The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-07-23


ing sight. In this movement there
lies the real success of the Sunday
school movement. We hope it is the
mere beginning Of what will be indi-
vidual preparation for the teacher,
which "is their reasonable service"
Much is due to Mr.. F. w. Groninger
for his untiring work as superinten-
dent of this branch of the work and
he was justly proud to be able to dis
tribute so many diplomas. 3D.
The efficient State Secretary, Rev.
w. A. Snow, gave very interesting
and inspiring address and Mrs. Snow
endeared every delegate to her even
more than in the past by her talk on
seeing the bright side and the great
things of life.
Diplomas were delivered by Mr..
Groninger to the following classes:
Aurelia Teacher Training Class and
Minot Presbyterian church.
Friday Forenoon.
The morning session of Friday was
opened by Rev. E. o. Grimes of Ken
mare with devotional services, and
following were reports by different Of
ficers showing that progress was
steadily being made in all branches of
Sunday school work in Ward county.
Rev. N. p. Crosse was unable to be
present and give his address on "In-
direct Influence of Sunday School
Work" and could only send his paper
and it was read by Prof. Rairdon.
Several of the statements in his paper
could be very we'll repeated, one being
that "A tadpole confined in darkness
would never become frog and like
wise an infant deprived of the light of
Heaven will only grow into shape
less idiot, instead Of beautiful and
reasonable human being" He also
showed that the Sunday school is the
foundation of our National education;
it is the foundation of the church; it
supplies the missionaries and furnishes
good clean citizens to carry on the
affairs of the nations.
At 1870 Miss Mary E. Moxcy of
New York commented on the great re-
sources of North Dakota in Sunday
school work. She paid North Dakota
a great tribute as to not only its grain
raising but also it's progress in Chris
tian work, establishing of Sunday
schools and the enthusiasm shown in
Sunday school work.
Friday Afternoon.
Beginning at 1880 p. m. there were
four department conferences conduct
ed by department superintendent COW
ering Elementary and Secondary div
ision departments, Home department,
Adult Bible class department and
Teacher Training. All of these differ
ent conferences were we'll attended
and great deal of interest shown. In
each department it was shown that
thorough training Of teachers was Of
the greatest assistance and that the
course in teacher training was one Of
the best means of becoming efficient.
At 2:3O p. m. representative of
each Sunday school present gave re-
port as to their standing according to
the International Standard of Schools,
and gave a pledge to the State and
County work to help in a financial
way. Different committees reported
at this time on resolutions and also
on officers for the coming year. The
officers elected for 1915 are as fol-
lows: President, J. H. Burkhart;
First Vice Pres, G. w. Hilton; Sec
ond Vice Pres, C. C. Heidenburg;
Treas, w. A. Beardsley, and Secre-
tary, Mrs. Kara A. Dickinson. Exec
utive Board, Rev. T. A. Olsen, Rev.
P. w. Erickson and Hon. R. A. Mes
tos. Superintendent of Districts:
First District, F. G. Upton; Assistant,
Mrs. w. D. Campbell; Second District,
Prof. Reardon; Third District, R. F.
Pitkin; Fourth District, Rev. D. T.
Dierdorf; Fifth District, Rev. R. J.
Grabo; Sixth District, Mrs. P. Berthe
son.
At 300 p. m. Rev. w. A. Snow COM
mented on the work being done with
the High School Syllabus in North Da-
kota and stated that all the country
was watching with interest the trial
being given to this new work in North
Dakota and told of different places
where this work was being carried
on in the Sunday schools by High
School students and showed the good
results that it brought, not only that
it added a half credit to the high
school work but that it greatly in.
fluenced for good all who took it up.
j., At 400 p. m. Miss Moxcey gave
a talk on the different stages in 9
girls life, the effect of companionshiI
on the life of girl during the adde's
cent age and showing that during thu
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