Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-04-12

Of the class from the teacher.
Question =. Can Q man consistently
make good superintendent Of Sunday
school who Is an inceesant smoker OF
cigars and cigarettes and who smokes In
the presence oil Sunday school scholars?
Answer. As there has been so much
said and done against the admit slon of
persons into the ministry who are ad-
dicted to the use OF tobacco, the uues-
tioner no doubt very naturally thought
the same restrictions should apply TO
superintendent. AS a minister should
be an exemplar to bis congregation by
abstaining, so a superintendent should be
an exeDplar TO his scholars. As q
superintendent does he cannot object to
his scholars doing. II he smokes cigars
and cigarettes he cannot object to his
own children doing 90 He would not
undertake to say that smoking was a
grlevous sin, but 1t was Il terrible social
evil and superintendent should not be
guilty of 1t.
Question 8. How can an interest be
crested IN country Sunday SCHOOL,
Answer. MIR. Swartz referred to the
time when he was student at college;
he and friend took psrG as teacher In
a country Sunday school, and how by
bNhhE III thGlE pshCCFs huu Dl ktl-
ting up after talks when the lessons were
over, an interest was created that built
the school up from q hplf dozen to a
| hundred and more.
Earlestnes IN the work aud being
always present were the best means he
knew OF to create interest and these when
rightly apple d never failed.
| Question 4. A superintendent finds
that his teachers depend 70 much on
helps that they demand to be furnished
with quarterly reviews. Whit is to be
done
Answer. read over the various helps
can lind and then | take the gathered
wheat and thresh IL and give the best to
my class Tut tue best help is the Holy
Spirit.
Question 5. What Is the best method
OF teaching class OF young gentlemen
to keep them in the Sunday school
Answer. 1t is hard to measure young
gentlemen. The question Is should they
be measured by years or by attachments
What would apply TO one would moi
apply to another, and the teacher has tC
do the best he can to interest them.
A lady In the audience asked Mr..
Swartz II he endorsed Dr. Cooks works
Of Chicago, for use In the SUI day school
Mr.. Swartz said he thought 1t was 9
good work, but perhaps every denomina.
tion should use their own publications.
M. Wells asked what works he would
recommend in Union Sunday school
where all denom!natit MS were represent
ed' The question created ripp o
mcrriment
MIR. Swartz sald that In that case h,
would recommend all kinds.
Annthpr aprptrn .f annn "a ~,
then Rev. NJ. Heath dismissed with tn
benediction.
The evening session opened a. 7.3l
! o'clock with service Of song. Rev. K
X. Stevenson, OF Smyrna, read the scrip
lures, and Rev. Mr. Armentfout, OF Eel
ton, lead IN payer.
There being no routine business t,
transact, more singing was INDUCED II
when Hon. Charles B. Lore, was ar
nounced SIS the Brst speaker 10 make al
address on the Past" Of Sunday schools
MIR. Lore, taking the stand, said oil,
men were generally selected TO go bacl
into the past, but the past WAS yery inter
estDg. Mr.. Lore went back to 1877
when Marin Luther originated the lirs
Sunday schools of which thtTe is any nc
count, but with the death of Luther hi
Sunday schools died with him. Thu
came Cardinal Carlo Bor,meo OF Italy
who organized y tch0ols with 304l
teachers and 40, 900 children, but whel
the good Cardinal died his schools all,
died. In 1924 LaSaIle, Frenchman, or
.. ganizcd Sunday schools In France, Lu
they died when LaSalle died.
I Robert Raikes, who was publisher II
Gloucester, England, in trying to bette
. the condition OF the bal boys arounC
him, started Sunday schools iu 1850, ant
for three years paid teachers u shilling
day for teaching them, aud in that tim
he had $50, coo children gathered ln:o hi
schools. Francs Asbury organized Sun
day schools in 1857 In this peninsula
+ Samuel Slater organized them iii Rhod
, Island tie same year, but was not unit
| 1913 when the first Sunday school was on
! ganizcd in New York, AID then 1t was b.
Katie Furgusoa, an old co,ored woman.
} In 1901 Isabella Graham and he
, daughter, Isabella BetEuue, came to Ney
York aud engaged in Sunday hoe
work. In 1900, iu Pllts burg, was tn
} first Instance OF uniting church and Sun
| day schools. In 1903 the London Sun
I day School Union published statistic
showing that In England there wer
| $50 600 scholars and in this couutr
550,0OQ. Only in these two Enelis
speaking nations do Sunday schools seer
to flourish. There were u few In Gel
many and some scattered over Franc
and Italy. Mr.. Lore gave many NOR
/ statistics and his address was intensc
J interesting.
George V. Massey, Esq, o. Dover, tel,
graphed that a business eDgagemer
. prevented him from being present I
. speak on the Present" OF sunda
Y schools, and W. X. Crosby became hi
substitute. Mr.. Crosby had no chance
] make any preparations but delivered
q mastery address on the present phase G
, Sunday school work.
Complimentlug Mr.. Lore, he said b
had never heard so much Sunday sehoi
. lore grouped In 50 small a space as III
time allotted him. The church. he said
, had aroused herself and was putting fort
8 her hand to save the children. He re
1 ferred to the case of Calhoun, In Ne'
e Castle jail, as an instance OF misdiiecte
y training, but he had soul to be saved
a That girl may too be going In the wron
direction, and 1t is important that Chri:
D tian men aud women should be active Il
1 Sunday school work. He referred to tn
9 great impetus given to the work by tn
D Christian Endeavor Society, the King
. Daughters, and Daughters OF the King
0 aud Young Mems Guide, all working
] together In the cause OF Christ. He ha,
D not the least DOUBT now that rs per cent
! of the increase in the churches came from
p the Sunday schools
0 Rev. j. S. Willis not responding to th
r call to speak on the Future" OF Sunda
. schools Rev. l.. Marks was substituted
Mr.. Marks, though not prepared. made
8 most admirable address, tinRed wit