The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-27
METHODS OF STUDY
DISCUSSED BY REV. DIR. III. NJ. HAM
ILL AT WESLEY CHURCH.
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS.
OFFERED \ COURSE OF STUDY TO
IMPROVE THEIR EFFICIENCY.

Known as "BibIe Teachers study
Circle" Has Recently Been
Formed by Methodist Episcopal
Church, South-Dr. HamiII Also
Spoke TwfcO at Trinity Church.
Interested in Places Connected
With History of MethOdism-To
Publish Sketch of TOmOchichi and
Picture of His Monument.
Rev. DR.. H. NJ. Hamill of Nashville,
superintendent of training work of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
| spent yesterday In Savannah in the
interest of Methodism. He preached to
a large congregation at Trinity Church
in the morning, and to a large and
representative audience from all the
churches at Wesley Monumental
Church in the afternoon, he discussed
the special movement which he is di-
recting, known as the Bible Teachers
Study Circle. recent movement in
Southern Methodsm in behalf of it's
Sunday school teachers and officers,
| looking to their better equipment for
| their work.
DR.. Hamill was gracefully intro
duced to the congregation by Rev.
| Bascom Anthony of Trinity Church,
who said that Savannah Methodism
was to be congratulated upon
| having the presence and
helpful counsel of a distinguished spe-
cialist upon subject of great i'm
| portance to the church, not only to
Methodists, but to all Christians.
DIR. Hamill speaks rapidly and dis
tinctly, without notes, using the black
board in illustration of his themes.
The Circle. he said, was the product
of the General Sunday-school Board
of the church, in response TO the ur-
gent demands of many teachers for an
official training course of study. Ev-
cry detaE of the movement had been
patiently and carefully planned and
| Southern Methodism, so far as train
| ing its own teachers, had thus taken
| q signal advance step.
The best and the least experienced
| teachers alike desired help, and real
| lied the heavy burden now being i'm
posed upon them by the home on one
| part and the secular schools upon the
other DIR. Hamill asserted that the
improving the teaching of the Sunday
school was though the denominations
| individually
1t was this conclusion that had led
| him to resign the high position he had
| so long held as International field sec
| rotary, in order to take the direction
| of the study course of Southern Meth
odism. He explained fully the ele-
ments that enter into a teachers, equip
ment, as consisting of a larger knowI-
| edge of the Bible, the church, the Sun
| day-school, and the art of teaching;
| and showed how the Circle course in
due proportion included these four ele-
ments. -
The plan of study was presented, and
its simplicity and fiexibility commend
| ed. Already, he said, though the
| movement was not a month old so
| far as enrolment of students, the first
\ edition of study books was exhausted
and the second edition in press. 1t was
| the aim of the Sunday-schooi Board to
supply the teachers, in the nine books
of the course, with the latest and best
| thought in modern Sunday school
| progress. The three books of Part l.
were exhibited by DR.. Hamill, and
shown to be the very finest in their
matter and makeup.
At the close of his address, which
! for an hour was heard with intense in
|
| ter was distributed by the speaker
and the neat and expressive badge of
| the circle was given to a number OF
| Savannah teachers, who have already
entered upon the course.
The badge or button bears a double
| circle in colors of red and white, with
| the words bible Teachers Sunday
| C.rcle-Methodist Episcopal Church
South" judging from the many ex-
| pressions of interest from pastors and
| workers present Savannah Methoilsm
wall furnish full quota of students.
Not only did DR.. Hamill conduct the
service at Trinity Church, in addition
to this address, but also talked to the
teachers and pupils of Trinity Sunday
school in the afternoon before going to
| the Wesley Monumental meeting.
DR.. Hamill is much interested in the
history of Savannah, especially in those
| places of historic interest to Metho-
dists and many of these places he Wis
tied, in particular the house at No. 100
Oglethorpe avenue, west, which is sup
posed to be the place where Charles
DelaMotta lived and where Wesley Or
ganized and taught the first Sunday
school.
Another object of interest, Tomochi-
chi's monument, was photographed by
DR.. Hamill and this picture, with a
sketch of Tomochichi's history will be
printed soon in THE Children's Wis
itor," a child's paper that is published
by the Methodist Epispocal Church,
South, and to which Or. Hamill is a
regular contributor.
DR.. Hamill left early this morning
for Durham, N. c., where he will es-
tablish a branch of the Study Circle,
and thence will go to Richmond for the
same purpose.
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