Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-17

a modern Instance? Should any one
person hold himself responsible or be
held responsible for the instruction and
guidance of all the children youth and
other learners In such a camp? Is there
not a clear call I'm such a caravan for
heads Of thousands. leaders Of hun
dreds leaders OF nftlcs and especially
for leaders OF tcns2 II this audience
was made up chiefly of Sunday school
supcrlntendents we could prohtabiy
magnify the need Of leaders Of hum
drcds Of thousands but as far great
cr number Of US have been, are, or may
be teachers, We prefer 10 magnify the
oillce of the leaders Of t%entles and
tens.
Some ouch class circle was the lifc
of the early Methodist church. Nothing
but the sub-pastoral work OF class
leaders could have held churches to-
gether whose ministers had no abld-
ing city, and whose members were es-
pecially dependent on pastoral care.
The Old-fashloned Methodist class Lead
ers were the most potent factors In
holding together and traiging the crude
multitudes who were brought within
their reach by protractod meetings ana
REVEALS But for them, John Wesley'a
converts would have travelled out Of the
Westinghouse almost MS fast as he and
his leaders Of thousands gathered them
In, The Methodist church would not
have been what It Is today, had It not
been for the work Of It's dril sergeants
It's class leaders, It's rulers Of tWenties
ana tens
GOOD CLASS LEADERS.
Such class leaders, having served
their day and generation, are no long
g. AZ Nt..t.
OF Christians, The general prayer
meeting and the Endcayor societies
have I'm a measure taken their place as
leaders Of hfties and hundreds; and the
sunday school teacher has taken their
place with the tWenties and tens. The
best modern class leader Is good sun
day school teacher II Is true at pres
ent that many Of our people do not
follow any special course OF Bible
study; but the number is decreasing
and we look for the day when system
attic Bible study will be at least as COM
mon as regular attendance at the
church services, Such systematic study
is worth more I'm the development OF
Christian character than the continual
expression Of individual experience. As
the Bible teacher is the best class lead
en- the Bible class Is the best type Of
class.
Notice some or the duties which de-
mand the attention Of one Of these
modern leaders Of the twcnties or tens
We take IL for granted that with 9TH
crs, he or she Is at work under lead
cr of hundreds or thousands, the eff
cheney of the school of hundreds will I'm
no small degree depend upon the efn-
cheney of the classes.
The teacher or leader Of tens must
act as drill sergeant. I'm keeping up the
discipline Of the school 10 which his
squad belongs. 1t is easier to suppress
disorder from the Class-form than from
the platform, at any rate II saves time.
Let teachers and scholars take care Of
the tens, ana the hundreds or thou
sands will take care Of themselves.
To the teacher or leader OF tens also
belongs the care Of the class rolls.
Wesleys class leaders were required to
mark their class books I'm the presence
of the class, and inquire about those
who were absent II this was neces-
s0ry In "a class Of adult Christians, Il is
much more necessary I'm classes made
mp of AID sorts of children and youth.
| Dishoyeied classes make q disheveled
school Solid classes make a solid
school
such teachers or leaders Of tens en-
courage attention as Well as attend
unCC. They command interest by be-
! ing interested they encourage their
! classes To respond by leading I'm the
responses they encourage attention by
giving g. they make listeners by being
| listeners. enc class OF we'll led and
attcutively responsive scholars will
help a loader Of hundreds with the at
| toution Of "a whole school.
As for the music, that depends al
most as much upon the leaders of tens,
! be they teachers or scholars, as It does
upon tho leaders Of hundreds or thou
sands II the class leader doesn't know
where the hymn is or doesn't try to
sing YOU viii have a dumb squad i'm
! that corner Of your Sunday school on
| the other hand. as the unshattorcd mu-
sic of one band held the British forces