Show SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION A large and appreciative gath gathering erl of sunday school workers met in regular union meeting on monday evening ing may 16 1898 in the fourteenth wax ward d wembly assembly rooms supt bupt T C driggs graggs presided excellent music was waa epa ered by the th e sixth ward sunday J sch school choir under the direction of elder james poulton all the city schools except the fifth and twenty third wards were as were also alao the following schools school of the county big cottonwood both schools cannon center fast east mill creek Var farmers mers forest dale dalci east jordan util creek south jordan sugar sandy bandy north point and wll wil tord tha th opening prayer was offered by superintendent henry B elder of the twenty fourth ward As soon as aig the opening exercises were concluded the meeting was divided and the usual department apartment part ment work was entered into in varnest earnest it Is ia in this department work that the utility and usefulness of the union nion meeting is maW manifest fefA as the teacher from each department gets information format n directly be being bearing ing upon his oilier practical school work each ot of the departments Is ia under uner the direction of competent and practical school workers and the model lesions and discussions upon the game are participated in kincer ty y all ail who attend if they so d deabre the adoption of this work in the union meetings the attendance hag haa more than doubled and them interest inte reet has haa grown proportionately many manx bab path schools both of the alt city and stake have at each meeting rep from each department c of ai their schools and it is needless to nay bay that such auch schools are improving and more efficient for good the lessons evis presented and discussed axe are not bottary bit Tary but serve as models ot 01 adle leemons leee ons and the discussions are ted intended to illustrate the best keaho aidt methods of interesting and in the in the principles Ples of the goshet Be frides the department work a meeting of superintendents was also held during the evening the primary department under the charge of elder B W ashton disc dis cussed sample lessons suitable to this grade the first intermediate in care of elder wm bradford Bradi ord had under consideration the best beat means of strengthening the memory and also had some discussion on the subject of appropriate fast day exercises the second intermediate under the oare care of elder horace cummings and delbert parrott spent sometime discussing means to control and interest rough and inattentive boys the higher or theological class were given a model lesson upon divine authority tho rity from the fifth article of faith by sister bertha wilcken elder richard R lyman the director of this department gave a very interesting te talk upon psychology dwell dwelling ng particularly upon the subject of attention urging its importance as the greatest factor in attaining success in the search for knowledge the axt art of learning as well as the art of teaching rests upon the power af attention few lessons are too difficult for the student who can concentrate upon them all his energies right study and correct teaching develop the habit and power of complete attention attention in one sense is compared with a burning sun glass which when properly focused upon an article begins to burn it so when the mind is concentrated upon a subject it begins to master it it is the power to concentrate effort without attention and some fixity of purpose life would be long reverie man would would be an idle dreamer asner sis isaac newton ascribed his hie superiority to other men in intellectual power simply to his greater power of attention without which power there can be no mental growth or activity attention isolates one subject from others and concentrates effort upon it to the exclusion of all other objects As nothing can be learned without at tent ton it would not be out of place tor for the sunday school teacher to instruct his hia pupils irr in t the he art of attention the first thing to be done in this direction Is for the teacher to come prepared to present his class with something worth their attention and seek to offer it in such a way that the children are hungry for the lesson to reach this degree of interest the lesson must not be beyond the mental capacity of the pupil As aa the child cannot pay attention upon any one subject the minds should not no be urged ed to the point of fatigue as this weakens the capacity of attention when the he it attention is lost some diversion should be resorted to by the teacher in a primary class some bodily exercises ot ola song in a more ad best means of cultivating the habit of attention upon reassembling the audience were favored with a beautiful quartette from the sixth ward school elder lovi W richards of the sunday school union board made a few remarks commendatory of the teachers and instructors who labor to prepare their lessons and strive by every means to make their labors effi efficient tent remarks in keeping with the beneral general wot k of odthe the meeting were also made by bresic president tent seymour 13 young a member of the sunday school union board the seventh ward school was requested to furnish music at the june meeting of the union the anthem come and let Us sing unto the lord was beautifully rendered by the choir and the benediction was wars pronounced by superintendent arnold G giauque Glau que of the sixth ward J H PARRY secy |