Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-30
DELEGATIONS FROM 49 CHURCHES
Gathering of County Sunday School Association Was the Largest Since Organization James L. Case and Other Officers Re-elected-Addresses by Prominent . Workers.

plish. We must try to help parents with the home problems. The parents department is th5 newest department of Sunday school work and its pur-
 pose is. to help the parents in the home work In the mothers and parents
 meetings held in many of the schools you have made beginning in the
 parents department work.
 The atmosphere Of the home, thC
 books, music, pictures, all make al I impression on the child. In many
 homes no hymns are sung, there is no
 family prayer, no Bible stories for the
 little ones. What are we doing in the Sunday school for helping in these homes? The speaker urged the pur- chase of proper books for the use of
 the parents i'll developing the right
 home atmosphere and named several which she considered suitable. We
 are doing this, she said, to save the young people and we can't do it with
 out the right home life. the sort where souls are trained for humanity and heaven. We don't want to feel that We are seeking the help of the home but
 we must give the home our help.
 Department Conferences.
 At 4.15 the conferences were held as follows: (a) elementary department
 Beginners. led by Miss Jennie L. CongGon; Primary, led by Miss Will
 helmina Stooker; Junior, led by Mrs. R.. A. Baldwin; (b) Secondary depart
 ment-Intermediate, led by w. l. Woodin; Senior, led by WI. Woodin; Co Adult department. led by Charles
 A. Boyd: (d Home department, led by
 Mrs. F. F. Richards: (e) Superintend- ents' department, led by F. J. Working. Following reports of the conferences there was intermission for supper which was served by the ladies in the social room.
 lllustrated Talk at Evening Session. In the evening Rev. P. c. Wright con- ducted devotional exercises and at 7.3C Wallace I. Woodin, general secreary of the Connecticut Sunday School asso- citation, gave an interesting illustrated lecture on The Rise of the Modern Sunday School. By the modern Sun day school said MT. Woodin, we mean the school which has recently sprung up, for they tell us that the institution dates back to the time of Methuselah The first modern Sunday school was organized in Gloucester, England, ir 17S0, and it's purpose was not specifical- ly religious, but rather to give. a gen. eral education to the children of the streets. Here We have also the star, of the public school. The first Sunday school, or Sabbath school. as it was called, in America was instituted ir Hanover, Va, in 17S6.
 Norwich Among the Earliest. The first Sunday school in Connecti- cut was established in 1909 in Soutt
 Norwalk, and Norwich was not far be- hind, the Second Congregational church, under the auspices of whict this meeting is held, establishing 2
 Sabbath school in 1874. From 1874 tC 1928 the Sunday school movement spread rapidly in Connecticut. In 1923 was held the first state convention o1 ] Sunday school teachers at Hartford I In 1926 there was organized in New Haven the first state Sabbath schoo l teachers association. but this was mol
 heard from again until 1857, when at q
 state convention at Hartford the pres
 ent Sunday school association wa:
 formed.
 | The teachings of the early Sunday
 school were much more narrow ana
 more strictly religious than those o ] the present day school. The first na.
 tional Sunday school convention wa.
 held in October, 1892; there was an.
 other a year later, but the next ont
 was not until 1859. The speaker show.
 ed pictures of the early Sunday schoo