Show SUNDAY SCHOOL there was a large attendance of sunday school workers at the monthly meeting held bold last evening july in the li 0 S college building representatives senta tives being present from all the city wards warde except the ninth thirteenth fifteenth twentieth twenty second west branch and twenty third the following county wards warde were also well represented cannon rest east mill creek bast baff jordan west jordan sugar farmers Farm mill creek north branch brighton union big cotton wood south district seven sunday school missionaries were also in attendance the excellent singing exercises of the meeting were rendered by the east mill creek school choir led by bro J H prayer was offered by elder george Rey reynolds nolis stake superintendent T C griggs stated that owing to the absence from the city of some of the instructors it had been thought best bent to pot pone the organization of classes clan until the september meeting this announcement caused disappointment among those present as they had come with the expectation of engaging in class work at this meeting elder Griggs referred feel to the death of elder abraham H cannon Canno iii who had bad taken a great interest in sunday school matters lip hp spoke on the nece wity of teachers at tending closely to the details or of their work of quarterly reports being sent in the advantages to be obtained by providing the scholars with the sun school hymn books which were now DOW ready for distribution elder george reynolds said qaid that in traveling among the stakes and visit ing the sabbath schools he had felt led to impress upon the minds of teachers tea onera the necessity of teaching we the principles principle of tbt dospel in the schools so hoole in some soini places the sabbath schools were aim ply a sunday edition of the public schools noole so teachers would be held belu so ao countable for the neglect of the proper training of the children the first object of the work of the sunday schools was to create a living faith in the minds of we the children Westi we should build upon the revelations of god and not dot cast them aside for any theory no matter bow beautiful it may appear the children should be taught to ob tain the testimony in their hearts ife arts as well wel lasan as an intellectual understanding of the principles of truth the 0 choir sang weary not assistant stake superintendent richard hurne horne referred to the olesa occasioned by not being pro pared to 10 take up the class work and sald said that brother willard done would be the principal speaker at the august meeting deprecated the practice of having contentions in theological officers aud acid teachers should send a written ok 01 verbal excuse when unable to atteno the excuses should be included in the quarterly reports punctuality in the opening oi 01 was urged and the adoption and use of the sunday school treatise superintendent griggs spoke on the tendency of tine the scholars to absent themselves from and urged the teachers to try aud and remedy this tendency assistant Asai Assi stant t superintendent horne home sug aug that the children take up it a labor with the officers and teachers who do not attend regularly after sin binning sting by the choir rider elder benjamin goddard pronounced the benediction and the meeting ada adjourned burned fur for one month to meet oat the earn aade a place at pm the union ward sunday school was requested reque eted to fur diah the singing at the next meeting |