The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-05
THE OVERFLOW MEETING
rhe soxeninr Meeting.

In the evening the conference Of the
Sunday school union met, Assistant
Sunday School Superintendent George
Goddard presiding. The Sunday school
board occupied the stand and large
audience filled the auditorium and gal
Iery.
After a number of Sunday school Sc
lections had been rendered Elder KARI
G. Maeser was introduced and spoke
on How to Conduct a Moral Sunday
School Board.
It was not intended, he said, to make
professionals cut of those who followed
the normal Sunday school boards.
That is not necessary. Wonderful pro-
gress has been made within late years
and there will be no end Of improve
ment in this direction. The Latter-day
Saints are not in the rear in their sun
day school work and many Vlsleors
have made commendatory remarks on
our system.
Elder Maeser said the younger mem
bers were full Of irnpetuous zeal and in
the past had been working without
system. What had been needed was
more modern methods and these had
now been introduced throughout the
stakes of Zion. The spirit of the Lat
ter-day Saints must be distinguished
everywhere in the Sunday school work.
The object was to produce in the stu
dents a testimony of Jesus Christ, or
testimony of the divinity of the Lat
ter-day work and to insure to them, as
well as to the teachers, the assistance
of the spirit of God. If these objects
were kent continually in view, there
would be no difficulty in distinguishing
a Sunday school of the Latter-day
/ Saints from a sectarian Sunday school,
/ Elder Maeser spoke at length of the
methods now followed In Sunday school
work and the results achieved at the
! Provo academy and elsewhere by the
normal course. A paper, giving de-
tailed instructions to prospective Sun
/ day school teachers, was also read.
A song by female Quartette was fol-
lowed by noisy applause from the gal
/ leries President Cannon at once arose
and said that if the applause did not
cease the meeting would be dismissed.
Notwithstanding this the applause still
continued and President Cannon there
upon instructed the ushers to expel all
such persons from the galleries. The
! applause then subsidized almost immedi-
ately.
Apostle Francis NJ. Lyman was the
next speaker. He began with refer
ence to two Idaho Saints who had re-
l
Mrs" instead of brother and sis
ter" He had told them that if they
would attend the evening meeting he
would take the incident as a text for
his sermon.
In the church of Latter-day Saints
he said. there is a fellowship and bro
thernood and members of the church
should not follow after the world, by
addressing each other in this forma
manner. 1t is proper for Saints to adj
dress one another as brother anc
sister and it is pleasing to the Lord
The other form sounds too much like
Gentile-ism. The Latter-day Saints ara
brothers and sisters and we ought no.
to address each other in any othel
way.
Apostle Heber j. Grant read letter
Of instruction to Sunday school teach
ers, signed by the state board.
President Cannon, who followed
spoke of the necessity OF punctualit.
among the children in attending Sun
day school.
President Cannon, in the course o
his sermon, said that in many Sunday
schools too much fiction and too littl,
Biblical lore was taught The Sunda,
school should not be converted into dis
trict schools. While system should pre-
vail in the work, common school meth
DDS should be largely eschewed. Moth
ing. he continued, could be more inGer
esting than stories from the Bible. TIL
two testaments, in connection with thu
Book of Mormon, contained plenty o
interesting incidents 1t is not neces
sary to follow the method of the secta
rian Sunday schools.
After an anthem had been rendere,
by the choir the meeting was dismisse,
with prayer by Apostle John W. Taylor
Some days nothing will come on
right from the time you rise till yo
retire. Ten to one, the trouble is i
yourself Your blood is in bad cond
: ton, and every organ suffers in cor
2 sequence What you need is the cleans
t ing, invigorating influence Of Aver
: Sarsaparilla.