The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-11-16

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Baptist church which was well filled
with those interested in the work. Mr..
Vincent is an energetic worker who
SyStenatizeS his work, as might be
seen from the printed outline of his
topic. He considered the relations Of
the i tstor with the school which were
in general to be advisory and friendly
and helpful to all teachers, officers or
pupils rather than to tie him down to
the fixed work of teaching any class or
filling any Office. The superintendent
of the Sunday school was the officer to
whom the most attention was paid.
He should be a christian, bible stu
dent, have good judgment and execu-
tive ability. He should be man of
love and prayer; he should have over
sight of the work of his officers and
teachers; his school should grow and
his pupils should become christians.
Special days should be Observed
Promotion Day, Decision Day, Rally
and Parents Day. The other officers
duties were also outlined and num-
Der of the puzzling problems of bad
boys classes, Indifferent teachers, ir-
regular attendance, etc., were consid-
cred more or less in detail.
The main conference Of the morning
was held in the auditorium of the
Baptist church under the leadership
of c. II. Quincy. Among those who
took part was Mr.. Day in place of
Mr.. Higbee, Of Marquette, who was
unable to be present. The conference
was principally for those who were not
primary school teachers. Mr.. Day
gave a number of interesting methods
of getting the pupils of the schools to
cooperating with each other and the
teachers. The methods were con-
sidered both from within and without
the class and welcomed such things as
class organizations; parliamentary
practice, treasury for definite pur-
poses, and outside organizations; as for
instance in one case personally known
of by Mr.. Day, the organization of an
orchestra anything for which the
special class is especially adapted.
The subject Teachers Equipment"
was taken up by Mr.. B. S. Laing, of
Holloway. Mr.. Laing is president of
the Lenawee county association. He
spoke of the necessary equipment of
the individual teacher.
methods of Retaining Pupils" was
the subject presented by Mrs. Gregory,
of HillSdale, who proved herself very
pleasing speaker, and in a modest way
told of her success in dealing with a
class of boys of the ordinarily thought
of troublesome age Of fourteen to six
teen.
"Church Membership" paper by
Mr.. Edwin j. Phelps, was read by Mr..
Quincy, the writer being unable to be
present. The central thought of the
paper was that the Sunday school
should be the recruiting ground for
the church.
Rev. w. B. Pope, of West Bay City,
addressed the assembly OH "The Cos
pei of Giving" Mr.. Pope does not
necessarily insist that every person
should give one-tenth of his income to
the work of the Lord, but he does be-
lieve that people should do their CIV
ing in business-like way and give a
regular percentage of their income.
He insisted that the only way to do
this was to keep regular and accu-
rate account of all receipts and expen-
ditures for all such purposes. The ex-
periences of various members of the
audience which were discovered by the
speaker who called for rising votes was
quite interesting.
Mr.. Pope in way prepared the peo-
| pie for the address of Mr.. Marion Law
rance, which was in short a blackboard
exercise, the topic assigned him being
"Our Gifts" Before the eloquent in
ternational general secretary had fin
ished his address, however, the dele
gates present had subscribed by coun.
ties and otherwise $4,000 of the $4,000
which the officers of the association
had asked for to carry on the work fol
the coming year. The amount was
made an even 1900 during the after.
! noon.
/ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
The first thing on the program yes
terday afternoon after the song ser
vice conducted by Prof. Excel, was ar
address by Rev. Warren p. Behan, OF
Grand Rapids. The text was taker
from the words of Christ in Matthew
l4:1s: "Bring them hither to me-" Mr.
Behan is young and interesting speak
er who had a message to tell and knew
how to tell it. The lesson was from
the feedingof the multitude. Th'
disciples did not think that the few
loayes and fishes were worth bringin.
ing to the Master but He could u.s.
them. So today we should bring ou
gifts hither for the same Master cal
make use of them now as well as h,
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