The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-04-05
Sunday School Workers Abroad.


The fact may not be generally known
to our readers that two nieces of our es-
teemed fellow citizen, Daniel Harvey, of
wilma, are doing very efficient Sunday
School work in Scotland. The two ladies
engaged in this successful work are
Misses Annie and Bessie Tyson, of Fair,
quar- county. Virginia, daughters of Su.
san Harvey Tyson. a sister of Mr.. Har-
vey's. They went abroad last summer on
their evangelstic mission under the aus
pieces of the Presby terrain Church and the
Aberdeen E0ening Gazette of March 18th
notices their work in that city by saying
that "the mission of Miss Tyson, the
American lady who has devoted herself
with conspicuous success to Sabbath
School work, and who is now labouring
in Aberdeen, bids fair to prove, both di-
rectly and indirectly, of very great advan-
tage. AT the meeting held In the Free
East Church last night. there was large
attendance both of children and of those
who are interested in the religious and
secular education of the young. The
teachers present were desirious of study
ing the methods practised by Miss "
son, and we cannot doubt that the prac-
teal hints conveyed by her will result i'll
the increased efficiency of Sunday School
teaching in Aberdeen. That there is
room for Improvement in this respect is
undeniable. Many young teachers, who
taken up the work with zeal and earnest
ness, and whose intellectual equipment
is entirely satisfactory, and painfully
conscious of the lack of those practical
qualifications which can enable teacher
to arouse and sustain the interest of a
class. To those who are aware of their
defect in this particular, and who have in
consequence become rather discouraged,
the helpful counsel and practical aid of
Miss Tyson will be very welcome. Per-
haps the most outstanding and distinc
tive characteristic of Miss Tyson's
method of teaching is the frequency with
which the blackboard is brought into
requisition. Upon this, as means of
impressing upon the minds of the scholars
the salient and important facts brought
out in the course of the lesson, Miss Ty-
son seems to place great reliance-thus
adopting in the Sunday School device
with which we are all familiar in connec-
ton with ordinary secular instruction.
We question whe Their any Sunday School
teacher in Aberdeen has ever thought of
resortlng to this. Yet it's practical utility
was strlkingly exemplitied last night
when Miss Tyson proceeded to question
her pupils upon the facts communicated
on the occasion of Sundays lesson. Moth
ing could be more admirable than the
promptitude with which every question
was answered-thus showing that per-
manent impression had been made upon
the minds of the children. Excellent as
seem the method of instruction followed
by Miss Tyson, it is hardly necessary to
say that these do not alone account for
the great success which she has attained
as a Sunday School teacher. These
would have availed but little if it were
not for the studied simplicity of her Ian
guage, the earnestness of her appeals,
the apt illustrations by which Gospel
truth is made Ineligible to even the
youngest children, and, above all, her