Show GENERAL conference of tile sunday school union of box elder edri ly aksia m e ane 0 mool VU 10 n af ort if tills stake W as c cul ul d in incur our tabernacle icle here sunday august au 1884 there were present pre superintendent leendent justice C wix wixom and peter ter baird and ge george Gr grahel aliel hia his f abis sti stake assistants elar bohu li te aLj General ai tep lincy i also aldem joseph josol parry aedma and I 1 marka marks from salt lake 1 city r most if of the sunday school superintendents of this stake were also present bro joseph parry made somo some opening remarks explanatory of ake the nature aad and design j jt it that tha t through 11 the inhere interchange ange of ideas upon ii it variety of subjects sameness and might be prevented in our schools subjects had been assigned to arent individuals to speak upon the first of which was by brother peter baird who spoke upon the subject what is the best method to securer secure concert singing I 1 idour in i nour our arto Y ewt t 1 Z t T ke alio ull be the ne children taught so bangs bungs and music of our own composers by those who have the ability brother john bott spoke upon the subject of what is the best nil method to secure punctuality in our oue schools the parents teachers and superintendents should i to bs be in time themselves brother C jensen superintendent antof of the mantua sabbath school spoke upon the subject what are he 1 qualifications of a no 1 sunday rr L lie ile thought that a sunday school teacher should be bema tin n iwho who keeps th the wo word rd ot wisdom a good ax all B r dali george grahel spoke djoa best method to td secure good order orde r in idour our schools he showed that the children should be encouraged to take a lively interest in all the exercises brather marks made some rei re i marks aon upon the thc benefit that is to bei be derived from attending these sabi sab i bath schools these addresses were interspersed with vocal voca i aidin str sic F 1 eld ersoll oan tan sp spoke ok cupo c pon n the influence that parents can havel for good by instilling good i pies ples into the tile minds of their children to note the numar of children that are enrolled its sabbath school scholars in this stake he found by looking over the report for this stake that its 0 sabbath school population is 2247 there are 1848 children enrolled and over oyer to two thirds of them are in regular attendance this is is very gratifying being the best showing of any place be bel hi had visited ithe ah afternoon t exer exercises aisea Z awe iv re similar to those in the forenoon addresses address cs were delivered by bros David burt david reese and ephrin jen jensen sen upon subjects pertaining to the general welfare and progress of the sabbath elders parry and marks re viewed the exercises of the day and the addresses es that had been delivered adding new suggestions and ideas to each eld elder 0 f G snow now president of this RN biake e ame made a few libin pointed ted re marks upon the importance of the sabbath schools showing that they are tire the nurseries of the latter day a ein a great and mighty work 0 rk acan abe be he en co therein to persevere and god would bless them elder john IN morgan said in chicago a catholic priest was walking along a back street near hear the south fork of the chi i cago river and there he lie found a large number of dirty ragged urchins playing and loitering in the streets he the priest inquired of them if any of them had ever attended a sabbath school some had bad some had bad not there was fl ww railway cle by and hosn tan ida I 1 box bok C carthal a r th at h had ad been wrecked and he lie obtained aa as distance si stance and slid got the car bet up opened a school and invited these dirty urchins to come in they diaso and 4 4 ithem and lobi 17 their n numbers lin i abers had increased Ased to fast that h he e had haa i to 0 obtain more mor 0 help belp in 1865 they had purchased a piece of land and erected a fine building in in which were lal clas asse seana s ald SO OS abbath school children this was known as the lake street bli mission stion school this shows what can be accomplished in a short time by perseverance persevera uce but a few years ago in in salt lake city bro It ichird ballantyne Ballan now afi ogden organized the first sabbath school of our people in vie ward the latter day saints like a mustard seea ina ti I 1 e beginning have inc increased re a s ed year by i year opened this terri territory and wid i i spread tato tea hu liay ta day wc 11 aidi occupying a portion of the united states which geographically is larger thaU tham ithan thap that occupied by more chah people in the new england states D during u past seven years our sabbath schools have increased till to dayi I 1 lob oursa i samath abath school children num i i oooo and at the same ratio ration I 1 of increase during the next seven years ears they shall number other brother morgan a then referred in ini touching language to the brutal murder of our missionaries 1 in ten teni i bessee and said that our youth must be trained that they may bo be prepared to 0 just puch BUch nd crying lp cells lefi bol evev yet JG 10 i 77 17 JB f ZOB I 1 BRIGHAM city CITY 1 ricy ric y |