The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-25
CENTU8YS DEMAND
ON SUNDAY SCHOOL
The Greatest Evangelical
ton Agency.
A GLORIOUS FUTURE
Mr.. Marion Lawrance Heard by a
Large Congregation at the Pres.
byterian Church Last Night.
Leaves Raleigh for Dur
ham This Morning.

Mn Marion LaWrance. the distin-
guished Secretary of the international
Sunday School Association, profession
al Sabbath school teacher and emil
nent authority on Sunday schools, de-
lighted and instructed a large and in
telligent Christian audience in the au-
ditorium of the Presbyterian church
last night 1T was greatly regretted
that Mr. w. y. Hartshorn. who is
accompanying AIR. Lawrance on a tour
of the South, was too ill to speak.
After speaking at Shaw University
this morning at 10 O'Clock Messrs.
Lawrance and Hartshorn will go TO
Durham, where they will be the guests
of MIR. George w. Watts.
Governor f. b. Glenn introduced
Mr.. Lawrance, and emphasized the
importance of Sunday school work in
this time, and declared il TO be a ire
mendouS civilizing agency, the great
est in the world.
Mr. Lawrance before speaking from
his subject. which was 1.-The De-
mands of the New Century upon the
Sunday School, remarked that even
governors learned things. when the
President was elected" he said, the
former governor of Ohio rode into
a
soon this man saw lit to sell out to
the brewers association, "a whiskey
crowd, and this governor learned a
splendid lesson, when on the 9TH of
the. present month there was a snow
storm in Ohio his 100000 votes were
obliterated, and a Democrat will occu-
ny the gubernatorial chair of that
Republican State just because he was
a clean Christian man.
ti,,.a fYsin of no
Sunday school. he said. has not had
the faintest idea of what the future
Sunday school is To DE. The noblest
development of the 10Th century was
the Sunday school 1t marshals the
largest army in the world under one
banner. having 26,0G0.O00 members. it
is the only school which maSnifies
the Bible affords work for every per-
son in the church, and is the world :
greatest CHARACTERIZATION agency, as four
ffths OF all church members enter
through the Sunday school.
The strongest demands upon the
Sunday school sbyu this century. he
said. are these:
That it be thoroughly understood
that the Sunday school is not a child
rcn'S school, or a nursery of the
church. for this idea impedes its prog
ress: it should be the Bible studying
and teaching department of the
church.
That every church member be held
as responsible for presence at the
Sunday school service as any other.
That the Sunday school buildings
and equipment be adapted TO its best
use containing the eXcellencleS OF
"separateness and 'togetherateness.
That the teachers be competent and
efficient and well trained
That the teaching of class IN
a Sunday school be the highest place
i'm the world for a layman or layWo-
woman as Christ could have been any
thing he desired, but chose to be a
teacher.
That the pastors be held responsible
for the proper training of Sunday
school teachers. giving them genuine
and intelligent instruction in the Bible.
That the Sunday school afford COM
prehensive. intelligent missionary in
structiOn.
Mr.. Lawrance believed that the sun
day school should be organized as
thoroughly and Systematically as a
bank. and that the superintendent
should be salaried. The last and most
important demand. he concluded, was
that there be results.
Reception Yesterday.
Mr.. Lawrence was once called The