The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-19
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SUNDAY SCHOOLS MEET.
State Convention Holds It's
Triennial Convention
at Rosevil1e.
NEWS FROM THE NORMAL FIELD.
A New Departure at the North Bap-
list Church-Cooking and
Kitchen Gardening.
NEWS FROM THE NORMAL FIELD.

This is a great time Of year for the
Sunday school. To say nothing of the
fact that Christmas Is slowly but surely
drawing near, and the keen eyed small
boy can already spy Christmas trees in
the distance,-not to mention that in the
course of three we ks the classes will be-
gin TO fill with mefcenary-minded Young
sters, whose sudden interest in their
souls welfare is something strange to
see-to say nothing OF these reasons why
the month OF November should be pre-
%eminently the month for Sunday school
workers, the different associations of
teachers in Sabbath schools have been
holding meetings, reunions. conven-
tons, until you can't rest. First it was
the Essex County County Association
that met in East Orange and Union
county at Railway and Monmouth county
at Freehold. and all the other counties at
other localities. Then Hudson had her
great convention in West Hoboken,
Election Day. And now. November 16
and II, the State organization holds its
%triennial convention in the Roseville M.
4. Church. Newark.
a CONVENTION FAvoRITE.
The church building is large and gay,
and imposing. and evidently considered
by State societies in u central location
since the State w. G. L. y. also selected
it for u meeting place at their last con-
vention. The pastor. Rev. MI. Meek, be-
lieves In all kinds of progressive church
work, and his parishioners agree with
him. The ladies of the parish evidently
consider connecting schemes for the
welfare of the world to be hungry work,
for they provide lunches for such dele
gates. whose quantity Is exceeded only
by their quality, served in the prettiest
style.
When the association was deprived by
death Of its earnest laborer, the Rev. S.
w. Clark, the Rev. e. NJ. Ferguson, who
was appointed by the State Executive
COMMITTEES to fill his place, entered upon
his duties with a will that made it's
mark. The reports of various officials
showed that there were in the State 210,-
rs pupils registered; 1881 teachers, and
S,S41 officers. There has been a marked
decrease in Sunday school membership,
nearly 10000 less thad for the preceding
three years. Over thirty thousand Sum
day school pupils have joined the Church
from the school.
NORMAL METHODS.
The most instructive feature of the con.
vention. aside from the practical reports.
was an address by Rev. A. w, Schaufler,
of New York. Rev. DR.. Schauf1e RS nor
NAL class for teachers has lon9 been a
feature of church life at the Broadway
Tabernacle. and numbers of teachers. not
ouly from New York, but from this city
and Brooklyn as well. attend on Satur-
day afternoons to hear the lesson for the
following day explained with reference
to normal methods. The Rev. MIR.
Schaufier spoke of the fou aims that q
teacher should deep in mind.
COOKING TO MUSIC.
A new department in Sunday school
work, or rather, in work auxiliary 10 the
Sunday school. is the kitchen garden
class in operation at the North Baptist
Church. Mrs. Hannah Cairns inaug-
urated the scheme, which, as the public
is by this time pretty well aware, teaches
children how to set tables. wash dishes,
sweep. wash int iron, wait on the door,
and do all the similar physical culture ex-
ercises with which a hOusekeeper employs
her time. The differences between this
and the old fashioned method of instrue-
tic Is mainly that the children learn by
means of songs and marching exercises
and talks such as one hears in a properly
conducted kindergarten-hy which they
are cOaxed into doing what they might
consider a great imposition.
AS already noticed In The JERSEY CITY
NEWS, the class has just held its gradual
ing exercises recently, sending u twenty
one little housewives. There is a cooking
class, as a sort of High School, where the
young women OF the church learn how
to make pies warranted net to keep the
later awake, except to mediate over
their excellence, ana to make a variety of
eatables in the proper way. Among the
young cooks who have received insJruc-
tion here are Misses Edith Cairns, Eta
Snyder. Jennie and Clara Lewis, Lizzie
Lane, Lizzie ClapD, Cora Richardson. the
Misses Bush, Kittie Mauds, Hattie Hau-
sci and Ida McKelvey.