Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-09-03

nothing below "A soul winner; consen
% be misunderstood. Christ did; mus
make sacrihcr. the ctphI, nl ct 'c' iic'
the cross; IA life Of s,.,f-sdcrlhoe. d.
owe OF souls will tel. Inns address
vas given in such LOVING, earnest,
christian manner. that il made IA deep
mpre ssion, and at lis close the question
was asked, How many teachers present
desired To be endowed with the pc yer
spoken at. that they might become soul
Winners Many stood mp, aud Brother
Luther and Brother Mohr offered earn
81 PRAYERS on ,helr behalf. We bc-
ieve that MANY weat away win dc
| termination To become SOU winners.
f. X Mohr then spoke on The mis-
mionaly spirit in the Sunday school
| He used some charts of his own prepa-
ration, showing the population OF the
world, the number of christians, and
those that were not. showing those that
mad not Vet heard of Christ; showing
how much money was spent yearly for
strong drink, for tobacco. and some
other things, and how little in compar-
son was given for missionary work.
and how long rs the work is now being
done it would take to bring the world
to Christ. The people are Sayed one
bv one, and if each christian brought
one person 10 Christ each year, and
each one thus saved entered mto the
work with them and brought one to
Christ. thus doubling up each year it
would not take long To bring the whole
world to Christ. We hope that much
rood may result from this very able
and earnest address. Meeting closed
with song and prayer.
Thursday morning session opened at
9 o'clock with promise service con-
Quoted by Rev. Mr.. Skinner, who read
a lesson, prayed and then called for
promises interspersed with singing and
prayer. This was very profitable
service; many precious promises were
repeated
Mrs. Reynolds being sick, the pri-
mary hour was dropped out and Prof.
j. W. Ewing delivered a very excel
lent and instructive address on ''Meth-
od in Teaching" He said many good .
things and we give a few of them.
The teacher should know the Bible, be
with il, and how may we know
the Bible unless we use 1t? Lesson
helps are all right in their place, but
should not be used during the study of
the lesson in the class, there the Bible
should be used. Some things we
should teach. The geography OF the
Bible. if we teach about Abraham,
show where he was. Bible history,
Bible biography and chronology. Get
between lessons. have
scholars give review of last lesson. In
answer To the question as to how To get
the Bible into tie school, the Professor
said. give references to look up To be
read i'm the class. Each teacher should
be provided with good reference
Bible, Smiths Bible dictionary and
Bible geography.
Rev j. ). McGreaham gave good
address on the errors in teaching. One
was. wandering from the truth, this
might be voluntary or Involuntary;
trying to teach without preparations;
trying to teach without experience;
teaching science and not a word about
Christ; Jumping the class together, aud
not preparing lesson for individuals;
neglect of playing for class; not look
Ing for results.
After prayer f. X. Mohr took up
class questioning and handled it in his
usual happy, impressive way, showing
irst the benefit. 1st. 1t was a test of
2nG. II added interest.
}d. 1t awakened thought. It'll. 1t
proved work. In preparation, there
should be: 1st. knowledge of the
scholar. 2nd. knowledge of the les
son. Sd. Select teaching. 4th. Have
a plan. Hints; lst. Original ques-
tons. 2nd. Direct. 80. Clear. 4th.
Spiritual Cautions: lst. Leading
questions. 2nd. Frivolous. 81. Ro.
.ation. 4th. All and not all. Jesus
our example.
House to house visitation was then
taken up. The president called for
reports from those that had engaged in
The canvas. The reports received
showed good results, though not as
good as desired in some places, but