The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-12
THE S. S. SECTION.
The Baptists Midsummer
Meeting at Jackson
Springs.

The midsummer meeting of North
Carolina Baptists will be held at
jackson Springs in Moore county,
June 21-30. 1t will be of particular
value to Sunday school workers. The
general spiritual and inspirltual fea-
lures of the meeting as a whole will
be supplemented by technical work
for about an hour and half each af-
ternoon, dealing with lesson study,
Sunday school management and
methods. Rev. Hight c. Moore, the
Sunday School Field secretary, will
lead in this work, but he expects to
be aided by efficient helpers. The
aim Will be not only to directly bene-
fit the workers who may be present
but through them to stimulate the
teaching work in the various churches
and communities from which they
come.
But especial attention is called to
the fact that June oath has been set
apart as Baptist Sunday School Work
ers' Day. A program has been ar
ranged for eXercises-mornlng, after
noon and evening-and on it appear
the names of A. T. Robertson j. w,
Bailey, j. II. Tucker b. w. Spillman,
c.. w. Mitchell and j. b. Carlyle.
These names are sufficient guarantee
that the exercises will be worth
trip from any part of the State. But
the practical object of this special
conference is the solidifying of the
Baptist Sunday school forces. The
aim is to get closer together, TO unite
more thoroughly on a definite line of
action, and to arouse a widespread
Sunday school enthusiasm which will
be felt in every association, church
and community in the State.
The following is the program for
this Sunday school section:
For discussion of lesson study and
various Sunday school topics we have
eat tapart five afternoons: namely,
June %, %, IS, 81, and rs. The
meetings will open at 4:30 p. m, and
close by or before six.
The first feature each afternoon will
be studies in the Life of Elijah, ;"
being a thirty-minute treatment of
the lessons from the first of August
to the middle of September.
The next feature will be series
of twenty-minute talks by Secretary
Hight G. Moore, on Sunday School
Fundamentals" as follows /. The
Model: What Saith the Scripture? q
The Meaning: What are It's Features?
g. The Makeup: What is It's Con-
4.
It's Instruction? 5. The Method:
What is It's Pedagogy? 6. The Man
agement: What is It's Organization -?
Z. The Motive: What is the End in
View?
It is proposed to have special dis
cussion of 1.-THE Institute" THE Nor
NAL Class" and "The Home Depart
ment with a view to utilizing them
more largely. -
1t Job nCf
is to deliver an address one after
noon on Education Among the He
brews." Mr.. Robert N. Simms, of
Raleigh. will make an address on
"The Baraca Movement" Other
prominent workers will no doubt be
present and lend a helping hand.
Sunday School Workers Day.
The whole of June "a will be de-
voted to Sunday school workers. The
following is the program prepared,
the dominant idea being Organization
for efficiency"
9:3O-Opening exercises by the sec
rotary.
1O:OO-Lecture by DR.. A. T. Rob-
ertson.
11:OO-"Our Immediate Task in S.
s. Work" by J. w Bailey.
11:45-''The Value of Organiza-
ton by J. H. Tucker.
4:00-'"The General Organization
We Should Have in North Carolina"
by B. w Spilman Ca paper to be pre-
scented by the secretary.
8:00-'"The RELIGIOUS Education of
the Child" by c. W. Mitchell.
9:00-"The Sunday School Teacher
Needed Today" by J. b. Carlyle.
A Specimen Sunday School.
Sunday morning June 26, at $3.50
o'clock The lesson will be Review,
usually regarded the hardest of les
sons to teach. The treatment of it