Connecticut western news., 1910-06-23
Interesting Session Wednesday at KentLargely
 Attended.
Earnest Addresses Made by Prom inent Speakers on Topics Con- nected With Bible Study
 and Class Work.

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 There was large attendance of Sun. day school workers from all parts of the county Wednesday, yesterday. at the 47th annual session of the Litchfsld Northwest Sunday School Union at Kent.
 It began at 10 o'clock with devotional services led by Rev. O. H. Perry of Kent, pastor of she church in which it was held, who also delivered a cordial aa. dress of welcome. Rev. J. O. Goddard of Salisbury, responded in his usual happy mood in behalf of the union.
 A short business session was held, at which needful business of the session was begun. Then the secretary for the state work delivered an address on the Sunday school, Worth What it Costs. |" It was an address in every way practical and command close attention. Elementary Work
 State elementary secretary, Mrs. Will helmina Stooker of Hartford, made a very entertaining presentation of her work and following this, elementary work was taking up and discussed by others present, with much intelligence and interest. This preceded the social and lunch hour. The ladies of the church had made ample provisions for the feasting, to which all did justice. The Afternoon Session
 After the praise service, and short business session. the Rev. H. G. Bushlsr, headmaster of the Hotchkiss school and biblical authority, delivered an address on the Literature of the Bible" which showed deep study and rare scholarship and was heard with close attention by all, to its most minute detail, and every body was delighted and charmed by the speakers earnest and happy way of presenting his subject and forcing home its vital points.
 The Rev. Harry Cornford, president of the Union, delivered an interesting address on Some Points for Teachers: He said in part:
 Always make points. Publicity is obtained by speciality says someone. The words of the wise arc as Roads.' says Solomon. A teacher in the Sab bath School must have goads, nails, points. If you havn't any make one.
 First point, get the class interested in something; always with the thought of tho lesson in view. The boys will want to talk about baseball. A point; don't let them. Another boy will want to talk about fishing; shut him off. Jonah's whale, or the disciples went fishing, is not the lesson of the day. It is seed sowings and one harvest.
 Raise the question, how to prepare the soil and why. Get the class inter- ested. Get interested yourself. Teach do not explain. Give tho class some thing to do; don't do it for them That is the great trouble to-day.
 Why Teacher Failed
 "The speaker illustrated thy a teach CT failed, with story of friend who was a good preacher, but who tried school teaching and made a rank fail ure of it. The speaker called one day at the school to sec his friends work and noticed that when small boy was at the board to do sum the teacher in- terrupted him by doing it his way. and telling the child: there it is; you see now how 1t is done? But the child did not see. He could not understand The teacher should have made the child do the sum himself. That is the only way to teach.
 Sowing the Seed
 Take the four seed sowings: the way side, among the thorns and missiles; the beaten path and the good ground. Point, Why so much work and so little return for labor. What is wrong here and what is right? Make the class tell. Every scholar should take part. Show no favoritism; make everyone speak their thoughts. O that I could get people to think, said Gladstone. That's the duty of the teacher, to create thought. Doit." sh