Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-07

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!. II We could really. get the idea
strongly in our minds that Christ may
come At any time it would be great
safeguard to US.
2. A yourg child can understand
that Christ may come at any time, and
we must not be found doing anything
or In any place that he would not like.
Miss Porter then sang solo written
on the same subject.
Mrs. Manley of Raymond now read
paper on "The Teacher
She spoke of the great need of work
ers in every Sunday School; how some
feel the responsibility too much and
so will not work, while others feel no
responsibility in this matter. She
thought it q good plan for the pastor
or superintendent to train = class of
supply teachers, and in every school
have regular teachers meetings.
The great point was that the officers
should instst that every teacher be
consecrated to the work, as we'll as
have teaching ability.
"Teacher's Training Lesson" was
now taken up by MIR. Orchard; he in
sisted that no man or woman should
be too busy for the work of the Lord,
for no work on earth can be so i'm
portant. He then gave outlines on
the board for methods of study-both
OF the Old and New Testaments.
Mrs. Hobart gave q talk on the
"Cradle Roll" and it's Importance in
every school as q means of interest,"
ing parents and often winning them
to Christ.
Prof. Tonning read one of the best
pape rslof the convention, using ss a
subject "Local Needs.'
Altho he deplored the fact of the
committee calling on him when he was
not now an active worker in the Sun.
day School, yet the paper was 80 full
of good points that the workers would
have lost much had he refused to give
it.
Mr.. Tonning claimed that the Sun
day School was an absolute necessity
in every community, as much as the
day school, which it supplements and
completes. Religion has been the
strongest motive ia human conduct
and the most potent of historic forces,
therefore religious training for old
and young is necessity. Free and will
ing obedience to law Is q reverence
for it's authority, and this involves q
reverence for it source. Back of the
authority of the family the school and
state; back even of the conscience is
the Supreme Being, the ultimate
source Of obligation. In. g. christian
civiliz alton the religion of the Bible
enforces tie moral law. Mr.. Tonnine
then paid glowing tribute to the
Bible as book that has outlived all
other books as q mighty factor in
civilization, as identified with the pro-
motion of liberty, as the foundation
of civil government, as the source and
support of learning, as both contain
ing and fostering literature OF the no.
blest order, and "a the book which
claims to be, and is, from God. Men
can not be we'll educated without the
Bible. 1t ought therefore to hold the
chief place In every seat of learning
thruout christendom.
Many more good things were given
us in this paper, but I will sum them
up briefly into two points.
/. That it is the great mission of
the Sunday School to teach this great
Book as an infallible guide to right
living and as q means of Salvation.
2. That the great crying need to-
day is the need of efficient, systematic
work in the Sunday School and earn
est devoted Sunday School workers.
The business of the convention was
then taken up by Mr.. Orchard.
1t was voted to organize . perma-
nent organization and the following
officers were reported by the nominal
ing committee and elected:
President, 81. E. Crawford, Will
mar; vice president, N. L. Winblad,
Willmar; secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. c. E. Fouts, Raymond; primary
superintendent, Mrs. r. G. Manley,
Raymond; teachers training class
superintendent, Mrs. FL Thompson,
Priam; home department superintend-
ent, Mrs. John Martin. Willmar.
Fifteen dollars was voted to the
state work. The convention adjourned
until afternoon. s-z. -.
The convention opened Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 with 9 song service
led by s. Ericsson, of Raymond.
Next Sundays lesson, .''My Prepar-
atom, was next taken UP, Mr.. Or
chard. He said, 'you have living
child, living Bible, and : living
Christ to be brought together by .
living teacher, 80 use Rom. u: IL
and II Tim. 2:l5 aa preparation for
this work. The Bible the first book
to use, afterward the lesson helps.
Rev. Buell. and Mr.. Orchard then
took un ttMv OutlinaN aa nrana,,od Nv