The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-22
SUNDAY SCHOOL, Work.
County Convention of Teach
ers in Hoboken's First
Baptist Church.
STATE UNION AT RosEVILLE.
How the Money is Ralsed--speak-
ers and Speeches on Methods
of Instruction.

Two weeks ago tomorrow small manila
envelopes were distributed among the
children of the various evangelical Sun
day schools Of the city. They bore the
words Sunday School Work" and blank
spaces for name of pupil and the school
from which he came, These are distrib.
uted once a year by the Hudson County
Sunday School Association, SO that every
pupil may place within whatever sum Of
money he sees fit, endorsing the amouIi
on the outside, and send to the ~headquar
tiers of the association. From this source
its funds are derived.
just at this time OF the year the Sunday
School Association comes into promi-
hence, for during this month and next
not only do The various county organiza-
tions hold conventions but on November
16 and II the State League Will hold its
%trieDnial meeting The system of united
Sunday school work in the State OF New
Jersey is the result of long
continued labor on the part of its
organizers and directors and ID now
in excellent working order. More than
thirty years ago tue different Sunday
schools. who had hitherto individually
assisted mission schools in need OF money
or supplies, Joined in local unions. which
should receive money from more pros
porous Sunday schools. and distribute it
among those In straitened circumstances.
These unions expanded into county or
CARNATIONS, and from these the State as
ISOLATION was formed.
CONVENTION WORK.
The County Conventions. which are
held annually, are all on the same gen
erai plan. The delegates lei BILE in
the morning, open the exercise with de-
v~otions. and proceed 20 the election of
officers, reports from committees, and q
detailed summary of amounts received
from the various Sunday schools where
the yearly contribution has been taken
up. After business has been disposed Of
there follows a discussion of methods i'll
Sunday school woik. for with the march
of improvement in public school teaching,
the Introduction of object lessons, the
general ambition to draw out
facts instead of putting them in,
keep step. The teacher or the suparin-
tendent who has a new plRn-a tested
plan-to keep small boys from ~squirming
all over the seats when they are being
told aDout Jonah and the whale, or a
blackboard chart whereby q small girl
can be made TO see exactly how Noah
came out of the ark, is sure of an atten-
LItO duNlCGNO All RACuty Va 4AO9klNuS
after his speech Is concluded.
Mrs. Alice May Scudder of the Taber-
nacie has some highly original kinder
garten methods for infant Grasses, as told
at length in these columns. Mr. George
H. Corield of the Bergen Baptist Church
has spent almost all his time lately in at
tending county conventions, where he has
been invited to tell about his famous
primary class in the Bergen Baptist sun
day school. This class is not only large,
out interesting and interested, aud
primary Sunday school teachers every
where Ill the State are anxious
to hear how it is carried on.
The Rev. Edward McMinn. of the Sum-
NIT Avenue Baptist Church, has someim-
Interested that make him All important
member OF. sucb an organization. The
Rev. I. w. Hathaway and the Rev. Theo-
dore Hefsi2 believe in the stereopticon a.,
u means of grace. The Rev. C. Woelfkin,
of the North Baptist Church, has The
largest Sunday School on record in this
city, and an unique society, the &C. C."
besides. So almost every pastor and Sun
day School Superintendenr. the latter in
particular. has either some new idea to
advance or some problem to be solved.
HOME MISSIONS.
The Hudson Sunday School Association
includes schools from all Protestant
c~hurcnes. with the exception Of the Epis-
copalians. So far as the prosperous
schools are concerned, the association
sleeps eleven months in the year,
for they do not heal of it until
the yellow envelopes are distributed Il
month before the convention. But its
officers are working all the time for the
assistance Of new schools. furnishing sup
plies for missions. sometimes distributing
hymn books formerly used by one school
to a poorer Que. Every year the list of
self-sunportlng schools grows longer, and
new missions are added. The WORK is not
directly connected with the ehurch-that
is, a pastor who is not a Sunday school
superintendent is not expected to know
as much about the work as one who is,
and a Sunday school worker Is of more
Importance in the association than one
Whose labor is exclusively Tor the church
proper.
The attention paid to methods in teach
ing rather than in money getting is GER
tainly u commendable departure. The
association supposes that a school where
the lessons are at once instructive and
entertaining will soon be sel%f-supporting.
The Hudaon County Sunday School AS
ISOLATION will meet in the First Baptist
Church, Hoboken. November 8. The
State union Of associations will meet in
convention in the Roseville NJ. E. Church,
where the w. @. L. u. recently held a
State convention. Delegates from this
city should take the green electric cars at
Market and Broad streets. going toward
Orange. Luncheon will be served be-
tween sessions.