St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-28
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK.
The State Episcopal Conference Now in
Session at Minneapolis. q
SOME VIGOROUS DEBATES.
Is the Sunday School to Be a Place for
Amusement, Instruction, or
Both?

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Both?
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The first annual conference OF the
State Episcopal Sunday School associa-
ton opened at st. Paul's church, on
Hennepin avenue, yesterday morning,
with fairly large number of delegates
present, besides many Minneapolis
ladies and gentlemen who are inter-
ested in the work: Assistant Bishop
Gilbert, of st. Paul, presided, and after
celebrating holy communion, assisted
by Rev. Frank Millsaaugh, of Minneap--
oils, and Rev. DR.. Dobbin, Of the Shat
tuck school, at Faribault, made short
address in which he stated the objects
of the meeting. Rev. G. II. Davis, of
Brainerd. was made temporary secre-
tary, and a temporary organization
was perfected. A committee con-
sisting of Rev. DR.. Dobbin, Rev.
c. A. Cummings and F. Harrington were
appointed to draw up a plan for per-
manent organization of the conference,
and also to draft constitution to be
presented at the meeting this morning.
After diSpOSing of some other routine
business Rev. James Dobbin read an in
teresting paper on 1.-The Objects and :.
NECESSITIES OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
in which he held that the main object
Of the Sunday school was not so much
to reach those who had the advantages
of a Christian training as 1T was 10
reach the young people who never had
any religious advantages OF any kind:
$50 long as very great proportion. or
the population come to maturity with
no knowledge of the Bible as the fount-
ain-head of all WISDOM" said the
speaker, in closing, with nothing OF
the Integrity OF character which IS Dulit,
and can only be built OH the faith III
God, with no respect for religion nor
hope for the future, we shall have
trouble, and plenty of it, growing out
of vice and the discomfort of masses.
and their notion will not be one that is
exalted by righteousness"
A discussion of the paper followed, in
which Rev. W. S. Sayres. of. Monte
video; Rev. w. Jones, of Lake City:
Rev. A. D. Stowe, of Saltwater. and
Rev. G. A. Cummings, of st. Cloud,
took part. An adjournment was then
taken until O'Clock.
At that hour Rev. DR.. Dobbin called
the conference to order, the bishop
being absent On motion of Rev. E. e.
Bill, of the Seabury Divinity school,
the discussion of Rev. Mr.. Dobbin'S
paper was resumed, and continued at
some length 10y the clergymen ana lay
men present. Rev. Mr.. Bill was in
clined to think that many Sunday
schools were run on the plan of making
it a Sunday
AMUSEMENT FOR CHILDREN.
rather than Oh the plan that the object
should be to create thirst for righteous
a Sunday school into a panoramic exhi-
bition or a place where funny stories
were told. His plan would be, he said,
/ to teach the children the holy truths
from the standpoint that it was their
duty, as future men and women, to
learn them. Rev. Mr.. Millspaugh stated
that there was lamentable lack of ia
cilities ter going to Sunday school or
church among the poorer classes, and
he advocated the establishing of mis-
sions in various parts of the city, where
there could be singing, preaching and
general talks each Sunday. The gen
eral impression was that these missions
should be established at once. =
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.
At the conclusion of this discussion,
Rev. G. A. Cummings read paper On
| 1.-The Methods and Kinds of Instrue-
tion." He divided his subject into two
pafts-frst, the teachers preparation,
and second, the hour for the session.
The speaker gave an outline of how in
struction should be conducted, so as to
be of the best advantage to both teach
oro ord yon,,ifc : Paw It -Glmc ri
and Rev. A. ID. Stowe led the discus
sion which followed. The next paper
was on "The Bible Glass;" by Rev. A.
j. Graham. In this paper the speaker
showed how necessary a Bible class
was to Sunday school, in variety Of
ways, and held that it created lively
interest in church matters on the part
of the older people in the parish, who
would not pay much attention to such
things were the church to have only the
lower classes in the Sunday school. A
general discussion fol owed, III which
the views of the speaker were warmly
indorsed. Among those who took part
in the discussion were Rev. d. T..
Thompson, Rev. Frank Millspaugh and
B. S. Russell. The discussion of this
paper ran over into the evening, and
was concluded about 9:45.
The session of the conference to-day
will be an interesting one. This morn
ing the committee appointed yesterday
will report plan for permanent organ
ization and the constitution. Officers
will be elected and other business trans
acted. The papers to be read to-day
are as follows: 1.-THE Accessories OF
the Sunday School," Samuel H. Cochran.
ssThe Relation of the School to the
Parish" Rev. William Gardam. Each
paper will be fully discussed by the
conference.
Among those present at the confer
ence Yesterday were Rev. E. G. Bill,
Seabury Divinity school; Fred Earring
ton, st. Paul: Rev. c. A. Cummings, st.
Johns church, st. Cloud; Rev. Andrew
d. Stowe, Ascension church, Saltwater;
Rev. Edwin johnson, Christ church,
Austin; r. Fl. Dunbar and Charles w.
Butler, Christ church. st. Paul:
w. G. Pope, Church of the
Good Shepherd, st. Paul; Rev.
J. w. Jones, Lake City; Rev. w. S.
Sayres, Montevideo; r. w. Hewitt, Sea-
bury Hall, Faribault; A. B. Murray, A.
Ell. Murray, Elizabeth j. Adams, Mrs.
NJ. B. Walker, M. J. Rogers, st. Paul's
church, Minneapolis; Miss l.. A. House,
Rev. A. j. Graham, 5ohn Soper, Mrs.
Walters, Holy Trinity church, Mime
apolis; Mrs. E. NJ. Hall, Mrs. Mary e..
Hall, F. H. Hall, ST. Luke's church,
Minneapolis: Rev. A. r. Graves, Geah-
seman church: M. j. Palslow, Grace
church, Minneapolis; Mrs. S. j. Austin,
st. Marks church.
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