The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-16
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Address Before Mens Club at United Church Last Evening-Interes;ing Re- suits Obtained in Investigations at Clark University-. heir Application 10 Sunday School Work-Judse Baldwin to Speak Next sunday.
 President G. Stanley Hall of Clark university, Worcester, Mass, spoke un- der the auspices of the Mems club at the United church last evening to q large audience
 The subject of the address was Ped agogical Methods in Sunday School Work" the address itself being in part the results reached by extensive inves- legations made at Clark university, which have brought great credit to that institution in the last few years.
 Tor the purpose of finding the origin of such emotions as fear, anger and the common love of objects in nature, over 600,000 inquiries were sent out to people of mature mind as to their early childish impressions of these. The ans wers which were received and classified
 
 ling facts and was found that among the most common objects of childish fear is the fear of fur, teeth, eyes, air and water. This fear of one or the other of the objects named seems to be innate in the childish mind.
 Another rather startling fact shown is that there are quite a large number of people who formed the habit of pay ing adoration to the sun, moon or stars in their childhood and of even, saving their prayers to these rather than to God; others have a fetish like reverence for stones. Thus the childish mind is seen to follow after and initiate that of the primitive man. President Hall describes these early formed emotions of the child mind the parliamentary or gahs of the mind which are analogous to the tail of the tadpole or the milk teeth. By experiment it has been found ment of the legs of the frog by cutting off it's parliamentary tail has the opposite effect of dWarflng and atrophying it's legs. So in the attempt to hasten the growth of the childs mind at the ex- pense of these parliamentary organs of the mind, the mind of child fails of it's perfect development. Tn avoiding this bad result it would be better to use more tact in Sunday school teach- ing, and let the childish mind develop its love of parents or, perhaps, of rev. erence for the moon in its first rudi- mentary growth.
 The chief point in the development of a religious nature in children is to inoc- ulate a deep strong love of nature, for 1t is upon nature that art, literature science and religion aTe based, and to- day base matter has been almost glori- fled by the work of science.
 There is, however. a danger of over use of these rudimerltary organs of the mind. The period when the child reaches adolescence is of the greatest importance in the training of youth, for it is then that the mind expands and natures very rapidly. It is the most sacred trust to bring to maturity, the human mind. The slor~ If childhood and youth should De oneness with na- ture, and the glory of parents and ollil- dren should be oneness with children and nature.
 The service of the Mems Sunday Evening club next week will be com memorative of Forefathers' day. Judge Simeon E. Baldwin will give the ad- dress. His subject will be "The New Haven Pilgrims