The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-28
TRAINING.
Of Children Discussed
By District
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Ami
versary Exercises.

The Worcester District Sunday School
Teachers Union celebrated its 18th an
niversary yesterday afternoon and eve
ming, and held its first institute in Me-
mortal hail. The Worcester associa-
ton is the Oldest of the 25 in the state.
Boston following only one year later.
The afternoon session began at $3.50
with an address of welcome by the
secretary. Mrs. Catherine A. Higgins,
followed by a talk by Rev Willard
Scott. D. D., who told of the necessity
OF teaching children the foundations of
truth and Of the use of the cateohism
in the Sunday school. Mrs. Florence
Sears Ware told Of what had been done
by the forester associatseal, and of its
intentions in the future. The lesson
for April was then taught by Mrs.
Monroe Murphy, and this was followed
by by a short history of the association
py Mrs. j. w. Gray. The meeting In
the afternoon was attended by nearly
every member of the union, and all
We're interested in the helpful talks.
AT b.lo o'clock a supper was served,
at which fully SO guests sat down,
Breezy post-prandial talks were given
py several of those present, and this
part of the program was enjoyed al
most as much as the more formal
speaking
Inc evening session was opened with
prayer by Rev. Woodman Brad
bury, and after a hymn by the audience,
Mrs. Harriet N. Watrous of Old South
sunday school gave a talk on her meth
ods OF conducting special exercises. She
told how the children should be taught
to follow in prayer at the opening and
closing Of the school, and cited several
SIMPLE verses which are used
in her classes. The more important
Bible sayings are taught by pictures
ana by asort of mnemonic verse, and she
found that the audience needed the in
struction as much as the children. The
talk was closed by an illustration of
the familiar rest" exercises used at
classes.
Mrs. Connings of Pleasant street
Baptist church then sang as solo,
Ashamed of Jesus This was fol-
lowed by an address from Rev Wood
man Bradbury. who spoke about chill
dren. He said in part:
AS we study children, we are
brought more face to face with that
which is nearest God. If Tennyson
could make poem about a simple
weed and say such beautiful things Of
It. l am sure if we look into the faces
OF boys and girls, we see something of
God Let US take as our creed, L love
God and little children
ana these children must be con-
Verted. 1t is easier when they are
small, and then we will find it when
they grow up. But we must be sure
we understand the essence of child re-
iigion. 1t differs in many ways from
that OF grown-up people, though at the
bottom it is the same
Christ was boyish boy just as he
was manly man. He entered into the
games with his fellows, and we are
sure that he was always unselfish in
worth of the children for which Christ
l-lied"
This talk was followed by violin So
20 by Mrs. Florence Sears Ware, and
then Miss Bertha Vella of Boston
state primary secretary, gave talk on
bits She said in part:
The line to which I wish to call at
tention is the line Of habit in the life
OF the child The aim of our work is
the implanting of Christian character,
and IS we proceed we all learn the
deep lesson of simplicity, of building
our work the best we can on a firm
foundation of truth.
Life is an education in love- 1t
takes us all our life long to love as
Christ loved. That is one of the les
sons to be instilIed into the minds of
children. Life is long lesson in hui
ndlity.' Whatever line we choose, we
find there are others who. have had
more experience than we. The child
must be taught this truth early.
The carving of character is the
work Of life. Besides carving charac-
ter, we must teach the children to help
themselves. We must give these young
minds the best impressions, and the
right feelings will be able to cultivate
the right habits"
Miss vella gave some illustrations of
habits formed in children and Of the
different sorts of good and bad habits
that they acquire and read to some
length from Child Study
Webster and Southbridge unions were
represented by Miss Elsie Locher and
Mrs. Golf, respectively. These, in
connection with the local union, are
the only ones in Worcester county.
The holding of Institutes for the pri-
mary and junior teachers Is a new
feature in the work this year. and the
one held here yesterday will be fol-
lowed by one in Boston, June g. and in
Plymouth. and Lynn later on.