The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-23
SUNDAY SCHOOL METHODS
PROF. II. M. HAMILL'S ADDRESS
TO ST. PAUL TEACHERS
Importance of Christian Work
Among the Young Is Deeply Inn
pressed and a Number of Sug-
gestiOns offered for Improving
the Efficacy of the Teaching
Points for the Elders.

the Efficacy of the Teaching-
Points for the Elders.
Prof. H. M. Hamill, international field
worker and author of the Legion Of
Honor Normal Lessons, delivered an
address before several hundred officers
and teachers Of the ST. Paul Sunday
schools at the House Of Hope church
yesterday AFTERNOON.
Prof. Hamill proved a most interest
Ing and instructive speaker, thoroughly
holding the attention of the audience
for an hour and a half.
He advanced some excellent sugges-
lions as to the Improvement Of the Sum-
day schools both in efficiency and num-
bers. Good teachers were among the
most important requisites to a we'll
conducted Sunday school.
The teachers example was, Prof.
Hamill thought, all important in It's in
huence over the scholars entrusted to
his or her care. To him there was no
harm in card playing or going to the
theater, but least his example in par
ticipating in these diversions should
put a stumbling block in the way of
any, he thought that teachers should
refrain from such. A deck Of cards
were no more than printed pieces Of
pasteboard, but it was the evil asso-
CAdulOuS COIIIlSCIeu WITH tIlSIIl WHICH
should be Stunned. If 1t was to be
that through an example set by tech
err or officer Of the home school that
boy should acquire the habit Of playing
cards and become SHARK" the eff
cheney of the Sunday school was re-
moved. Prof. Hamill urged all teachers
to be circumspect in all things, and let
their lives and conversation be only as
becomes Christians.
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school lessons should be taught with
out the use Of publications, leaflets or
even the Bible. The book in hand often
acted as a non-conductor in teaching a
Sunday school class. The Bible should
always be carried to church on Sunday,
but to teach the lesson, after thor
ough preparation, without notes or ref
erences, increased the sentiment be-
tween the teacher and pupil. In this
way the lesson was taught in q much
more conventional manner, adapted to
the age of the children.
Systematic giving ives one of the
best things which cou'd be taught in
Sunday school. A Sunday school in
New York composed wholly of boys
from the sluns of New York had,
through the patient training and per-
sonal association Of an excel mt elergy-
man, given on am average of $12 per
Sunday with an average attendance of
500. 1T was only an evidence Of what
systematic giving wou d do not only as
q benefit 10 the giver but as an aid to
the work of God. Few Sunday schools
of like size could beast Of such an av-
erage Offering.
The Sunday School Pastor was one
of the requirements of a modern Sun
day school, The twentieth century
would call for more Of this sort of min
listers. The man who knew every child
in the cOngregat on and took an active
interest in the children was the pas tor
Of the latter century who would make
a success Of the ministry. 1t was the
special pleasure of the Savior to bless
the children.
Regular church attendance should be
strictly adhered to by both old and
young. Prof. Hamill asse rted that in
his mind the old family pew was the
most bea utiful of ALL Where the fam
lily could gather on the Saba h day
for worship. His ia. he was a Scotch
man and was the proprietor Of a wood
shed and his moth>r w5re No.
slipper, and between the two kept up a
very regular attendance upon the
church services, ard he had never re-
GREETED it.
Singing was another of the important
requisites in the Sunday school. 1t
was not so impo. tant to secure a S ng-
err to lead the Sunday school singing,
but one who could get the people to
sing. 1t was rot soIcs with the Sun
day s-h os wanted, but hearty whole
souled singing frS m every man, woman
and child in the Sunday school room.
punctual attendance, by both schol-
ars and teachers, stould be cultivated
at all tines. By punctua'ity the schc o.
was kept in GREER, and the teacher was
able to exercise a better influence over
the class when punctuality was en-
forced.
Special efforts should be made to
bring the young men and women into
the Sunday school, espec' ally the young
men. The young women would not
come unless their parents did and the
young men never came unless the girls
came. A good example by par nts had
a most salutary effect.