The evening times., 1896-05-01
TRAINING OF THE YOUNG
Sunday y-School Work Discussed
BY Swadeaborgian Council.
NURSERY OF THE CHURCH
Rev. Ii. Clinton Hay of Providence
Spoke On the Sunday school in and
Out of the Church-Rev. w illium L.
Worcester of Philadelphia Talked
Oh Al Lesson From the Purables.

The fourth days session OF the Sweden
| borgian council was devoted to Sunday
school work, and during the day the an.
mai meeting OF the American New Church
! Sunda y-school Association was held. Rev
II. Clinton Hay of Providence, X. l.. pre-
sided. The feature of the occasion wa.
| the presidents address by DIR. Hay, the SUBJ
iect being The Sunda y-school in and o.
the church.
Among other things, Mr.. Hay said:
The turee great functions of a church
are: First, to understand and teach the
Word OF God; second, to obey it i'll daily
life, and third, 20 worship the Lord by
means OF it. The Sunday-schhol finds its
place in lhe first of these.
ALLIED WITH THE CHURCH
1t should never he thought OF as another
organization, but as The church itself, en-
ga ged in the perforpiance of this first and
Indispensable function. 1t Is Tor all
young and Old alike. 1t is the nursery of
The cnurch, not i'ecause II provides Ior the
care OF children, but 1Or that nurture OF
the intellect which enables all to advance
more and more INTO the service and wor-
ship of the Lord.
..riie Sunday school in its essence is not
so modern an institution as We may
imagine. An earlier form OF IL existed in
the synagogue school of the Jews. 1t is CONF
ing more and more to be relied upon as a
successful means or building up and keep
ing up its churches
"A Sunday school begins with the chill
dren whose attendance Is easily secured,
and every chld who is won can in time be
made a missionary, To bring in other scholars
and older brothers and sisters. and even
the father and mother and older friends are
frequently led TO follow. Furthermore. in
beginning with the children and enlisting
their Co-operat ton, We begin with minds free
from errors and pTeIudices, and most open
to the influences of the Lord and His angels
from Within
Wonderful results have been obtained
in this way in the churches about us. The
ma gnitude of pioneer Sunday school work.
with its results of church gatherings, is
one OF the marvels of The century.
There are reasons. with which we are
all more or less familiar. why We cannot
expect as great Results in the New Church
not now.
WORK TO BE DONE
But that something can be done has
been shown in the work of the mission
of the New Church in New York. Indeed.
may we not question whether a great
deal might not be done, a great deal more
than we have even dared 10 wish. if We
would adopt these methods, with the
trust and devotion which inspired Stephen
PaXson?''
Rev. G. II Dole. of Maine. opened the
meeting with devotional exercises, after
which Secretary and Treasurer Ma vhev
read his reports.
The feature of the afternoon session.
which opened at O'Clock was an address
by Rev. William l.. Worcester. of Phila-
dclphia. on "A Lesson from the Parablcs''
He presented lesson from the Lords
parable of the children in the markets, as
an example of a kind of study which may
I've followed by older classes in the Sunday
school with all the parallels and with all
parts of scripture. BY the help of simple
principles of correspondence between the
world without and the world of the humane
mind the spiritual Significance of the sew
raj words of the parable was shown with
some dcfiniteness.