The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-12
SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORK DISCUSSED
BY LAY WORKERS
Saturday Nights session of Confer
enee One of the Most interesting
of the Meeting.

The conference services Saturday
evening began at 7:45 o'clock, with
Rev. B. F. Lewis, chairman of the
Sunday School Board of the Missis-
sippi Conference, presiding. This
service being in the interest of Sun
day schools, was participated in by
active lay workers in this branch of |
church work.
The opening prayer was led by Mr..
N. A. Mott, of Yazoo City. Mr.. Mott
has been prominent in Sunday school
school work for years, and for a long
time a member of the Sunday School
Board of the Mississippi Conference.
Mr.. w. H. Morse, young man from
Tylertown, read the Scripture lesson,
taking his selection from Deuterono.
my. Rev. Norman Guice sang as
solo, the hymn, abide With Me-"
Chairman Lewis stated that the
Sunday school work in Mississippi is
in a more satisfactory condition than
ever before. He introduced Miss
Daisy Magee, of Columbia, who lee
tured on graded work in Sunday
schools. The system advocated by her
is what is known as "The Graded
Sunday School Lessons" This sys-
TEN was advocated as being thorough
ly scientific and progressive. While
not wanting to make of the Sunday
school a kindergarten, of the hand
work it is essential that suggestion
must be persistent and practical
Children at the day schools come in
, contact with the best methods. In
the Sunday school they expect as
much. The work is graded with idef
, of adapting it to the age and training
of the children of every school. Miss
Magee showed thorough familiarit!
with this new system of graded Sun
day school lessons.
q The Lewis quartette rendered feel
ingly one of their choice selections.
f DR.. H. M. Hamel, superintendent o
a Teacher Training Department M. Z
!. Church, South, was then introduce
q and he began by making special re
:. quest that his co-laborer, Rev. w. Ere
Long, come to the platform and 81
i, with the other Sunday school worker
It thereon.
DR.. Hamel has for many years bee
ct in charge of Sunday school work
-e the Southern Methodist church
was he who organized the Teach5
Training Glass, which has since b
F. come a feature in all the churches.
DR.. Hamel caught the attention Z
er the audience at the beginning, by tt
)y relation of a humorous ghost stor
n He is distinctly teacher by natu1
IT. and practice. His methods are sy
at tematic and pedagogic. He commen
ed the mother instinct and the moth
ng love methods to any one who wan
E. to become teacher and said the pc
". sonal interest in the pupil is essenti
B. for right work.
He told of the reason a Chica
ng gamin gave for walking twenty mil
E. every Sunday to go to a certa
Id school. 1t was that they love f
lr- low over there" The personal int
ms est, the home character of envirc
ment and the reverence of sacr
things, were the three things whi
he should be in every Sunday school.
nd He advocated three campaign
de Extension, Education Evangelizati'
ers Get them," train them" save then
L. mo Sunday school can rank as mode
lii that has not its Home Department
H. said the speaker.
A. "It is possible in every community
S. get the young men into Sunday schc
w. The way to do it, is to do it.
]. DR.. Hamel's reference to the fl
w. that he was for one day an orderly
d. General Lee when IA years of a
F. was quite pathetic The modern S
F. day school is the entire church stu
]. ing the Word of God for the purp
lin, of saving the boys and girls.
,lif- The church of tomorrow is what
, j. boys and girls of today make it.
w. boys and girls of today are what tn
R. who now teach make them. Tr
lap the rising generation. This is fun
R. mental. His campaign of Evangel
. s. ton is to save these boys and gi
mes, DR.. Hamel's peroration was with Z
E. and enthusiasm. At the close of
am address he lead in eineins IS
Jr., "Once | was Bouna e4f