Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-21
WORK FOR THE YOUNG.
A Lively Sunday School Convention
 EloQuent Addresses.

A Lively Sunday School Convention Eloquent Addresses.
 GRANBY, Nov. 20-Such convention was held on the afternoon and evening of Tues day, the 18th instant, in the Baptist church at Tariffville. under the direction of the county committee, Revs. H. B. Roberts, of West Hartford, and R. s. Pardington, of Hartford, assisted by the State secretary, William H. Hall, of West Hartford
 Addresses were made by Revs. J. H. Good sell, on Training the young for church work" by L. P. Smith of Hartford, on 'fOur duty to the children who do not at tend Sunday school" and by Mir. Pardington on 'tContending for the faith; ringing ad- { dresses every one of them, enforcing truth with marked eloquence. MT. Goodsell claimed that the so-called ''infant class or infant Sunday school" is 1 misnomer. The department too often | thus called should be called the primary ! department, and should be had in room by I itself if it were needful to cross a street for ! it. Special pains should be taken with this department to interest it and gather into it as many little ones as possible. Children should be early told that they are to fit them selves for church work. MT. Goodsell is the pastor of Windsor Locks Congregational church. Said church is one of the most alive churches in the State and it now has one of the most alive of pastors.
 MT. Smith urged that the Sunday school should be urged by superintendent and teach CTS to bring in other children; pastor and teachers should be always giving invitations to outsiders to come in, and should try to in- terest all the pupils in Gods word.
 Mr. Pardington actually preached an elo- quent and finished sermon on contending for the faith Jude 3. He bade us look into the cradle of little child and contemplate it's possibilities, it being heir to all the possi- bilities of our race, likely to be either a statesman, philosopher, orator, or writer Such little one so soon as practi- cable should be moulded to it's natural bentt for Christ The child and youth should be taught to embrace all that is comprehended
 in f'the faith once delivered to the saints. D He insisted that teachers should learn some thing in order that they may be able to teach something. He spoke of one teacher who, on being asked what the man was prob ably doing on the F'housetop" whom Jesus Sa1Q SnOQlQ not come down to Jako anything out of his house, replied that he was most likely there shingling the roof. One teacher in connection with the Sunday school lesson including the "one thing needful" (rep1y of Jesus) thought Jesus taught that one needed but one kind of food, and for her part if she could have but one kind of food, she should choose graham bread. MT. Pardington knows how to preach and his church is fortunate in their pastor; and so is L. P. Smiths church The TarimviIle people, through the Baptist church parish, furnished a most bountifui evening collation., and proposed to entertain for the night, all who would like to stop over A better Sunday school convention rarely oc- CUTS. The speaking was worthy of an audi ence of three thousand. Mir. Roberts spoke ably on Sunday school matters, particularly average pulpit orator, and is certainly an un- selfish, successful worker. Mr. Hall, the State secretary, Yale graduate, is the rights
 man in the right place. He and Nr, Roberts are of themselves o circulatine Sunday school convention ever instruc tive and interesting. At the convention in cues tion it was inquired: "What to do with the incorrigible Sunday school scholar?'' It was
 answered, ''Expel him from the schcol:" and the convention said "Amen." It was sub mitted as fact existing in an influential church of Hartford: "A Sunday school teach CT of class of boys who will not attend Sun day school unless said teacher teach them has refused to do anything in aid of sustain be allowed to meet his class from Sunday to Sunday?' F'No!' said one and another.
 s'Noi" said all, apparently. ''Let him go and his pupils better be out of school than in it under the management of such man''
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