The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-18
'EPWORTH
IS PACKED
FE
Sunday School Convention
Draws Large Crowd.
INTERESTING ADDRESSES
Delivered by Speakers OF
National Reputation.
Zach Succeeding Session Increases
in Interested and the Numbers in
Attendance.

Epworth NJ. Y. church was fill
ed near to its seating capacity
Tuesday evening at the session OF
the seventeenth annual convention
of the Sunday school workers OF
Marion county. A very large num-
Der of delegates were among
those present and very much in
terest was shown by all concerned
in the Sunday school work.
The opening devotional exercises
were led by the state secretary,
DR.. Joseph Clark. In his remarks
tc the teachers Dr. Clark urged
that in the convention they be not
inclined to vary with one another
because of denominational differ
ences. There should be perfect
union regardless of creed. In
Japan there is but one church and
DR. Clark Thought that no doubt
this was the child of the nations,
which was to lead them In Sunday
school work there should be no
lines of sectionalism all energy
being needed to lead the youth of
the land in path of religious
instruction, which will make good
men and women.
Mrs. Phoebe Curtis was the
first speaker of the evening TAX
ing as her theme "a Three flDld
Influence" In her address Mrs.
Curtis noted the fact that all
children are far from alike and
very much care must be used in
the selection of training which will
be suitable to various children.
One child may be influenced by
one method of instruction. while
another will not be at all suscepr
tible to the same training. The
speaker urged that the school
teacher study her pupils careful
ly and learn the proper training for
each.
Mrs. Curtis favored moral train
ing in the upblic schools II is very
difficult for the Sunday school
teacher to give sufficient moral
training on Sunday when the
pupils OF her class are so distant
from such training in the public
schools. There is no man who had
received good moral training in the
public schools who ever regretted
1t and IL Is highly necessary in this
age Of The world that tho people
who send their children to the
public schools should get away
from narrow sectarianism and have
their children given a moral train
ing regardless of religious differ
ences.
The next speaker on the pro-
gram of the evening was looked
for with much expectation he be-
ing known as the "Indiana Cy-
clone. Mr.. G. d. Meigs took for
his theme ga Greater Sunday
school and Its Possibilities. In
his remarks Mr. Meigs noted how
necessary to the welfare of the
church It is that the entire Sunday
school should equal in number
the church membership. He related
one instance where Sunday school
teacher in the State of Texas had
attempted for a number of years
TO get the entire church enrolled
In the lists of his Sunday school.
He succeeded admirably until the
reached the last man and he was
decidedly opposed to attending
both Sunday school and church
services on Sunday. The good
deacon in the church told the
earnest teacher that he was with
him in the spirit but that in body
he was too tired on Sunday morn
ings to go to the Sabbath school.
he teacher became at once anxious
to see how a man looked who was
In the spirit and upon going to