The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-06

OF God VIII always lead to the destruc-
ton of the opposer. l saw the list reg
| iment of New York as il marched away
to the front 1900 strong and hearty men,
and saw 1t come back $50 skeletons.
| To be sure the unavoidable fever of
Cuba, and the bullets Of the spaniards
| had killed some of them, but it was
not all that. Political pulls killed
more men in the late var than did
Spanish bullets. Immense applause).
| There are corruptions III this governs
ment that must be remedied or we
shall be subjected to the inevitable law
of the results that follow wicked
causes.
| Another illustration OF the relation
between cause and effect, Darwin
found that the hearts-ease did not
grow near the English villages while
it blossomed in the country in profus>
| ion. He found that in the villages they
| kept dogs, that the dogs drove away
| the cats, that where there were no
| cats the field mice fourished, that
| where there were field mice the bum
| b,ebees were killed, ard that where
| thre were no bumblebees the pollen
was not carried and the flowers were
not fortified. Ergo, dogs and no
hearts-ease You may he either
sinner yourself or a cause of sin in
others.
| The cultivation of the imagination is
one of the great forces that teacher
| may use. BY the imagination the
teacher may interest the scholar that
he could not otherwise touch. The great
thing to remember in trying to describe
thing vividly is that what people do
| once they will always do under the
same circumstances.
The speaker then proceeded to Illus
trate how he would teach class In
the Sunday school about the ircident
when the Savior healed the EaralytIo
who was brought to him on a bed and
| let down through q hole cut in the root
because the crowd was so dense that
no one could get into the house. He
told the story in a most realistic man
ner describing the circumstances So
| that every one in the audience could
| imagine himself to be present and
| looking on.
| When he came to the place in the
narrative where the sick man had been
| lowered down and the Savior was heal
| ing him, he suddenly turned from the
contemplation of the scene within the
house and asked: What do you sup
pose the men who had brought the
patient were doing all this time? Were
they dangling their heels over the edge
of the roof and whistling tune? No,
| this is what they We're doing" and to
the astonishing of the audience the dig
nified divine cast himself down. on the
platform with stage drop That would
| have done credit to Edwin Booth, and
peered over The edge of the platform,
as if the great drama of the miracle
were being performed right there be-
meath him. 1t was done SO naturally
that there was nothing incongruous
about it, and the vast assemblage,
which was the largest the church could
| accommodate, burst into spontaneous
applause of one of the cleverest pieces
of acting that has been seen in Wor-
cester for many a day.
The benediction was pronounced by
Rev. f. N. Peloubet.
1t was voted on the notion of Mr..
Hartshorn that the delegates be sent
| to the convention that is to be held at
Atlanta, Ca, on April e, 1899
| Mr. Conant presents to the audience
| the chairman of the local committees
who have managed the convention SO
successfully, and they were greeted by
| the delegates who rose and rendered
them the Chautauqua salute.
| A telegram was read from B. f. ia
cobs, one of the prominent men in the
Sunday school movement, who is in
| Chicago, and who quoted an appropri-
ate verse of Scripture TO express his
sympathy with the convention. In
return, Mr.. Hartshorn prepared one
which was adopted and read as fol-
lows: The eighth annual convention Of
| the Massachusetts S. S. Association in
session in the heart of the common
wealth, is the largest in its history.
Genesis, S2:1.
Rev. Woodman Bradbury of this
| city gave short talk entitled. Echo
From the Worlds Convention" and
then Rev. DR.. schaufier delivered an
address that was a fitting counterpart
to the one he gave in the afternoon.
His topic was, THE Way Considered :
He said in part: What is the task
of the Sunday school teacher? There
is the pupil the teacher and the Book
| It is the task of the teacher to get the
Book into the head Of the pupil in some
| way or other. To do this the teacher
must know both the Book and the
child. A good many teachers know
| neither. There are some characters
| tics of the child that must be consid-
cred. He is imaginative. He is al
ways making believe.
IL knew g boy once who was play
| ing cars IN the parlor with the chairs
for coaches and his little sister for a
passenger, while he was conductor. A
:ady entered the room and asked what
was being done. Oh said the boy,
this is the Empire express. Well,
SAID the IdIS, VIII get Oh anu TUG.
The boy did not relish the interference
and said, Where do you want to go
| tor TO Schenectady she answered
Quick as a flash he replied, This is
Schenectady How many Of you ever
said so bright or so imaginative a
thing?
| The child is merciful. He is like a
grasshopper, he gets there, but he goes
with peculiar gait. We can do one
thing at time, but he can do two or
three, and do them well, too
He is retentive-he remembers every
thing When we get to be adults our
minds are nearly full Our memories
are slippery, but the mind of the child
is sticky. You throw anything at it
and it stays there.
Children are heroic We are likely
to think what the consequences will be,
but the child will do what is right, if
| it is convinced 1t is so, even unto the
death.
! Blessed be childhood and him who
loves it, and if there is a teacher who
don't love it, let him resign at once.
| Rev. DR.. Dunning of Boston pro-
nounced the benediction.