The morning call., 1891-02-23

Ohio whose name was Snyder. He planned
the first modern SuGday-SchOol Tor Louis
Miller of the ChautauQua Association. when
Miller was settled at Akron, about twenty
years ago. Snyder's ideas have been greatly
developed and modified, and | myself have
introduced conveniences he never thought
of, but for the main outline now followed by
all progressive city schools the credit be-
longs to him.
MANY Sunday-scho0l workers do not
agree with me, you understand. as to the ad-
visibility of keeping the primary department
all In one great class or AS to having lne
little ones present with the older scholars at
the opening of the school. Some would dl-
vide them for more individual teaching, and
would have their rooms wholly separated.
and would almost make of them separate
school with separate administration. But
believe in getting for short time all pupils
together, Tor the sake of the esprit de corps,
and TO let the little ones fully realize that
they belong to a great body"
What do yeu regard as Sunday-school
teachers most essential qualficarionsY
"a teacher must have average intelll-
gence and common sense; more than this IS
desirable, but not necessary. The one
thing that cannot be dispensed with is the
conservation to do something for God. 1t Is
not that you do it for your own souls sake
or even that you do it for the good OF the
children, but that you do it for God: This
carries everything else with it; whatever
you do for him you must do well, and so the
conservation carries with it the study, the
constant effort, the concentration OF the
powers"
Do you attach Importance, then, to the
higher education OF Sunday-sch0ol teach
erSp'
II have had in my school at the same
time comparatively uneducated working
woman and brilliant young man fresh
from college, and The woman went far be-
yOnd the other in the results she obtained
because her heart was warmer TO the work.
If the college man had had her fervor and
had then added TO it his education he
would. of course. have been more enclent
than as things stood, was either OF them.
lyon can't stand ont for classical scholar
ship; I've got to have $50 teachers, and II l
have that number of classical scholars In
my congregations | don't know where TO
lay hands on them,
"But Sunday school teaching is growing
all the time more and more intelligent. The
Sunday schools have fully purged them
selves, | think, of the complaints that used
to be lodged, and in some cases with justice,
against them. l attribute this largely to the
public schools. Such public school system
rs that of this country trains a body of clear
headed, intelligent citizens.
The international Lessons against
which So much has been said, have also
good deal to do with it, With all their dis
advantages the lesson sheets give the aver
age teacher far more than she would be in
any way likely to get for herself, They do
such preliminary work of study and expo
sition that she has no excuse for going De-
fore her class without full, intelligent COM
prehenSiOn.
The international series has won its way.
Not religious paper in the country would
dare ignore it, and the secular press finds
itself obliged to give it progressively more
and more attention."
In your Tuesday evening normal class
do you mark out courses of reading for
teachers in Oriental history and customs"
No; some Of the teachers do so them
selves for their pupils. My aim in popular
exposition is to make the Bible practical. 1t
IS not worth the paper it is written on except
for what 1t can do for us to-day. / don't
care any more about what happened to JesuG
than do about what happened TO julius
Cesar, except SO far as Jesus is a living