St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-10-25

There are those, and am one of them,
that look upon the house of God as
place to listen to the preaching of the
gospel. The world is thinking and we
must think how to fit the truth to the
understanding of children, thus feeding
the lambs of God. The Sunday School
should be the childrens sanctuary. The
Sunday School should be a part of the
church and regarded as the children's
sanctuary, and should be place for the
study of the Word of God, which may be
best understood by studying it in an in
| telectuai way, as it il, the seed corn of
the heavenly kingdom, and like all other
seeds is propagated in the proper atmos-
phere and moisture. So the atmosphere
of the Sunday School must be moist by
the breathings of the Holy Spirit. 1t
must be sanctuary of prayer, and your
hearts must be open to receive the word
of God. You have not reached the climax
until you have reached souls of your
little ones. You should hold on and work
on though you do not reach the end,
though you do not see the conversion of
your child, cling on, work on and do not
get disheartened, even though you do not
see any advancement. Do not be dis
couraged if you can but hold the scholar
where he was instead of going backward.
The church that simply stands with its
spire uplifted is noble church If it does
no more. And the Sunday School teach
er is a noble one who can but hold the
class"
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
After a devotional service, profitable
half hour was spent i'll listening to one
minute reports from different Sunday
Schools. 1t would be impossible to give
in these columns all these reports. The
Christian Sunday School at Calais re-
ported five additions to the church from
the Sunday School. The Bellows Falls
School reported profitable outside work,
The College street Congregational school
at Burlington use the Blakeslee lessons
and has employed a trained Kindergarten
teacher for the juveniles. The Barre Con-
gregationa school has rs children III the
school OF 375 members. A home depart
ment OF 80 members was reported from
the South Ryegate Presbyterian school.
In the Richiord Methodist church 80
have joined the church who were mem
bers of the chooI. In the East Burke
Congregational church nearly all attend
the Sunday School. At Lyndon a young
ladies society has been organized for
musical culture, manual labor, etc. The
Methodist school at Burlington has 105
on the primary roll. The Congregations
al school at Bethel has teachers meet
ings. The st, Johnsbury Advent school
has sent one boy to kurn Hattin Home
and gained 53 per cent in membership
the past year, The Free Baptist school
at Enosburg Falls reported seven con
versions The South church school at
st, Johnsbury leads all Others in the
home department with III members.
Ten joined the church the past year from
the school. The Rutland Methodist
school has 573 members, an average at
tendance of 262 and 40 in the home de-
partment. The Rutland Congregational
school has 495 members and reported 32
additions to the church from the school.
They raised 1876 for benevolence, have
l31 i'll the primary department and a
business mems class. The Greensboro
Congregational school was established
in 1914 and is one OF the Oldest in the
state. 1t has 90 pupils and its superin-
tendent is serving his 25th year in that
capacity. Twenty.nine have joined the
church from the Barre Methodist school.
The North church school, st. Johnsbury,
reported an average attendance of 200
with 10 in the home department.
Following this came the report of the
officers The executive committee re-
ported the engagement of l. b. Miller
as field secretary and the latter gave a
two minute account of his work through
out the state. The report OF the treas
urer was read by Rev. ]. II. Babbtt OF
West Brattleboro. The total receipts
were $1,115.47 and the expenses
$3.50 61.
The report of the statistical secretary,