The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-01
TELLS HOW TO TEACH
YOUNG BEGINNERS
Tenth Annual Institute of Sun.
day School Workers Closes
q Successful Session

The tenth annual institute of the
Sunday school workers Of Ramsey and
Hennepin counties ended after a sue
cessful two days session at the Central
Park NJ. e. church last night. Next
year the institute will meet at Merriam
Park, midway between the two cities,
whose residents constitute the majority
of the membership of the institute.
Mrs. L. ]. Lee, first vice president
during the past year, was elected pres
ident for the ensuing year to succeed
Miss Louis A. Emery, of st. Paul,
whose duties as newly elected teachers
training secretary of the Minnesota
Sunday School association prevented
her from being placed on the ballot
again by the nominating committee.
To compensate for this Miss Emery
was made second vice president. The
other officers for the year are as fol-
lows:
Mrs. J. E. Hobart Minneapolis, first
vice president; Mrs. Franc Armstrong,
Winnebago City, third vice president;
Mrs. j. II. Milne. Duluth, fourth vice
president; Mrs. E. J. Elkins, Minneap-
oils, recording secretary; Mrs M. P.
Fletcher, Minneapolis, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. G. A. Hunt, St. Paul,
corresponding secretary; advisory
board, Mrs. D. w. Lansing, of the st.
Paul Union of Graded Sunday School
Teachers, president, and Miss Bea-
trice Longfellow, st. Paul; enrolment
committee, Miss LEM, Minneapolis;
Mrs. John Smith, st. Paul, and Mrs.
Fletcher, of Minneapolis.
Miss Emery presided at the session
last night, which opened with a song
by Paul Metcalf. After devotional ex-
ercises led by Mrs. A. D. Harmon
How to Teach Beginners
Miss Grace Longfellow, specialist in
Sunday school music for elementary
grades, delivered an address on The
Beginners" She emphasized the ne
cessity of forming the minds of chill
dren while they were in their earliest
years, saying that impressions made
then were often the most lasting and
nodded the future life of the child. She
sang songs appropriate to the teaching
of religious subjects, illustrated easy
physical exercises, and in general con-
Quoted a class for beginners with her
audience as pupils.
Mrs. M. f. Bryner, the international
field worker in the primary and junior
departments, spoke on "The Teacher
as Soul Winner" dwelling on the ne
cessity of training the minds of chil-
dren and developing religious thought.
She appealed TO the teachers to use
greater personal effort to bring friends
to the annual institute, SO that they
might share in the benefits derived.
AT the afternoon session she had as
her topic, Elisha Succeeds Elijah" de-
livering an illustrated lesson. She told
how Elisha wished for a double portion
OF Elijah's spirit and showed how
child could be made to wish for the
same. After the address she conducted
a conference. Mrs. DC. Colville spoke
of supplementary work, and Mrs. Ho-
bart led the devotional exercises.
The principal speaker of the after
noon was visitor from Texas, r. S.
Lovinggood, colored. president of the
Samuel Houston college at Austin. Tex,
who told the story of his early strug-
giles in life and how he obtained his
supplementary education at a Sunday
school in North Carolina, conducted in
a little backwoods hut by an illiterate
colored man who could barely read and
write
Mrs. T. E. Hobart presided at the
morning session, at which the principal
address delivered was that of Mrs.
Bryner on lesson construction, Illus
trated with blackboard sketches. She
also conducted round table on gem
eral Sunday school management Miss
Emery spoke of THE Principles OF
Teaching"
There were 40 people present at the
days session, including several visitors
from other states. Among those pres
ent were thirty primary superintend-
ents, sixteen Sunday school superin-
tendents, two normal school superin-
tendents, twenty-five primary teach
ers and thirty teachers of higher
grades.