Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-16
STATE suNDAy-scHooL CONVENTION.
Continued from last aceek.

was by g. III. Spalding ID. D., OF Bos-
ton, who spoke on the Gins and Outs
of Sunday school worB.'' He spoke of
the long terms OF service of some
superinteDdeDts ne mad known and
also of tue " ID rful records of at
tendance of some scholars. Gather
| in all you possibly can and keep them
in. lie spoke of the Sunday school
lessons of late on the life of Joseph
and mentioned some lessons we
! should learn from them, and said in
| Closing that as the needle of the COM
! pass always points to the north so the
net de of the Sunday school should
/ point to the cross. Next came the
1 address, 1.-THE Sunday school of To-
! morrow" by j n. Dummer of Rowley,
I Mass. He said that the Sunday
/ school of the future would be recog-
/ nized by the church as its greatest
evangelistic agency, that early i'm
pressions we're the strongest therefore
! We should aim to get all the children
into the Sunday NJ church
1 member has right to absent himself
| from the Sunday school,. He spoke
| of the equipments of the Sunday
! school and said there should be clock
/ and the Sunday school should be run
| by it. lie mentioned the Importance
| of having maps showing the mission
work of the church and said the col
lection should not be called the penny
call, but an offering unto the Lord.
He spoke of the desirability of having
"cradle roli'' The secretary should
ke a record of all the babies born in
the congregation and thus have them
connected with the Sunday school
from the date of their birth to the
date of their death if possible SAID in
closing that it was good to study plans
and methods of work but all these
were in vain without Gods Spirit
which was the zone thing needful" in
order to do successful Sunday school
work. Next was an address by Marion
Lawrence whose subject was "Organi-
cation for EvaDgeliZ atom" He spoke
of the great Importance of the living
teacher In carrying on the work of
the Gospel and illustrated it by saying
that a sermon by any OF the great
preachers of the day might be given
out word for word by a photograph
and it would not be preaching, it
would be performance. The speaker
did not like the idea 50 popular now
with a good many, Of trying to make
ha CrnAnreahool ho do coh0o1
he called it a fad, and said the two
were entirely different. The public
school was one of instruction and the
Sunday school one of Impressions.
Toe bj4c5 of Sunday school teaching
is not SD much instruction as CONVEX
sion. There is no success without
conversion. He spoke of the impor
lance of organization and said it was
as nee dful in Sunday school work as
other kinds of labor. He dwelt on
the Importance of Sunday school
conventions as generators of enthusi
asm. He gave a history of inter-
national conventions and showed
how The work had grown until now
there are SO states, territories and
provinces in the United States and
Canada organized, which is all but
of the whole number. He stated the
purpose of the state organization is to
get every one into the Sunday school.
He illustrated the Importance of
county and township organization by
drawing large square on the black
I'D no rot nd
placing a mark away in one corner
representing a boy to be got into
Sunday school. The boy was too far
away for the state organization to do
anything for him, but by checking
the large square off into smaller
squares representing counties, then
into still smaller ones representing
towns he had the boy pretty we'll COW
cred showing that town organic ations
were of the greatest Importance in
looking after the individual. The
work of the day school teacher if not
successful may be remedied, but the
work OF the SUNDAY school teacher
had to do with immortal souls and
their work remained, if failure there
is no remedy, and in view Of this Sun
day -school teachers should feel the
responsibility resting upon them. He
said there were three things the
teacher needed to keep in mind, the
sower, the soil, and the seed. AS the
sower In the field prepares himself for
his work, prepares the soil, and selects
the seed to be sown, so the teacher
should do, should prepare first by
prayer that be may get into a spirit of
tsachableness. then should read the