The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-03

Immigrant-The Hopeful Side VS..
the Dangerous"
The registration committee is urging
everyone who attends any session of
the convention to register so that the
real magnitude of the convention can
be shown. There is no registration fee
charged, and moreover with every reg
istration certificate a copy of the
Tullar and Meridith song books being
used at the convention are being given.
In his report given this morning Sec
retary J. H. Engle deprecated condt-
tions as they exist in some portions of
Kansas.
Il could introduce you to the piteous
spectacle of overchurched communi-
ties,'' said he, "of churches unable to
live a normal life, who, pressed for
room, eat and devour one another;
whose pastors forced with their fam
lilies, to subsist on less than the ur-
skilled Iaborer's wage. Some day this
association representing as no other
organization does or can, the organized
evangelical forces of the state will
take formal note of this economic
waste and make forever and ever an
end of six churches for a town Of 600
or three for a village of SG0.'
Sunday School Gains.
Secretary Engle reported that sub
stantial gains have been made in the
Sunday school work this year as fol-
lows: In officers and teachers aggre-
eating 47,163, gain of 425; in scholars
mem bers of cradle roll totaling 2O,57O,
a gain of 2,421; in teacher training
classes numbering 375, a gain of eight.
The report Of the treasurer, r. NJ.
White, showed that the association has
closed the year out of debt, and that
every county in the state with the ex-
ception of Elk county, have contributed
towards the work of the association.
The report of W. D. Stem, superin-
tendent of the adult Bible class depart
ment showed that Topeka is in the
lead in resoect to the number of adult
classes.
''Since the close of the records April
%, 13 classes have reported, making
a total to date of 1.577, a gain of 819,
OF. 1OS per cent in the last year-an av-
erage of two classes per day" reads
the report. Ninety counties out of los
report organized classes, as against
81 last year, leaving only six counties
not reporting.
shawnee county still continues to
lead with IS classes; Wyandotte Slip
ned into second place with 81, leaving
Dickinson to hold third place with 54.''
Raps Theological Schools.
1.-THE preparation that does not in
clude the pupil problem is never sue
cessful," said Rev. H. P. Shepherd of
st. Louis, this morning in the course
"A teachers training class should be
something aside from a general train
ing in the Bible. Teacher training is
to train in the process of enriching
life.
Dresent time has been the poorest place
10 learn to preach the gospel. You
preachers should preach as good
teachers teach. Most preachers are
mighty poor teachers. If a preacher
wants to be a good teacher he should
generally reverse his way of thinking.
PIT your thought on the soil and not
tbe seed-plant the seed. The integ-
r-itv of the seed is Gods business, the
nIauting of the seed is your business.
a man who knows the Bible can teach
the Bible, but no man but Christian
can teach Jesus Christ.
'sIThe mother is the most important
teacher the child will ever get. If We
want to make men we must begin
where God begins-in the cradle. Do
,-o11 know when the little babe comes
INTO this world it is an unfinished
mechanism? 1t is the duty of the
church to take this little bundle of
humanity and help mould it.
ssThe teachers business is to learn
the instincts of the child-to irnpart
right impulse habits Boys and girls
are often driven into obstinacy by the
IGNORANT handling of teachers
aOur great problem" said Professor
w 7. McGlothlin of Louisville, XIV.
who spoke on Supplying the Teach
er' sis to find enough men and wom-
an to do the work of teaching
Then the speaker mentioned the
shortcomings of some preachers in re-
s7lect to their ability to teach.
IT wonder if you preachers are