| Show SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION notwithstanding other attractions the meeting of the sunday school union last night was very largely at ten tended ded all the city wards were well represented except the fifth sixth ninth twentieth and twenty third the schools of bluff dale south jordan farmers north point brighton east mill creek and big cottonwood south mouth district of the country schools were well represented the musical exercises rendered during the evening were given by the twelfth ward sunday school choir led by brother E A midgley stake superintendent T C griggs grigge presided F odor elder G C W hardy opened the meeting by prayer bishop frederick Schoon feldt of brighton gave an instructive lecture on theological class clan teaching while uvon upon a recent lengthy mission in germany he felt a strong anxiety for the spiritual welfare of the children of zion and resolved that it if he lived to return home he would spend all the spare time of the sabbath in teaching his own and other children of the saints the principles of the gospel and how to obtain a testimony for themselves of the truth of the work of god in teaching his class he required that each member bring a note book and he be gauged his instructions to the capacity of the class and while be did not n ot require many lengthy addresses addressee from his bis students he required that they search out passages of seri scripture p to sustain and verify the position taken by us in regard to the gospel in illustrating the gospel principles he would show by suitable references the harmony of the gospel in all ages of the world using the book of mormon and modern revolution revelation to aate and simplify the lessons lemons presented in showing the great apostasy apoe apo stacy from the truth he has used the works of mosheim and others not only to prove the fact of the apostasy apos tsoy but to show the causes that led up to it so that the lessons of history may not be lost loat n the saints lives of the young Latt latter erday sa ay but aside from the excellent leaann well planned and thoroughly prepared aren beforehand the speaker felt that hi greatest Krea teet aid to success W was as an ri earn his a r love for the sunday school work T aasi n felt that it must be a very verj r jae duty that would keep him away anav r the sabbath school the brorn 1 such an earnest spirit would of not lost upon epou the young the speaker ats bi that an effort should be made felt in th the sunday school to encourage w latter day saints to acquire the young fi lau guage of their fathers so that th could do more efficient they biblin mi Blin work to in the world ary zion prospers all is ia welli well i j waft rendered by a quartette quartet qu artetta tei of 0 f male SiD singers gers MUSIC IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS aj the following paper on the abna subject was read by superintendent griggs from the pen ut ot prof evan ea 4 step stephene h on 8 who was unavoidably sent ment ab 0 I 1 sincerely believe that I 1 do not n estimate the Imports importance uce of this thia liht over by placing it at the head of f the LUb ia jeet list the good things that ma a sk or 0 school what it should h wh knew a school where general een ri a singing was the rule that was wa not good ot in live prosperous state 4 and I 1 it knew a school remain in aoh such a devolt tit when the state M music long was either eniti elected entirely e ne mismanaged to take care of itself hence bencs or left SS i opinion of the importance 1 1 my of thurit urit tn in the sabbath school by this I 1 real music not the formal 99 anath in the shape of singing at it the couk 3 men cement and closes close according to torn tom but singing that is felt by eug SS barnea earnest worker in the school to every mean mama something not a form but a real pad nur of the school exercises with in the something S progress very ring rinart of I 1 and that at once awakens the atton atten tion of every child I 1 in a the room setting it to the actual doing of what it t came w to school to do anything short of this is ia of but little use though it may help to keep pt up ap pe peara arances noes and be better than thala no DO mude at all however I 1 very much doubt 2 whether extremely poor formal stow slow I 1 lif elea singing minging such as aa I 1 know 4 schools to have is better than doing A without it on entirely despite ass h ow strange and out ot of custom that 1 appear many MADY a sunday school will use three times during each bedion ious music old and musty they would ahe hi indignantly if offered to them for their entertainment at the cheapest kind of concert now t this h is I 1 is 8 notia ot idle comparison let me solemnly I 1 assure you that your child children reni to today ay have ears that convey impression to them just as definite in musical mat mak as the eye or the nose would d iu the other mentioned case came they know perfectly well be they have experienced the do de light of singing with their whole hearte until the countenance beams with pleasure and if any other klud of d ing ing than this contents the saba sabbath 01 school they attend there is in a danger ot of their esteem for everything in tho th school wea measuring suring the excel excellence lenee of all other exercises by that of the airi singing ging which they know to be oot of the best what is good sabbath school flinging MiD ging singing that may and be in comprehended joined of the children enjoyed by the majority singing that while elevating present in ia simplified in its character child with a certain the for the use of amount of movement and rhythm in it naturally earnestly pure slow doleful expressed but cheerfully byad tunes should never be heard beard in sabbath school though the tender the sympathetic if ily earnestly and used are within the domaine domain of youthful thought and expression the musical exercises exer cison should never abe be taken beyond the reach of the possibilities of the childs taking school the sunday school choir a should hould in my fun thu be abolished the entire school should be the choir much precious preci oua time and labor are now waited in the musical field by a want ot of system eyu teni our adult are called upon to be members ot of the tabernacle choir the ward choir the mutual improvement pro choir the sunday school chool choir and they are not fit members of any ally unless they take time to receive some training which necessitates the attendance at a singing ringing clams every week they try to do their duty by joining all and fini find it impossible begins to tear the other down then a good sunday school choir a poor ward choir and nu vice versa etc something must be neglected and it is in a constant struggle to keep up organizations organ izat ione choir leaders become dis heartened and all progress to clogged A choir is not only unnecessary as an independent organization in the sabbath school but a detriment mon t inasmuch as am it deprives the majority of the privilege of taking actual part in this exer exercise cide which should be the one class for all in the school singing should be one of the regular studios studies of every sabbath school taken by all at once twenty minutes or even half an hour bour should be devoted to it the last of the session here the songs would be taught part singing would be practiced the entire school turned into a choir une ine night nights a work less lea for the overworked over worked singers and conductors a blessed relief and equally a beneficial relief for most schools to have half an hour less of other exercises supplanted by as much in g while there are a few a very lew few competent men in charge of our sunday school singing the great majority of them are far from being capable of putting to good use the vast amount of talent found in the schools the very time they have to spend in the st of keeping up the choir T precludes re any self improvement a d as an brother maaser often so BO truly tells us A man can not impart what he got v today it is 18 painfully evident throughout the territory that our leaders in music have not kept pace with the advance advancement meng of the masses do not misunderstand me the maea maa a do not understand music now better than the choir leaders Jea deni but while the la in general lave bave advanced a hundred per cen cent in love and ampre elation for and ability in music during the last fifteen years the he average choir leader of today is ia but little MOE more a proficient or progressive than the choir lender leader of fifteen years year ago why he had bad time to progress too many duties have been plied piled upon his hie broad shoulders houlden he H has ambition to delve deeper that he might have hare more treasures to impart but he a free moment in which to delve hence by degrees he be gets into a beaten path and soon lives in the past who of you to is not grateful that there are schools where young men may attend for years to learn how bow to properly teach the principles of the gospel la 11 it not time that those whose ability and love for far music prove that god has implanted it there for some noble and practical purpose should have time and opportunity to fit themselves to lead and direct progressively the tens of thousands who are 0 ver over with song within our mountain v valleys alloys these leaders leaden must have ap special ecial training for this or fail to command the fu full 11 confidence of even children in their work if you would have your singing in your sabbath schools improve see ice that he who has charge has haa the time and opportunity to improve also aleo as the one becomes im possible poa sibl without the other you need atrain a training irig claw for young conductors conduct ore just jurt as aa much as you do for young missionaries or school teachers tea ohen again do not misunderstand me music should not and cannot be studied for any practical use UBO alone but the instructors in hi music and a choir leader is nothing it if not an instructor must give special pedal study to that branch how much of my own work here in salt lake city has been made comparatively fruitless for the want of unity in action between myself and the various leaders having baying local charge of music where the children under my training should have become of ser eer vice in the ward sabbath sa schools bools the various modes of procedure no two alike were all perhaps different to mire mice and the children being successful with me naturally hail had no conn denoe dence in a reverse course hence the cry would often be we cant do anything with stephens stephen pupils PP P onee once while paying a visit to a certain school in this city I 1 was waa openly accused of this notwithstanding that nearly all they young ladle ladies scarcely arcely ac 0 out ut of my childrens classes olaa aea who 00 constituted thep choir were my pupils the singing at the school did not show that anything was waa being systematically done by anybody a puilla it was a house full of fine material in a confused tate state so 80 far as an the singing flinging was waa concerned I 1 had bad prepared the material but the local leader had not the least idea how bow to put them in their places and because they did not jump jum P into position and arrange themselves or fit in any shape his fancy for the moment might suggest sug geat I 1 was waa to blame of course take the building of our great temple as a comparative case the architect has baa done his hie work every atone has hae been calculated upon and chiseled into exact shape all is ia correct but the stone atone layers have no idea of his plan they have been Ous tomed to build at random and they misplace the stones result even the shaping of each tone stone makes it a misfit and the tone stone layer or those in charge blindly blame the stone cutter for making the atone unfit to be laid at random how ridiculous you say bay it has hag been precisely my experience in my labors labon with the sabbath schools ot of this city what will obviate such a difficulty A proper study of plan and action if I 1 prepare the material is it not reasonable that those who we use them should understand the method of preparing and continue in the work in Byte matio order the sabbath schools of this city need a class clae for the instruction of young music leaders and if even thoe of mature experience attended such a olas it would result in system and uniformity my opinion on the point as to what music we should sing is ia that the selections to be found in the new book just issued by the sunday school union cannot be excelled or even approached in suitability auit ability even of music to soy say nothing of sentiment by any eastern published books I 1 would wish for but little if anything else from which to train my school I 1 in n singing for the next three or four years I 1 if I 1 had charge if a school and it is my belief that leaders who ignore it for eastern selections are pasturing in mistaken fields neglect ing richer food especially prepared for them I 1 do not believe in being blindly exclusive there are sweet morsels even eve u fur for children to be culled from outside works that it would be a veritable loss lose to pass them by leaders should be conversant with the best of everything published in their line then if our home work falls behind they can be a means of stirring up our own talented composers to better work the singing book should be the property of the child chila using it and become a part of the sunday school drew dress as it were the neat clean dress aress combed hair bait blackened shoes kerchief and music bok bi ok in hand band should be the leading points of the picture a child on its way to the sabbath school one book might serve two children provided they can stand or sit together during the musi muel oal cal exercises the work of rousing the young and the old to some extent in music has been so well accomplished complis hed bod by jubilees jubil ees classes schools and concerts that now they pause waiting for capable men and system to lead them on an to greater perfection our future musically depends upon what shall be done in this direction our wonderful musical talent will avail us little if not intelligently d directed in a 81 proper channel with these few r reflections groper sections I 1 will dose close wishing a speedy renewal of progress to music in the sabbath shook bupt supt griggs suggested that as frequent circulars were sent by the general officers of them the sunday school union which often were important for reference and it if the sunday schools were to provide themselves with a scrap book in which these cirou lare could be would be more useful to them the thirteenth ward school was waa requested to furnish the music at the next meeting of the union benediction by bupt supt 0 H gold of brighton JOB harft PARRY sealy |
