Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-19
SUNDAY SCHOOL
UNION MEETINGS.
Workers Assemble and Discuss
The Training Of the Little
Folks
HOW TO Get THE BEST RESULTS
New Board Members for Pioneer Stake
Salt Lake Stake Considers
Mondays Celebration,

The Pioneer stake Sunday School
Union meeting. held last night in the
seventh ward assembly rooms, was we'll
attended. every school IN the stake be-
ing represented. The meeting was con
Quoted by Asst, supt. e, j Larson, and
after singing, and prayer by Elder John
H. Glenn of the stake board. the follow
ing additional members OF the board
were presented and unanimously sus-
tanned. As secretary and treasurer to
succeed Edwin /. Butterworth, who has
moved out of the stake, Miss Jessie Bu-
chanan; as Instructor In the second in
termedlate department, Miss Pearl
Houtz; Instructor in the first inter-
mediate department, George T. Judd,
instructor in the primary department.,
Miss Ellen Worthen.
Elder Charles Ii. Hyde Of the stake
presidency made few remarks in
which he pointed out the Importance Of
teaching the children to respond with
the word Amen" after prayer and
speaking He thought the little folks
should be taught what this expression
meant, as 1t would tend TO rivet their
attention on the speaker and cause
them 70 remember the petitions offered
from time TO time.
The classes then separated for de-
pnrtment work, all having a most in
teresting time. In the superlntendents'
department the question now best to
secure the percentage Of keepers Of the
Word OF Wisdom, was quite thoroughly
discussed, particularly az TO how to get
such information from the kindergar-
ten and primary classes. Asst. Supt
Wetzel, who conducted, urged the Off
GERS to secure as many teachers as
possible for the different classes IN their
respective schools, although 1t was the
sense OF the meeting that no more than
three be placed In each class. In the
theological department an excellent pa
per on Sunday school work generally
and how 10 secure the best results,
was presented by Instructor Albert $.
Reiser. The other departments dis
cussed routine work
On reassembllng the meeting was adj
dressed by Stake President William
McLachlan, who spoke of the relation
Of obedience to order and referred 20
the importance Of strict obedience I'm
Mountain Home so Dear" the benedic-
ton was pronounced by Supt. Harrison
f. Jenkins of the Twenty-ffth ward.
SALT LAKE STAKE,
The Salt Lake stake Sunday School
Union held its regular monthly meeting
last evening at the Sixteenth ward
Westinghouse. First Asst W. c. Bur
ton presided. After the opening exer-
cises, w. $. Wallace, a member OF the
stake board, defined the position Of the
board members, as also the respective
superintendents and Sunday schools
throughout the stake, regarding the
celebration Of Pioneer day, next Mon
day at Liberty park and their parts as
signed them on that occasion A large
number was in attendance and much
enthusiasm prevailed. In the several
departments, matters relative TO the
celebration were discussed. In the pri-
mary department, a desirable step was
taken IN having present representa-
tive class OF that department TO Illus
trate method and matter. Sisters Lot
tie and Ida Davis Of the seventeenth
ward conducted the exercises. The re-
view work was the Parable OF the
Lost Sheep" the class work suffer
little children to come unto me"
All reassembled and were addressed
by Elder John NJ. Mills, a member of
the general board. He enlarged upon
the theme Of work and Pray He
held that both are primarily essential
Ia success; that one without the other
results IN partial failure; that the pray
erf,ll Idle man need expect no fruits;
and that the active men -prayerful one
should add the benedictlon OF prayer to
his treasures,
Meeting adjourned until the third
Monday In August.