The Green Forest tribune., 1910-11-04
E}t1PE.ET SCORES
 THE CHURCHES
SAYS THOSE IM GREEN FOREST
 A9G NOT WORTH KILLING"
Professor of Our School Would Force Rather Than Pursuade the Chd-
 Groa Off to Gua3ay 6cdooi.

"The churches of Green Forest are not worth killing
 This plain and homely expression was made use Of by Prof. Burney at the Sunday school mass meeting at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon. The utteranca was provoked by an effort upon the part of the superintendent ol our schools to explain why the Sunday School interests of the town are at such low ebb.
 The Professor declared that it is ab- solutely impossible for live Sunday Schools to exist among dead churches and he placed the responsibility for the deplorable lack of interest and attend ance at our Sunday Schools squarely up to the church people and parents.
 Instead of dealing with problems about how to interest the children and get them out to Sunday School, the parents should give the youngsters nc option in the matter He would have them do like his parents did to him, send him along-make it one of the regular duties, and not only send the children but go with them This sort of tactics will make other questions pertaining to Sunday School success easy of solution.
 This mass meeting was a feature of the Baptist Fifth Sunday gathering and the topic of how to build up and sustain Sunday Schools was opened by A. J. Russell of Berryville, who de- scribed the difficulties he had eXper- fenced during a long career as a Sunday School superintendent. While he had encountered many problems, he had partially at least been able to solve them all, save the one of getting young men and boys to manifest esntinued interest.
 The lack of preparation and panctual attendance upon the part of the teach CTS, he has found to be one of the most disturbing features to aperfect Sunday School organization. A good corps of teachers, prompt and painstaking, he has found to be the backbone of Sun day School success. He believes .- < noisy Sunday School, not from bolster ousness but from activity and interest.
 Ed. J. E. Rose told how live, inter esting Sunday School could be built up and maintained, but his p!2n was an impractical theory unless backed by a condition which is conspicuously absent among the members of his congrega- tion.
 A. J. Tabor spoke of his nine years experience as a teacher and confessed that the do-nothing spirit now has him firm captive. So little interest is manifested by the members of his con- stantly changing class that he himself has quit even preparing the lesson. He exhibited we'll developed ease of confounded laziaess.
 Capt. L. E. Harbert, who chanced to be present, got up and "shot off some Humorous remarks. He left the i'm Aession that he believed the lack of sunday School interest in Green Forest is due to pure "cussedness. ' He came very nearly saying it. He said there was too much hypocrisy among the people, and he didn't except himself from the lash he administered. He told how the Christian church had been talked to death, and how imposs bic it was to keep things going gener- ally. He said that he had noticed that one Sunday the school would be live wire and next Sunday too dead to skin, and when he run out of anything furth- CT to say he sat down with very doubtful expression as to the value of his remarks.
 Ed. c. N. Tosh of Eureka Springs, chairman of the meeting, commented upon the situation as described at some length and gave some pertinent sug- gestions, but his expression betrayed a lack of confidence in his remedies, owing to the advanced stage of the 'fdisease. ''
 Other good talks were made and it is very unfortunate that there was not a large attendance out at the meeting. There is always a probability that the unexpected might happen. If Sunday School interests are ever awakened in Green Forest the start will have to be made by some such effort as the mass meeting held last Sunday.