The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-27

At Saturdays session of the Sun
day School Convention Mr.. Alexander
made superb talk on Training for
Leadership" He said:
Sunday school is taking the raw
material and turning out the finished
product" He referred to a trip he
had made to the phosphate mines with
some friends this beautiful morning
and ikened the work there to the
work of the Sunday School teacher,
saying in part: There are all kinds
of phosphate in the soil, we must have
trained laborers to receive finished
products which will be of value in the
commercial world, even so must we
have trained teachers who will make
the child into the useful man or wom-
an. We must know the processes,
and not only know but work it. One
who simple knows is no good. 1t
must be used knowledge The quail
ifications for teacher then in
classes. are three, 1, Primary; 2,
Secondary and g. Tertiary.
! Under Primary are, l, Christian
! 2, Ability to command respect; g. Elk
lecutive ability. The personality of
the teacher comes first. The teacher
must be the thing they are trying to
express. Emerson said, What you are
speaks louder than what you say" A
teacher cannot stand before a class
speak of an orderly life and have two
buttons missing from garment. A
lady who has stayed out to late Satur
day night to arise in time to be ready
for Sunday school and goes with un-
combed hair cannot talk to a class
OF girls about beautiful life well A
man cannot bluff a group of boys you
might fool one of them but not a
group. In Southern California in a
Sunday school man arose to talk to
the boys to prove to the pastor that
his boys were unObserving. | thought
here is where you meet your Water
loo One boy may go down the street
and not see but one thing but a group
of boys going down the street see
everything. The man took the chalk
and asked the boys some numbers
One lad arose and called out so and
the man wrote 2S, another boy called
70 and the man wrote 81, the third
boy called II and the man wrote IL
boy on the front seat who could
not talk very we'll owing to an impedi
: ment in speech, l suspect that is why
he had not spoken before jumped to
his feet and called out "66, change that
you slugger". You can't fool a grOup
of boys. If the blind lead the blind
they will both fall into the ditch to-
gether.
: Second the teacher must have abil-
,ity to command respect. Not a teach.
er because he or she is good but they
must be good for something. Bishop
Berry stopped in the middle of a SER
mon to a class about to receive a
church ordinance and spoke on nat
ter seemingly entirely removed from
his theme by saying Some of YOU are
not married yet, don't marry won.
an who is just pious woman. If she
backslides what have you left? 1t
is a crime to have teachers who are
simply good, better have ordinary peo.
pie who are good for something.
Third the teacher must have executive
ability, teacher is not to do but to
get the pupils to do, l call one an &c.
clesiastical thief who does what the
child should be taught to do. The
teacher is to be the leader and guide.
the child the doer. visited a town
or the idle rich in the interest of the
boyscouts. They wanted to furnish
the money and pay for all that need
ed to be done. l talked to them and
urged that it was the work of the
boys needed to make boy scouts. A
scout master must be able to get peo.
pie of the town to work Some of the
boys want to learn signalling, others
to learn wireless. and persons would
have to be brought in to teach. A
gentleman arose and said, L am sorry
my neighbors know me so little, | was
until recently in the employ of the
United States Navy and can teach the
boys signalling another said. 4 am
interested in great things in electrical
works and can teach the bows the
mysteries of the wireless So a
teacher of Sunday school class must
have imagination and executive ability
to get the pupils to work. Some people
do not know their neighbors and get
no farther than their own nose. The
same thing is true of classes of men
and women. They must have the art