News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
LAMoILLE COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Ann uaI Convention at Jeffersoaville.

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| able weather, there was a convention
of Sunday school workers at Jefer
sonville Tuesday and Wednesday
Sept. 5 and 6. 1t was the 21st con,
vention of the Lamoille County Sun.
!, day School Association and was rov.
ally enjoyed by those who took, not
their lives, but their umbrellas, in
their hands and presently found them
selves in one of the pretty villages oil
which the county boasts not a few
and in cosy church surrounded by a
people whose hospitalityis as free as
the air we breathe.
| The fact that every town but one
in the county was represented, and
that too in the face of inclement
weather proves the justice of the ap,
pellation: "Spunky Lamoille" in
that it applies, not to politics alone,
but to our tenacity of purpose in
things pertaining to the reign of God
on the earth as well.
Beginning Tuesday evening with
President c. F. Smith in the char,
after praise service, Rev, E. M Full
Ter of Burlington, State Field Secy,
gave an address on the Spiritual
Equipment of the Teacher; leading
up to a consideration of which he
sounded a warning note to all Sun
day school teachers that they should
neither make too much nor too little
of the educational, whether in thcir
equipment or in their work. The 3D.
ucational must not be permitted to
eclipse the spiritual; but the hightst
spiritual ends can be attained oily
through intellectual development.
The Sunday schools what the tea,h-
ers are ; if the teachers fail the while
structure falls to the ground.
Four requisites of a Sunday schcol
teacher were then given: IAN a,e-
quate sense of his opportunity and
OF his responsibility: 2-An adequate
sense of his endowment of personai-
ty, mental power, and power Of
speech 3-An adequate sense of he
divine call IA definite personal
dedication of self. The session was
closed by the Jacksonville Nile
Quartette singing The Lord is Ny
Strength"
The Wednesday morning service
opened with praise service aud
prayer, after which Rev. H. c. Hoy
ard of Jacksonville spoke we'll chs
en- Words of Welcome, which wire
proven to be from the hearts of bth
pastor and people.
Following an appropriate respose
by Pres. Smith came What the Pls-
tor may be to the Sunday schoP
by H. P. Munson of Morrisville, in
which was shown the PASTORS p
portunity to give impetus to be
Sunday school session each week y
means of his morning sermon. k
also showed the joint responsibility
of pastor and the working forcdn
school for a closeness of touch necs-
sary to secure the fullest usefulnss
of pastor in relation to the school
What the Sunday school maybe
to the Pastor" was next presened
by Rev, ]. K. Fuller of Johnson. de
unfoided the necessity of the teacier
getting a right conception of be
child nature as prerequisite to H-
cient work and of his working TO-
gether with the pastor-one mid,
one Heart, one purpose, and tia to
save the children In illustration he
drew a word picture of a rising fbod
in populous valley. AS the waers
rise, the people fee towards the his,
but the distance is so great and the
fight so rapid that, when life is al
most within their grasp, the children
and weaker adults find themselves
so completely exhausted as to beun-
aqle to climb the mountain-side to
safety. Then must the stronger ones
at its base lift them up to those that
are above; and they in turn must
hand them on to those still higher
up until all are saved. So it must be
in the Sunday school. The teacher
takes the pupil at dangers brink,
hand him up to the pastor, and he
] in turn sends him on Godward. The
Sunday school is the church at work,
| therefore the need Of uniformity of
thought and of teaching between
pastor and the Sunday school as to
the child nature. Does the school
teach that children's skulls form paw
ing stones for the region below ? Do
you treat the child as though he were
the devils whom God was trying to
get or do you believe be is by ma
ture a child of God whom the devil is
trying to steal Tell the child he is
Gods, sent into the world to be tried
as gold is tried in the refner's fire,
and that he has a mission to per
form; not that he is the devils and
must reform-this is the way to hold
the children for God and so help the
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