The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-18
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
The Earnest Work of the Con-
vention Begun Yesterday.
IMPORTANT PAPERS READ
The Revised Version in the Sunday
School, Read and Discussed, at
Length = Standing Commit
tees Appointed.

Yesterdays sessions of the state sun
day school convention were of interest
for those connected with the work and
were well attended. The morning
prayer meeting brought out a fairly
large audience for that hour.
The forenoon session was given over
to the appointment of committees, the
reading Of various reports of special
and standing committees, the normal
recognition exercises and the devo-
tional services.
Reports were read by the represen-
tatives of Deer Lodge, Jefferson, Lewis
and Clarke, Gallatin, Missoua, Park,
Silver Bow, Yellowstone and Ravalli
counties.
The following standing committees
were appointed:
Committee on nominations E.
Sharpe, Helena; A. D. Peck, Anaconda.
Committee on resolutions-W. B.
Clark, Revs. Walker and w. e. custer.
Delegates representing the home de-
partment and the primary department
reported from various parts of the
state.
The report of the treasurer showed a
deficit of $685. which will be raised dur
ing the week.
The executive committee also filed it's
report.
State Superintendent Bell of Helena
spoke in relation to the normal rec
ognition work. He said:
The average Sunday school teacher
the average Christian-has too long
been content with the microscopic
study of the Bible. You have pursued
the panoramic. You have as it WERE
down upon the great panorama of re-
demption, as it has lain stretched out
before you. You have tried to get
some adequate conception Of it's length
and breadth and depth. You have ia
ken into account it's perspective, and
have studied its shade and shadows.
And / am sure that because of the
broad outlook thus secured you will
be much better prepared for the minute
study of the Bible, whether for the pur-
pose of teaching in the Sunday school
or for your own private edification.
But before I confer upon you the GER
tificates you have so we'll earned
want to call your attention to four
divisions of this landscape which may
aid you more firmly to keep the whole
in your mind.
There are four crucial events in BIZ
BILE history: The creation, the call of
Abraham the birth of Christ, and the
separate Bible history into four divis-
ions-tWo in the Old Testament and
two in the New Testament. The first
division. may be well characterized
from the name of the book in which
the chapters containing it are found
Genesis-as the period of beginnings.
Here we have the great fundamental
statements with reference to God
man, sin and salvation, those four
themes which bind together the books
of Gods, Word and make it worthy
of the name of the Bible. The Book.
No part of the whole more plainly bears
the marks of Inspiration
To emphasize this let us look at a
few of the statements:
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.'
How simple, how sublime. Compare
it with Herbert Spencer's statement of
the creative process: 1.-THE transfer
nation of an indefinite, incoherent
homogeneity into a definite coherent
heterogeneity." And not only is it SIM
pie and sublime, but, inspiration aside
1t is more and more becoming to be
recognized as truthful. Science has
not yet given any explanation of the
origin of the existing order of things
about us which does away with the
necessity for great first cause. The |
most radical evolutionist only pushes
it further back.
of the ground and breathed into his |
nostrils the breath of life and he be-
came living soul'-a statement which |
the latest researches of science con-
firm. Man, so far as his material ma |