Show GA THEn IN CONVENTION t Sunday School Workers Begin Their Sessions LAST NIGHTS PROGRAMME 1I 1 I I GOOD CONGREGATION WITNESSES WITNESS-ES OPENING EXERCISES Editor Quay of the Church Messenger Messen-ger Presides Over the Gathering Addresses By Rev Ellis Bishop and Dr W M Paden Convention Will Continue For Two Days 4 I The first meeting of the Salt Lake county Sunday school convention wa held last evening In the First Presbyterian Presby-terian church A number of delegates were in attendance from various schools In the county and city and an interesting programme was carried out Professor Robert Quay editor of the I meet Church Messenger presided The m ing began with a short praise service conducted by Professor George H Young This was followed by a talk from the Rev Ellis Bishop of St Pauls church whose subject was That BoyMr Mr Bishop spoke of the necessity of surrounding the boy with proper Influences In-fluences and finding some way to successfully suc-cessfully govern him He advised the teachers to lead and not drive the boy and t treat him as if he had some reason son and intelligence He said that the boy is cleverer than we think and that the best method was 1 appeal to the boys reason and try to win his love This method will succeed where all others oth-ers fail Even Incorrigible boys will obev a teacher whom they love The congregation then sang a song led by Professor Young which was followed by a duet by Miss Mamie Pes tana and H E McPherson Dr Paden Talks The Rev Dr Paden delivered a very interesting and instructive talk on The Relations and Responsibilities of Pastors Pas-tors to the Sunday School Dr Paden sad that he regarded the Sunday school as the best field that a pastor has The pastor is a sort of presiding elder over the Sunday school and the teachers are his assistants In large Sunday schools a great share of the responsibility Is shifted from the pastor to the class teachers and the pastor reaches the child when he has occasion to through the teacher He deplored the tendency of teachers to dro6 a boy or girl as soon as he or she had made a confession of faith and had become a member of the church The teacher should continue to be the class leader and friend of the young people after they have become members of the church The pastors hands should be free to look after the religious trict re-ligious orphans who are in his dis Nominating Committee Named At the close of Dr Padens remarks Professor Quay announced the appointment ap-pointment of Professor Gilliland ReEls Re-Els Bishop and Miss Emma Baker asa as-a committee of nominations to name I the officers of the association for the ensuing year W S Giesy Mrs Arnold and Mrs M Grant Major were appointed to act a a committee on resolutions The convention will hold an afternoon after-noon session today at 3 p m and a session sion tomorrow at S p m Mrs C G Plummer and Mrs E E Shepard constitute a committee on reception re-ception for the convention W T Edingfield and J E Jayne are the committee on invitation and entertainment tainment The present officers of the County Sunday School association are Robert B Quay president W T Eddingfleld vice president Mrs W S Glesy secre tary F W Hills treasurer and Mrs 31 Grant Majors chairman of the executive ex-ecutive committee |