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


last this country for the next fifty
years But better than all else.
Alaska has some of the prettiest and
brightest babies in the world to be
won for Christ.
In connection with the great mis-
sionary work in the western part of
our country Mr. Norcross spoke Of
the marvellous development of some
parts Of the Great American Desert
through irrigation. 400 bushels of
potatoes to the acre is the crop that
has been raised on land reclaimed
from arid places.
Little drops of water,
On little grains of sand,
Make a mighty difference
In the price of land.
This is the revision of the old
rhyme that our fathers and mothers
used to repeat in their school days.
The Sunday school is being estab.
lished in many parts of this western
country and is doing a noble work in
preventing the waste of many lives.
1t is the most important organization
in our country today. II is the will
of our Father that none of these
little ones should perish.
When Mormon reaches the age of
81 he must give himself to mission
work for a time and pay his own ex.
penses. We look for the time when
more OF our able young men, and wo-
men too, will be willing to give some
thing of the best of their lives to the
great work of teaching those who
need the knowledge of the best
things. So many lives are wrecked
through ignorance when they might
be saved for useful service If only
there were helping hands stretched
out to them The work of the Sun
day School is to prevent waste OF
human life, to educate and upbuild in.
to christian manhood and woman
hood
After a solo by Mrs. Swift Mr.
Hugh Cork, of Chicago, who had
spoken in the afternoon. gave another
interesting address. His subject
was. Parents Problems Can the
Sunday School Help Solve Them
Mr. Cork said ID We want our chill
dren to have a normal physical de
Der that young children cannot sit
still for a minute even and that II Is
cruel to insist upon il. Motion songs
marching. and other exercises should
be given in primary grades, in jun
ior grades there should be some free
dom in moving about. Sometimes il
becomes the duty of the Sunday
School teacher to teach boys and
girls some physiological truths that
some one else has neglected to teach
them. They should not be allowed to
pick up their knowledge of some of
these important things from older
children, from whom it is likely to
come mixed with the foulest obsceni-
ty; ii should be taught that their
bodies are the temples of God that
they should be kept clean and pure,
that shame attaches to no part of
the body. but only to wrong action,
(2) We want our children to learn
prompt obedience. Sunday School
teachers and officers can help in this.
Insist on attention and promptness
in all exercises.
CD We want our children to learn
reverence and respect Have moth
ing in Gods house that is unseemly
Teach reverence for parents and for
the aged.
(4) Children are naturally selfish
They must be taught of needy chill
dren at home and in other lands
teach giving-make the giving sell
denial to some extent.
The Sunday School teacher cannot
take the place of the parents in solv
| ing these problems but she can help
| Mr. Cork read letter that he re
ceived from Miss Italia Garibaldi, {
granddaughter of the great Italian
patriot; this letter was received shor
| ly after the terrible earthquake dis
aster of Sicily and Calabria Miss
Garibaldi is at the head of college
for girls in Rome, a Christian college
and she is trying to do for her pupils
much of the same kind of work tha
our graded Sunday Schools are doint
! for their senior classes. Children
7 should be taught to respect people o
other nationalities; not to call then
names or to despise them if they are
poor and ignorant
The Sunday School should contri
butte much to the happiness and vel
being of its children.
(5) Children should be brought tC
Christ and that early. Children are
interested in these things; they are
naturally religious. Keep in touch
with parents and do all possible tC
lead every member of your school in