COURTENAY PLACE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 7

COURTENAY PLACE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

SUNDAY ...SCHOOL . EFFICIENCY... Thb'tcivand annual public mooting in.con•loetion with tho anniversary of the G'ournnay Place C-ongrogationnl Sunday School rare held last, overling. Tlin meeting was argely attended, the Rev. Macdonald Aspand being in the. chair. Tho retiring Eonrct-ary, Mr. H. Barnes, read ho annual roport,- summarised'-in our'Monlay's issue, and a bnlance-shcot.which showed ocoipts £40 Is. lOd;', oxperidituro £40 13s Id., and a dobit balaneo of 16s. lid. Tho "Rev. W. Evans congratulated thonhool on its oxeelleut'.report, and mado •■. trong appoal for ■ motlofn : methods in • tho iunday' Schools of the Dominion. Tho hurcbes had been content ton long with a mver standard of teaching ; in their Smiday lohools than-obtainnd in the.Rccular schoola. f they regarded th.oir-religious faith as',of lighor importaucc to tho welfare of thom.olves and- , tbeir ,childrei| than any secular ttainments they .might achieve, they would :eop their Sunday. Schools up-to-dnte.' It was ractically (impossible to give!proper tpiioliing o the children, while thoy wero : without proer equipment of matorinl.'.ln what secular cbool in tho Dominion wouldKlioy find nil lio olasscs being taught- togcthor; in oiip o'oinP Waa it not timo to make, tboir Runi.y Schools equal to.tl'.o State schools in thi.' lo'minion? (.\pnlausn.) Practically tho--■orb content with the-'methods -of twnntv. (voiity-fivo ,and thirty: years ago. ■ Tboir liildron should bo so trained as regards tliii itollcctual grounds of their faith that' tholioung men would bo able to meet tho'argiicnta with which the rationalistic press was Iwnys confrontinu them. Eo would .liko t(i o on a prqpoganda on this question throusili :ic length and broadth of tho'land. ' dp ppcaloj to Christian parents to do th'oir-"iit< lost to ohsuro tho equipment of their school ith all the modern .appliances, in order tlisii io cbildron might bci brouglit up with, strong, itqlloctual convictions on the subjsct of ieir faith. '• ■' '•': : ■ The Kov.-Mr. Keay and Jfr. W. G. Holdsorth also inldi-cssed tho meeting, and t.lio ov. Maedonald. Aspland prcsonled the Suniy School jirizoii. Tho following nro the now ofilcors:~Piesijnt,' the llov. Maedonald Aspland; suporinindont, Mr. W. G. Holdsworth; librarian, .r. 11. Miller; organists, Misses Lowis aiid nwden. Tlio now secretary has not yet been ectcd. ' ' -.■.■■■-.■ United singing and a number of recitations r tho children of the Sunday School wens foature of the gathering.