The Worthington advance., 1900-07-20


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Report Of Mobiles Co. S. S. Con,
/. veution. III H..
The 10 annual convention of ths
Nobles County S.S. sscciation. waA
held in Bigelow, June 22-24.
The first opened Friday evening
with devotional service led by Rev.
N. de. M. Darrell, after which Rev.
Feather gave an excellent address
his subject being, "Why Not aud
Why" =
Saturdays session opened at $3.50
with a Song Service led by Mr..
Baird subject of which was-'The
Door of the Scholars Heart and How
to Open It," He told us Of the various
keys by which the heart can be opened
the Golden key which is affection and
love; the Silver key which is SYM
pathy; the steel key which is letter
writing; and last but not least, con-
sistent and holy life in the teacher.
This was followed by an excellent
and helpful paper, by Rob't Shore,
ST., "Has the SIS. any claim on Com
| munity! Mr.. Shore gave some excell-
ent thot's along this line. He proved
beyond doubt that the SIS. has u
claim on the community. The great
purpose Ct the SIS. is to give religions
instruction to the young. and to i'm
press upon their minds the teachings
of the good old book, th-irhy erecting
the best safe guard to society. The
SIS. meets a public need that it woulo
be hard to meet in any ether way
The S.S is doing noble work. This
being true, it seems to be our duty
IS citizens to do what we can to help
this noble work along. Do this by
showing your appreciation to those
Who are giving their time and talent
% the work, and by coming to the S.
Is. If you love yonr country. comes
you:wish to advance the interests OF
your neighborhood, come; if you wish
70 be helped in religious lie, Gomez
Mrs. Barrou's paper on~-The most
essential qualifications of ass Supt.
was appreciated by all. Some OF tie
qualifications set forth were Chris
ian Character, Common Sense, FL.
pose 10 Life, Punctuality and ReguI-
arity, and be not slothful in. business.
Mrs. Thorn gave some very good
thoughts on the Teaching OF Tenar:
perance in our, SIS. She said, teach
total abstinence teach the children
to shun this deadly foe aud to fight
against it. Ooe could not listen to
Mrs. .Thom's thoughts on this subject
without being aroused to sensebi s.
ity of the importance Of this subject
[sr. s: 2O-24.
Mrs. Read gave US some new thong
hts on conducting Review lessons Que
plan she has found to be successful
is to assign to each member OF her
class, the Sunday prec' ding Review,
one lesson which they are to be able
20 recite upon.
Mr.. Barron end daughter favor d
us with beautiful selection.
The folling committees we're app
inted:
Nominating Com. Com. of Rs
Mr.. Baird Mrs. J.C. Thorn
Mr.Graves Mrs. Barron
| MIR. j. C.Thom Mrs. Read
Miss Sunberg
Saturday afternoons session open.
d with a Prayer and Praise Service
led by Rev. Darrel, followed by the
topic How best teach Temperance
the SIS. presented by Rev Covel|.
He answered the question bv saying
that every teacher should be Il pro:
nibitionist. aud that Christian people
'hould support what they preach. He
believes there is a lack of temperance
teaching in our SIS.
Rev. Anderson being absent. Mr.
Kumler presented the subject What
is to be the modern tendency toward.