Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-10-17

instructed And tlien drilled on II. Teachin
} should be organized and systematic.
query class where the scholars ask yo
questions is successful. Make any of you
sch ,lArs question the rest of the class an,
you will dud it good way. The great bless
ing to the teacher is the privilege Of teaching
and the harder the class the greater the priv,
ilege IL you are a teacher the harder the
class TO teach the more you should thanh
God that YOU are its teacher.
( The address was well delivered and re
eeived Following its completion the presi
dent announced the temperance session and
introduced Mrs. Crafts as the first speaker
That lady announced the subject AS The
/ Teaching of Temperance Lesson" She
made the main theme the influence of
alcohol on the body, and gave her address \
most prsc,i al bearing by the introduction
of class of boys and girls who occupiei
/ positions on the stage Ry the use Of well
drawn diagrams on the black boards and an
ingenious system of questioning, she elected
answers from the little ones which preached
most emphatic temperan.e sermon in a
most novel fashions IL WAS an interesting
| exercise.
The next twenty minute address was de.
!yered by Mise Lucia +, f. kimhaii,
National Secretary of the W, c. T, u. for
Sunday school work, Miss Kimbsl intro
duced a chart showing the respective sums
of money devoted 10 the licensed liquor
traffic, the foreign and home missions and
other matters bearing upon Christian work.
She referred 10 the glowing record Of our
State in the passage and enforcement, of the
prohibitory law. She said that much of the
rum drinking Was done through ignorance
and this ignorance must be dispelled BY
tf N ssV in th. nN.x
schools. We have had enough of sentiment
in relation to this matter. What We want is
concentrated, earnest action. She then in
eloquent and touching words related the
misery and cruelty TO which little ones of
the large cities were subjected, saving that
it was this that had decided her To devote
her life to work for temperance In the Sab
bath school
An applied gospel is what is necessary to
work out the temperance problem, In closing
she referred TO the Importance of the tenn
perance Sunday school and spoke in excel
lent terms Of the system now In use in the
lesson quartcrlies where a temperance lesson
is introduced at the close of each quarter
urging its adoption. Her address. was prac.
teal and full of fine thoughts and was at the
same time most eloquently and effectively
delivered and was accorded generous and
merited applause.
The mex, address was by MIR. REYNOLDS. |
who has become SO well known to the con
vention. His effort last evening was n most
excellent one. He cited the method of tenn
perance teaching in the International Quar- |
terly AMI hardly approved of it, lie said |
there was more temperance teaching IN tie
United States now than ever before People |
are coming 10 hate the accurscd rum traffic, |
and II vote was taken today AS to whether
the saloon, should 20 or stay, the result |
would be in favor of ousting them out The
trouble with us is We are divided. while the |
rum sellers are solid and as long as we let |
jenominat ionalism OF party lines separate us
we can do no more than We are doing. |
dont believe in the four Sunday a-year bust |
ness. l believe that wherever and whenever |
you can teach temperance to teach 1t.
Rev Smith Baker delivered most ringing |
closing address, 1t was short but solid and |
sound way through lie said the church and |
Sunday school should take a bold, uncom- |
promising. eternally frm stand on temper
ance. We should teach that rum selling is a |
sin and crime, and that the rumseller is ON
the same plane AS the highway robber. Rum
drinking is not a weakness but n sin, The
church is not to receive into ITS membership
anybody who will not sign a temperance
pledge, or any one who sells drinks or coun-
tenanccs the selling or drinking of liquor.
Let your Sunday school have pledge, and
give everybody opportunity to sign