| Show METHODS IN SCHOOLS in the east the matter of ef district school methods in sunday schools Is ie receiving considerable attention from those in ID the laba named rae question came up through the action grolou of college professors seora and others engaged BB as instructors in ID secular schools and advocating ibe used the herein as suitable eui table to sunday school work walk the lunova tion lion was waa allowed to in many macy places adu even for a time lima with the be idea that improvement would reaul sow now lit jit Wever the leading religious workers in the schools declare that the secular methods are not nol only inferior to the old plan that was wae followed but are an actual injury to the children who attend sunday sObO abool ob ool OILI the objection to them is IB the th sames same that was fullY maintained in discussing the matter io in utah a couple of years alto ago th tb district school methods are all right for the purpose of such school where there la Is more or leaa joe ol of a cramming ot of theoretical knowledge to be applied in practice to in later life kut with the sunday school instruction st there la Is the vital difference of a needed immediate application in practical moral training nR the trouble with secular school methods in sunday schools to la that abe former lack the spiritual force necessary to the claw class of lost instruction ruction given in the latter and hence have proved a failure thle this is ie cue arrived at unanimously by the leading workers to in the Bunday Sunday school cause in the essl east the conclusion named Is about right A spiritual force is necessary neo eMary ID moral and religious training that hat can be dispensed with to a degree in some other places without a sense ene of great low but bat to be effective all 11 II roll reli groub or moral training mut must joseen the spiritual element religious training and theological learning may be very different thing at times the chief field of the sunday school to la to train in practical reli el eion ivion rather than more mere theoretical theology it I 1 ia for complete as I 1 instruction which means practical application of the theory taught that the pupils may be interested in being that which they learn they should be in righteousness |
