The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-06
Were love the Sunday school.
Wee love the Sunday school.
(Girls)-So do I.
tBoys)-So do 1.
y tSchooD-We all love the Sunds
school"

fGlriS)-So do /.
tBoys)-So do l.
tSchooD-We all love the Sunday
school"
Sparkling Dewdrops."
Some people believe that when gen.
eral conference assigned them to the
committee on hymn book revision,
power and authority were given unto
them to put a half-sole and a new
heel on any and all poetry that might
look to them to be little run over
on one side. If they felt as l do about
the lines that head this article they
would have Sunday scratched out
and Sabbath" written in before you
could bat an eye The mere substi-
tuition of one word for another NAV
seem a light matter to a man that has
never composed anything more liter
airy than an obituary for the Western
Advocate" of Sister Jane Malinda
Sprague, who was born in Westmore-
land county, Pennsylvania. in 1916. re-
moved with her parents at a tender age
TO New Sardis, Washington county.
ONO, where, etc, etc. If he wanted to
extract a word he would do il, and
never even offer to give the author
gas. But l know just how it hurt. l
know or can imagine how the gifted
poet that penned the deathless lines
have quoted must have walked the
floor i'm agony until ever yword and
syllable was just TO suit him. and So.
though l feel sure he meant to write
sabbath school," I don't dare change
II.
To most persons one word seems
about as good as another, Sunday or
SABBATH, but when there are young
people about the house you learn TO
De careful how you talk before them
Now, | would not go so far as TO say
that Sunday is what you might call
exactly rowdy, but-er, but-er. Let
me illustrate
III man says, It's a beautiful Sun
day morning" like enough he has on
red-and-green stockings. baggy knick-
erbockers viOlet-and-purple sweater.
a cap shaped like a milk-ron, and is
smoking pipe. He very likely carries
bastul OF golf sticks. or is pumping
up his bicycle But if "a man SAYS,
This beautiful Sabbath morn" you
know for certainty that he wears a
long-tailed black coat. a boiled shirt.
and a white tie. He is bald from his
forehead upward. his upper lip is shaw
en-, and his views and those of the late
Robert Reed on the disgusting habit of
using tobacco are absolutely at one
Not alone regard for responsibility.
but the laundering to be historically ac-
curte, urges me TO make the change I
speak of. Originally the institution
was Sunday school. and not very re-
spectacle either. / should hate to
think any of my dear young friends
were in the habit of attending such a
low-closs affair as Robert Raikes con-
Quoted. Sunday schools We're for lit
tie ragamuffins." as he called them.
who worked such long hours on week
days from five i'm the morning until
nine at night that If they were to
learn the common branches at all it
had to be on a Sunday A ragged
school was bad enough in itself, put
ting foolish notions into the heads of
gutter-brats and making them dfscon-
tented and unhappy in their lot: but to
teach ragged school on Sunday was
little too much. So Robert Raikes en-
countered the most violent opposition.
though from that beginning dates pop
ular education in England
To be able to read is no longer
sign that Pa can afford to do without
the young ones wages on a Saturday
night, and can even pay for their
schooling. 1t is no longer a mark of
wealth or even of hard-won privilege
but the common fate of all, to know the
three RS, and Sunday is not now set
apart for secular instruction So good
and wholesome an institution as the
Sunday school was not permitted to
perish. but was changed to suit the en-
vironment. It is now become the Sab
bath school for the study of the Bible,
a Christian recrudescence of the syna-
gogue- For some eighteen centuries
IT was supposed that a regularly or
dained ministry should have exclusive
charge of this work. At rare intervals
nowadays a clergyman may be found
to maintain that because a man has
been to college and to the theological
seminary, and has made the study of
the Scripture his life-work (moved 10
that decision after careful self-examin-
atom, that therefore he is better fitted
TO that ministry than Miss Susie Gold
rick, who teaches a class in Sabbath
school very acceptably. Miss Goldrick
IS in the second year in the High
school, and last Friday afternoon read
composition on English Literatoor,
in which she spoke I'm terms of high
praise of John Bunlon, the well-known
author OF Progress and Poverty"
Miss Goldrick is very conscientious
and always keeps her thumb nail
against the questions printed on the
lesson leaf, so as not to ask twice,
What did the disciples then do?"
II we're Il grave error 10 suppose IndT
no secular learning is acquired in the
modern Sabbath school. l remember
once, when quite young, speaking TO my
teacher, i'm the interval between the
regular class work and the closing ex-
ercises about peacocks. 1 had read of
them, but had never seen one. What
did they look like? She said a peacock
was something like a butterfly. I have
always remembered that. and when /
did finally see a peacock, 1 was inter
ested TO note the essential accuracy of
the description.
Also, one day a new lady taught our
class. Miss Evans having gone up to
Marion 10 spend a Sunday with her
brother, who kept a stove store there,
and this new lady borrowed two flower
vases from off the pulpit and piece of
string from Turkey-egg Mclaughlin to
explain to us boys how the earth went
around the sun. We had too much man.
ners to tell her that we knew that years
and years ago when we were in Miss
Humphreys room. / don't remember
what the earth going around the sun
had to do with the lesson for the day.
which was about Samuel amounting
.David's head with oil-did I ever tell