Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-18
SUNDAY SCHOOL
UNION MEETING.
lee of tbs Leaaet Lessons-HOw
They Should be Presented
| AN ADDRESS BY DIR. MAESER
T.. abundance OF Omcers and
Teacher Interesting Class EHer'
d.e from Tenth ward school

Tier. was % very good attendance Of
SAN. h school workers OF the Union
needing Monday evening, Sept. IT, 1900.
An ,ts schools of the Stake were well
tep-,..n,eI by both officers and teach
ers except the Eighth, Twenty-second
Rrsrrb and N0rth Point The meeting
was tsIl 10 the Assembly hall to give
room for ,ha larger attendance. Many
OF me schools had from twenty TO thirty
representative.
In fts absence Of stake superinten-
dep, a. C. Guggs. who is visiting Sum
day schools IN uutah stake Assistant
sursr1.snIants Burton and Burrows
presided and superintendent william
Mcclellan of the Seventh Ward,
opened with prayer
Tfa beautiful singing exercises CIV
On M Che opening and closing OF the
meeting were rendered by the Nine
teerih ward school under the dlrec-
tlor 0i John Holmes.
FHr Burton explained that at the
usual Stake Sunday school conference
I'd e...... meeting with the officers was
hel4 th.s meeting was in leu of this, TO
piya opportunity 90 receive special in
gtrH.f|1rs from members of the gem
era. sunday school board, number Of
whom Hgre present
M. frt exercise on the program was
tho giving Ut o. lesson from sunday
school .alfe. No. ls-"Chrlst and the
uttIa ones by twenty-f0ur children OF
the frst Intermediate department. re-
Gently promoted from the primary de-
parlmsnt While the class had ~ had
tim DO make special preparation, the
children showed that they were being
wei trained and taught in the princi-
ples OF the Gospel The class work was
Conducted hy Elder william Bailey
and Sister Bertha Anderson.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAFLETS.
Assistant General superintendent
KaH C. Maeser followed with an IN
stuctlye address on the use Of the
Sunday school leaflets, which were
specially written and prepared Tor use
I'm ihe second intermediate ana higher
deplrmeDts OF the Sunday schools OF
Zion. and should be very generally used
I'm these classes They were designed
10 show how "a lesson should be logically
presented 90 the class, The first point
observed IN the leatlet exercise was the
presentation Of the lesson, with its
notes and references, and second TO de-
duo personal information from the
subject and text. The admonitlon Of
Pau 90 Search the scriptures. said
tn speaker. does not mean merely 10
read them, but 20 search out their
meaning. This applied particularly TO
tn leahat lesson. The meaning Of
every verse should be fully discussed
TN understood Following this thor
ougb Investigation, the children are
catechisal by the teacher 20 illustrate
The extent of their understanding OF the
lesson and have opportunity to express
their conception OF the lesson In their
own language The questions given In
tn leaflets are intended as an example
OF how me class should be catechised,
ar not intended as % form. 20 be fol-
lowed verbatim Neither are the lesson
statements. etc intended as forms, but as
sampes-as "a suggestive wav Of pre-
seltIug that section " the lesson. The
ob'fct 0i the teacher IN an his class
WORK is 10 direct the students 10 dis
cover the truth for themselves, that
which they SO discover VIII seldom be
forgotten
The use of the text books. leaflets. or
anything else Is simply To- teach and In
..a.I
son should have o. definite purpose, ana
tn means of conveying the point or
mora. of tha lesson may Doe by story,
relation scripture text OF song. as OPP
pC-Uuiy offers or circumstance may
demand lu replying to a question, Dr.
Mle.r stated az the close ot his inter-
esIu- address that the general sunday
school union board desired and urged
thu .he leaflets bc generally used In
III theological and second intermediate
departments OF the schools OF the
Church 10 anything better could be
devised ,ha board would be glad 70
hear ut and adopt 10.
Elder James A. TIRE, OF the Sunday
school board, was the next speaker.
Referring Do the leaflets. he knew OF
nOih.nr De- said that 80 well covered
the object of the Sunday school work
of noIlg8tug the principles of the Cos
pei loo tha minds Of the children. The
lessons prepared by the board and pre-
scented iu the leaflets are the result OF
long study and consideration Of the
NJ is 0f Me Sunday school class He
also urged adherence 20 the suggestions
given 10 the Sunday school treatise,
ari thorough preparation on the part
OF ihe teachers for their class work.
Elder Horace S. Ensign OF the gem
efa' board also made a few appropriate
remarks touching upon the use OF the
leaflets. They are prepared with great
care and Gre worthy VI more general
Us 'n th. higher classes of the schools
OF ,he Church. Elder Ensign closed by
singing u % very touching and impress
si'e manner. Let ms Oft speak kind
words tU each other
The First ward branch school was
requested t0 furnish music az the next
mwnnl o' the Union, TO be held oct.
l5ih 40 1880 o'clock, IN the lith ward
assembly rooms
Hark. listen 10 the music" was
beautifully rendered by the choir the
500 being sweetly sung by Miss Fan
NJ faUas
heneiIUHln was pronounced b. SUI
p0r.n'ru1ant Chas. W SymOns OF the
Tenth ward and the meeting adjourned.