Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-30
DELAWARE BAPTIST UNION
Proceedings OF Its Closing
Sessions.
SOME INTERESTING ADDRESSES
Further Action Respecting the
Semi-annual Meetings.



Baptist Union, Wednesday, opened with
devotional exercises conducted by the
Rev. II. II. Middleditch.
The motion by which the senli.annual
meetings were abolished was recon-
sidcred and annulled.
Tho committee on place, and time for
the next meeting announced that it had
no report to make, the union not having
received any invitations. The matter Of
selecting the next meeting place and
fixing the time for the meeting was left
with the committee of arrangements.
The committee of arrangements re.
ported that it had selected the Rev.
A. b. Carpenter to preach the doctrinal
sermon at the next meeting and had
chosen the Rev. 9. w. Ray, D. D., for
alternate.
The committee on enrolment reported
that 1877 delegates were present
L. b. Lewis read q paper on "The
Necessity for More Careful Discipline
in Our Churches" He advocated strict
discipline and declared careless and
lukewarm members should be admon
ished and put on probation as to con.
tinuance and those who are entirely
careless of the duties and restraints Of
the church should be expelled. He
thought a small church of members
spiritually alive is better than large
one encountered. with dead material.
| A paper entitled "a Bible Land Tour"
was read by the Rev. w. +. cambridge,
D. D. The fifth, sixth and seventh
chapters of IL Kings were the basis of
his remarks.
Mrs. s. NJ Green delivered an address
entitled Suggestions as TO Libraries"
She spoke particularly of Sunday-school
libraries and asked: Do they teach any
thingp Do they improve children? She
had commenced to read them when she
was years old and had read great
many Of them, and they had given her
mental dyspepsia. Shall we call them a
success morally? she inquired. Many
Surday.school libraries, she asserted
keep children from reading the Bible
aud studying the Sunday-school lesson.
If the children must have libraries, she
exclaimed, they must have different
kind of books; give them literature that
lives, that means something. Donot let
us trust to our Sunday-school books for
Christianity and morality, but to the
Bible.
One of the most interesting addresses
of the session was that delivered by
Professor NJ. u. Evans. He was on the
programme to tell "How to Teach the
Bible-school Lesson by the Inductive
Method" and stated that he had con.
scented to speak because he did not be,
lieve in the method. After defining the
word induction he declared that the
inductive method is entirely foreign tc
what the word induction means. The
method, he said, has come to NEAR
something like what "Annie Rooney
means in our songs; it means nothing
1t can't, he continued, be carried GU
scientifically; man studies inductively
but you can't teach inductiyely. VIVA
do we have the Sunday forg he
asked. Do we study simply to get the
, facts of the Bible9 The prime object o.
the Sunday-school is not to teach how
to think but how to live. The inductiv,
method, he exclaimed, means you can
believe until you have gone through th,
Bible as whole. He believed in Undue
ton but he didn't believe it's the creates
panacea under the sun for the Sunday
, schools. He thought il was a pity tn
Sunday-school children are not laugh
! to memorlze scripture. He did not be
' lleve the inductivc method will revolu
/. tlonize Sunday-schools or make bette
Christians. He thought it is injurious
: He was old fogy enough, he added, t,
say go back to his childhood, when h.
I had to commit chapter after chapter h
memory. Mcmorizing scripture will
make children better even If 1t does no
! make them Christians.
!, The Rev. A. ]. Furman said go :
a work in the Sunday-schools and teac
: the children how to study, how t
memorize and how to practice tn
! teachings of scripture; let us go back /
! the old methods and our Sunday-school
!, will be benefited.
DR.. Bainbridge said: ~ desire to ente
here my protest against the mere car
cature Of the inductive method pr,
sented this afternoon. The inductiv
' method is the judgment of our best edu
:. Gators and the Judgment of the best edl
q Gators throughout the country" II
d referred to several passages respectin
A being born again and asked whetht
4. they did not teach inductiyely the ne
II birth.
+. Remarks favoring the position take
[. by Professor Evans were made by I'll
Ie Reys. g. w. w. Bishop, b. 4. Mooi
Mr.. Middleditch referred to two pa
IL sages of Scripture and inquired whetht
q Professor Evans would like children
" carry them in their minds all the day
o of their lives.
u The Rev. J. Wesley Sullivan feart
1t the boys are being given 50 much indu
he ton they will be indicted clear out
II tho Sunday-schools.
o Thomas H. IL. Messenger suggestC
so that there be put on the programme ii
5. the next meeting the following: "Ho
to Teach the Blble-school Lesson
(a) slow i is Taught" (b) "How
IN Should be Taught"
o. In reply Professor Evans said |
ut would not decry the inductive metht
IN if it were followed. DIR, Harper,
er declared, is the only man who has
Y: intelligent idea Of it. He dehed al
~ man present, he didn't care whether
III was ID. ID. or not, to master the indu
n tive method in three months. Eve
mt scholar, he continued, should study i
ed ductvely, but teacher cannot teach i
le ductiyely, With him it was not que
y, ton OF old or new methods, but que
w ton of the best way of putting the Bib
ed. in the hands of thechildren. He wou
ill say no better way has been discover
of than memorizing Scripture.
gs Charles II. Cantwell stated the mel
he bership of the churches and SunIe
EN- schools in the u,ion a nd olso ~ ~ g..
an rasronti,,r ~ r,n,,,barat;,' q We is u
and Sunday-schools of other denomin
tions.
"a. The Rev. J. Q. Lamb delivered an a
ief dress on Temperance Instruction
i ~.
an the rshnlly. ne advocated tne pr,
is uce OIL piohlpltioh IN the iamlly' a