Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-03-13
SUNDAY SCHOOLS REVIEWED
Chittenden County Association
Holds Annual Meeting
Officers Elected for Coming Ycar--Thc
Local Field OTers Wide Oppor-
tunitics for bible workers,
Say the Speakers.

The whole scope of Sunday school
method, activity and ideal was presented
before the workers of the Chittenden
County Sunday School association at the
College Street Church yesterday MORN
ing and afternoon The Rev. Or l. c.
Smart began the day with the Word in
Worship" At the morning session the
discussion centered about the elementary
division OF the school operation. Miss
| Anna Byinston had charge OF the hour
and introduced Miss Ellen Il. Cramton
OF Rutland, VINO emphasized the need of
training the children to know the con-
tents of the Bible, for at the earliest age
they are senstively receptive of and re-
sponsiye to the stories of the Bible.
! The Rev s. II. Barnum presented q
/ proposition widely different from what is
customarily presented at a Sunday school
meeting. He advocated the union OF the
| Sunday school forces in the small rural
community. Where two or three
churches are located It would be helpful
| in fostering fellowship spirit, in creating
an esprit de corps, in enlarging the at
tendance and in giving to the school the
best teaching ability Of all OF the schools.
The separate departments Of the school
might meet in the different churches, or
/ { the number is not sufficient then in
one church. \ lively discussion followed
! this suggested novelty. indicating the
solution of many of the problems Of the
rural sunday school. Adjournment was
then taken. The ladies OF the church pro
vdol luncheon for the delegates.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The afternoon session was opened by
! devotion, led by the Rev DIR. G. V Girls
mer. The secondary division of the school
was the topic of the hour, it's plans, posi-
! bilitics and vital facts being presented.
| Henry Il Hill conducted this conference
and introduced the Rev Morgan f. pease
| of Richford, the State superintendent
who with charts delineated and described
the stages of the physiological, mental
and moral being termed the boy.
1t was an admirable, comprehensive,
! lucid. emphatic prcsentiton of the psy-
choogy of the child life with which the
teacher has 10 do. The time of stress,
| strain and storm he placed at from Is TO
ID Years of age. During this period the
| hoy life wa. most impro ssihlc to the i'm
| portant features of the Christian religion.
In This period he begins to manifest the
| social spirit; he will Join the 'ganG'
| and will fight for it, too. Here IS the Pc
Rod when service for others is pleas
! urc, and at this tim" tn" spirit o. thr
One who came not to he mnistered unto
| ut to minister il most readily accepted
| ny him. 1t is IN" time of the golden
! opportunity of saving not alon" the soul
hut the life of the hoy
The State superintendent, the Rev. D.
II. \. Durfec, then addressed the people
on the topic building a Wall OF Men.
Dr. Durfee indicated that 70 per cent. of
the young men were lost to the Sunday
school and therefore to the church be-
cause there we're not preventive meth
DDS OF saving Them sanely and perma-
nently. There is no reason why thes-
Young people who by right OF primacy be-
long forever to the school and the church
should not be established ana become per
nancnt assets The remedy suggested
vas to make it an acute responsibility
| which the men of the church and commu.
nifty must assume to keep the boy of tn,
, teens in the school Apt illustrations o,
| the feasibility of creating Il nciGhborhoot
spirit among the men were given. Tnoi,
} goodwill was to be solicited Th"v w"r,
I an immediate and available asset OF tn,
L school. To emphasize their need in tn,
, school as preventive agencies in .-iviu
g the childhood would create a worthy suir
it, thus preserving them and saving III,
. bov to the school. His address was time
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