The daily times., 1921-11-28
PROCEEDINGS OF
CONVENTION,

ard is chairman were mucn pledSeu
with the attendance at the Wilson
Sunday School Convention in session
in the First Baptist church. Despite
the heavy down pour of rain yester-,
day the house was filled at the night
session. There will be two sessions OF
the convention on Monday and Tues
day-afternoons at $3.50 o'clock and
night at 1880.
Mr.. D. W. Sims, General Superin-
tendent of the North Carolina Sun
day School Association. and Prof NJ.
A. Honline, Dayton. Ohio, Associate
Educational Superintendent of the
International Sunday School Associa-
ton spoke at the session Sunday.
Both Prof. Honline and Mr.. Sims win
speak at sessions today and tomor-
row.
What you want in civilization put
it in the education of the childhood
and youth" declared Prof. Honline
in his opening address.
Democracy rests on the dual foun-
dation of intelligence and righteous
ness. We look to the schools to make
our boys and girls intelligent; we
must look to the church for instruc-
tion in Righteousness. The church
must christionize what the public
school is seeking to intellectualize.
The forces that make for righteous
ness must be made to keep pace with
the forces which make for intelli-
gence.
Education" he said. should pro-
vide a fund of practical information,
should create right ideals and atti-
tude toward government, towards
church, toward property rights, to-
wards family relationships and So
ciety in general. Society's greatest
need today is right ideals. Education
should also motivate life and modify
conduct
Prof. Honline gave statistics show
ing that in America the Protestant
children receive less than 26 hours
year actual religious instruction.
The Catholics are giving 216 hours
year and the Jews 335 hours for
the same period of time. This same
child, he stated, is getting 12S hours
in arithmetic. Fact of the matter my
friends, he said, we have never taken
religious education very seriously.
We have, unframed teachers We
need teachers trained in head and
heart. Our material is inadequtely
graded, our equipment is nine tenths
of the Sunday inadequate"
Prof. Honline stated the solution
to problem of instruction for righte-
BUSINESS was the establishment Of a
system of religious schools running
parallel to the public's school and
sharing the time of the child through
the weeks. He mentioned three ways
by which religious instruction was
being corrected and credit given in
tie public schools, one way being
High School credit for Bible Study
done outside the public school. Prof.
Honline expressed high cOmmenda-
tions of the plan presented to the
State Teachers Association in session
last week by the North Carolina Sun
day School Association for giving
credit to High School pupils for work
done in classes outside the public
school,
In his address Sunday night Prof
Honline said in part:
Every individual is joint product
of three forces: Heredity, environ
ment and education. Within certain
limits, heredity sets a limit beyond
which environment and education can
never carry the individual What
the seed is to the corn crop, heredity
ls to the human crop. One cannot
gather grapes from thorns nor figs
from thistles. An organism can be-
come through development, only.
what it was in germ to start with; it
may become less, it can never become
more. All that education can do for
the child is to develop the capacities
conferred upon him by his ancestors
remote as well as near. After all the
important thing is not so much the
kind of education we give our chill
dren as the kind of children we give
TO be educated, for education can
never transform mediocrity into gen
ius. Education does not increase ones
capacity, it only releases it and
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