Show S SUNDAY SCHOOL MUST II REACH MEN Emphasis Is Placed on This Thisby Thisby Thisby by the Rev Mr M Merritt erritt To hold I boys between the tho ages age o of I 1 1 t and ind n 16 years was was was' reco recognIzed recognised as asic the ic most tant function of the Sunda Sunday school by the Rev Rc W r C C. C Meri Mer- Mer i Ht Itt at his conference with Sunday school hool workers he held last night at the thc First Methodist Episcopal church To h this the discussion slon brought out iut out teachers must consider their classes es not a as at clashes but as In ivl Sunda Sunday school teachers must jilt mt their theil hearts into their work A teacher must live up to his teachings teachings' s sand and set an art example for 01 the young people leople of if his elates classes that the they ma may recognize religious teaching as an imPO important important im im- im- im PO matter and not merely as t. t a esson JesIon to be learned to bo be recited ill ih their cla clasie c but hut to be used as os a motive mo mu tire live In all their acts These were wre the maul main points brought out b by Mr 1 Mer- Mer ri 1 It The conCel was vas for fOI Sunday school In the First Methodist Episcopal First PIc n Fl First l Congregational Central and ami SL Marks Mark's I copal chinches H Ito Ro- I gret lct was expressed ed last nl night ht because of or tho the fact that so few Cew members of I the Sunday Sundar l working force were fIe present ent to hear Mr 11 Ir Merritt who I Is recognize In church circles U us a particularly particularly par pat able m man n in the instructor Instruction of Sunday Sunda school teachers Table Round Questioning The Thc evenings evening's s 's program night consisted In an introductory talk tun by the Rev Rc Mr Merritt which was followed fol tel lowed upon his Invitation with s a table round questioning course InthIs It In this wa way the Rev fie Mr 1 l 1 Merritt-in Merritt Merritt in answer an an- to th the questions put hut to to him h by the Sunday Sunda school teachers r. brought out the fact tact that the use u-e of oC lesson leaflets with Bible Dible lessons 11 Cound to tu be a mistake In that tho they ha have almost driven the Bible out of oC the hands of young oung people The Rev Ite HeIr Mr Ir Merritt said I that It was his that from Crom GO 65 lO per ler cont Coat to 75 per cen cent of oC tho the of students In Sunday Sunda schools came from hero there was an utter lack of oC family devotional 01 o religious instruction Mr 11 Merritt hat has been connected with t tho the International Sunday School association asso asso- elation dation as a field worker for Cor over O two years ean having worked in Ill tho the same lIam field as general secretary in iti Washington to for tor torr forr r eight years year ear previous to taking the Held field His Ills labors have mostly been In the Northwest though hu he has Just r re ret returned re- re t turned from an extended ed tour through J the Eastern cities where he has been beon visiting Sunday schools and churches gathering material for his work worl In the teaching Of teachers teacher |