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Show Sudar Setal Uii. The officers and teachers of the Sabbath Schools of this Stake met In regular session on Monday evening, even-ing, December 1, 1690, In tbe J"onr-teenthWard J"onr-teenthWard assembly hall, Btake 8upt John C. Cutler, pnatdlag. Elder Levi W. Richards offered the opening prayer. Tbe singing i xerclses were excellently excel-lently rendered by the Eighteenth Ward choir, under tbe direction of D. A. Swan. After the railing ef the roll ' Elder D. A. Swan delivered an in-teresting in-teresting and Instructive lecture on j thesubect of '"Obedience," commencing com-mencing frem the well-known ' scripture "To obey Is better than , sacrifice, and to liar ken, than the fat of rams." The want of respect, in the young toward the aged, the utter ut-ter disregard of tbe authority or parents and teachers, so rapidly becoming be-coming almost nnlwml ffhmi.wh- I oat American society, was in tbe speaker's opinion, the cause of many boya'becomlng hoodlums and without regard fur ti.Mnn.i or social law. The tendency in modern society, in tbe family and tbe school, was to maintain authority by moral suasion, or not to maintain it at ail, and as a consequence obedience In children, either at home or in the school room, was very rare. The speaker said that obedience and respect re-spect for the authority of parents should be Insisted upon ana maintained main-tained if necessary by compulsion. FamilV dtitrlhllnfi nf Iha .trlr-f r order was necessary to tbe spiritual and moral growth and development of the children. "Tbe general question was then put How many Jaatter-day Saint children are there in your Ward? How many are attending regularly, reg-ularly, and what steps, if any, are being taken to increase the attendance? Replies were made by Superintendents Jas. Saville, ot the Eighteenth Ward, Wilford Smith, of the Fourth Ward, Niels Rasmussen, of tbe First Ward, and l V. Williams, or the Twelfth Ward. The attendance of the children In the schools represented will average about half of the total number of Latter-day Saint children residing therein. Tbo visits of Sunday school committees made on Sunday mornings, from house to house throughout the wards, bad been productive of much good where this work had been done. Again, where there were teachers who took a personal per-sonal interest in their class and prepared Interesting lessons for their children, and were always at their post of duty on Sunday morning, it was no trouble to get a good attendance. at-tendance. Superintendent John C. Cutler (who left upon a mission to England Dday, Wednesday) addressed tbe meeting. He expressed blspeasu-a with the good reports ana suggestions sugges-tions given by tbe superintendents, and suggested that all school superintendents super-intendents should use vrtiy effort possible to increase the attendance ot children In their Schools. Assistant Superintendent R. B. Home made a few closing remarks, and announced that the Twentlsth Ward school would furnish the musical exercises of tbe January meeting of the Union. The choir sang "Rock of ages." and the benediction was pronounced by President Joseph E. Taylor. The attendance at this meeting was large, nearly all the city and several of the country schools being represented. Jos. Htrcm Parbv, Bee. |
