Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-05-31

DUBIOUS worth the EnOftE Moses
commanded to teach in the home;
Christ, to teach to all nations. There
are $4,000, 900 SIS. children and SO
per cent of them are brought into the
church. A S. S. convention is worth
something if it benefits the school and
to benefit it the teachers, officers and
even pupils need be there. 1t helps
with the International Lesson Leaves.
and $4,000, 900 use them. This Inter.
national committee serves you and not
themselves, and when you can give
them something better they will use
it. Where do you get your Sunday
school papers, your conventions. S. S.
associations? Who writes all these
papers contain? People who all the
time attend conventions. If you have
modern methods in your school 1t Is
due to conventions. When business
man secures wha. he wants 1t costs
something; costs volunteer effort aud
cents per member of all the schools
in the state to run state, county and
International work. If these conven.
tions are not worth the effort ii is
time we knew it. Officers give their
time and means also. One Co. Sec'y
of Association, Miss Nettie Nelson of
Wayne Co., travelled 1900 miles and
organized 80 bone depar tments.
Question, "Would that young lady
have made success OF home depart
ment work had it not been for conven.
tlouSSn Apcwef nNo
Mr.. Harlan, of CIesco, said where
two counties meet hand i'll hand and
heart to heart, las Howard and Mitch
ell had) it meant great success. Con-
veutions had been stimulus III christ
ian work to him, and especially one
held in Saltwater, Mimi, where he
was entertained by the warden of the
"Pen," and had privilege of seeing
what he had escaped by placing HIM
self under christian influences. He
referred to the ''mottoes" OH the walls
of the church placed by the State
Field Worker), referring to the modern
departments of Sunday school work,
viz; "The Home Department. "The
Cradle Roll" and House to House
work.
Mr.. Martin stated that conventions
were the channel for Introducing new
and good methods.
Mr.. Mack: Mitchell Coz Conyen,
tons will pay only when we put soul
Into them. That which costs nothing
is worth jus. what itcosts. Real soul,
real effort is sure to be crowned with
reward. Preparation bring personal
profit a! least.
Mr.. Sailee SAID if officers and
teachers and members are all interest
ed there is no trouble Que S. S. of
seven members secured thirty. New
Supt. said: Let's get seventy and have
a banquet, and they soon had them.
Then they tried tor seventy more and
people laughed, but they got them, and
had another banquet. They had the
class-spirit, school spirit; everybody
was after everybody else.
The prize system was discussed, was
conceded to be a disputed question
and should be left to CUES sancti6ed
common sense after consulting con
ditions and consulting God.
Rev. Lewis SAID III the old country
they only gave tickets. When twelve
were received got large one and If
one had been present forty -e,ght Sun
days, get a Bible at Christmas. For
twenty Sundays, Testament, and for
less.a book, and he started his library
in that way.
Committee on MISUNDERSTANDING
eager, Cresco; Mrs. David Buchanan,
Bonair: Miss Anna Graham, Chester.
Auditing Committee-Rev. r.. P.
Jones, lie Roy; Mrs. I. H. Bowers,
Cresco; Rev. Mr.. Trimble. Riceville.
Adjourned.
Rev. Jones of lie Roy demonstrated
to full house that there was rich
value IN memorizing Scripture, by dis
cussing the subject beyond his time
(by common consenD and seemed
scarcely to use any words besides
scripture quotations, blending them
into uninterrupted narrative until it
seemed lie had the whole Bible at his
menory's command, and the secret of
it was that III Wales church work
was part of the regular business to
commit the Bible. He made it seem
a delightful thing to hfs hearers 10
know the Scriptures. When Chris.
was on earth he repeatedly quoted
s'It IS written" and If Christ should
know the Scriptures how much more
should we.
Mr.. Sallee spoke for few moments
on S. school work saying the Twp.
convention is auxiliary to the Co. the
Co. to the state, state to the national.
Everything good is found in conven-
tons. They are fostercd and pro.
noted all over the world but the ma.
jority OF people do not appreciate them
because they do not attend them.
To appreciate food we must sample it
and to get the benefit of it we must
eat Of it. The State Association is a
big spread. a least. and people are
Invited to its conventions aud if they
do not come they will reap no benefit.
He attended the graded work from the
Cradle Roll to the Normal graduate.
Rally Day is a special day to secure
recrnlts, and Decision Day, best OF
all, IS to give them an opportunity to
decide for Christ.
Collection.
Adjournment.
After the opening exercises MRS.
Z. K. Martin read the paper prepared