The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-15
AN UPLIFTING
CONVENTION
Enrolment of 14S i'm Wind
ham County Sunday
School Meeting
SAXTONS RIVER MAN
ELECTED PRESIDENT

Strong Addresses, Perfect Day and
Abundant Hospitality for Conference
in West rattleboro-Banner Return
ed to South Vernon
The afternoon session of the Windham |
County Sunday School convention in West |
Brattleboro Yesterday opened with a SER
vice of music conducted by Rev E. NJ
Fuller of Richford. In the absence. on
account of illness, of Mrs Nellie T. Hen
dricl1 Of Manchester, y. H., general sec
rotary of the New Hampshire State Sun
/ day School association, Miss Grace Cha
lpin of Saxtons River, elementary superin-
tendent for the county, gave an interest
ing address on the subject, Real Teaching
She said IN part: Teaching If it is
real, is divine and scriptural. If it is so
important and honorable we must prepare
for it by training Hence the need OF
training classes. just as the day school
superintendent expects the teachers TO be
familiar with the newest methods and
material, SO the Sunday school superin-
tendent should expect and receive the
same support from his teachers The life
makes the Sunday school wonderfully inn
portant. y human life, even il it is in a
ragged dirty child, is of more consequence
In Gods sight than one of the planets.
We must work for the Sunday school
seven days in the week. Preparation can
not be made on Saturday night We can
and ought to have higher standards than
we do The teacher must be companion-
able with her pupils and know them in
their homes and in their play Our teach
ing must be without partiaEty and with
out hypocrisy. You cannot fool the boy
! and girl to what You are. They viii
I know it if you are not genuine.
Rev. Arthur w Bailey of South Had
Z ley, Mass, Congregational Sunday school
r secretary for northern New England. fol-
/ lowed with forceful and stimulating ad-
5 dress entitled The Sunday School and the
I Community. Mr. Bailey began by speak
ing OF the great natural forces, some of
1 which tend to destroy, some of which
4 build up, There rests upon the church
n and the church school the great privilege
of being an adequate ideal in a eommun-
q ity. The moving pictures in some reels
{. set up wrong ideals of life when they
f make light of the sacred relations of life
when they distort the ideals of the mari
o tai relation or of business life. We have
/. Ino quarrel with the movies. They may, il
e they viii, exert strong, wholesome IN
t f1uence IN a community.
, ideals which are true and worthy anC
wholesome The church school Is bur
dened to teach, not doctrines and creeds
but the great truths of Christianity K
the community The church school ha,
the duty in the community of establishing
- a popular knowledge of the Bible. TIL,
y church school has the duty of maintain
ing a high degree Of church life and inter
est in the community. No community j
n safe place for children or good plac
for adults when the church ceases t
sweeten and dignity the life of the com
munity.
Rev. F. NJ Fuller followed with
n strong address on The Key to the Situa
rs tion. To rs has been committed an edr
80 cational task such as was not known i
nj the past. The home today lacks in def
:. mite religious education. The publ
y schools stand more for intellectual tha
ay for moral and religious training. To tn
'e church school has been committed tas
in education which the home neglect
nj and the public schools cannot take VI
M This is the situation What is the key
he The first and prime essential is
L teacher and his group Of pupils workin
tn together. There comes a time when til
ns pupil will not take things because we sa
re they are SO. The pupil must be taugf
- not that things are true because they al
lt. in the Bible but that they are in the Bib
use because they are true The key to I'll
ne situation is the teacher who studies
m show himself approved unto God a worl
be man that needeth not to be ashame
IN reading Alright the word of truth.
At the business session the followir
he officers were elected: President, w.
be Glynn of Saxtons River; secretary an
les treasurer, O. b. Dauchy of TownshenC
he vice Observation-Disclosures No l, Rev.
lat A. Mason Of Bellows Falls; district n
cts ,. L. w Hawley of Brattleboro; distri'
lb- No ,, Rev r. w Rafter of Wilmington
re- district No 4, c. O. Kimball of We
elk Townshend: district No. ;, G.. A. Coomb
on The following are the department supe
All intendents: Teacher training, Rev v
H. Des Jardines; elementary work, Mi
ie Grace Chaplin of Saxtons River; Intern
lls date and senior work, Rev. j. W. Che
les bro of Bellows Falls; adult class wor
IN E. E. Covey of Brattleboro; home depa1
age ment Miss E. NJ Gorham of Beloy
MS Falls; missions, Miss Florence Hemenw;
ok Wells of Brattleboro; temperance, Re
G.. f. Tomkinson Of Brattleboro; sta
director, O.. B. Dauehy of Townshend,
The reports of the department superi
tendents showed much good work dol
the past year and much growth Mi
air Chaplin reported the membership of Il
elementary department as 2,128 ehildre
Miss Gorham reported the home depal
rhe ment membership as S53, of whom T3 a
18th children, and the offering for the We