Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-05-07
Spring Conference S. S. Workers.

The annual Spring Conference OF the
Sunday School Workers Of Gloucester Co.,
was held at St. Paul's Methodist Church
Pau1sboro, April 30. The conference was
an enthusiastic and inspiring one from
beginning to the end. DR.. II. L. Gilmour
lead the singing and devotional exercises
during the day in his usual inspiring way
George w. Hughes was chosen chairman
and introduced the first speaker, Miss E H.
Goodwin, State Superintendent of Y. w. G..
T. o., who spoke on How to Present a
Temperance Lesson" !" Among the good
thing she said: A temperance lesson should
be she easiest lesson to teach because from
the beginning to the end our Bible teaches
temperance. Whatever the Bible says, it
means for to- day. as well as it did when it
was written, and is just as urgent to-day as
it was Of old. Woe means woe to-day just
as it did then. Our boys to-day will be the
voter tomorrow. We should teach them
the moral lessons, and when they become
voters they will know how TO vote. The
church and saloon cannot 60 side by side,
they must part company. SeYen States to-
day are dry. The North cleared out slavery,
it is up to the South to clear the rum traffic
from our country. Teachers, 90 before
your class filed with the knowledge of the
question that your are going to teach, our
daily papers are full of good lessons. Pledge
signing should be urged in our Sunday
school Ninety per cent of those who sign
the pledge keep it, and ninety per cent. Of
those who never signed pledge are to-day
drunkards. Many pledge has kept boy
from taking his first drink, and that is al
ways the worst one. Our forests and our
birds are protected, but our boys are not
Teachers should teach the moral standard Of
living; keep our bodies clean and our brain
clear, and we cannot do this if our bodie:
are full of alcohol. Train our boys TO be
true American citizens with clean and pure
lives
Rev. E. Morris Fer uson State Secretary
spoke on The Sunday school and its Prob
lens. In part he said thab the Sunday.
school teacher has to face each Sunday whai
the public school teacher faces when ths
pupil has been away on a vacation ON
scholars are on vacation six days in the
week. Then, again, the equipments fol
teaching is not up to a standard needed fol
proper teaching. The Sunday school is
face to face with very poor sort Of equip
ment. We must make the school fit the
pupil. There is science back OF each child
Study it-know your pupil. The teacher
must be trained. The teacher must come
before the class with good lesson, and not
a bad one. 1t has great deal to do with
the success of teacher The Sunday y-school
must be thoroughly organized, and to over
come all difficulties the officers and teach.
ers must come in the power of the spirit,
and then our work will be a success.
Rev. S. d. Price, State Recording Score
tary, made very inspiring and helpful ad
dress on what our State Association is
trying TO do for each school, He referred
to the last State Convention which was full
of Inspiration, also the annual School ol
Methods which is held at Asbury Park each
summer in July. He said each Sunday
school should send at least one teacher te
the school; it would make the teacher more
efficient and also benefit the school by hav-
ing that teacher N it. He spoke OF the
teacher having work; OF the organized
adult class work, and many other good
things that is within easy reach OF every
school, but he said that these things do US
no good unless we put them in practice.
This year is the fftieth anniversary of our
State Association, and will hold the sessions
in New Brunswick November 18th TO 10Th.
He said that the personality OF the Sunday
school teacher is what counts. A teacher con-
secrated to his or her work; his or her God
his or her Bible is the one who will make a
success of the work. a teacher who rings
true is the one who the boys and girls and
God wants. A teacher must always be
optimistic and cordial, and must know who
they are teaching. Ring true 80 God and
to His purpose.
Pastor Clark, Of the Conference Church,
greeted the people in very cordial way,
and made everybody feel at home.
The first speaker of the afternoon session
was Miss Cora n. Coats, Of Philadelphia,
who spoke on New Ideals in Sunday
School Work. \ Her work was mostly with
smaller children from birth she cradle roll
up to twelve yearsof age. How to care for
them, how to interest them, and their par
ents as well. Her talk was very helpful and
suggestive, and pointed ous many new
ideals which would be worth while to work
up to.
DR.. George W Bailey, Assistant Treas.
urer Of the International Sunday school AS.
sociation, made She closing address on The