Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-08
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
HELD fine MEETING HERE
TOUR PARTY NO. ROUTE TO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
AT SAN FRANCISCO SPENT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON VISIT
ING THE CAPITAL ciTy-WERE GIVEN AUTO RIDE TO POINTS
oe ,n7EREsr-eAnoue1 AND Rous,Ne MEETING BAPTIST
CHURCH IN THE EVENING.

Wednesday afternoon the capital
city entertained a special car full OF
delegates to the International Sunday
School convention which will be held
at San Francisco during the week OF
lime 10, The party included some
of the greatest religious workers OF
the nation and they were given royal
time during their brief stay in this
city.
The special car which had been
chartered by the tour party arrived III
the city on No. at 3 o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon. The party were met
at the station by members of the city
commission and the commercial club
AS we'll as prominent citizens and
churchmen of Bismarck and were i'm
mediately bundled into autos and tax
en- on a tour of the city and to the
various points of interest. There
were ten automobiles chartered by
the commercial club for this purpose.
The trip about the city was given
by the commercial cub members and
who we're anxious to make the visitors
stay in Bismarck as pleasant as
possible.
The first place visited by the party
was Fort Lincoln From there they
were taken to the state penitentiary
and were taken through the insti-
tuition. After their visit to and through
the pemtentiary the party was taken
to the state capitol building, from
which piace they were returned TO
their car
At 600 O'Clock the guests met at the
First Baptist church where BAN
auet was served by the Ladies Aid So
ciety of the church. There were over
one hundred of the residents of the
city who attended the banquet which
was decided success in every way.
especially from a culinary standpoint.
At 1880 o'clock the visitors repaired
to the auditorium of the church where
rousing meeting was held and con-
tinued until just a few minutes be-
fore the departure of No. 5.
The meeting was presided over by
DR.. A. Lincoln Shute, pastor of the
McCabe Methodist church. The au-
ditorium was filled with large gath
ering of representative church work
ers of all of the denominations of the
churches of the city.
The meeting opened with short
song service which was conducted
by Edgar T. Clisold, leader of the ia.
nous mems chorus of the Chicago Fall
Festival. Mr.. Clisold possesses a
pleasing voice and his enthusiasm
over the songs that were sung was
contagious, so much so that the crowd
which filled the auditorium resolved
itself into a big chorus while the song
service was on.
The keynote of the various address
es of the evening was Sunday School
Work as Seen by Workers With a
World Vision" Each Of the speakers
was limited to fifteen minute talks.
The first speaker introduced was Mrs.
Paul S. Dietrich of St. Paul, field
superintendent of the elementary d.
vision of the Minnesota Sunday school
association.
Mrs. Dietrich said that all children
under thirteen years OF age and their
teachers constituted the elementary
department She further stated that
nearly half of the children in the
Sunday schools today, or 100000
children, were included in this d.
vision. She emphasized the impor-
lance of teaching the child the truth
during the formative period of its life.
In order that the various schools
might be capable of doing this, and in
order that they might know just how
successful their efforts were, there
had been standard adopted by which
all schools might judge their elemen-
tary work for themselves.
The standard elementary division
was as follows: There is an inter-
national elementary division superin-
tendent. Each state should have an
elementary superintendent, as should
each county. Then in each school
there should be some teacher especial
ly interested in elementary work who
should be named as elementary sup
erintendent of that school. Thus
the thoughts and the great teachings
of the international and national
thinkers would be handed down step
by step until it reached the indi-
vidual school and would be put into
practical use.
The department should be carefully
organized. First of all there should
the the cradle roll. on which the
name of the child should be enrolled
from the date of birth, until about
the age of four years, when it should
commence to come to the Sunday
school. The beginners department
should take the little ones from four
years to about six or seven years.
The primary department should take
them from about seven to ten years
of age, and the Junior department
should look after them until the age
of ten until they have reached the
age of II.
In regar- % the matter of equip
ment for the elementary department
there should first of all be secured
separate place where the younger
members of the school might be
taught. They should have little chairs
chairs that would be comfortable. to
sit in while at Sunday school. The
black board should be freely used,
eye teaching in the case of the little
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