Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-20
TELLS OF METHODS
In SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Specialist in Teaching of Children
Tells Teachers to Lead Way
to Christ.
MANY YOUTHS NOT IN CHURCH

Before an audience made up almost
entirely of men and women who are
teachers in the Sunday schools Of the city
and one that completely filled the au-
ditorium of the Young women's Chris
tan association building yesterday after
noon, Miss Alice Gamlin, Sunday school
specialist Of the Sunday party, spoke on
Sunday school work.
Miss Gamlin told Of the Sunday school
work done last week by her and the
members of the party in a number of
the local churches. announcing that 1t Is
to be continued during the remainder OF
the campaign and that this week 1t will
be conducted in the Central Park, Wal
nut Hill, Pearl and Grove Evangelical
churches. She announced that the Sun
day school rally for today will be held
in the First Congregational, twelve Of
the churches participating.
The address of Miss Gamlin was a
plain talk to the Sunday school teachers,
she asserting that their aim should be to
lead boys and girls to Christ She eau
toned the teachers not to refer to the
members of their classes as children, as
the young folks resent this appelation,
much preferring to be called boys and
girls, regardless of their size and ages.
The speaker contended that men or
women should not be teachers, especially
teachers in Sunday schools. unless they
love boys and girls, for" she added, IF
you do not love them, there is something
wrong with you. 1.-The best thing about
milk is the cream" asserted Miss Gam
lin, and this should apply in the Sunday
school, for there you find the cream, and
It rests with you to mould the character
of the future men and women" She as
serted that she has no use for a Sunday
school teacher who conducts a class for
a long period of time and does not lead
the members to Christ and cause them
TO unite with the church which they at
tend. She cited an instance of one
teacher whom she knew who taught a
class for years and never even asked
the boys and girls If they were Chris
tians. ASK the boys and girls of your
classes If they do not desire to lead
Christian lives; pray with them and ex-
tend to them the invitation to become
members of the church."
should Join Church while Young.
In referring to the age at which chill
dren should become members of a church,
Miss Gamlin took the position that at s,
10 or u they are perfectly competent to
decide for themselves and that at these
ages it is much easier to lead them to
Christ than after they are 16, Is or older.
Referring to Omaha statistics with
reference to attendance, Miss Gamlin as
serted that in the schools of the city the
enrolment is around $1,000. About half
this number attend Sunday schools. while
the others remain away. She commended
that this presents one of the greatest
opportunities that Christian workers
could conceive in the matter of winning
souls to Christ
Upon the Sunday school teachers con-
tended Miss Gamlin. rests almost entirely
the responsibility of bringing young per
sons into the church and helping young
lives to grow and develop in Christianity
1t is the teachers who can turn them from
satan to God and make them Christian
men and women. She urged upon the
teachers the necessity of doing some
work outside the class rooms in the mat
ter of getting boys and girls into the
Sunday schools. adding, 1T 10 not your
responsibility to compel, but to help the
young lives to grow in Christ"