Show SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION the sunday school officers auta aai teachers of this stake met monday evening feb 2nd and in the fourteenth ward assembly Roos attendance atten danco was quite large and there were depre senta tives from nearly all the schoola of the city the rhe twenty first ward school who furnished the excellent singing exercises was represented byl by nearly all he member of the school assistant superintendent lyon prel pret sided aided the e opening prayer was offered by su superintendent rin robert aveson the be singing exercises conducted under the direction of brother thomaa mcintyre were given from songs pro arf pared under the tonic sol fa system the beautiful harmony produced by the whole school showed the simpli city of this method and how easily and thoroughly the songs of zion can be acquired when set to this no notation elder J M gave a very in binl tive lecture on the subject of in fidelity and criticism prefacing his remarks with an explanation of the difference between unbelief and infidelity the former being the natural state of man till enlightened by the gospel and the latter being the condition of theose who hearing the truth and seeing the light refuse to receive it and choose to remain in ila the dark the speaker the growth of infidelity froda the early ages and pointed out its connection with sua an unreasonable criticism of every everything thin that god has revealed criticism is aa 1 right the speaker said when rightly applied and particularly when applied to ourselves in order to ascertain whether we are doing our ditlea this criticism lead us to feel right and as we live and feel right our understandings are gm gradually dually enlightened until we see clearly those truths which to infidels appear to be only darkness or inexplicable difficulties the school sang from the german god speed the kight bight singing first the tonic sol fa notes to illustrate the method of instruction adopted in the twenty first ward school superintendent W J beatie of the seventeenth ward school in replying to the general questions what is the average attendance of latte rd saint children in the sabbath school and how bow to increase the same stated that about 66 per cent of the children of the ward were in regular attendance to get parents interested in the bab bath school was one of the best means of increasing the average attendance Atten lanee of the children and this cooperation of parents it was difficult to do much in this direction |