The Penn's Grove record., 1912-10-25
PRECEPTOR HOLDS
HIGH POSITION
Work of Sunday School Teacher
in the Development of a Well
Grounded Citizenship.

VO measure the influence Of the
Sunday school teacher in charac.
ter building, social progress and
reform, humanitarian and re-
ligious endeaVor and all the
great movements of contemporane-
GUS history is a task impossible of &C.
complishment. Isolate them and con.
slider their weekly routine within the
comparatively narrow circle of their
classes and the labors of the teacher
appear to be of little consequence.
But view the teacher as related to and
an integral part Of the great army that
is working towards the specific end Of
character building and the redemption
of society, and the teacher becomes
one of the mightiest factors in the
moulding of modern thought and the
shaping Of modern life. There are O.
607,371 of them scattered through this
world Of ours bringing within the radi.
US OF their inspiration, instruction and
influence millions of children and
adults. In the United States alone
over a million and a half men and
women are touching the lives, teach
ing the minds and reaching the hearts
Of the multitudes brought under their
weekly ministry.
The fact that the Sunday school
stands for the things that are highest
and best in individual character and
human relations, and that these things
are stressed and impressed under con-
d1tions that give the teacher unique
relation to the scholars and a tremen-
dous advantage in influence, suggests
the wonderful work that Is being done.
Not only as a negative force, pre-
venting the slipping of thousands into
paths that lead to failure and ruin,
but more as a positive force, inspiring
and leading them into the way of
righteousness and to enlistment with
the movements that contemplate a
worlds redemption, is the value of
the teacher felt. The school teacher
and the Sunday school teacher are
essential elements in a great army set
upon the development of well rounded
manhood and womanhood. In their
activities, together with the construc-
tive work of the pulpit and the parent.
lies the hope Of symmetrical charactN
and useful living.
The possibilities of the Sunday
school movement are but just dawn
ing upon the consciousness of re-
igious workers. With the newer
vision of these possibilities has come
the endeavor to organize a ssytem Of
instruction and inspiration that shall
embrace the whole gamut of life, from
the cradle to the grave, and, furnish a
place, a benefit, and a positive work
for all ages and classes of the human
family.
This and the Sunday school move
ment has become a science, the mas
tiers of which are at pains to adapt
with its wonderful store Of knowledge,
effective methods and persuasive arts,
to teachers everywhere that they may
be furnished for the task and given
the power Of largest success. This
institute, to be held in our city, is one
of the provisions that trained Sunday
school workers everywhere are max
ing for the enrichment and equipment
of the hosts who have to deal person
ally with pupils in this delicate and
important task of teaching. With this
thorough organization, its complete
equipment, its intelligent methods and
its army Of trained teachers the mod
erp Sunday school is destined to reach
a plane of influence and success that
the fathers never dreamed of.