Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-11-26
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VI w I aS1 D y
!. Pursuant to call delegates
from Oskaloosa, Muchakinock,
| Ottumwa, Oceola and Charlton
met in a council in the city o.
Abba on the above name date,
Rev. j. Bundy T. E. presiding.
The meeting was opened BY
singing Stand up for Jesus, and
prayer by Rev. I. P. johnson.
Miss Georgia Blackburn OF
Oskaloosa was elected Secretary.
a Rev. Bundy in very concise
manner stated the object Of the
melting Of this council namely;
that it was for the Improvement
Of the Sunday Schools in the dis
tict and to devise plans, where's
by the membership Of our schools
might be increased.
Remarks were made by Rev.
| Ford, Thomas Johnson, Williams
and Alexander giving some
excellent points.
1 Among other things that were
said, was that each teacher make
himself a missionary to visit the
homes of those children who do
not attend the S. S. ascertain the
reason remedy if possible and
thereby increase the memberhip
of our schools;that we use the
ILLUSTRATION cards in connection
with the lesson and that cards be
given as reward of merit.
It was also moved and carried;
that we recommend the use of the
Quartly Cluster Leaf.
A vote of thanks was rendered
the dear deople Of Abba for the
hospitality ahd unselish manner
in which they entertained the
members of the council.
On motion we adjourned
sine die. Singing, ',God be
with you.'' Benediction by Rev.
w. r. Alexander.
Welcome Address delivered by Miss
May Davis before the Sunday Schoo
Council Nov. 10TH, 1897.
TO the ministers and the various Sum
day School that have met here today
4 We extend ! hearty Welcome TO You and
i will try q express both q lords and 4 ac: q
lions our appreciation q. your assembly
lin our city.
The Sunday School andits work is one
Of the greatest. a number Of persons may
be engaged in because it not only reaches
the adults but the little children bringing
them in harmony and sympathy with the
church and its great christian work.
To a degree it is an educational instution
because it teaches the life of Christ and
his teaching apostles and their mission
and the prophets and what they propheci-
es for ages.
It gives childa moral trainging and
| ko ~,,srl ir oonfaat uifh tho
nobler walks Of life. 1t is a good work
and one which we only wish more OF
our young people were engaged.
The Sunday School is the nurseay OF
the church also the little ones OF today
are the men women of Tomorrow, one
who has beed an active member of the
Sunday School seldom wanders far from
the fold, he may not at all times be q
Jealous worker yet his sympathies is al
ways with the superintendent, the teacher
and the school. n
If they enter new vicinity, they ire
quent the Sunday School, they take an in
terest in the work. they continue to come,
they become a member and 50 on until
they are active workers in that Sunday
School and this sympathy is only shown
by persons who have been reared in and
influenced by christian labors.
They also possess that wide range Of
christian thought that can be obtained
otherwise. Seemingly it is better that onI
young people attend the Sunday schoo
in formal way raider than not at all fol
whether they are interested or not, they
catch few sunbeams from others and
perhaps it keeps ever alive the coal o
sympathy In jolly thoughtless youth
mind Of the place he used to 60 so frequen'
when small to be taught a moral duty
We liked to think Of such things there
is no one who does not like to remember
the scenes of child hood. Our mode q
conducting the sunding school may mol
be approved by all present yet we fee
that we are with In the boundaries OF
comparatively good school but in this as
in all other there is place for vast I'M
provement. We have congregated here
for the purpose of unionizing the Sunday
school and to devise new plans and en-
force the old and to bring the young and
old in sympathy with the youthful bond
Of christian workers.
ALBA NEWS.
| Messrs Anderson and b.