Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-15
County Sunday School Conference.

An Orleans County Sunday school
workers conference was held in
Newport Saturday afternoon. Rev. L.
A. Edwards, who was expected b.
open the meeting with devotional ex-
ercises, was called away on account
of the death of sister and Rev. j. II.
Blackburn of the East Main Street
Baptist church substituted. j. c.
Carpenter of Irasburg, county presi-
dent, was presiding officer. Mr.. Car
penter gave in a. few words the work
of the county association. A. G..
owen of Barton and Miss Arabelle
Parker gave reports of their respect
i've district organizations. The day of
the week and inclemency of the wealth
er conspired to make the attendance
smaller than it would have been had
all the circumstances been favorable.
However there wa sa very good rep
resentation from nearby towns.
Eight of the 10 schools in the Mem
phremagog district were represented.
The largest delegation from any one
place was from Newport Center.
On account of the absence of some
of the speakers on the program, the
meeting resolved itself into a confer
ence on the questions which would
have been taken up by the speakers
and discussion was entered into and
at times became quite lively, which
indicated that those present were very
much interested in the work of the
Sunday school.
Secretary, Robbins of the state as
sociatlon gave very comprehensive
! exposition of the function of the diff
ferent organizations and A. G. Owen
Barton and Miss Arabelle Parker of
n n1%f IT1fn nctIrl er
thoughts on the work and purpose Of
the district organizations.
The question of finance was taken
up and explained to the satisfaction
of everyone. There had been some
misunderstanding of the way in
which the finances were raised, and
although Secretary Robbins is not
connected IN any way with the finan-
cial department of the state associa-
ton, he was able to give very clear
and concise statement of the budget
as made up by the state committee.
The county standard of efficiency
was taken up and explained and in
some things the standard has been
raised. Orleans county gained IL
points last year in efficiency, which
is the largest increase of any county
in the state.
ercises were in charge of Rev. H. b.
Rankin, after which Mrs. j. r. Wilson
favored the meeting with a solo.
Secretary Robbins took up the matter
of daily vacation Bible schools, week
day religious instruction, teachers
training and workers conferences.
All of these subjects were dealt with
in a very masterful way and much
needed information about these things
was acquired. Several schools mani
tested their intention of starting
teacher training classes and workers
conferences. One matter which was
of particular interest was the fact
that 100 years ago next year DR..
Hall, who was in charge of school
at Concord Hill, Vermont, established
the first teacher training class for
Sunday school workers and as far as
can be found this was the first class
of its kind in the world. A few years
later DR.. Hall put this same plan to
work in his day school and from that
has grown our whole normal school
plan.
1t was voted that the meeting re-
commend that the executive committee
select two candidates who shall be
sent to the Sunape summer school and
the Saxtons River Summer school with
all expenses paid for the purpose of
receiving instruction in Sunday school
work so as to enable the schools of
the county to have the services of
an experienced and trained worker.
John Carpenter was elected to fill
the unexpired term of A. A. Silver,
who was elected president of the
county association last June.
The Memphremagog District elect
ed the following officers: President,
Miss Arabelle Parker, Newport; Sec
retary and Treasurer, Mrs. A. A. Sill
yer, Derby; Superintendent of chill
dren's work, Mrs. Harriet Moore,
Newport.