The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-03-10
Sunday School Rally
Held At Garden City
Exercises Were Held With Prom
inent State Leaders In
Attendance

Garden City, March ON Friday
! evening very enjoyable and proii..
! able Sunday school rally was held BY
The Christian church ana Baptist
! sunday schools under The auspices "
the Blue Earth County Union oil the
Minnesota Sunday school association.
! The rally was held in the Christian
! church. 1t was preceded by Suppcc
| served in the basement OF the church
| by the ladies OF 10th schools. The raj
| ~ began At IFS ard WaS presided
over by Prof. ;. r. AnonscE OF Am
| boy. A short song service was led Sy
I &. w. John. Prof. Anons0n i'll his ad'
; dreS& tr0ri the Clalr or tic topic,
i why We are here" sai0 in part: We
| are acre To organize aggressive SUI
! day school work. Organization WAS
necessary 10 develop the besr and 10
produce tie best results in Sunday.
school. We needed much more than
secular education for our young peo-
! pie il the nation was to produce the
highest type of citizenship" Speaking
as county chairman Of the Minnesota
| Sunday school association he said we
were endeavoring to rally the county
work to 100 per cent basis OF efficien
! cy, and then dealt in turn with The
! following objects, Cradle roll, home
! department: organized secondary
| classes and organized adult classes;
departmental organization. graded
! instruction; missionary instruction
| and missionary Offering; teacher
| training classes; decision for Christ
| urged; temperance instruction; work
| eT's conference held; denominational
| requirements; delegates 10 state con
vention, reports sent in regularly, Oh
| ferings to state association. This was
! % CT nd ord nj
should rally to-" This address was fol-
| lowed by a duet rendered by Mrs. G.
John and Prof Mcmahon
| Rev. r DobSon DeXt gave an ad
dress on the subject assigned him,
The Duties OF Pastor to his Sun
day School" Mrs. Anonson followed
next with fine talk on the elemen-
trio beautifully given by Mrs. G.
John and Professor Mcmahon. entitl
ed Shepherd OF Israel" The remain
der Of the evening was taken up by
lengthy but splendid speech from J.
r. Garrison, state superintendent of
Sunday schools; the subject being, "a
working program for religious educa-
ton" The speaker began by asking
question: What do we need most?
A better banking system, this political
party in power or that? The thing
needed most was not better high. but
that which was the most precious
heritage of our young poole, work
ing basis for religious education.
There were 100000 young people in
| ting a religious education. Even the
little that was given was being given
in homeopathic doses. Doses Of TWEEN
tvs hours per year. And as most
of the children and young people on
ly attended Bible school from 40 to
60 per cent of the Bible school time
they were only getting about Is to IA
hours year with six days in be,
tween to forget all they got. Every
boy and girl needed u religious edu-
cation to form a moral background.
The home was Gods first school. and
religious education must begin in the
home. Here the speaker put in an
earnest plea for the establishment Of
the family altar in every home. If
God is going to be revealed in the
home it must be through father and
er and mother were built to do. We
are pretty busy these days and this is
an excuse for the neglect OF family
worship in many a home. But the
church must see that father and
mother makes this impact upon the
nome. How? The Cradle roll ans
wers this question. Adult Bible
|
urged. The mottos of these classes
were service-otners. We were not
to live for ourselves. The adult BIZ
BILE class motto Others meant that we
were selling the kingdom Of God to
folks. The home department, parent
training classes, etc, were treated
in a very able and original way. Ev'
saying "let us be enthusiastic" Rob-
ert Speer said This was an age of
enthusiasm and Americans are in
danger of allowing every other en-
thusiasm to quench their enthusiasm
for Jesus Christ How can all this be
organized in the local church? The
whole church must be organized round
! God and that all its members must
be acquainted with il. 1t was good
talk from start to finish. Mr.. Gar
Iison closed his address by appealing
for funds for the association work.
The response was liberal one. 1t
was announced during the course of
! the session thai the annual Sunday
school convention OF Blue Earth
county would be held in Garden City
in June.
Garden City. Christian Church
Rev. Richard Dobson, minister. Serv
ices Sunday March 5. at 10:3U a. m;
subject, A Passion for God. Even
ing service at s O'Clock; subject The
Fast Life, Bible school al 12-1 noon.
Christian Endeayor society (Conse-
Better Home Life. .
| The mid week Bible :tudy and
prayer meeting IS doing fine. Next
week IT will be held with Mr.. and
Mrs. Dobson on Thursday night at
1870. Everybody welcome.
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