Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-13
County Convention of Sunday School Association Held at Congregational Church,

The fourth annual convention of the New London County Sunday School association was held Saturday morning and afteroon at the GreeneviIle Con- gregational church with a Creditable attendance. The morning session was opened at 1030 o'clock with a praise service, the devotional exercises being in charge of Rev. c. II. Ricketts, pastor
 of the church. Following the scripture reading and prayer Rev. MT. Ricketts extended a cordial welcome to all at tending, in the absence of of O. w. Carpenter, superintendent of the Sun day school James l.. Case the presi- dent of the association, then took charge Of the gathering. President case spoke of the material advance in Sunday school work, every county in the state being organized.
 Sunday School Programme.
 The opening address or the morning was given by Arthur Nj. Brown, Jewett City, who spoke on A Programme for the Sunday School. In opening his talk MT. Brown stated that he wished 10 give concrete example of a pro- gramme for the Sunday school that during the past few months has been successfully worked out. Opening ex- erClSeS and closing exercises are neCeS- saTy but MT. Brown believes we have gotten into run so far as these eXer- IL thing to get into run, but a hard thing to get out of one. The pro- gramme in many schools is carried out without any particular order or inter- est on the part of the scholars, teach CTS or officers. The ordinary exercises have not the reyerential spirit they should have Every member should take some part in the school pro- gramme, and every Sunday there should be some new feature to keep up an increase in attendance.
 Another point that the speaker Drought out was the value of time Thirty minutes should be devoted to the teaching of the lesson and the re- maining thirty minutes profitably spent If the pastor breaches till 12 or l2.15 o'clock he disarranges the en- Jire school session. The speaker said there should be an understanding with tne pastor with regard to arranging Tor the opening of the school at F o'clock promptly The programmes used at our school said MT Brown, are pasted in the Psalms in front so that the scholars may become ac- quainted with the order of exercises The musical director takes his place at the piano immediately following the morning service and plays a march or prelude while the scholars file in and take their seats At 12 o'clock sharp the school commences and after a short silence there is a responsive reading, followed by a hymn, the num- Der of which may always be found on the board The Psalms are then read; a prayer, with the Lords prayer re- peated in unison, offered. Five minutes is allotted for the collection making up of the attendance report and the librarians work The board of di- -ectors then reports and the report is ratified by the school. The lesson is taken up by the various classes af- l ter the preliminary exercises After the thirty minutes reserved for the study of the lesson a hymn is sung and the school closed.
 Teacher Training.
 Miss Caroline Freeman was the next to address the convention, her subject | being Teacher Training. In order to get the best results there is need to realize how important this work is 1 said Miss Freeman in opening. The best religious training given the child 1 is none too good. The speaker said 1 the teacher should teach from the | childs point of view, and in order to | get the best results should know ev- cry child in the class individually. Miss l Freeman said that although some | schools have paid teachers, she be- i lieved volunteer teachers were better i and more sincere in their work The 1