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S. S. Convention at Dudley.
Pursuant to previous announcement,
the first local Institute, under the auspices
of the Huntingdon County S. S. Conven
tion, assembled at Dudley, on Tuesday, the
29th day of September, at 9 A. N., and
after organizing temporarily, the early
part of the session was occupied by the
friends present in devotional exercises,
together with mutual interchanges of
opinion, experience in the work, etc. The
meeting was held in the Union Church,
and was well attended, the building being
crowded to its utmost capacity, by an at
tentive and appreciative audience.
Delegates were in attendance represent
ing the following schools : Dudley, Broad
Top City, Coalmont, Eagle Foundry,
Huntingdon, (five schools,) Saxton, Cass
ville, Trough Creek, Powelton and Coffee
Run.
J. A. NASH,
A permanent organization was effected
by the election of the following offieere :
President, John Whitney, Tod.
Vice Presidents, D. Clarkson, Crimmins;
John Whiteside, Dudley ; Jas. A. Brown,
Huntingdon ; Wm. P. Orbison, Hunting
don.
Secretary, A. S. Brooks, Dudley.
D. Clarkson, Cassville, John Palmer,
Dudley, and S. W. Collom, of Huntingdon,
were appointed a committee to prepare
business for the balance of the session.
The musical department was conducted
by Mr, J. S. Haney, of Dudley, and fur,
niched an interesting festure of the occa•
sion.
Dr. G. is. Hotchkins, of' Saxton, and
Hugh Lindsay, esq., of Huntingdon, were
appointed a committee on digest of
Tomo 1 et. " What are SOW of the ad
vantages of the Uniform System of lessons,'"
Opened by Wm, P. Orbison, esq,, in ao
address of ten minutes. The chief end of
men is to glorify God and enjoy 'Jim for
ever, and the rule be bath given us is the
word of God, contained in the Scriptures
of the Old and New Testament. It is our
duty to commend this great rule to the
minds of sit We all profess to teach this.
The Scriptures are the means by ,whieh
God would have the world brout to a
knowledge of himself. The worl ds to be
converted through this instrumentality,
and this ward is to be taught. One way
or doing this is through the living minis
try, but we are all bound as members of
the church of the living God to preach
this gospel, and present the truth to those
within our influence. The uniform lessons
have been owned and blessed of God in
presenting the truth to young and old,
bringing the members of all denominations
into close communion, and breaking down
the walls of separation between Chris
tianity. This was doubtless the object of
the ministers and teachers of all denomi
nations in organizing this plan by which
all should study the same lesson on the
same day. The concentrated effort upon
one portion of God's word all over the
land, at the same time, has a mighty effect.
Since the Uniform Lessons have been in
troduced there has been a deeper interest
in the study of God's word on the part of
scholars, teachers and parents, and a pro
gramme has now been waned for another
year. Let us all endeavor to profit by this
new system, and may the blessings of God
rest upon us and upon the Sabbath School.
Rev. A. G. Dole, of Huntingdon. There
is probably more of Christ seen in the Old
Testament scriptures through the study of
the Uniform Lessons than perhaps we
ever thought of before. Almost every les
son points tb Christ, and hence it gives to
children and teachers a better insight of
what the Old Testament scriptures intend
to convey than is obtained in any other
way, in relation to Christ whom we wor
ship as the promised Messiah of the Old
Testament. There is a power in union
and oneness of prayer for one object.
N. B. Corbin, Huntingdon, testified to
the good results of this system, in the
school with which he was connected, and
especially in the class under his charge
as witnessed at the review lesson, in fixing
the scriptural truths connected with the
lessons on the minds of the scholars. A
number of conversions during the past
year were named as some of the results of
this system of teaching.
Mrs. D. Clarkson, of Cassville. This
very system itself is a benefit. By the old
system of teaching when ee . ch class had its
own lesson from the alphabet to the Bible,
many children from Sabbath to Sabbath
scarcely beard of the name of Jesus. By
this system the child too young even to
learn the alphabet, and the octogenarian
study the word. It gives the Superinten
dent an opportunity to review the entire
lesson, thus impressing the word of God
on the mind of the child. The system
works well in the church, the family, and
the school. The lesson can be read every
day in the week and thought on previous
to the coining Sabbath, and in the mean
time bring up the little ones and their in
terests and ours before a throne of grace.
Music—" Glad Tidings."
I. Y. NAILLIG
J. HALL MUSSER.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
The committee on digest of topic re
ported. Report adopted.
Resolved, That the Uniform System of
Lessons gives stimulation, unity and sym
pathy to the teachers and scholars,:and
has produced, in many cases, a great im
provement in teaching and its results.
Wm. P. Orbison, esq., of Huntingdon,.
and Dr. M. B. Brenneman, of Dudley,
were appointed a committee on digest of
TOPIC 2nd. "What other means besides
the formation of adult Bible classes, can
be adopted to bring parents and adult per
sons to the Sunday School?" Opened by
Rev. A. G. Dole. It is a great hindrance
to the cause that parents do not take more
interest and are not more frequently in
the Sabbath School, and the question has
often arisen, how can we best reach them?
I have frequently spoken of the subject
from the sacred desk and urged it on pa
rents, in public and in private, with but
little effect. One ` reason may be that a
great many people think they know enough
already. Parents do not seem to feel that
they need instruction in the word of God,
or that they have any interest more
than to send their children to the Sabbath
School, and it is almost impossible to pre
sent any way to reach them other than
that of the bible class, which does not
reach the end we desire. Until we get
parents to feel that the children they have
dedicated to God in baptism are bound
with them to the judgment bar of God we
will have great difficulty in getting them
interested. Probably we all fail in this
for lack of faith and prayer and reliance
on God's promises.
Mr. Orbison. The only means of reach
ing this object is to have the members of
churches fully instructed as to their duty,
and this is to be done from the pulpit.
Dr. Hotchkins. The only way to draw
adults is to make the school worth coming
to. We cannot drive or scold persons into
the school.
Mr. Palmer. The ministers, as a gen
eral thing, it appears to me, do not preach
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enough on the subject. I am often lead
to the question, why toil and laborso much
in this work ? There are others, profess-
ors of religion, going to heaven, who give
themselves no concern about it. These
are some of the temptations of Satan to my
mind on this subject. _ _
• Mr. Brown. We must have adults
there before we can have an adult bible
class. First interest parents and adults,
and attendance will follow. A written or
printed invitation to the parent, request
ing their assistance in helping the child to
prepare the lesson, may often have the
effect of bringing them to the school, and
going into the bible class.
Mr. Whitney. Not more than one-fifth
of the ministers laboring in the county
were in attendance at the Sabbath School
Convention in June last, and I took it for
granted that they were not sufficiently in
terested or they would have been there.
Am glad to hear the Reverend brother
say he preaches on the subject. It is sel
dom that we hear anything from the pul
pit respecting this duty. I am not a
stranger to the temptations already refer
red to.
Mr. S. W. Collom, of Huntingdon. The
time has come when the people should be
taught from the pulpit that the Sabbath
School is not for the children alone. In
the advancement of the Sabbath School
interest the next step seems to be to in
struct the people, that it is their duty to
be there, as well is the children; that th
are not too old to study Gel's word.
Adjourned till 2 o'clock Benediction
by Rev. Mr. Dole.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Opened with music, vocal and instru
mental, and prayer by Mr. - Greene.
The Committee on last topic reported :
Resolved, That in order to increase the
attendance of adults as well as of children
at the Sabbath School, the exercises and
instruction should be made attractive, and
persuasive appeals should be made from
the pulpit and by Sunday School workers,
especially to parents,
Report adopted.
The first boar of this session. was devo
ted to the childrens' meeting, a large
number of all ages and of both sexes being
present, Addresses to the children were
made by W. P. Orbison, mi., and A. S.
Brooks, esq,, and an interesting exercise
on the blackboard by Rev, John Palmer,
illustrative of the object method of im
parting instruction in the Sabbath School,
The exercises wore interspersed with ap•
propriate music, and were highly enjoyed
by the juvenile audience, as was attested
by their smiling countenances and atten•
aye demeanor,
The first topic presented for discussion
was, "Are there any reasons that fully
justify suspending the schools during the
winter ?" Opened by John Whitney,
esq. While there may, under some cir
cumstances, and in some localities, be rea
sons sufficient to justify a partial suspen•
sioo, there are no good reasons Why they
should be suspended entirely. Suspend
the schools four or five months, and the
impressions already made are very nearly
gone. If the roads are impassable for one
or two Sabbaths, which sometimes hap
pens, it is no good reason why the school
should be suspended entirely for the win
ter.
Mr. Palmer. There are no reasons,
worthy of being called such, why the
schools should be suspended in the winter.
The weather seldom gets too bad fur chil
dren to attend school durinc , the week,
and why is it that those inclement days
always happens to be on the Sabbath ?
The roads are never too bad for the chil
dren to attend.
Tonic 2ND. "What arc some of the ne
cessary qualifications for Sabbath School
Superintendents and teachers, and should
there be a change of Superintendents eve•
ry year ?"
Opened by Dr. G. B. Ilotchkiu. The
Superintendent gives character to the
Sabbath School, and when wa have de
scribed him we have described the school.
It is not possible to find a perfect one, but
we may set up a model and try to imitate
it as far as possible.
The first necessary qualification is love
or charity. If there is a particle of selfish
ness to put him at the head of the school,
one trouble will come after another, till
some one else takes his place, when all his
stimulus is gone. His selfishness asserts
itself and drives out love and his work is
spoiled.
Second. He needs to be a man of sim
plicity of mind, that he may talk very
plainly to children. A large portion of
our great and popular professors and
teachers would be utter failures as teach
ers of little children. Parallelograms and
prisms, triangles and rhomboids have their
place in science, but who would think of
employing a teacher who would commence
with the use of such terms with his little
ones, and yet in most of our Sunday
Schools we use words as far above their
comprehension, and from which they can
not get a solitary idea..
Third. He should love music, whether
he be a musician or not. Music is the
right arm of power in dealing with chil
dren. "Let me," says one, "make the
songs of a people, and you may make their
laws." We do not know very much about
the occupation of Heaven, but that little
we are told is all wrapped up, enveloped
and surrounded with clouds of music,
gushing forth in harmonious songs. I
have not read anything about sermons,
lectures or catechisms there, but I have
read of songs and anthems of praise to
God. Children will forget the best lessons,
but teach them a little song that tells of
God's truth, and they will carry it home
and sing it all their lives long, probably in
dista at lands and thousands of miles away.
I have passed houses where I knew Chris
tianity had no voice, and heard little ones
sing : "I know I'm weak and sinful but
Jesus will forgive," and thought to myself
there is one message of truth we could
not have got there in any other way. The
man who can spare no time from lessons
and talks to teach some of the songs that
children will remember, lacks one great
qualification for teacher or Superintendent.
The Superintendent needs to be able to
control others by force of character.' The
first word of dictation or rash command
has broken the charm of love and respect.
He needs a knowledge of human nature;
how to help this one and how to restrain
that one. He has got to use all classes of
teachers and needs a knowledge of human
nature. To do this requires a Christian
temper. The man that has to fight his
temper in Sabbath School is in trouble,
and if he cannot control it he had better
keep away. Very provoking things will
occur, and the Superintendent may think
he is only showing a godly indignation,
but little eyes and big ones can see that
he is getting angry, hide it as he may, and
he has lost a large part of the respect he
should have in order to govern.
He needs earnestness. The man only
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1874.
who works for the love of it will have no
stopping place, and the only limit will be
his own ability.
The only way for him is to cover him
self with humility until the world is satis
fied that he is a christian.
All the good faculties of a christian man
are necessary to the Superintendent, and
one of the least and last is learning.
There is a bible wisdom, taught by God,
which we want in order to make good
teachers and superintendents, and as a
consequence, good schools.
Rev. G. W. English. Every Superin
tendent should be a man of good common
sense. Great learning is not necessary, yet
he should have a certain degree of knowl
edge. Successful teachers must have fer
vent piety. They will also study the les
son at home. We must look to the groat
Teacher for light and knowledge to know
the truth as it is in Jesus. A man may
be as wise as Paul at the feet of Gamaliel
bet unless the love of God is burning on
the altar of his heart he will utterly fail.
Mr. Whitney. In regard to the last
portion of the topic, "Should Superinten
dents be changed every year ?" I answer
no. It is injurious to the schools. The
Superintendent has to become acquainted
with the teachers and the school generally
and if he gains this in one year he has
done well, and it is detrimental to the in
terests of the school for him to throw down
all and give it to some one else.
Mrs. Clarkson. There are negative qual
ities which they might bat do not possess.
The teachers place, in importance, is but
one remove from that of the minister, and.
yet how few enter upon these duties with
a full sense of their responsibility ; that
each time they teach a class impressions
are made for good or evil, as it were on
soft clay which may speedily harden, when
time itself will not be able to efface them.
How few are consecrated to the work and
are willing to make sacrifices, and careful
ly and prayerfully prepare for it. We love
to twine the spruce and myrtle around the
brow of him who has fought life's battles,
and swell the praise of' the champion who
has firmly stood while bribery and tempta
tion have beset him on every hand, but
faithful Sabbath School teacher, did you
ever dream that a chaplet was weaving for
you, fairer, brighter and clearer than ever
grew in forest groves or Eden's bowers?
Long after the ashes of the warrior and
statesman have mingled with mother dust,
their names and deeds alike forgotten, the
counsels and goodly admonitions of the
faithful teacher shall only cease to live
when the earth shall be rolled tegother as
a scroll, and time itself shall cease to be.
The committee on digest of subject re
ported.
Resolved, That the Superintendent to
be successful, needs to be a man full of
love for the souls of his children ; kind, af
fable and decisive in his character, and of
good report amongst his neighbors, and
that such a one should be continued in his
office. Report adopted.
The committee on previous topic re
ported,
Resolved, That we discountenance the
practice, so common, of closing Sabbath
Schools during the winter months, because
it retards the growth and lessens the in
terest in the Sabbath School work, and it
is apparent that where a public school can
be kept up, much more should the Sab
bath School. Report adopted.
TOPIC 3d. "What should we do with
scholars that will not obey the rules of the
school ?"
Opened by A. S. Brooks. This seems
to be a double qaestion, naughty and
knotty, and a very disagreeable one which
arises in our Sabbath Schools. But we
know the nature of the human heart, and
can see its depravity from the very earliest
moment of its existence. Some children
are more inclined to be disobedient than
others, and the teacher has to inflict severe
punishment to bring thtm into subjection,
but we should not carry punishment so far
in the Sabbath School as in the day school.
The office and mission of the Sabbath
School teacher is to teach love, forbearance
and patience, and if we wish to carry out
the principles we would inculcate we must
do it by our example of the same. If we
eannot do this by persuasion, love and pa.
tience, then let the scholar depart from the
school, but do not inflict the punishment
we would if legally authorized to do so.
If we inflect punishment in a revengeful
spirit it does no good. We must not show
that we are mad with the scholars, but try
to maintain a spirit of patience and love
towards them, and labor for their souls
that they may be brought to a saving
knowledge of Jesus. By so doing there
will be no necessity of bringing this ques
tion before our Sabbath School Conven
tions.
Mr. Palmer, thought the question pre
sented the subject as follows : 'We have
one boy in our class whose disobedience
and bad examples corrupt the manners of
eleven others in the class, who otherwise
would be obedient and well behaved.
What shall we do with that scholar? After
we have used every argument, and prayed
for that scholar, without effect, shall we
dismiss him from the school or shall we
not ? ile had heard it advised by some,
take such scholars and put them out, and
he would like to know from the Sunday
School workers here whether such a course
would be right, to expel a scholar because
of disobedience and a refusal to comply
with the rules G.' the echool.
D. Clarkson, would have serious doubts
of the propriety of expelling a scholar.
The most incorrigible of youths sometimes
make the best of men.
Mr. Dole, was decidely opposed to turn
in., any scholar out of school however dis
obedient he might be, for the reason chat
the seed sown in the heart of that child,
though it might not show at that time,
will in after years have a good effect, and
related an instance or two to illustrate this
position
Mr. Brown was in favor of retaining
disobedient scholars in schools and praying
with and for them. He illustrated the
fact by the relation of an incident similar
to the one given by Mr. Dole.
Mr. Prosser was opposed to turning re
fractory pupils out of schools, and favored
making appeals to the parents in order to
gain their co-operation and assistance.
There is no parent that would not be filled
with sorrow and regret to know that their
child had been excluded fur misbehavior.
What will be the end of the child that is
expelled from the Sabbath School ?
Music—" Only a step to Jesus."
Adjourned. Benediction by Rev. Mr
Dole.
EVENING SESSION
The meeting was opened with singing,
and prayer by Rev. G. W. English. The
first half hour of this session was devoted
to singing, and prayer for God's special
blessing on the children connected with
this district, and other devotional exercises
of an impressive and interesting character.
The committee on digest of last topic
then reported the following :
Resolved, That boys in Sabbath Schools
who are refractory and disobedient should
be dealt with kindly, and by earnest effort
and prayer with them and fur them we
should seek to reform them, but in no case
should they be turned out of the schools,
as such a course would be virtually giving
them over to Satan, and would exhibit
but little faith in the promises of God.
Report adopted.
TOPIC Ist. "Shall we pledge our Sunday
School scholars on the temperance ques
tion ?" Opened by Mr. Palmer. Commit
tee to report digest of subject, John
Whitney.
Mr. Palmer argued the question affirm
atively, and maintained that every effort
that can be lawfully used to induce chil-
dren to annex their names to the temper.
ance pledge, should by all means be ap
plied. Some of the objections—and they
are very weak ones—are, "what do these
little children know about what they are
doing? and will they not likely break
their pledge much sooner than an adult ?"
In reply, I cannot measure the mind and
capability of the child or tell what it will
or will not do, but I look upon it as the
only hope of future proTerity and happi
ness to bring it up in the principles of
total abstinence. He had introduced it
years ago, and was happy to say that a
long list of names was annexed to their
pledge book. No matter how small the
child, if it could walk up to the desk and
hold the pencil while making a cross to
its name, he would take it upon the pledge
book of the school. He related an inci
dent as bearing upon this subject, and in
view of these facts urged •the importance
of teaching children not to touch, taste
nor handle the unclean thing, and thus
early become abstainers from the use of
intoxicating drinks.
Mr. Whitney maintained the same po.
sition, and illustrated it by a similar inci
dent which had coma under his notice .
Mr. Orbison believed thit, children
properly taught in Sabbath School and at
borne, raged a pledge with more solemni
ty, and are more likely to observe it than
those who are older. fie did not, how
ever, think it advisable to force them to
do that. They should he left to their
reason and judgment, instructed and told
of the evils of intemperance and the dan
gers to which they are exposed, and then
left to the exercise of their own reason as
to whether they shall sign the pledge or
not.
Mr. Clarkson, believed that a child must
be very young to be incapable of having
temperance principles instilled into its
mind, and fortified his posiiti , in by relating
tome incidents illustrative of the subject.
Comtnittcu on digest of subject re
ported :
Rssolveyl, That as the child is the hope
of the nation and the world, and as tem•
prance is the handmaid of religion, it is
highly important that every Sunday chool
child should be urged to sign tho temper
ante pledge.
TOPIC 2nd. "What are the wants of
the Sabbath Schools ?"
Opened by D. Clarkson. Committee on
digest., S. W. Collom.
The first want is children, which how
ever is always easily supplied.
2nd. We want good, efficient teachers
and superintendents. The time is past,
when the teachers capable of teaching the
alphabet only would answer. We want
a good, kind hearted superintendent who
will try to qualify himself for the work
We want good singing which is a valuable
accompaniment, and a little money to car
ry on the school. One of the greatest
wants of the present day is the co opera
tion of parents, without which it seems a!-
most impossible to run a school success
fully, and we want something from the
ministry by way of urging this duty. The
minister should not be a mere finger board
pointing out the way to others without ta
king it himself.
Mr. Prosser. The same wants are ty)t,
to be found in every school ; but the want
of efficient teachers is the most common.
Those that live nearest to Jesus are the
best teachers.
Mr. Dole. In addition to thii is the
want of punctual teachers. Many of our
classes become discouraged from the fact of
the teachers being absent._ If this was al
ways the case there would be no difficulty
in keeping up a good school.
Mr. Clark One more want ig that
of the uniform system, where not adopt
ed.
Mr. Haley. One more want is that
of attention on the part of the scholars.
Mrs. Clarkson. Still another want in
the rural districts is that of some person
to extend a Christian greeting to the
stranger that comes within our gate. Many
mothers cannot always attend the school,
but there should be a place there for them
in a class when they do come, and some
one to teach them who would be capable
of making them feel at home while there.
Dr. Vincent's plan is, better to give fifty
scholars to one good teacher than one to
an inefficient one.
Mr. Whitney related an incident within
his own experience illustrative of the im
portance of a proper Christian greeting to
the stranger who comes into the school.
Mr. Palmer referred to another great
want, not yet named, which was that more
prayer in the Sunday School—more ju
venile prayer and experience meetings.—
We need to take the members of our class
es onl by one and pray for them.
Mr. Thompson, of Coalmont, said until
we get the parents interested, the school is
not going to prosper. This he said, is the
want in our town. The parents take little
or no interest and the children are per
mitted to run the streets on the Sabbath.
Ministers never once mention the subject
of the school, nor press its importance up
on the minds of the parents. Unconvert
ed teachers are left to take charge of the
classes while professing parents do not at
tend.
sdecial prayer in behalf of the Sabbath
School interest at Coalmont, was offered
by the Convention, Mr. Brown leading.
Tonic 3d. "Shall any other book than
the bible be used as a textbook in our
Sabbath Schools ?"
Opened by S. W. Collom. Committee
on digest, D. Clarkson.
The primary object of the Sabbath
School at its first establishment was to
gather in the outcasts, children neglected
by their parents and ignorant of God's
word, and the teachers were paid a small
amount. After while the religious public
took hold of it and formed voluntary as
sociations to gather in the neglected youth,
making the bible a subject of study, and
using the alphabet and primer to learn to
spell and read. The system of rewards was
then introduced, followed by committing
to memory portions of scripture, and the
introduction of libraries, -which is now
giving way to the introduction of papers,
end not only this but the introduction of
the lesson system and the blackboard for
instructing infant classes by object teach
ing. This is a short history of the rise of
Sunday Schools. Our lesson papers are
based on subjects gathered from the bible,
and studied through the week, after going
through a review on the blackboard to im
press it more strongly on the minds of the
scholars and t.2achers. and why employ
any other book than the bible. Teaching
them the alphabet or t) spell and read
will not inform them on the subject of
that which is contained in the bible, Jesus
and his cross. Jeans crucified and slain to
redeem man from sin, yo❑ have not got it
in any other book. It is the theme of every
gospel sermon. You may find portions of
it in some well written book; but no where
so beautifully and with lows verbosity than
in the bible. The bible should be made
more of a study and the Sabbath better
sanctified than it is now.
Mr. English, said years ago bat few
printed books were need except the bible,
and libraries were almost unknown. Many
of our library books have an evil tendency,
and are verging on theprinciples of novels
instead of leading the mind to the bible.
The bible lessons are the work of oar best
minds now employed in the noble cause of
enlightening the minds of our teachers.
It is the harbinger of a heavenly union,
based upon the pare unsullied principles
of the gospel of Christ, and the dawning
of a brighter day upon our land ; when
the watchmen on the walls shall see eye to
eye, united in the glorious doctrines of
God our Saviour, and a anion be bassi oe
the promises of God's trnt;), and "thee
saith the Lord," that will stand tomer.
Let us have the bible as a teat book.
Mr. Dole, would inquire if it meant to
dispense with all helps outside of the bible.
If so he was opposed to it.
Mr. Palmer explained that the ides way,
shall we introduce primers, alphabet este'
and spelling books in infant dames.
Mr. McDivitt, remarked that there was
no necessity for introducing Filmy awe
or spellers, even in teaching eleihkoo to
read. The work could be bow am
plished without them, and so biller honk
could be introduced for thisthan
the bible. lie would teacl "g ; P lild is/
adult to read in the way with half the Ls
bor, and at the same time isasrcet demo
in bible history Thomunds of the se
lettered Freedmen of the South had been
taught to read by the bible readers alone.
Mr. Palmer. We nss the spelling
books in our school. After all here enmes
the teacher question. We eannot al: r e s t
the kind of teachers we want, but
we cannot get as good se we wish let se
get as good as we can. There are good
moral men and women who do not Pike to
undertake to explain the bible beesses they
do not understand it. They on Igo
charge of a small elate and teseb this to
spell and read, and we are bound, even is
the day of imp/ointment to employ !Meek.
ern who do not make a profession of re
ligion,
- Mr. Dole said in regard to the *abject,
if we cannot get good pious teachers, and
can get others of good moral character we
should employ them. He illustrated his
position in this respect very forcibly by
an incident, that of a young men of rather
good moral character, but making so pre
tentions to ebristianity, who, on a certain
occasion was induced at the suggestion of
some of his friends to take charge of a
class of colored boys, and after teaching
them for some weeks as well as he knew
how, one day he thought he would ask
them a question, and 04;c1 to ooe of the
little boys, "Do you ever pray ?" "Yes
rir," said the boy. "What do you pray
for," said the teacher, "I pray for you,"
said the boy. That answer of the boy was
never forgotten by the teacher. and was
finally the means of leading him to the
Lord Jesus Christ. "That teacher." said
the speaker, in conclusion, "icas nsys4/7"
Mr. Thompson said if we dispense with
unconverted teachers, we would not have
many teachers in our school. We have
these in our school, who are unconverted,
and yet are much more earnest, and punc
tual and deem to take a deeper interest is
the school than those who are. Of course
we are all in favor of the bible. Whatever
familiarity I have with it is through
what I learned in the Sabbath School .
Committee on digest reported as follows :
Resolved, That we would not recom
mend the introduction of any other book
into the school as a text book, but the
bible.
Report adopted.
The Chairman, Mr. Brown, remarked
in conclusion that the gospel invitation
closes up with the language: "Let him
that is athirst come, and let him that
heareth say come, and whosoever will let
him come !" This invitation was ext , :naed
to all, and he hoped that Sabbath School
workers would carry it home with them,
and remember that they are invited to go
out into the highways, and, impelled by
the motive of love for perishing souls, to
tell them that whosoever will may take of
the waters of life freely.
sic--" AI t Whosoever will may come."
The following resolution, offered by Mr.
S. W. Collom. of Huntingdon, wa unan
imously adopted :
Resolved, That as members of this
Convention, we express our hearty thanks
to our kind friends of Dudley for their
generous hospitality extended to us on
this the occasion of our visit amongst them.
Mr. Palmer responded briefly in behalf
of the citizens of Dudley, and after the
Doxology—" Praise God from whom all
blessings flow," and benediction by Rev.
Mr. Dole, the convention adjourned.
The occasion was one of interest and
profit to all who attended. The best of
feeling and harmony prevailed, and the
only regret manifested was that the pro.
ceedings were not protracted at least ICA
another day. The proceedings were char
acterized throughout with that spirit of
devotional earnestness and fervor which
should characterize such meetings, and all
who bad the pleasure of participating ex
pressed themselves highly delighted, and
prepared to resume their labors in this
glorious work under the inspiration of re
newed zeal and encouragement The at
tendance of spectators was large, orderly
and respectable throughout, and the good
people of Dudley, amongst whom are some
of our most earnest and thorough Sabbath
School workers, vied with each other in
their acts of hospitality and kindness ; the
latch strings were all out, and the good
things of this life were provided in abun
dance for the enjoyment and comfort of
their visitors, who left them regretting
that their stay was so brief, and horn
for a similar reunion in the no distant
future with their friends, brethren sod
co workers in the Sabbath School cause,
on the mountains of Broad Top.
This was the first of a series of quarterly
local conventions proposed to be held
throughout the county, during the year,
as agreed upon by the County Association,
at its last annual session.
Friends .f the nue ositite the ease
local ecorresties te be held is their skis.
it, Amid write to or rester with J. A.
Brows, Chairmen of 3. 3. Cow. H.
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