Arizona republican., 1901-04-08
CLOSE OF CONVENTION
Details of the Mass Meetings of
 Yesterday.

The County Sunday School conven- tion closed it's session last night with the monster mass meeting in the M, F.. church, which was addressed by Marion Lawrence, II. M. Hamill and B. w. Spillman of the International party.
 The afternoon session yesterday was devoted to instruction in the best methods of Sunday school work, and was intensely interesting to the large gathering of workers among the young. The first address was upon Teaching and was delivered by Marion Lawrence. International sec retary, and himself superintendent of d Sunday school in Toledo. O.. of more than a thousand scholars. requiring the services of seventy-slX teachers. Mir. Lawrence said he had been sup erintendent of this school for twenty years. but would gladly relinquish the position to become a teacher in the school. if the management would con sent. for, said he, the teacher is the most important officer in the Sunday school. The object of the Sunday school. he said. is to form Christian character and to turn souls to God. This great trust is committed to the teacher. and no greater responsibility can be placed upon man. He argued that the office of teaching in many cases was even more important than that of preacher. for one former was equal to one thousand refOrmers. That the average preacher was away off across the street from the boys and girls. while the superintendent was at arms length. but the teacher met them heart to heart.
 Jesus Christ was the best teacher the world has ever seen. He could have chosen any other profession. and the fact that he chose to be simple teacher, indicates the importance he attached to this calling. His last com mand to his disciples was to go into all the world and teach the people all that they had seen and learned.
 .Referring to the qualifications of the model teacher. the speaker cm- phasized the importance of clean, consistent Christian life, to support the precepts taught by the mouth. for. said he. the teacher teaches more by what he is than by what he knows. His fife is like reflector. which must be clean in order to reflect Gods sun light He must be what he would have his scholars to become.
 Wisdom. which he claimed to be es- sential to successful work he defined as knowing how to use our knowledge. The teacher should study three things. The lesson methods and his scholars. One prominent teacher. when asked the secret of his success. said it was gained with his pod of peas, which he explained to be: "Plan, prepare. pray, pour out, pull in"
 Moody said the way to save the masses. was to go and save one mass. and then another mass. and then an other. and SD on. Referring to the problem of keeping the boys in the sunday school, Mir. Lawrence said the best plan he had ever discovered was for the parents to form a wall be- tween the children and the door
 MT. Lawrence was followed by the Rev. B. w Spilman who conducted a very interesting and unique ques- ton bureau. Slips on which were printed twenty-five questions that confront the Sunday school worker most frequently. in the management of their schools. The audience was asked 10 call for answers to any ques- ton on the list. but Mir. Spillman. in-