PRESBYTERIAN SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1282, 10 November 1911, Page 2

PRESBYTERIAN SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

CONFERENCE AT DUNEDIN. (By Ttlcgrapb—Press Association.* Dunedin, November 9. At a conference of Presbyterian Sunday School superintendents and delegates yesterday discussion took placc on the Assembly's Sunday .School examination scheme, and it wis decided to nsk the examination committee to communicate with the Sunday School committed and representative Sunday School workers in ditTerent contre.s throughout the presbyteries of the Dominion, with n view to recommending a definite scheme to the next conference. The chairman ((be !?ev. J. M'henzie) intimated that the whole question ol graded lessons should he fully discussed at the next animal conference. He would require to get the ruling of the clerk as to the attitude of the Assembly towards oraded lessons, as the matter was 111 dispute. It was also decided that the Sabbath School Committee be asked to urge upon presbvtcrics the necessity for an effort in evcrv congregation, either by means of a children's attendance day, or otherwise, to sccure the regular attendance nf children at the ordinary church services, and that a scheme laid beforo tlie conference bo referred to the Sablwth School Committed for consideration and report. A motion was passed, calling attention to the increasing desecration of the Sabbath, which resulted in the work of the Sunday School teachers being seriously hampered. The conference appealed to members of go|f and other clubs to refrain from employing lioys on Sundays in occupations that interfered with attendance at cluirch and Sunday school. The mover said he had previously complained of golfers in his district seeking io entice children to the golf links. Tho evil was very widespread.