The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-11-21


SCHOOL WORK AND HOW
TO OVERCOME
THEM
Read at the County Convention
at Round Lake.
What is the great aim and purpose
of the Sunday :. :. School seems
natural question to arise when con-
sidering the ways and men OF
successful school undoubtedly the
primary answer comes az naturally
as the question s.arises
The. first great aim is to bring the
scholars to saving knowledge OF
Jesus Christ. The Sunday School is
to do for the young, what the church
is doing more particularly for the
adults to secure their conversion.
But for the S. S. to be the success
desired many difficulties must be
overcome Some OF the most
formnlible of these we wish to con-
slider and see if we cannot find 4
way to overcome them.
The successful live school must be
we'll organized with definite plan
and purpose in departments, fully
EQUIPPED with efficient officers and
teachers.
The S. S. is looked upon nearly
everywhere is not an institution by
,tsef hut as a nart Of the WORKING
of the church as much as at the
prayer meeting or even the Sunday
serlAon ami if all parents "oulu
assume the responsibility Of seeing
that the children were brought into
that department of the church made
for them, a great many would
receive the first and perhaps the
only religious instructions early in
their youth.
The sweetest word our lang
uage is ''hOme' The beginning
of human lift for time and elemity
occur at home Home is the most
effective of all schools. 1t is said
that the four years Of college. course
have scarcely more influence in the
life of q nam than the four years III
the nu1 sery during which he begins
to live.
The S. S. has for it's very consti
tuition and aims, many of the
elements of the home and it should
seek to develop..them to the fullest
degree, that children already favored
with tho right domestic influences
may..hav increased love for and
faith in the school; and that those
unfortunates who have no religious
help from father and mother and
whose everyday surroundings are
of the most unhomelike character
may find rest, love, comfort and
the most and strength in the
sabbath school and it's friendship.
Therefore let US make the S. S.
homelike, so interesting and attrac-
tive that the children after once
coming will beg to come again and
the, young people will be attracted
| by the atmosphere of love and cheer
fullness- Every successful Saba tn
School must have successful leader
or superintendent. By this we do
not mean that the S. S. Supt. must
be perfect physically or intellectual
endowment or in spiritual attain
ment, but consecrated person,
alive to the conditions and needs Of
his school. One who has good sense
and a good heart who loves his
work and wishes he could perform
it better and would be very willing
| to resign if he had evidence that it
would be- better for the school that
he should do 40. He tries to he a
practical example of what he OK
poets or desires in his school. We
feel sure that the school under this
character of leader will succeed; but
you know the Supt. alone even with
the ideal scholars can not accom-
pljsh the purpose desired. Of
course he must have corps of most
consecrated and effective to achels.
Nearly everything in the school
depends upon the work of the
teacher. How to secure true and
effective teachers is the most im-
portant problem in connection with
every department and every l;nl of
S. $. work. The singing, the falling
the order, tho library books, the
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