The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-06-14
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Annual Convention of the Grant COun.
ty Sunday School Association.
Well Attended Meeting.


Well Attended Meeting.
The annual convention of the
Grant County Sunday School
Association was convened at the
Evangelical church last Satur
day, and after a 15-minute devo
tional service a Ground Table"
was conducted by President r.
J. Hicks, in which a number of
matters relative to the Sunday
school were informally discuss
ed, and later the visiting dele
gates were assigned to their
places of entertainment
At the evening meeting in the
same church after prayer and
scripture reading an address Of
welcome to visiting delegates
was given by Rev. Holgate and
responded to by A. G. Swanson,
followed by talk by Rev. Oldtield
on the subject "a Model Sunday
School LESSON, with the lesson
for June 9th as a basis. J. F..
Schwantes read an excellent pa.
per on the "Use and Abuse of the
Lesson Helps and the subject
was quite generally discussed.
On Sunday afternoon the third
session of the association was
held at the Congregational
church and after the opening ser
vice of prayer and bible read
ing, Herbert Kahl, of Big Stone
township, read a paper on the
l"County Sunday School and
Character Building" which very
clearly pointed out the benefit
a country Sunday school is
to the young people of a
country neighborhood in stimu
lating and helping them to attain
manly and womanly characters,
and the paper also forcibly pre-
sented the fact that the country
school generally had more infu-
ence in shaping the character OF
tits pupils than had the town
schools where numbers of other
attractions were bidding for at.
ltention and likely to distract the
thought of the young people OF
the community. The fact that
Mr.. Kahl was one of the princi.
pal promoters and organizers OF
a most successful Sunday school
in the township of Lockwood
added greatly to the force OF
what he said in regard to the
value Of Sunday school work in
the country districts.
Mr.. A. L Heidner, of Big
Stone, also had a very excellent
paper on "Christian Service and
Character Building showing
the necessity for service to
others as one of the principal ele.
ments of the christian life, and
the impossibility of the purely
selfish man attaining to this life.
While the gentleman who was
to have had paper on the "Prop.
er Observance of the Sabbath in
Relation to Character Building"
was not present, the subject was
taken up and discussed informal.
ly, and the neglect of the day
and it's desecration was pointed
out as one Of the national sins as
we'll as a most potent factor in
keeping the individual from the
larger development of all the bet
ter qualities of his nature.
Rev. w. J. Oldfeld and Messrs.
w. w. Downie, o. B. Fornell and
James Black were made a nom.
mating committee, and at the
evening session this committee
reported the following names
for officers and committee chair.
men for the coming year, and
they were unanimously elected:
Pres.-J. F. Schwantes.
V. PA. G.. Swanson
Sec.-Elmer D. Kelley
Treas George Bury
The committee chairmen elect.
ed are:
Missionary-Julius Fenner
Cradle Roll-Mrs. w. |. Low.
THAN
Temperance-Mrs. S. r. Gold
Program Committee-Rev w.
}. Oldtield, Rev. Ernest Holgate,
w. W. Downie, O. B. ForneIl,
Elmer D. Kelley
Music Committee-C. E. Mills,
Mrs. A. H. Bingham, Miss Anna
Stengel
After the election of officers at
the evening session the following
resolution was presented and
unanimously adopted: