The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-10
STATE SUNDAY SCHOOLS
ASSOCIATIONS MEETING HELD IN
 THIS CITY YESTERDAY.

The State Sunday School association held three sessions yesterday in the Calvary Baptist church. President Foote of North Haven was in the chair. Each of the sessions was opened by a devotional service. Speakers of the morning session were as follows:
 Devotional-Rev. E. M. Poteat.
 nversation-Topic, Modern Meth ods," conducted by Rev. B. P. Arm strong of New Haven.
 "The Aims of the Sunday School'- Rev. E. w. Husted of Meriden.
 'The Trained Sunday School Teach er''-Miss Lucy G. Stock, primary su- perintendent of the Connecticut Sunday School association.
 "The Bible Out Text-Book"-Rev. 5. L. Blake, D. D., of New London.
 The attendance at the afternoon ses- sion was fairly large. Speakers and subjects were as follows:
 Scripture and Prayer-Rev. F. R. Luckey. .,-....,,..-..
 "One Way to Catch Men"-Rev. L. G. Harton of Willimantic.
 "Passed-by Places''-Miss Mary B. Lord, field worker, Connecticut Sunday School association.
 ''The Word of God as Food, Weapon, Light''-Dr. Julia Morton Hummer of Boston.
 Modern Child Life"-Rev. George M. Stone, D. D., of Hartford. Primary Hour-(a) How I Prepare My Sunday School Lesson" l (b) The lesson for November IA taught class of children-Miss Lucy G. Stock. | Miss May B. Lord gave several inter- esting incidents from her work in the 1 mission field of the state. In conclud- | ing she said: "There are no hard cases with God. These people among whom | we labor have tender hearts; you only have to find them out. We have got to l keep at them. We can't just take them and drop them when Satan is trying to tempt them away again." She also said she felt encouraged with | the work among Catholic children | many of whom are neglected by their natural spiritual instructors. Prayer was offered by Rev. E. c. Eel lows of Derby, and a collection was taken for carrying on the work of the 1 association.
 Dr. Julia Morton Hummer of Boston spoke in part as follows on the subject ''The Word of God as Food, Weapon, Light"
 Since on the word of God are found ed the works of grace about which we have just been hearing, I think we | should dwell awhile on what this word is to us, and let it interpret itself to us. I wish I could flash before your eyes a picture of a famine scene in India some months ago. Oh, those ghastly forms I of the famine sufferers! How they ap- peal to us!
 If those starved and wretched mor- tals were brought so from the lack of food, what must be the condition of the soul starving for lack of this holy word If we had an X-ray whereby we could look through these bodies of ours, I believe we would find that there was many a famine-stricken soul. Often we fail to put the word into the place it should have as the breath of life. Instead we put religious literature and books and papers
 | q believe the lack of this holy word is the secret of inactivity and want of strength among Christians. The word of God is our weapon as well as our food. It is only when you have the word of God hidden in your heart that you will be able to save yourself from sin"
 Modern Child Life" was the subject of an interesting address by Rev. Dr. Stone of Hartford. He said in part:
 q select as text for what I have to say the following: The hearts of the fathers shall be turned toward their children, and of the children toward their fathers
 "The attention of the age has been turned more than eyer before toward the children and the study of child life. The study of child psychology show that the needs of the child of this age differ from that of the children of other ages. For one thing, children to-day are much older than the children oi l the same age have been in past ages As one result of this study of child life, the bill of rights of children has been greatly increased, and yet even now how many children are deprived Of their rights in this broad land. Every child has a right to be treated accord ing to it's aptitude. You have heard mothers say, Johnny is not like Jimmy l wish he was more like him. A moth CT ought not to wish this. God does not duplicate children.
 Again, you cannot grade children according to age. Some are more ad' vanced than others of the same age It is the right of every boy and every girl to be recognized according to their capacity. Another thing--I believe g child should become a Christian before it is conscious of the change.
 ''In my own experience as a pastor find that those candidates applying fol church membership who cannot trace the history of their conversion are the ones that make the most steadfast Christians as a rule. I believe that i is time that we again restore the fam. fly to it's former place in the develop. ment of the child's religious life. The Sunday school has been the only thing that has carried on this instruction il the decadence of religious instruction in the family, but the Sunday school i: of recent date when compared with the family It is better that the chile draw it's religious life from it's parents Much as I admire the faith of Abra