Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-08

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invention Of teachers and other workers
y Sunday schools Of Lancaster county,
= the Duke street M. r. church at 930
unusning. There IVES . good attendance,
IN eeAouls being represented by over one
No. delegaasA
y ouovUution IVES called 10 order by SS.
~ psssldsnt Harry @. Moore occupied
Defeeasy's desk.
T Dovoojooal exercisss, consisting Of singing,
uVsr end scripture residing were conducted
Esw Q. L. Fry, Of Trinity Lutheran
y business meeting was next held. The
8o4outtals Of the delegates were handed IN
- referred 10 committee consisting OF H.
Cnnsel, H. b. Brubaker, II. s. Bolton, Z.
Dupplcs and p. Buckwalter.
" Reports from the delegates OF the several
Iuh0ols were received. The reports sh owed
l1at the schools are generally 10 ho urish-
- condition and Increasing % IN membership,
= the county. Mountville has the only
9sadod Sunday school In the county, and 1t
&oeks we'll and IL In flourishing condition.
Dsorstary Moore presented report show
~ that there were 24s known Sunday
oo6ool In the county. Of these As were
Union schools 43 Methodist % Lutheran
- Presbyterian 20 Evangelical 20 Re-
Turned I Mennonite IS United Brethren
. Episcopslian % Friends Baptist and
Il 10 estimated that there are at least 25
ether schools unknown to the secretary.
The chair appointed q committee, with J.
Z ~ Landls - chairman, to prepare list OF
omcers for the convention and report this
ol1oGnoon.
3 AN ADDRESS ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
d Dr. G. r. Biackall, Of Philadelphia, was
next introduced, and delivered q valuable
address on the " Possibilities of Sunday
* School," He was not one of those who be-
& aloved that there was lack of Christian inter-
toroat In the schools. He believed there was
a. much church life aud as much home love
for the schools at the present day as there
ever was before, though this interest is some.
times misdirected. He outlined some of the
spossibiities" that might be attained by a
better system. True success can only be &C
cOmplished by constant instruction In Gods
word both in the home and the school: the
taste Of the young should be cultivated In
this direction, and the convert should be
helped over all the rough places he may en-
ouperintendents desk and from the floor o.
Of school room. The speaker explained how
the church may be brought into the
school, and how the school may be
brought into the church by having parents
attend the school and the children the church
esrvices-the little ones being given place
In the choir and allowed to take part in the
services by singing some of the Sunday
school hymns. The pastor should always be
present In the Sunday school, both as a righ,
brought into the home parents should see
that the next Sunday lesson is studied and
reviewed at home; and the home can be
brought into the Sunday school when the
parents attend it as regularly a. their children
DR.. Blackall deprecated q practice that
exists in some Sunday schools, OF devoting
great amount Of the school time in "practis
Ing" or rehearsing the music for coming fes
dvalA He looked upon the custom little
less than irreverence. Every session OF the
school should have religious service, that the
children could com prehend and enjoy some
Of the good old old hymns and tunes should
b sung-many of them being equal to the
best secular music The Scripture les.
son should be read as though the super
1ntendent had his thought upon Il
and his heart in it He had heard super
inteudents read the lesson as though
they were only anxious to make an end of it
Teochers should cultivate a taste for good Lit.
erature 80 that their.minds may be broadened
end they may be better prepared for the
important work of instructiDg those placed
in their charge; they should cultivate their
talent and world OF beauty will open
out = .ss~rn. They should personally know
7beir pupils and who among them are
= and are not Christians, and they should work
vigilantly to bring all to Christ
After DIR. Blackall had answered a few
questions relative to Sunday school pro
grammes aud other school work, the conven
tion sapg hymn ana adjourned until {.
p. m.