The record-union., 1896-04-03
Finance-C. a Perkins. Rev. DR.
Banks, j. Fred. Wilson.
PROGRAMME RESUMED.
Sunday-School Experience-Consider
alton of Conference Reports.

Sunday-School Experience-Conside
alton of Conference Reports.
The next feature of the work of the
convention was the conference on
Practical Sunday-School Thoughts,
Gathered From Experience" feature
that awakened great interest.
Rev. w. A. Hoskinson was elected
Chairman of the Pastors Conference,
w. w. Lewis of the Superintendents'
Grove F. Ekins of the Teachers and
Mrs. M. M. Harding of the Primary
Teachers.
The delegates divided themselves into
the classes mentioned, and spent an
| hour in the discussion of the subject,
| and then a half-hour was devoted to
conference reports made by the differ
emit Chairmen.
The afternoon meeting was opened
with praise service conducted by
Messrs. Sankey and Stebbins.
President Morton read letter full of
greetings and recommendations from
b. F. Jacobs, the great Sunday-school
worker and Chairman of the Interna-
tional Sunday-school Executive Com
mittee.
DR.. Ketchum of Berkeley, member
of the State Sabbath Association, adj
dressed the convention on the subject Of
Sabbath Observance" Following his
address, the convention unanimously
adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, That we have listened with
pleasure and profit to the address Of
DR.. Ketchum, representing the Cali
fornia State Sabbath Association, on
Sabbath Observance" that, in our ca
pacity as Sunday school workers, we
pledge ourselves to do all we can to
assist the association in protecting the
Christian Sabbath from the dangers
that now threaten it.
The next hour was devoted to the
open parliament on "Mistakes-Mis-
takes of Superintendent, by Teachers;
Mistakes of Teachers, by Superintend-
ents; Mistakes in Sunday-sc schools, by
Scholars
Criticism was freely offered, and much
of interest and direct Importance to the
life of a Sunday-school brought out
through the discussion.
HOME CLASS DEPARTMENT.
Rev. L. L. Writ of San Francisco adj
dressed the convention on the subject of
1.-The Home Class Department" He
said:
Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes
We're struggling through a London fog
one day, finding great difficulty in max
ing their way, but as the fog thick
ened Mr.. Kingsley's spirits seemed to
rise. Turning to his friend, he ex-
claimed: This is like life; we often slip.
we get lost in byways, we struggle on
from one dim lamp to another; but,
after all our mistakes and failures, there
is light enough to finally guide us home"
There are indeed lights which guide
us though this Valley of the
Shadow" but 1 know of none so bright
or so true as that Word of God, which
becomes to the believer a lamp to his
feet and light to his path"
The Sunday-school has grandly
sought to light every mans pathway
with this heavenly effulgence, and, in
pursuance of its divine mission, it has
been ever ready to take UP and make
living every new plan or suggestion
which could advance it's great mission.
Beginning with what is now known
as the primary class, there have been
added to the effectiveness and compre-
hensiveness of the Sunday-sc or
ganization the following distinct de-
partments: Junior, intermediate, senior,
adult, normal, library, kindergarten
and, lastly, the home class department.
It is my mature judgment that there
are more people who cannot attend the
Sunday school than there are of those
who will not. These are: First, the
"shut-in" class-the aged and invalid,
with their attendants; second, workers
on the Sabbath Day--busy mothers,
house servants, clerks, miners, res
taurant and hotel employees, physicians
and nurses, watchmen and policemen,
railway operatives, sailors and soldiers,
cowboys and shepherds. ETC.; third, the
isolated; fourth, the poor.
1t was the deep conviction that the
Sunday ought in some way to
reach out helping hand to these thou
sands in our very midst, who are SIT
ting outside the shining of that Lamp,
the entrance of which into heart, home,
community and nation giveth Light.
that inspired the conception Of the
"home department" idea in the mind Of
DIR. w. A. Duncan of Syracuse, N. Y.