The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-27
LOCAL s. s. REVIVAL.
International Field Secretary Gives
Some Helpful Talks to Min
neapolis Workers.
Benefits and Needs Of the Modern
Sunday School Well Set
Forth.

The visit of Marion Lawrence, Toledo,
Ohio, to the city yesterday was made the
occasion Of a rally of Sunday school
workers and a reVivifying of the moribund
local and county association. Mr. Law
renee is general field secretary Of the in
ternational association. "r-@tr%
Meetings were held yesterday afternoon
and evening in the Hennepin Avenue
Methodist church and at lunch time in the
First Baptist church, ~ H..
Mr.. Lawrence conducted a round table
in the afternoon to discuss 1.-THE Sunday
School Teacher His talk was encourag-
ing and full Of advice. The general needs
and requirements necessary to the perfect
teacher Of a Sunday school class were out
lined. The handling Of the primary de-
partment was demonstrated by Misses
Grace and Beatrice Longfellow. Songs
and object lessons illustrated the methods:
Other talks in the afternoon were made
bv''Rev. DIR: George r. Merrill on "Gideon
and Three Hundred" by Mrs. Charles
Wartenbee on 1.-The Training of the WIFI
and by Carey Emerson on Simon, the
Fisherman; Peter, the Evangelist The
praise service was led by c. ]. Miller.
Supper was served to 800 In the First
Baptist church at $50 y. m. Mr.. Lawrence
conducted at that time a general discus
sion on organized city and country Sun
day school. work.
Sunday School Pays.
The evening meeting was we'll attended.
Mr.. Lawrence's subject was Sunday
School as a, Business Investment The
speaker believed that the question will
1t Pay?" was as pertinent in religious as
in business affairs and it the venture were
not profitable to let it alone. The in
stitution pays, however, socially. from a
civil point of view, from the educational
and from the spiritual side. From a civil
point of view it teaches obedience to
authority better than all the laws on the
statute books; from an educational point
Of view it pays to .indoctrinate children
early as is done in Catholic and Mormon
instruction. The spiritual profits are shown
in that out of every 100 conversions
eighty-three were or are Sunday school
pupils. The. speakers tribute to the Sun
day school teacher was the. statement
that although he had been superintendent
for six years, if transferred to the posi-
ton of teacher he would consider it
promotion The Sunday school is not
alone for the young, but for the mature
also.
Among the new demands Of the new
century: Sunday school will be a better
understanding Of the work by the public;
the buildings Of a wall Of fathers between
the older boys and the door Of the Sunday:
school,; the demand for Bibles for every
member; the building and equipment Of
schools specially adapted for the purpose;
the training of competent teachers as they
are the hinges on which the whole school
swings. i !
Mr. Lawrence believes that in every
Sunday school there should be some per-
son competent to conduct a normal class
and that is the pastor. Not one church
in thirty-three hast a teachers meeting.
There should be- comprehensive mission
study so that thessterms missionary and
money should not, be, synonymous. The
Sunday school cshould he conducted on. the
same fieid dimes as p bank eor5 any BUSH
mess, and the Superintendent, Should be
paid to give all his time and attention to
the conduct Of the school. -