Show CHILD TRAINING SERMON TOPIC Education In Connection With Schools One Method Our state tat Is justly proud ot or its e sugar beets and r ls but the th boys and girls ciris ot of Utah are ar its mo moat t valuable prod- prod act and should have more mor atten atten- attention attention tion and Jid better cultivation than any ny other crop said aid the th Rev Harold E B Mayo Maro in his hili First Con Con- Con church sermon Sun Sun- Sunday Sun Sunday day morning The Th minister then showed that psychology Is U as a valida a science as s biology chemistry and geology and that the data or of experience and observation col- col collected col collected and tested under laboratory conditions has baa biven us certain Principles principle ot or mental re- re reaction reaction re reaction action It was wa brought out that these principles have hav been utilized In the th evangelistic and financial selling game camo or of o the church but that the theological theolog-Ical Implications of mental data as revealed re In psYchic research have havo not been blen faced by the church aa as a whole BORN IN IX SIN SIX SINThe The Tho pastor told tol l ot of o the th man man- manner mannor manner ner nor In which Walter Waiter Scott Athearn had been heckled and criticised In Massachusetts when ho claimed that the application or of o modern psychology to the tho th training ot of child child- childhood childhood hood would produce a moral gen gen- generation cen oration without the necessity of at ata ofa ofa a catac conversion after youth hid hd town sown Its wild oats We now no know that morality is a social product which man has M develop develop- developed developed developed ed under the th pressure of circum- circum circum stance tance and necessity when lie he with his found himself 1 in relation fellows fello said aid Mr Mayo It was also stated that man is 19 born Un- Un Unmoral un unmoral moral not Immoral or moral and the old Idea that Than toan was Wl con con- con conceived in Iniquity and must go through a process of conversion In order to eliminate the sin or of Adam Is a Il theological tion that has no basis in fri tact fact IT SUN l y The question arises How can canice we ice constructively guide uld and build lit childhood The Protestant Sunday schools have used a pro pro- program program pro gram ot of religious education which gave I 26 28 hours a R year to the systematic systematic matic moral and religious Instruction Instruction tion of o youth it if there were per per- perfect perfect perfect attendance With untrained teachers with equip equip- equipment ment meat and with with spasmodic attend attend- attendance attendance anc ance it is a wonder that as much good has been accomplished as seems evident There are ar three methods of ot dealing with this problem problem lem it we w are willing to face fac the facts ot of scientific mental research and apply them to the moral train train- training log ing of ot the nations nation's future citizen citizen- citizenry TI ry ry- ry In In the first place we 0 can give our religious education In the public school chool but this plan is not ot feasible as a the public public schools are supported by all aU the people and the religious Ideas of o any group would satisfy only the members or of that group croup Even the idea of ot God could not be b taught in an any nit nite manner In the public pur schools because or of o the tho different concep concep- conceptions conceptions conceptions of at various groups Because of o this thit conflict all of ot the essential elements in religious education would need noel to be b eliminated leav leav- leav leavIng inc leav-inc ing an Inadequate program L 1 SYSTEM Then we might try the parochial tat ial s1 school Idea which has been util- util util utilized iud izod b by the Roman Catholics This method Is la unsatisfactory lioi ho hoever ever because it doubly burdens burdens the tax tax- taxpayer tax taxpayer payer who ho must roust support the pub pub- public public public lic schools and the parochial schools If it he h takes advantage of the latter and because it divides the youth ot or the tho country into se seg- seg segregated seg segregated groups gl glIng Ing no opportunity opportunity opportunity for the th common attitudes and loyalties essential In a a re- re republican re republican publican tor for mot government go The third possible method method would correlate the work ol of the public school system from the first grade through the university witha with 8 a program of or religious education based upon sound Round principles or of pedagogy Public school classes would be dismissed twice a s week eek for an an- hour bour when the children Wilt be taught moral and religIous relic lou Ious bus principles by trained Salaried religious educators This week week- day church school wilt wilt-be will be c organ organ- organized izod on a community basis and Will be bo administered by an Inter Inter- Interdenominational Inter Interdenominational denominational group troup selected from all the churches in the th com corn community The Th major religious groups such uch as the th Roman Roman Cath Cath- Catholics Cath- Cath Catholics olics the th Jews Jew the th Mormons Mormon and Protestants would each separate separate- separately ly Iy maintain their religious educator tors tor 56 that children of ot their re- re religious re faith may be taught by them CHARACTER BUILDING This can be done when the Protestant churches focus their at- at attention at attention upon the tho possibilities of character building b in the th various 1 periods of ot mental development Inthe in the th child chUd and cease to emphasize the method of ot emotional 1 evang- evang cHant in order to- to produce nu- nu numerical nu numerical merical growth This system has bas been a decided success In Mal Mai Malden Mal Mal- Malden Maiden den Massachusetts and In scoreS scores or of other communities throughout the country where Protestants have had enough Interest in iii their young people to give elv them the training they deserve de erve In these communities the th moral tone ton has been raised railed and th be moral reactions reactions reactions upon part of the th children have shown sho a decided Improve Improve- Improvement Improvement Improvement ment as a a result ot of o this special specialized training The Th hope hop ot or the church lies In the Intelligent con con- conversation conversation and development of ot the finest elements of ot human nature rather than in an emotional t at attempt tempt to rehabilitate the Waited of ot man |