The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-16
TEACHERS OF THE SOUL.
Presbyterian Sunday School work
ers Hold an Interesting
Session.

There were 125 delegates in attend
ance on the second annual Sunday
school institute held yesterday in the
House of Hope church. This repre-
scented thrty-siX churches of the forty
two in the st. Paul presbytery, which
includes schools from Belle Plaine,
Dundas. Cheney, Empire, Etter Beth
any, Faribault, Pennington, Forest
Lake, Goodhue, Hastings, Jordan,
North st. Paul, Oneka, Red Wing,
Rush City. Shakopee, South st. Paul,
st. Croix Falls, st. Paul Park, Still
water, VermiliCn, White Bear. In St
Paul-Arlington Hills, Bethlehem Ger
man. Central, DanoNorwegia ian ard
mission, Dayton Avenue and mission,
East. First. Goodrich Avenue, House
of Hope, Hope chapel, Knox, Maca!-
ester Merriam Park. Ninth, Warren
dale and Westminster
G. w. Lewis presided at the morn
Ing session, and, in the absence Of
Rev. M. r. Paradis, of Hastings, con
Quoted the devotional exercises. w f.
Beckwith was appointed secretary.
X. f. Sulzer, synOdical Sunday school
missionary. emphasized the Importance
OF the work done in the country Sun
day schools, as shown in the fact that
their young men and women always
hasten to go into Sunday school work
when removing to the city, thereby
strengthening the city schools.
Rev. ]. p. Ferguson, of Shakopee,
gave several facts illustrative of the
same idea.
Sunday School Work Among Our
Foreign Element" was the next sub
ject. Rev. w. c. Laube, pastor Of
Bethlehem German church, said that,
so long as immigration continues, the
work must continue. Rev. A. G.. Tych-
oh,
spoke in like strain.
simplicity in Teaching" was the
next subject. Prof. H. S. Baker, prin-
cipal Of Jefferson school, contrasted
and compared the work Of the day
school teacher, almost wholly in the
intellectual field. with that of the Sun
day school teacher, who has a higher
field. He showed that a child, in infancy,
looked upon it's parent as a kind Of
god; that later it's teacher occupied
this idealiZed position in it's mind, and
that 1t was necessary for it to receive
knowledge of God in the concrete
form. He showed the necessity of the
study of races by the teacher, as thu
children of French and italian parents,
for example, developed much earlier
than those Of North German or Scan
d1navian parentage. The great ma
Jority Of the institutions of higher edu-
cation in this country were in the
IdHuS OI religious men.
A question box was conducted nv
Rev. j. H. Sammis, of Red Wing.
At noon luncheon was served in the
church parlors and in the afternoon
w E. Beckwith acted as chairman.
Hints on the proper way to conduct q
Bible class were given by Prof Thorn
as Shaw, of the university of Minne-
sofa. Prof. Shaw's address was re-
sponded to at length by Mrs Gen. r.
w. Johnson, of Manchester college w.
c. Covert, Of Merriam Park, urged the
need of cooperation Of teacher and
parent, and told how it might be ac-
complished Mrs. Lee was not present
and the response was made by NJ B.
Lewis. DR.. Charles Flee Andrew Ran
kin and Rev. NJ. D. Edwards made adj
dresses, and there was a special con-
ference Of the superintendent and
their assistants. All reports were very
encouraging and the attendance was
very large.
In the evening Rev. w. NJ Kincaid.
Andrew church. Minneapolis, spoke on
the DUTY and Responsibility of the
Sunday School Teacher" He said that
people were beginning to value the
child character, and as result inter-
est in Sunday schools was increasing
He dwelt on the necessity of gathering
the children into the Sunday schools.
away from the noise Of the streets
and Of the value Of work along spiritu-
al lines He said that the good results
accomplished by teachers were the out
come Of inspired enthusiasm. There
was song service led by Charles N.
Hunt