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Show SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS MEET j Three Sessions Held atl Weber Normal; Gen. Supt. McKay Presides More thun 1,300 Sunday school workers member of stake president hlrh councils, ward bishoprics egl) others were In attendance at tho trl-take trl-take umiay s. ii,.oi convention of the igden. Weber and North V eber Mtakes held in the Weber Normal oel- lep Sunday with sessions ai s a. m . 10 a. Bi, and 1:15 P m. Luncheon was served to the delegates at the , noon recess, the provisions belnK vuj-i vuj-i plied by local merchants. General Superintendent David O. ftCcKay presided and George D Pyper, BCCOnd generul assistant supcrinten-'dent. supcrinten-'dent. conducted the exercise. I'dl H PART SINGING A feature of the general assembly woj th' demonstration of four part sinning under the direction of Edward M Kimball. iKslstunt organist at ttie Salt l.iki' tabernacle with Tracy Y. j Cannon also un assistant organist at Snit Lake tabernacle, aCMBOinpaiiylng The large ossein blag i was seated at Cording to the parts, placards- being i. played Indicating the. apace to be I occupied, by each part. The souk Be lected was "l-n . Par Away on Judea.' I'luins. and a wondi rful barmonlous .effect was produced by the klll of the conductor An Inspiring incident connected with the convention was the marching of th large assembly, four abreast, 'to the stralnf of Mendetasohn' "War I March of the Prleatjk" Pbsitograph I of the assembly were taJic-n durirur the 1 afternoon 900,000 MKM31KJCS Tlie Sunday schools of the L. L. B. ; church were organised 78 yeere .ik" .with 50 membera, the membership increasing in-creasing tn 800,000 nt the present I jtlmo, according lo figures res,-nt d I i by Ocorge P Pyper In reviewing' the progress of the- orgutiiulon. the speaker Haul he was afraid that gi eat - . development had been made in the perfecting of the mechanical organl-I organl-I SAtlOn but the prog roes In teaching the truths ot the gOSpel were not quite as 1 s.itl:sfactor'- He ild a plan had been . developed whereby u review of the work would be made at various per-! per-! lods to check up on tho extent to which the truths of the gospel were being asslmllatexl by the students. "Tho Sunday school is a means to an end, but is not that end. It is one I Of, the hclpw In tho church " tie,, rye M Cannon, said ill th,. development of tin topic, ' ooperulioai ..i Sunday School Uff leers and Teachers with Stake and Ward Authorities." He said that while Sunday ctchool workers were expected to gi their best attention at-tention to the work of the organization organiza-tion I hey wen, not to think that is all thut Is expec-Uid of them. Ht pointed out how they should be ready to respond re-spond to tlie tall for help from their bishops in other lines und should at-tcgd at-tcgd regularly at priesthood and sacrament sac-rament meetings. The stake boards, Im said, operated under the direction of tho staJce presidency and the ward Sunday school officers operated under the direction of ward bishop There should be coopuraUon In euci instance. in-stance. I ItGKS COOPERATION The speaker in developing the 9ub-je. 9ub-je. t ,,i cooperation .t 1 1 . 1 attention to the slow prOgreSS made by the allied nations In the world when each nation na-tion Wai ngntlllg its own little battles against Iho German hordes. it was not unlit til.' allied nations wen unit ed into one great army and were subordinate sub-ordinate to one head, that any real progress was made. Cooperation won the World war, he said, and Sunday BChQO wurkers nhould not make the same Iat;i3 mistake by manding alone und aloof from oilier church organizations. organi-zations. He particularly emphasized tlie fact that the Sunday school was a help to the church, and not the church ilself. VPOSTLE SPEAKS The closing address; was delivered1 by Apostle McKay who spoke upon the teachers' opportunities. He culled attention to tho fact that the teachers were moulding tlie lives and characters charact-ers of the children and as tlie sculptor used great caro in carving a statute from a block of marble, so even to a greater degree should the Sunday MhOOl teacher use care in the development develop-ment of the character of a child. They should remember that even though u child might appear In Sunduy school with a dirty face and ragged clothes, that child had a soul and tho teacher should use care In nn endeavor to mould that child's character as a Ood ' fearing citizen. oo |