Thomas County cat., 1889-11-21

The second annual Sunday school con
yention of Thomas county was held last
Thursday and Friday in the Baptist
church. Dr. W. NJ. Beaver, president of
the county organization. presided and on
Thursday afternoon welcomed to Colby
the delegates from the county schools.
The attendance was very small, and the
meeting adjourned until evening without
doing any business The talks on The
SUNDAY School-What Is IT. were also
deferred until the
EVENING SESSION.
There was Il large attendance upon the
evening session and the exercises moved
off with a vim and earnestness seldom
witnessed al It county Sunday school
convention. The choir was composed OF
Mrs. c. NJ Hovey. Mrs. ,ampbell, Miss
Bayha. Mrs Van Metre, organist, Mcssrs
E. Var Metre. A. Garfield. {. NJ. Hovev
Ed. Hoyey, and Mr. Richard Beymer,
chorister The singin" was most excel
lent. AMI caused much favorable com
ment
The devotional exercises were lead by
Rev Wilson. and were Il means of warm
ing up the hearts of those interested in
the work.
Mrs. J. l.. Loar read an essay which
was attentivcly listened TO. She outlined
in detail tie origin of the Sunday school
and the particular sphere in which It's
work applies. 1t was an excellent paper
and while rhetorically we'll prepared the
thoughts expressed showed that consid,
erable time had been spent in lis prepara-
ton.
The Sunday School-What is 1t! was
taken up and opened by Rev. Shackle-
ford First he said, man is "A moral be-
ing. The Sunday school is designed to
implant in the heart of the child desire
for goodness. Its purpose is TO save the
children for Christ. and the church. That
in early life the child may be brought in
to the work of the church and be trained
up in the way they should go.
Rev. Wilson discussed the subject
briefly. and thinks the Sunday school is
divided into two classes-teRchers and
scholars. Too often they do not prove
what they purpOrt to be. The people are
there. but no class or teachers. They are
too much degenerated and scarcely de
serve the name they go by. The speaker
rather thought that there was too much
ready print in the Sunday school. 1t
used to be that each scholar had tcsta
ment IN his hand.
After singing What a Friend we have
in Jesus Rev J. A. Bright said that he
liked the term Bible school much better
than Sunday school and believed that
every child should carry IA billie to the
school. He likened the Sunday school or
ganization unto chain with seven strong
and perfect links. He had heard since
coming to Colby that Thomas is a banner
county and that every township has an
organization with pulse that beats. The
links in this great chain are as follows:
First-The Sunday School.
Second-Township organization.
lnlru-lOunty OrIanlZatlOn-
Fourth-District organization.
Fifth-State organization.
Sixth-International association. which
meets once in three years.
sSeventh-The worlds convention.
The first convention of the seventh
liak was held last July in London, and
the next will be held in America. three
years hence. There were present from
this country about 800, and a total assem-
bly, of 1000 delegates. The speaker
said America was 25 years ahead of any
other country in organization.
After duet by Nessrs. G. NJ. Hegey
and f. Van Metre. the convention ad-
journed until 10 o'clock Friday mern-
ing
THE SBHoNDEAY.
There was fair attendance upon the
morning session and after devotional ex-
ercises, the subject of Duties of church
Members to Sabbath Schools. was taken
president of the State Sunday school
work. was the first speaker. He thought
that the word duties should be chang
ed to''Privilege. He urged the import
:ance of training the child properly in
early life. The first impressions made |
will ever remain and mold their futrre |
lives
Rev. Bright nicely illustrated the ss5- |
5ect by AZ acrostic Of the word duties"
1t was as follows:
D-Dont find fault and grumt le
U-UphSld the cause es your praye,
and money.
Take your children.
Impure about the wock and inter
ests OF Code Kingdom.
E-Engage in the work
S-Spend your time in going from
house TO house and looking after the
children.
Reys- Shackkford and Goodwin also