Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-11-13
TEMPEST OVER SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORK.

At the recent meeting of the state sun
day-SChool association held in Morris
Vile, the Rev. George l.. Story, field work
er and general secretary. rendered ms
resignation. No particular comment was
made on the fact at that time, though
some people wondered why he should give
up the place which was apparently worth
holding. 1t now seems that the partcu-
lar reason why 1t was convenient to re-
sign a this time was that somt or the
dele gates were altogether too insistent on
knowing what their field worker had done
to earn his salary ana some of them in
simulated that he had Used his Office and
time to advance certain political interests.
The only report Of his work that Mr..
Story saw fit to make at this time was
verbal one, but one OF the delegates took
the pains to note thu salient points therein
contained. Mr.. Story said that he had
Travelled $50 miles during the year ana
had visited 81 Sunday schools He dis
trlbuted j.. 600 reports ana 5000 year BOOKS.
wrote 10 postal cards and $50 letters had
made g. addresses and preached J. SER
mons For this he was entitled to sal
ary of $500 a year, but for some unknown
reason he said he would charge the as
ISOLATION for only 10 months work TINS
wear The report of the association Tor
the year 1901 sums up Mr. story work IN
the following paragraph During lhd
voar in the prosecution of my work have
] d.
preached five sermons, written 90 letters
and 940 postal cards, published 5000 cop. es
| of the convention report, ana arrdNE'd lor
and distributed the printed matter Tor the
preseut convention. The clerical. travel
| ing and incidental expenses incurred ana
| maid for amount to Sl56.' In commenting
| On the resignation Of Mr.. Story an en-
| thuslastic Sunday-sChool worker sald the
other day: Mr.. Story tries to convey tho
imnression that interest in sunday schools
| is fast dying out and that there seems TO
be no way OF heading off this RAPID DC
cline. | do not agree with him in this
matter at all and think that II the proper
amount of energy were put into this work
| that things would be different now Al
ready there are two or three minister's
looking out for this place which VIII soon
| he vacated. For my part l am opposed
! TO putting another minister in TINS place
as there seems to be something about
! their profession that makes 1t undignihed
for them TO hustle like other folks. | am
! In favor OF putting a layman in this place
with the understanding that he must get
out and visit the Sunday-sohools ana help
build them up and that ms salary pc de-
ncndent on his raising il, At the present
time no one knows what Individual sun
day.schools are doing SO far as any re-
norts are concerned and | believe that
The only proper method is for the field sec
| retary to get out and visit each one OF
| them and get in touch with them Mr..
story seems to have found sunday schools
100 miles apart according to his report.
| think II is high time that radical change
were made in this matter, and as | said
before | think that layman could ac-
complish more good in the field than any
minister."-St, Adams Messenger.