The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-14
FOUR HUNDRED At
BIG MASS MEETING
Sunday School Teachers are
Instructed How to Care
for Their Scholars.
LIST OF GOOD SPEAKERS
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF AN
TLSALOON LEAGUE URGED
THAT ALL CHILDREN BE MADE
TOTAL AssTAiNERs.

The Sunday school mass meeting
held yesterday afternoon at the FIRST
English Lutheran church was decld-
ed success and more than four hun
dred Sunday school workers of the
city gathered in the new Sunday
school auditorium of the church TO
hear the brief but excellent addresses
given by the Richmond ministers and
Ulysses G.. Humphreys, state super
intendent of the Anti-Saloon league
and Mrs. NJ j. Baldwin, elementary
grades superintendent of the stat,
Sunday school association
The Rev. Conrad Huber pastor OF
the St PauIs Lutheran church spoke
first on the school for the Church.
He showed that the Sunday school
was the great training school for the
future members of the church and IT
was the nursery of feeder or tne
church. He said the Sunday school
brings a harvest in the training OF
the young and it is the duty of the
old to see that this training is prop
erly given
DR.. S. r. Lyons of the Reid Mem
orial church spoke on the Parental
Responsibility for Christian Instruc-
ton he pointing out the duty OF the
parents in cultivating the tendencies
of the children toward the right, and
how they could do this by iInpressing
the Importance of the Sunday school
work upon the lives of the children.
The Rev. H. Allen Leader pastor
of the Second English Lutheran
church spoke briefly on Sunday
School Training for Missionary Ac-
tivity' Mr.. Leader showed how the
missionary spirit was imbued in the
children while under the care of the
teachers of the Sunday school, and
how the Sunday school laid a firm
foundation for missionary work.
Prof. w. A. Fiske spoke on THE
Teachers Responsibility for Hstter
Teaching" the entire nature of his
remarks nr44ai8ingz tot.he gy1 e re
sponsibility which fell upol sfhe
teachers shoulders, in the teaching
and developing the lives of the child
rem, along proper and correct lines
In his address on "The Sunday
School and Temperance Reform" the
Rev. U. G.. Humphreys of Indiana
polls said that the temperance idea
should be instilled into the lives and
thoughts of the children attending
the Sunday school. They should be
warned against the evils of intem
| perance and if possible should be
brought to signing the pledge of total
abstinence. The children, he said
should have temperance instilled in
| to their lives to such an extent while
| young that they would carry the tea
| chings with them through life.
| Mrs NJ J. Baldwin in her address
on the topic 'The Sunday Schoo
Meeting its Obligation to the Child
| dwelt on the duties of the teachers
| and parents in the instruction of the
child from the time it was a cradle
roll member until the time it entered
| the department for adults. The Sun
| day school work in it's connection
with the children was traced from
| the beginning and all the shoals
| dangers and snags on which the frai
craft of the child might be wrecked
| pointed out and helpful suggestion,
given the teachers as to the best wa!
| to tide the children over these place!
/ in their religious lives.