The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-03

asked, who are you?" The child
Strengthened himself proudly, and
looking his questioner in the eye
said, Il am the stuff that men are
made Of sir" A farmer who had
much better sheep than any of his
neighbors vas asked how it was that
his flock was SO superior. His answ-
er was, Il feed my lambs" The Saw
ior took a little child and set him
in the midst of his disciples, and He
never took the child away. The child
is still in the midst of the disciples,
and the surest way of advancing the
interests of the Kingdom is to ad-
vance the highest interests of the
child.
They are idols of hearts and of
households,
They are angles of>God in disguise,
His sunlight still sleeps in their
tresses,
His glory Still beams from their eyes
Oh, those truants from earth and
from heaven,
They have made me more manly and
mild,
And | know now how Jesus could
liken
The Kingdom of God to a child"
The time is coming when the de-
mand will be very great for mission
aries to teach children. When we
have won a whole generation of chill
dren the world will be won to Christ.
There is a picture Of a mother and
child and there are other figures in
the picture, cattle near, men standing
by; and the curious thing about the
picture is that all the light in it
comes from the face of the Child, and
this light sheds glory and radiance
over the whole. The picture says,
The Light OF the World is Jesus"
The devotional part of the meet
ing as led by Rev. f. NJ Fuller of
Manchester Center. General Theme
Blessings to Overcomers" First
topic, Life.
AT the close of this first evening
meeting there was a reception to
delegates in the parlors of the church.
Thursday mornings meeting open
ed at o'clock with a praise and
prayer service led by Rev Benz.
Swift. Mr.. Swift was very good
musical director and his leadership
added much to the success of the
Convention. The Pastors Hour Con
ference at 9.15 was led by Rev. Tho
mas Hall of Island Pond The topic
selected for discussion was What
can a Pastor do for his Sunday
School" AT 1915 Mr. Fuller led
brief devotional service, topic, Safety
At L o'clock practical demonstra-
lion Of visitation campaign was be-
gun; an actual canvass of Woodstock
was made in one hour. The village
having been Distracted, each district
was visited by two persons, one
resident and the other delegate,
calls being made at every home in
the village.
Thursday afternoon at 1880 the
second session of the day opened with
4 song service. This was followed
by a Teachers Training Session; mot
to: only the Best for Vermont"
The address was given by. Mr.. Hugh
Cork of Chicago subject What a
Teacher Should Be and Do" Mr..
Cork was in Vermont for the first
time as representative of the Inter
national Sunday School Association. !
He has been General Secretary,
has the largest outlook over the vast
field of the Sunday Schools of North
America, and is now the successful
superintendent of one of the largest
and most important Sunday Schools
of Chicago. Mr.. Cork's address was
interesting and practical He said
that the Sunday School teacher must
be a Christian and ought to be
protesting Christian He should be
Christike.. His advice was, be con
sistent; live what you teach. The
story to illustrate this point was as
follows
A boy in a certain Sunday school
class had been source of some
trouble to the teacher because he
usually succeeded in diverting the at
tention of the class at the most i'm
portant point in the presentation of
the lesson He usually had some
new toy or other object in his pocket
and by showing it to one boy at
time and keeping it partly hidden in
his hand, giving little glimpses of II
to curious eyes, it was easy to draw
teacher. One Sunday when the usual
interruption began the young teacher
decided that she must take the
troublesome boy in hand and teach
him needed lesson. She discovered
that he had a birds nest. why,
Johnnie" she said, did you steal
that pest a poor little birds homer"
Johnnie admitted that he had taken
the nest and destroyed the eggs.
And what will the poor mother bird
say when she comes back and finds
that her home has been stolen and
the precious eggs broken?" demanded
the teacher with tears in her eyes
"She Won't come back" said Johnnie
stubbornly, She's dead" "She is
sitting right there on your hat this
minutei"
Mr.. Cork said further, "The human
passions and will are the powerful
forces with which teachers have to
deal Teachers should be sure that
they are acting wisely and right in
their methods of dealing with other
souls. Many people will see and
know God only through Christians.
Their responsibility, therefore, is
very great, and it is important that.
the Sunday School teacher should
keep close to the Source of Power.
BE Prayerful; this is more important
than anything else. Character build
ing or christian education is accom-
plished by individuals, not by institu-
tiohs. 1t is not the faultless but the
faithful disciples that have been
power for the church in all it's his
tory.