation;
and i'll q number Of other ways the
criticism goes II. 1t is charged in re-
gard to the Sabbath school hymnology
it is chiefly devoted to laudation
Of the school itself, thus putting the
in the place of Christ. In view
Of the facts, this evidence seems to BE-
uncalled for and severe. Its teaching,
it is charged, are not the bible, but
what the author of the lesson
help thinks of it. Its literature, like
5ugar-cOated pills, is a little religious
truth enveloped in a thick coat of fc-
1t tends to divert parental inlu-
enco which is shufled off onto the the
Sabbath school with the question
''Ilave you learned your Sabbath
school lesson?'' This is the estimate
put upon the Sabbath school by what
are called the exponential minds OF
the day. Perhaps some of these criti.
cisms are m,srited. Perhaps we MAY
profit by them. Surely a deeper reli-
gious feeling is need in the school
Parental respo visibility should be i'm
pressed. IT'S only a little seed u rat tn,
teacher can pla mt in the Saba tn hou
there for six days and unless t'ae paren
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