The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-02

OF CHURCH
The Episcopal Sunday
Schools The
Theme.

Bishop Restarick spoke in sharp
terms at the mission meeting yester-
day, of communicates of the Episcopal
church who show a lack of interest in
the discussion of the Sunday-school
work. On a call of the Bishop for each
parish's representatives present to
stand, he called attention to the fact
that most of them were clergymen or
the very few other persons who are
always interested in the advancement
of church work.
Nevertheless, the discussion of what
can be done for the Sunday-school
scholar was so earnest that another
year will certainly see a marked i'm
ers and scholars if all plans are carried
out
And there plans, too. involve much
in the way of interesting the youth
of the church. More instruction is to
be given them in missions. Missions
and the parochial work Were stated to
be the backbone of the church.
The meeting opened at 2:30 in the
Parish House of ST Clements with
Bishop Re:tarick presiding. and Rev.
Canons Macintosh and Ault, Rever-
ends Wallace, Fenton- Smith, Hall, U.s.
borne, Stewart Potwine, F'itz, Deaconess
Sands and a number of ladies con-
nected with guilds and Sunday-schools,
also present.
The Rev. w. H. Fenton-Smith of 10
hala spoke on "Sunday-school Work
in Small Places on these Islands" He
made an interesting address, showing
that he was particularly interested in
Sunday-school work. He told of the
advancement of the Sunday-school
work in Kohala. where whites, Hawai-
ians, Chinese, japanese, Porto Ricans,
Koreans and other races made up
cosmopolitan body. He found that it
was we'll to give every child connect
ed with the church, the Sunday lesson
sheets, whether they attended the
school or not. 1t was his plan that if
they did not come to school, to visit
them. In some cases children lived
fifteen miles away, but he got the les
sons to them.
Rev. Alfred L. Hall of Hawaii spoke
on 1.-The Attendance of Children at the
C-ar1,icaS of tho Church To him This
was an important adjunct of the work
of training the youth of the church
to right principles. He cited the in
stance of the Episcopal church in San
Mateo where the Sunday-school chill
dren also attended the regular church
services. This was great thing. He
believed there was too much Sunday
school and not enough church services
in the training of the young. In earlier
times mothers and fathers were the in
structors in religious matters to their
upon others to impart this instruction.
Result, the Sunday-school. The most
revered shrine of the child should be
at it's mothers knee. The speaker also
advocated more mothers as teachers
in the Sunday-schools.
Bishop Restarick said that in Eng
land church-goers did not know the
as it is known in
America In England it was originated
and is still carried on mainly as a place
for instruction for poor and neglected
Children of church-going
people attended church regularly with
heir parents, and listened to sermons
as much as the older folks. Nowadays,
n the United States the Sunday-school
was really for those who should re-
,eive their instruction at home, while
he poor and neglected children re-
main away Conditions are reversed.
Rev. Mr.. Fenton-Smi presented an
dea that in future SundayAschool
york be carried on with a system of
for the award of merit
He also advocated in
truction in church history The mat
er was voted on favorably, and the
Bishop appointed as a committee to