| Show INTERESTING SESSION Sunday School Union Meeting Attended by a Large Gathering A large and appreciate gathering of Sunday school workers met In regular reg-ular Union meeting on Mai day evenIng even-Ing May 19 1898 In the Fourteenth ward uannbli ram Supt T C Grlgpi presided Excellent music was rendered by tho Sixth word Sunday school choir under tho direction of Elder James Poulton All the city schools except the Filth and Twenty third wards were Well represented res were also the following ichools of the count Ills Collonw owl both schools Cnnnon Center Last Hill Creek ratmere Forest Bale East Jordan Mill I Crock South Jordan Sugar Sandy North Point and Wil ford The opening Prayer was offered by Buperlntendlnt Henry B Elder of the Henty fourth ward An soon ns the opening exercises were concluded the meeting was divided and 1 the usual department de-partment work wan entered Into In iU11C8t III li in this department work that the utility and usefulness 01 the rake meeting la mnUet as the teacher front each deportment gets In formation directly bearlnR ui on his otter ot-ter practical I school work Each or the > departments Is under the direction competent and practical I school rttkers arid the model lessons und tensions upon the same are partlcl arm In by nil who attend If they su tore Since the adoption of this mark > In the Union meetings the attendance at-tendance has more than doubled and the Interest has grown loportlonately I Many Sabbath schools both of thrlty and Stake have at each meeting rep repi rentllves train neh epartmeot of their schools and It la I needless to say that such schools are lmproltg and becomIng more efficient for good The lesson 1onld and discussed ore not arbitrary but sere as models 01 sample Ion and the dIcualon are Intended I to 1I111lrute I the best eann and methods of Interesting and Instructing In-structing lie young In the principles or the Gospel Besides the department work a meeting of uperlntendents was also held during the evening The Primary department under the charge of Elder 11 W Ashton dls cussed sample lessons suitable to this 1ILde The First Intermediate In care of Elder El-der Wm Bradford had under consld mtlon the best means of trorgth Oiling the memory arid also had some i discussion on the subject of appro retire Fast day ox clss The Second Intermediate under the eare of CIder Horoc Cummings and Doll > < rt arrott spent sometime dls raising mns to control and trough t-rough and Inattentive boys The Illrfier or Theological class were Ellen a model lesson upon nil ine Au thorlty from the fifth Article of Faith by Sister Bertha lichen Eldr lllclarl U Lymn the illrcc tor ot this department gave a very In tertstlug talk upon psychology lwellnS particularly upon the subject of attention atten-tion urging Its Importance as the nMtest factor In attaining success In the search for knowledge The art of learning as well as the art of teaching ruts upon the power of attention Few lowons are too limcult for the student ho can concentrate upon them all his twrclM night study and correct teaching develop the habit and power of complete attention Attention In one score N I compared Win ft burning sun glaw which when Property focused upon an article begins to burn It so when the mind li ooncVen trlted Upon a subject It begins to mister It It Is th Ppower to eoncentmt e ort without attention and some nxlty Of Purpose life would be long rerle mn would would be An Idle i t mer Sig matte Newton as c Iliel his Uperlorll to other men In Intellectual POor jlmily to Ills greater power of attention without wl Ich power there COJ i he no i mental growth or activity Attention Isolates one sul Ject from oth t a and eoncenlrau effort upon It to Meeitchipion at all other t object t As nothing can h e learned without nt JltlOl tu would not ba out or I face or the Hunilai school teacher to In Th ruel his pupliq In tile nrt 01 ttention lion Cm IN for thing to elh I c dno 1 In tills I Jlrec I ttlO the teacher to cattle prepared Present hN Clam with something worth It their I attention and seek to offer let much a we I b 4tn lip children I are ittRilry Orntt tile lesson To reach till l allyfe be of Interest tile lesson must not bon tile mental capnclty I of tile I VOL r i As the child cannot pa attention tit J lt U upon any one subject the mInds J uld not be urged to the joint of iliguO keo WI iflJhI weakens tile capacity thWattention I Tit l lost Won uNl some ill lMk should lc resorted to by the Ttt a primary toss some bOlt llirels s at a sang In n nd 7 more H need CIA 1 SX lleve f a tfd o r anecdote may Inn > till mind and ti Its wan NIlln the teacher can no r Interest nn class In the sulject f ni trying cr lj to Gt theV1 each the lesson eo far Id ti learner is ei acrrned is ended for the rpotation about led Congo also in1 I eve dais rY time Ph child I shoiill attend Prit he bas not onl lost fnurh > so I nij i thIt t IT1Mr in attention but he has tlon much training in I utl Inatten Ird Attention quit Ie 1 111on in be learned I II Any Othme much n matter of training lust heoto et lesson To 10 effective It Melato t b148ure taught not demanded To us I the lti with rIVet exertions at oWl particularly the pleasure I from success is I one 01 tile best mons of culllvnllng the habit of attention Upon reassembling the nudlcnco were favored with a beautiful qu irtette from the Sixth ward school I Ider Levi Wi lllchards of the Sunday Sun-day School Union hllllrd made a few remai R commendatory of the teachers teach-ers rind Instructors who labor to pr pare Ihelr lessons and strive by cery means to mke their lobar cnlrient Remarks In keeping with the general work of the metlllg were also made IJ I > resident Seymour 11 Young a member df the Sunday School Union Hoard The Seventh warl school was ro questcl to furnish music nt the Juno meeting of the Union Tie mill tm Como and Let Us Sing Unto the Tord was beautifully rendered by the choir and the benediction woi I pronounced by Superintendent Arnold G GUuque of the Sixth Word J 11 PARRY Sec > |
