SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1705, 24 March 1913, Page 3

SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.

The Sunday School Teachers' Convention .resinned its sitting in tho Vivian Street Baptists' schoolroom on Saturday morning. Mr. It.-A. Wright'presided. An address on the grading of Sunday schools was given by Mr. H. D. Grocott, who pointed out that in the course of progress'from infancy .to manhood, or lvomanhood, there were distinct epochs in life of so diiTci-cnt a character as' to be almost classed as different lives. There were like differences in physical, mental, and spiritual growth. Each epoch required different treatment, and the only satisfactory way to obtain the atmosphere ofjievotion and reverence essential to effective teaching in tho Sabbath school was to completely separate tho units/to, decentralise tho. school-. Mr. Grocott spofca in support of the graded series of lessons ns being moro adaptable and scientific than the uniform series. The'decentralisation plan as outlined by Mr.G.,11. Archibald during his visit to ; Wellingtoh last year was being, tried in Wellington; Changes in this direction made in tho caso of a suburban school wero favourably referred to. > Mr. George Tiller outlined the scheme recontly adopted in tho Taranaki Street Methodist School (one of the largest in tho Dominion), whereby the younger children wero being taught in a manner approved by Mr. Archibald and other leading authorities 'There followed a discussion, whicli was participated in by delegates from many of tho country schools. In the afternoon a large number of Sunday school workers assembled at the Prime Minister's residence as the guests of Mrs. Mas&ey. , .Tliis morning there will be a "free Parliament," and this afternoon Mr. A. Yar■ney (secretary of the Y.M.C.A.) will deliver an address on child psychology.