| Show I Sunday School Union I The monthly meeting was held last evening in the Assembly Hall at half past seven After music by the Union brass band and the Eleventh Ward Sunday Sun-day school choir Liner 5 R Marks offered prayer The choir fang When shall we meet thee After calling the roll of Sunday schools in thfs county SuperIntendent SuperIntend-ent Tackett reported the Eleventh Ward Sunday school interests He said the Eleventh Ward has not all the facilfcilea that other and more centrally situated wards have The scholars roll numbers 330 including 36 teachers and officers the last of whom are very efficient in the punctual punc-tual discharge of their duties The school comprIse 197 boy scholars from 4 or 5 years upwards They are separated Into two divisions according cording to merit wearing white and red badges to distinguish them The attendance roll is called promptly at the opening of the school each Sabbath morning Satisfactory Sat-isfactory progress is being made as evidenced by the interesting details given by Supt Tuckett The Union Brass Band gave anther an-ther selection of music Superintendent Wm A per of the Nineteenth Ward made a short address previous to his departureto work on the Temple at Manti His mind reverted to the contrasted difference of the facilities in books schoolrooms teachers and numbers ot scholars of the present with fifteen fif-teen years ago He was satisfied that the Sunday School interests were growing and doing a valuable work The choir pang The Childrens Song Prayer Elder John Q Cannon give a short lecture on the circumstances attending the youth of the Sunday schools in Germany as contrasted with those of Utah The principles of religion as taught by < Martin Luther and his colaborers are firmly believed in by the adults of Germany as being allsufficient and that nothing remains to be learned by > them These ideas are as firmly Imbued in their children Infant baptism is attendedto stiictly thus making the children members of the church and on arriving at the age of six years the law makes it compulsory for them to attend a school regularly until thirteen years old At this age the children are confirmed as members and enJoy the privilege of partaking of the sacrament or communion The boys are then put to learn various vari-ous trades the parents paying premiums pre-miums which diminish with the increased age and experience of the apprentice Consequent upon this discipline the children grow ur with confirmed religious ideas and abili ties of craft as workmen that in some respects are ahead of other nations of the world At the age of 21 all the boys are enrolled in the army and compelled to serve three years unless rich enough to have obtained a superior education and pass an examination entitling them to be exempt after one years active service ana paying for his military clothes and food Each man is subject sub-ject to military service in case of in vaslon by a foe at any time until fortyfour years old These are some of the circumstances attending the youth and growth of manhood or the boys of Germany H wever the laws are being modified and innovations in-novations being made which will eventually enable the youth and aged of the German nation to use more of their own dgmerjt in seeking seek-ing after the truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Joseph J Daynea then gave an organ solo Supt John C Cutler announced that the next meeting of the Union would be held on the first Monday in September next The Twelfth Ward to furnish doorkeepers and music for the occasion The choir sang Daughters of Zion Benediction by Elder Abram H Cannon |
