The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-20

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school give numerous cheap gifts to
the scholars. Rather impress them
with the great thought Of giving our
best to others. BY doing this we ex-
hibit the Christ"
Work In Old Districts.
Following the address by Mr.. Nc
Balm, Rev. Cyrus Sullivan of Wilmar,
Minn., addressed the conference on
THE Work Of Our Society in Old Set
tied Districts" The speaker stated
that nine years ago he had been sent
to southeastern Minnesota, but had
been told that he really was not need
ed there. He looked the field over
and found three places in a radius of
five miles where there was no Sunday
al much work for q missionary in
there is in the newer parts Of the
country.
Rev. A. B. Gould Of Jarrett. Mimi,
the next speaker. In addressing
the conference on 1.-THE Child in Its
Relation to the Worlds Activities"
he said In part:
CAS- preachers and missionaries we
need to guard against falling into
professionalism" The public always
discounts the plea Of the lawyer and
the speech Of the politician, making
allowance for the lives Of interest II
not of sincerity. It will do the same
with us IL We are not careful to be
genuine.
1.-The Importance of our work can
scarcely be exaggerated; our business
is to SO present its claims that 1t will
not be discounted.
John Wesley lamented the fact
that in his day the permanent fruit
Of revivals was so small compared
with first appearances. Every
preacher since has morned over the
same fact; SO have we. Some to this
day have not discovered the relative
fact that the lasting fruits of REVEALS
are always from those with c~onscien-
ces developed by early religious in
struction-that is in our day, from
the Sunday school. It is a potent
truth, but one almost universally
ignored by the Protestant world. The
Catholics understand IT, as they do
some other things in which they can
give US lessons. The American sun
day school union discovered It eighty
ginning to learn 1t.
The key is today was the child Of
the last generation. To his neglect
is 1t due that the devil mostly has the
key today. The key to the future is
the child we see now, and the MAX
ers of the history of the next gem
GRAFTON r the teachers Of today.
"The child in the midst" 10 the
lever, by which we can move the
world of the present as we'll as the
future. He is the center Of the
worlds interest. Pay for the largest
item of taxation Is that for educa.
tion-the tribute Of the state to the
parental public instinct of interest in
the future Of its children. A pro-
gram by its children never fails to
draw q crowd in any community.
This fs u work. It is a humble
work In the same way that the foun-
dations of a sky scraper is humble.
IL Is not In the eye of the admiring
crowd, but the architect knows It is
the important part of the building.
the part that must be laid right II
the building is to stand when the
rains discend and the floods come"
Afternoon Session.
This afternoon the delegates to the
conference were treated to one of the
most interesting talks of the entire
session. G. H. Cottam Of LaMoure,
N. D., who is a master of the v
gave a very interesting Chalk talk"
MT. Cottam stated that inasmuch as
q large percentage Of the mission
Sunday schools are held in the school
houses in the northern district he
considered 1t a waste of opportunity
not to use the b~lackboards. He illus
trated his remarks and offered many
suggestions as to attractively writing
things on the blackboards so that the
children would remember them. II
believe in sight as we'll as hearing"
he said, "and that the bible study
talks would go in one ear and out
the other providing there was moth
ing between to stop the through pass
age. AS in sight there is no outlet
in the back Of the hear believe in
combining the two hearing and sight
and in using b~lackboards and illus
trations whenever possible"
Rev. George B. Galley Of Marshall,
Mimi. in his talk this afternoon spoke
of the Future of Our Schools and
Their Permanently" First he pointed
out the necessity of each missionary
adhering strictly to his commission
and to impress upon the people the
idea that the SHOOT is to be permap-
ent. He pointed out the fact that the
instruction reads that the schools
must not close during the winter and
that the missionary must put forth
effort to carry out this instruction.
His first thought was the great i'm
preston that the missionary leaves
during his first visit. He must under
all circumstances visit each and ev-
cry home whether they would be liable
to attend the meeting or not. BY this
method the first impression will be
that the missionary is sincere. He
gave some good advice as to conduct
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