Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-04
GELD TRAINING AT HOME
CHILD TRAINING AT HOME

CHILD TRAINING AT HOME Shall Joseph Attend Sunday School ? By Edna Dean Baker, President, Ma
 tional Kindergarten and Elementary
 College, Author of The Beginner S
 Book in Religion.
 In this day of lowered standards, of prevalent crime. of vicious forms of entertainment of which the aver age movie is a type, we need to sub ject our children to every uplifting in fluence that makes for clean, honest, strong character. We need to seek a
 permanent remedy for selfshness which is causing the strife between labor and capital as well as all other strife. The Sunday School is one medium for this valuable training. In many homes there comes a day when the question Shall Joseph go 10 Sunday School?" is raised ip all l seriousness by Joseph's parents. Per- | haps they themselves are members of a church. perhaps they are not even church attendants. There is, how ever, a desire on the part of all genu- | inely earnest fathers and mothers to secure for their children not only the l best in education, but whatever bless | ing the church may have to bestow. l They often express this ambition as l did one little mother when she brought 1 her Joseph to Sunday School, T want
 my boy to be a good boy" she said.
 While going to Sunday School is
 not synonymous with being "a good l boy' any more than going to church l insures honesty in business, yet the church has been and is a fundamental
 agency in creating the ideals, the as- pirations the attitudes that serve as the motives power for right action. The
 Bible story is potent factor to this | end. Theodore who had listened eager l ly to the story of David and Goliath told by a Sunday School teacher whe was an artist in making this old story
 live in the imagination, remarked Gee, but that David was wiz!" and
 then wistfully, Do you s'pose I could
 ever be like him? ?"
 Not alone the creating of ideas oi
 service but the carrying out of suct
 ideas is a prominent feature of Sunday
 School work today. A class of ter year-olds had heard with deep con , dren of Armenia. They longed to hell
 and decided to solict doughnuts
 cookies and canned fruit from theil
 mothers. They held a sale with thu aid of the Sunday School teacher an( realized sixty dollars with which tC support starving children.
 The teaching of the Sunday Schoo , 1 is not restricted to establishing right relation to ones fello Rs but
 includes acquainting the child witt : God as the Creator of all things thu answering the eternal question o : Genesis satisfactorily. It also include the presentation of God as the Greae r Father and hence the friend, protecto and guide of every child. "Thanl g you, God" said tiny child, flor keep l ing care of me-" The atmosphere o reverence and devotion makes a de g impression upon the child. John l father, a man who nsver attended an, j. church. consented to his boys attend l, ance at Sunday School One mornin t a few weeks after John and entere e the Sunday school, the father becam d irritated at refractory collar butto 0 and took the name of the Lord i d vain.' John who apparently had bee l. asleep, sat up and in tone of grieve c reproof said, Daddy, if you went l. our Sunday School you wouldn't spea }, of God like that"
 d Shall Joseph go to Sunday School
 Well, let us at least try to experimer a and watch the result It may do fc IS Joseph what it has done for many ar e other lad. It may give him a faith e the unseen, a vision of worthy man m hood, a love for all life which wi d make his own life more satisfying an s. a greater blessing to his fellowmen.