Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-01-03
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION,
Second Annual Meeting Held at the
Methodist Church.

Rockingham Town Sunday School
association was held in the Methodist
church, Friday, December %, 1894. The
meeting was opened at 2 O'clock by a
prayer and praise service led by G. e.
ingalls,, Bellows Falls.
Reports given by the superintendent
of the various schools showed progress
in methods used and in numbers, a
general increase being noted over the
total enrolment of last year of 500
pupils. One church reported eight as
having joined the church from the Sun
day school, another Is and another 10.
The smaller schools more recently Cs-
tablished showed up well, with an
average attendance of % at Lawrence
Mills, q at Rockingham and all the
day school scholars in the Upper Mead
ows district at that Sunday school.
Lieut.. G. w. Gatchell gave very
full and interesting paper on '"The Sun
day School, its Missions and Methods. +"
'rThat the Sunday school is the church
of the future is altogether too limited a
conception. One never gets too old to
attend Sunday school, Attend and get
others to attend. Send your children.
People must be invited to come. The
teacher must have deep interest.
Have system. Attend to the social side
of the Scholar
A general discussion on possible
Improvements in Sunday School
Methods was led by HI. G. Bacon. He
thought "the dull, ignorant teachers,
the fussy teachers, should be eliminat
ed as fast as possible. The school is a
good deal what the superintendent is.
There thould be committee to look
out for strangers
G. w. Osgood followed in the discus
sion. "The reason we do not succeed
is not because we do not know how; we
are not interested enough. One i'm
provement would be to have training
class for teachers. Practice in singing.
Spend an hour day fol-. seven days in
the week on the lesson" $
"How tc Secure and Hold the Chill
dren in the Sunday School," was treat
ed in an interesting manner from prac-
tical experience in this line by Miss
Alice Jackson, Bellows Falls. ave
must go out and make the children
come in. We must make room for
them. The key that lets them in and
keeps them in after they are in, is love"
Miss jackson illustrated some of her
kindergarten methods to interest the
children.
The bearing of this same subject on
the older scholars was handled by Mrs.
Ida Stevens, Cambrigeport. 'The rea-
sons for leaving the school are various,
but there is still responsibility upon the
teacher. To those at distance a word
can be said by means of a tract. Inter
est yourself in the temporal as well as
the spiritual welfare of the scholar"
During the business hour, the follow
ing was presented by Rev. G. r. B.
Dodge:
1.-The members of the Union Sunday School
Convention of the Town of Rockingham,
meeting in the Methodist Church in Bellows
Falls, December rs, 1894, desire to thus pub
licly express their keen sense Of loss and
their sorrow at the sudden removal from
them by death of their esteemed president.
Judge A. A. Wyman of Cambridgeport.
The members of this Convention likewise
desire to assure Mrs. Wyman of their tender
est sympathy and prayers in the time of her
sore bereavement
May He who has thus wounded pour in oil
and the balm of His Comforting Grace
For His Names Sake"
John O. Spring was chosen as the
president for the ensuing year, with
Lieut.. G. w. Gatchell, LIST vice presi-
dent; Ernest Ramsey, I'd vice president;
E. G. Fairbank, treasurer; F. G. Day,
secretary.
After praise service in the evening,
the first speaker was Rev. ]. E. Fuller
ton, on the subject, "Bible knowledge
as an Equipment for Life" "The
Bible is an all-round book. There is
lust as much in it to show how to run
a dry-goods store as there is to show
how to get to Heaven. Gods idea is
that there is one department, the re-
ligious department of mans nature
and life, that we must all be loyal to
our Father and bring all the motives of
our life out of our loyalty and then
everything is sacred" He showed how
in the different books of the Bible we
find something adapted to all our ma
lures and needs.
Rev. w. r. Baldwin, Saxton's River,
then spoke upon 1.-THE Sunday School
Workers Opportunities for Soul Saw
ing" "The principal reason that God
keeps us out of Heaven for season is
that we may keep immortal souls out
of hell. One hour day, fifty-two Sun
days in the year, one-one hundred and
eighty-third of the time, is a very short
time to accomplish the great object
But there are other seasons that will
suggest themselves. The opportunity
for using the influence of a silent ex-