The times., 1889-06-14
County Sunday school Convention.
BUTTON. June II, 1889.

| Secretary's report read and approved.
| Address by the Rev. j. b. Oliver. Sub
ject: ''The Neglecting Classes-How to
Arouse Them"
The subject was ably presented and well
received. The discussion was led by the
president, who thought that there are two
divisions of the neglecting classes-the in
4 different and the uneducated. Rev. Bailey
thought that the masses could best be con-
quered by better leadership. Rev. Riley
advised members to be more enthusiastic
Rev. Kennedy remarked ''That each have
an inviduality, and it is not good policy to
enter into war with unbelievers with a
view to their conversion" Rev. Davies " If
the neglecting classes are those who have
once been awake, but have gone to sleep,
| use heroic treatment; shake them up. But
| If they are those whose natures are unde-
veloped, simply educate them" He then
asked this question: ''How many are quail
ified to teach i'm Sunday-schools ?" 1.-THE
time is coming when the Church will edu-
| cate members for special work, each in his
or her own direction" Rev. Bush There
are too many in the Sunday-school who
need instruction themselves. Impress on
each his or her personal responsibility in the
matter" The discussion brought out many
other valuable points, which space forbids
mentioning.
The next topic on the programme was to
have BEEN 1.-The Neglected Classes-How
to Reach Them," by Rev. j. o. Cults, of
OwOssO, but owing to an accident he was
unable to be present. The discussion was
taken up by the Rev. Fisher. He said that
every man is fountain for good or evil in
fluences for good succeeded by hard labor,
and that Sunday-schools are no exception
to the rule. He also thought there is too
much mechanical work and lack of inspira-
ton, which, of itself, would court defeat.
man was poor worker in the pulpit who
is a poor laborer out of il. Begin with
ourselves. Renew our strength by a fer
weren't prayer and study of the word of
God" Rev. Davies view was, that Christs
highest conception of man was the working
disciple. This working principle might be
called Life in the same sense that the power
to create leaves in trees is called Life. God
gives the power in degrees, and the evidence
is the inclination TO certain kinds of work !;
but woe to him who hearing the call, fails
to respond. The most infinite thoughts of
each Christian should be, 81 can think
Christ's thoughts" There is more eloquence
in Christians example than In his voice.
AS well say that a live tree will not produce
fruit as that a Christian example will not.
A man cannot love God and hate his brother.
Rev. Bush said that the main object of
building a Sabbath-school was the saliva
ton of man. Rev. Van Ommeran advised
professors to be more earnest in the means
of grace. Rev. Spencer added the use of
prayer from the fountain of the heart fol-
the use of teachers. Mrs. Willoughby
advised teachers to have more love for their
scholars. Further ideas brought out by the
discussion were: That our ability to labor
was not gift of God but a conservation OF
ourselves to Him. A Christians inner and
outer life ought to be identical No symet-
rical Christian should have any fear for the
result of his labors, as that rested with GOO
alone. That two things were essential to a
successful neutrality-suspicious. and conse
Grafton.
The Question Box was then opened ant
the topics discussed, some of which proved
very instructive The matter of holding
Sunday-school conventions on the Sabbath
was brought up through the Question Box
and made special order for 9 a. m., to.
morrow.
Music by the choir.
BenedictiOn.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session was begun by devo
ti0nal exercises which were participated il
by several of the ministers present and few
selections by the choir were effectively ren.
dered, after which the regular programme
was taken up, the first being an address by
the Rev. III. Van Ommeran. Subject: sTht
Sunday-schOol and the Republic" All in
stitutiOns were, he said, dependent upOr
the Sunday-school. Monarchies, being ruled
by a single person, to be well governed must
have wise head on the throne. In a re-
public each man should possess the requi.
sites of king to make the government 9
permanent one. He must be educated botl
mentally and morally. Man i'm an unedll.
Gated state represented q field covered will
a rank growth of natural vegetation, bu,
when we begin to cultivate that field weeds
begin to spr0ut, and endeavor to choke the
good seed. So it was with the youth of oul
land. They entered the world in an unde-
veloped state, both mentally and morally
and it was the purpose of the schools anC
Sunday-schools to cultivate those latent fac.
ulties. Mental culture without moral train
ing was simply one grand farce. A repub
lican form of government could only exist
where religion held sway, and instanced the
Pilgrims, the Quakers, and Huguenots a.
proofs of the fact. The day-school he made
supplementary TO the Sunday-school i'm the
perpetuation of government, and J outh the
best time to operate. Two centuries ago.
said he, the spirit of freedom, like mere
ripple, started from old Plymouth Rock and
was waited across the Atlantic, and found 9
Judgement in both England and Russia
Now it was returning westward in one vast
tidal wave which would shake the earth tc
its very foundations. Seven million five
hundred thousand emigrants have come to
our shores I'm thirty years. Those foreign.
ers were not evangelizers, and on the Sun.
day-school devolved the responsibility OF
Christianizing them; thus making the Sun.
day-school as great a power in the Nation
as the courts or halls of legislation.
This was followed by an address by Chas.
Holman, of Corunna. Subject, ''Our Re
sponsibilities as Christian Workers." Mr.
Holman being the pioneer of Shiawasset
county in Sunday School School work, wa:
well fitted to think on that line of thought
The evils which threatened our nation h,
placed in the following order as regarded
Importance: Mormonism, intemperance
emigration and socialism, in6delity and un
belief, impure literature and SABBATH desecra
ton. Someone remarked that "God woul'
take care of children, fools and the Unite,