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The report of the counters was laid upon the
table until some future time.
Mr.. Reynolds addressed the convention on state
work, Methods and Measures for the Future"
NJ K. Vaughn OF Pennington, president of the
franklin county Sabbath School Association,
spoke on "The County Convention: What it does,
what it may do" 1t gets its large influence from
being in the heart Of the people, so that all who
Will can come, and is so near that those that do
not mry be made to come and that it may do far
more by being pushed to its farthest limit.
The afternoon session opened with the usual
devotional exercises, led by Rev. A. s. Ladd, and
Scripture reading by Rev. E. P. Armstrong OF
Springfield, Mass. An address was delivered on
"The Boy and the Book" by Rev. G. II. spalding
d. d., secretary of the Baptist Publication Society
Boston. 1t is the endeavor first to bring the boy
to the Book and then vice versa cit is the work of
the Sunday school to teach religious truths and
bring the boy to the Book. 1t is well known
fact that there is something in the mental facul-
ties OF child that enables it to comprehend some
thing of religious truth, and it is the early teach
ing on Sunday that brings about 1.-THE Idesred re-
keeps at it and finally the Book, SO 10 speak. alb.
serbs the boy into Its own individuality, and its
teachings are part Of the boys own nature.
MISS HARLOW OF Lowell, Mass, gave an illustra-
ton OF her method of teaching primary class in
Sunday school. A class was formed for the occa-
sion composed of about twenty little girls and
boys She first got the attention of the little ones
by telling them story, and illustrated the same
on black board by marks representing the diff
ferent characters in the story and what thew tiiO
her story was told In such way that the children
clearly comprehended the lesson taught Hers is
evidently successful and common sense method
the things being presented to the minds of the
children concisely land so clearly that even the
youngest In the class can comprehend the whole
Miss Harlow's class was followed by Rev. A.
+. Schauff1er, ID. D.. in his addres "Relgious
Uses OF the Imagination" and right ably and
most interestingly was 1t given. He claims that
imagination plays most important part and
should be largely used In teaching the Scriptures
Everyone knows that In the child the Imagination
IS very active and the teacher should use it. DR.,
Schaufers idea is that the teacher in Sunday
school should picture in the Imagination, as near
as may be, the scene in the Bible to Represented
with 1t. When the idea In the imagination of the
teacher Is presented, that of the child grasps it.
and thus the child Is enabled to learn through its
imagination things 1t would be unable, il present.
ed IN other forms, to grasp.
Inc lecture by DR.. Schauffier entitled "Ruir
and Rescue. or Low Life and Mission Work in the
Metropolis" was given last evening at the Second
Parish church to large and highly appreciative
audience. The lecture was illustrated by stereop.
ticon views OF lodging and tenement houses aud
the people found In them, pictures of criminals
and scenes on Blackwells Island. 1t then turned
TO the places of missionary work, some of the
chspels, the newsboy's home and the day nursery
Tor children of working mothers.