St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-08
SERVICES IN THE CHURCHES.
Interesting Sessions by the Visiting
Sunday-SchooIW Workers.
Some of the Places Where the Ptous
Will Worship To-day.

The missionaries connected with the
Northwestern district of the American Sum
day School union met at the parlors of
Plymouth church yesterday morning. In
the absence of Rev. DR.. Crowel, DR.. G. e.
Humble of Emporia, Kan, was chosen
moderator pro TEN. Dr. c. Holmes read
paper on the subject of How to Introduce
Our Books in Schools and Keep Them
There. He spoke of the needs Of the
schools as regarded literature and how to
meet these needs. Children everywhere
he said, were restless and we must meet
them and train them by good books,
which many cannot get. He alluded to
the perncious literature which has done so
much evil to children and which has to be
contended against by the missionaries.
Liberals, Mormons and the rum infu ence
and the agents for sensational papers also
had to be met in their work. The discus
sion which followed was participated in by
nearly all the delegates present.
The Kind of Literature Needed For Our
Work was the subject of paper read by
j. P. Page. The paper gave a large num-
Der of interesting facts with reference to
the objects to be subserved by proper Sc
lection of reading matter. The books
issued must be cheap in order to hold their
own dSdlilSl COulpcIltIOu IHCy HuSb 10
cheap and also contain select literature
which could teach the sanctity of the home
circle the relations OF the parents and
children and all kindred ideas. DR.. Nc
Kay. rector of the Episcopal church of En-
poria, Kan, was the next speaker. He
said he was not prepared to make an adj
dress. but he was glad to be present at the
meeting. He was from Kansas,
A PROHIBITION STATE,
and in one town he could mention where
there was prohibitory law, supposed to be
in full force, there were 1875 saloons running
wide open and in defiance to the law. This
would give an idea of the strength and
holiness of the enemies of temperance in
prohibition state. and it would of course be
much worse in a nOn-prohibition state.
Discussion followed on the paper read by
Mr.. Gage. E. B. Stevenson thought the
reading matter in the papers furnished by
the American Sunday School union was too
heavy for small children and too light for
adults. This statement caused considerable
discussion, number of the delegates hold
ing the statement was correct, and that the
cost of the papers. and in fact all the
pamphlets and books issued by the union
were much higher than those of
a like nature issued by other pub
fishers. Rev. DR.. Crowell explained that
this was owing to the fine quality of paper
used and the fine manner in which the les
son papers and other papers were printed.
The sense of the meeting was that the
prices charged by the union for publications
and lesson papers was too high, and if nee
essary a little inferior work would be much
better providing it would lower the prices
to meet the rates given by other publication
houses. Dr. Crowell said the missionaries
should remember that the opposition pub
Usher was man who issued tine pamphlets
and book simply as money-making
scheme, and that the publications of the
union were much better suited for Sunday
school work than those issued by the other
publishers.
Before an adjournment was taken D. r.
Noyes read the announcements for Sunday
services. as published in the GLOBE yester-
day morning, and announced that collec-
tiOns would be taken up in the several
churches for the forwarding of the work.