The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-12
ACTIVE WORK IN
SUNDAY SCHOOL
iNAUGuRATED LAST EVENING
UNDER DIRECTION OF MRS,
BERRY, WHO DISCUSSES the
MODEL suNDAR SCHOOL.

The first meeting in the interest oil
the Sunday school revival being cou'
dncted now by the Christian church
Was held last night at DR.. Freemans
corner of Eighth street and Washing,
ItoE avenue. The director Mrs
Berry, read a paper on THE Model
sunday School" parts Of which are
presented below and will interest
many readers. Mrs. Berry was asked
to speak on
A Model Sunday School.
She said in part; Speaking of the
Sunday School before large conYen-
ton in Topeka, Kan, in 1854, Isaac
Errett used these words; Here our
money and our toll will yield larger
results. more beneficial and far reach
ling ia their influence than IN any
Iother field ~ benevolent activity"
Addressing q great $. :. convention
Iin Alchison kan in 1920 q, B Tyler
sid an is impossible in human
speech To exaeeerate the dignity The
we tn the impor anco Of The work in
which SOU arc engaged
To passenger ~ board tle
Bojhnia bearing delegais % the
World. s, s convention in London
IN 1882, c Fl Sturgeon wrote sun
Iday School Work is the hone Of Lon
don, ami So Uhnk it must be Of every
place
The Hon WIN Reynolds of Illinois
iwho 4 few years ago died with The
harness oa" 4 few hours after deliver
linz 4 Sunday School address in Louis
Vile Ky. exclaimed in one Of his
| ereat speeches "Fres hren as Goa is
INV witness. and say II rayeeently II
Hls sight would rather be the
superintendent Of Sunday School
than 10 be president Of the United
states"
staticians tell us that ninc-tenths
az those who come into the churches
lof all denominations III this country
| dc ~ before theg are % years of aso
| and that eighty-three per cent Of all
who come into the churches come
Iflom the Sunday Schools
Ii hese things be true. how inn
irnriaat it III tbat officer teachers
a-1 alt workers I'll the Sunday School
ha well equipped fit their service
| til outlining model Sunday : ho3i
i(50l laai i. aA lla could b done -
ono evening" ! VIII FIRST nrn 10 the
Baok Of Rocks for definition O. Sun
iday School work,
| Mrs Berry drew distinction be
tween preaching and teaching and
showed how Jesus was the great
Teacher and paul the great preacher
From facts she concludes that the
model Sunday School must be the
teaching department of the church
/ The model Sunday School shoald
10 properly organized In the salec-
ion Of officers and teachers, we
should remember the aim Of the
teaching service and select our wosk
crs not because of social pre-emi
lnonce or worldly honor or promi-
{nence in church affairs but because
II their fitness 10 serve in a teaching
Iservice And vet The teaching is but
means To an end The end is TO.
make people Christ like. to make sin
nors Christians. and o make Chris
uans better Christians. We are toll
teach bnt 10 SO teach that we shall
convert and edify.
Tile work Of the model Sunday
School will bee more systematic more
earnest. more cunsecrated
Paul i'm the frs letter to the CORN
lthians gave them three rules for The
conduct of their services; to none
more than to the teaching service.
They are these: 1. Let al things be
cone deceatly ana in order. 0i;4o)
IT, Lc all things be douc unto ediiy-
ling Ht:2c1 g. Whatsoever you do,
10 If to the glory Of God il0:3i)
The superintendent must under
stand his work He should begin on
Hme. close on time. and fill every
minute Of the time with interesting
end profitable exercises.
The session should be from one
hour to one and a half hours in
length. We are not surprised a the
result Of the work of the faithful old
lhrothe- who remarked: II run her
faithful tell YOU ] run her faithful
3 begin ri nine and ruu her til one
bat she died iu spite Of me
The speaker then carefully outlined
ile wori of iho sunday School How
81, begin. what fa de-. and how 10 10
minrs 1u1 part T the paper wa
livery infereatrng to sunday School
lvoIhers.
Mrs. Berry said many good things
lahout order in the school. order aud
lsullnuss she said are NOT SYNONYMOUS
4 mass Of rubbish may be perfectly
ISM bui il is not in order. a iocu-