The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-19
Presbyterian Teachers Asso-
citation Held Two Interest
ing Sessions Saturday.
WORK CARRIED ON
WITH ENTHUSIASM
Meetings Will Be Continued
Until Wednesday of
This Week.

rien Teachers association, which ha
been in session at the Collegiate institute
Salt Lake, holding It's evening sessions q
the First Presbyterian church, continue
Its work through three days this week
The association consists OF all mission
workers, including ministers and teach
ers, commissioned by the Board of Home
Missions and the Womans board, who
are engaged In what is known as "th'
Mormon work. embracing Utah ant
southeastern Idaho.
This year the association had the gooC
fortune to secure the services OF Rev
DR.. Thomas F. Day. of the San Francisco
Theological seminary, who is scheduled
for two appointments each day. the one
on bible Introduction and Interpreta-
ton and the other on Personal Work y
DR., Day is a scholar OF profound learn
Ing. especially In the Hebrew and cog
nate languages, as also In Old Testa-
ment literature. and his work has created
great interest among the missionaries.
DR.. Day was once a resident of Utah.
coming here in 1880 and assuming charge
OF the work at American Fork. where he
spent ten years, going thence 10 his pres
ent position In the chair of Hebrew at
San Francisco in 1890.
There are sXty-four teachers. repre-
senting twenty nine schools, four OF theGe
being academies aud one the Westminster
college, with an enrolment of 100 pu-
senting twenty-five churches, in this as-
sociation.
Personnel of Attendants.
Those in attendance at the institute
are: Prof. John NJ, Cathcart, NJ. Elizabeth
Mcbride Charlotte Kyle Anna l.. Ray
mond, Mary Jensen Edna V. Linn. kath-
arine S Smith and Rev Newton e. Glenn
enson and family. Logan. Theresa Stall
ker and Rev Charles II. Hamilton
SyY,ith oil MorO saf orlro oh
mond; Harriet Elliott. Franklin: Mattle
i. White. Mendon; l.. %. Stevenson.
Wellsville: NJ. +. Lamb. Hyrum; Donalda
Thompson, Brigham; G. NJ. Owen, D. D.
Smith, Malad; Leya T. Granger and Rev.
II. H, Davis, Kaysvllle; Prof. George B.
Sweazey. Ruth H. PAUL. Lou Paden, w
". McKirahan, Lena Briggs, Collegiate
institute: Rev. Robert G. McNiece. d. D.;
Rev. Robert NJ Stevenson. D, D.. West
minister college, Rev. Josiah MCLEAN,
Rev. McClain Davis. Salt Lake City;
Frances Paden. Claire Snyder, Rev, w.
Murphy American Fork. Ella C. Heron,
2. B. Sidebotham. E NJ. Furry Emma
Burns and Mabel 2. Schadt, Springville:
Prof and Mrs. L. NJ. Patterson. Serena
Nelson. Elva A. Laughlin, Millcent
Woods Mrs. Emma Hostetter, Mount
Pleasant. l.. E. Rolofson, Fairvew: Miss
Elizabeth II. Reed Ephraim, Miss E.
Robertson and Eff1e w. Simmonds. Mary
z. and Jennie Martin. and Rev G. w.
Martin, D. D., Manti: Miss Lottie John
son, Gupnison: Aileen Ericsson Rchfleld;
Miss Rosella Lowry, Monroe; Emily
Fleming, Payson; Lulu Sponberg, Nephl;
Margaret LaVenture. Ferron: Miss Eliza
beth Messick, Parowan; Miss Elizabeth
Wilson, st. George: Rev. T. NJ Keussefr
Panguitch, EfFie Roberts. Preston.
The following visitors are in attend
ance; Mrs. NJ. B. Lee. Minneapolis, Mrs
Dalinda Cotey aud daughter and Mrs.
Jean Fereday and daughter, Prof ". H.
Apperley, Logan; Mr.. and Mrs. Cathcart.
Illinois; H. P. Freeze, Salna; Rev. A. G..
Frank. Mount Pleasant; Louise Frost,
Ephraim; Maria Nelson, Mantl; Rev. ].
K. McGilllvray, Salt Lake City, Mr. and
Mrs. Minders, Nephi; Horace Whitten
Salt Lake City; Rev. R. A. Mckinley, D. |
D.. Boise, Ida.; H. J. Stearns. American |
Fork.
Bible Introduction.
The devotional services Saturday morn
Ing were conducted by DR.. McNiece after |
which DR.. Day took the floor In Bible in |
PRODUCTION In his work DR.. Day evoked |
considerable discussion by the position |
taken as fundamental TO his view of Bib
lical introduction. The position advo-
Gated by the learned divine relative to |
the Hebrew people and the revelation |
given to the world by them was that God |
chose israel from among all others as his |
elect nation; that he communicated TO |
them his Will as a revelation in the moral
or religious consciousness expressed in
the form OF experience voiced by the
great spirits and prophets OF the period |
passed into written form. becoming rho
sacred literature of the nation and which
we know as the Old Testament; that this
all occurred under the supervising and
guiding power OF Jehovah whose nature
character attributes and purpose con-
stitute the main elements of revelation
and that the Hebrew people thus became
not only unique. but the most infuen-
1tal and important faction in human his
tory through which God communicates his |
will.
From this general and we'll defined po-
sition DR., Day insisted that the historic |
II not the only, is at least the most sat
tsfactory method in Bible study, a!Ieg-
Ing also that revelation In the sense here
indicated is continuous. and that all the
great sages of the ages have In some real
sense been subject 10 the sway OF this in
working power OF Deity.
Miss Donalda Thompson gives drill IN
calisthenics at l0:30 a. N. each day, put
ting the association through a gympas-
tic process which. after the severe ten
Sion Incident To close Bible study, is a
great relief and real diversion. Miss
thompson is graceful and thorough in
her own work, an enthusiast In physical
culture. readily communicating her own
spirit TO that of the younger mission
workers, who respond we'll 10 her re-
qulrements, while the others go through
the motions with fair precision, II lack
ing in art, and earnest effort
Art in Literature.
Miss Rosilla Lowry gave two eycelIen,
papers, The Teacher an Artist" aN1
The Silent Influence OF Art" which
evoked general praise. Miss Lowry clear
ly mas the art instinct, and Is able In |
convey not only her ideas. but her own
high sense OF appreciation of the tH,h,.
tiiul. She made clear the profoun. a.
huence art has exerted in literature and
over the religions of peoples. urging its
appreciation as part of mind furnish
ing OF teachers. and in the Importance of
It's early inculcatlon IN the schooIroom
In the afternoon DR.. Day gave very
discriminating and effective address on
personal work, emphasizing the duality I'm
SELF pointing out the relation between
what ne termed the higher and lower .