Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-04

They like to know they have the re- spect of their teacher, that the com means something personal to each one of them.
 "A boys teacher should be gen uine. They worship true manliness. lnsinceIity, a false note, lack of fiber, teaching that deals in plati- tudes, and means little to anyone, antagonize sensible boys.
 We have no patience with per functory work. The instant work be- comes weariness. the instant it ceases to have flavor and zest and a defnnite aim. that instant it be- | comes synonomous with failure and defeat.
 Boys, like all of Gods creatures respond to individual influence. He likes to be singled out, set to work and entrusted with responsibility. | He also loves a challenge. If we make the Sunday school the chief | means, under Christ, for fulfilling l the Great commission, our boys will not lightly pass over such chal- 1 lenge.
 Among Che many poisonous l tendencies of our age, one stands out almost like danger signal; that of emphasizing chance rather than skill as a factor of life. l wish I had time to dwell here. These pois onous tendencies, how deceptive, how seducing.
 We find heroes, many of them, among our boys in our Sunday schools. There are the boys who will compose the splendid ranks and file of our glorious future. To have the training of these is to be on the staff of Him who died for the worlds redemption and who ever lives to make intercesion for us
 It is no small honor as well as no small responsibility to teach Sunday school boys in the twentieth cen- tury.
 "To me one of the saddest things in our Sunday school work is our lack of men. Men to teach our boys. They need men -> to teach them. 0, how we mothers do l wish that men, clean men, with Christian principles would train themselves for efficient work for boys. Until men will take up this work and do it efficiently, we thank God for women who will do their best. We long for men to teach by example as well as precept, for men that are such splendid examples of Christian life that our boys will be thrilled with the ideal it inspires, and want to be like them. We thank God for some such, but we pray for many.
 There are no short cuts to boy training. Indirection is often the shortest, best and surest method to help another to overcome fault. It is a long, slow, patience, testing process, training another's soul. It pays to follow Christ's methods and that method is based upon emphasiz- ing always the best in another, nev- CT the worst.
 Il wish I might speak of how we often dwarf the ideals of our boys in elevating to honor, either in city, state or church, men who are known to be immoral. Let us know in do- ing this, we are putting a premium on vice, and destroy precepts we teach. It is not fair to our boys to thus thwart our teaching by such examples
 ''I maintain there must be sin gle standard for girls and boys in Sunday schools and everywhere else. Sin is sin in a boy the same ;n a girl. My boy must be as pure ,holy, chaste, with the same standard for virtue as your girl, for thus he stands in Gods sight
 q would like to speak of the boy who outgrows his teacher, for boys grow and some teachers do not.
 Again from Marion LawraHce.
 '' Be interested in what the boys are interested in. Give them so ne- thing to do. Know them by naTe Teach them positively, not negative ly. Remember they are not ma chipac Ra hannv and cheerful They