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001C9824 &)richer 4, 1929. SUiv'DAY SCHOOL IVORK g/ By Rev. H. I'. Humphreys. IIinister of I%est Van. Baptist Church Last Sunday, September 29th, was the annual Rally Day of all Sunday Schools in Canada. The day was, of course, observed by the local churches. The address- es and information given by the Sunday School leaders would of necessity, however, reach a very limited audience. It seems to me that the work and activity of all Sunday Schools, irrespec- tive of denomination, should be hetter understood and realised by all adults. With this purpos in mind the following informa- tion may be of interest to th» readers of the West Van News. There is a great misunder- standing of the scope and effect of Sunday School teachings and study. I remember the late Dr. J. C. Brown of Chicago, who was one of the greatest Sunday School experts in the continent of North America, saying that the modern Sunday School provides the most suitable, most valuable, the most adaptable machinery for doing good the world has ever seen, a tremendous claim for this very much belittled institution. Let us see how it works out: 1st. The Sunday School pro- vides the greatest opportunity for evangelism the world has «ver seen. It is a well known and accepted fact that churches of all denominations draw the vast majority of their converts from the Sunday School. The close contact of teacher and stu- derrt gives the opportunity for personal talks that lead to the definite acceptance of Jesus Christ as their personal saviour. - What a river of blessing this has been to the ivorld it is impos- sible for anyone to estimate. The Sunday School provides the greatest opportunity for Christian instruction the world has ever seen. In fact it is the ~ teaching service of the church. The day has gone when people imagined that the Sunday School was only for the child. In fact the most influential churches are those that have the largest adult classes. On Sunday, Feb- ruary 1st, a church in Toronto, Jarvis Street Baptist Church, had 840 in the pastor's Bible class, and a total enrolment of 1580 and note this Sunday School meets at 9.45 a. m. It is the best place to find what men are thinking about. Unlike the regular preaching service the audience can talk and so by open discussion light is brought to bear upon the subject. The Sunday School provides the greatest opportunity for mis- sionary instruction and Christian stewardship the world has ever seen. As proof of this, I ivou)d remind all that the responsible committees for the Russion re- lief, Armenian relief, Indian and Chinese famine and Japanes earthquake and various other so- cial service funds, have learned by experience that the best place to appeal for money is the Sun- day school, and now the appeals are so numerous they have ap- pointed a Golden Rule Sunday, and I heard one of the local Sun- day School superintendents say my Sunday School gave 35 cents rind let me add that the 57 Bap- tist Sunday Schools in the Citq of Toronto gave the sum of $9,641.00 on the second Sunday in January of this year for mis- ~ionary work in our four Western provinces in addition to all their regular missionary givings and local expenses. Facts lik« these could be gath- ered from every denomination. Who can measure the reflex in- fluencee of t hese things upon the lives of hundreds of thousands of Sunday School scholars? In broaderring their outlook in- culcatirrg uriselfishness, teaching them that God is no respector of persons but that everyone that feareth lIim and worketh right- eousness is accepted with Him. The Sunday School provide.~ the greatest opportunity for temperance instruction the world has ever seen. The liquor trat- fic, like every other parasite, must live on somebody. The Sunday School teaches that in- toxicating liquor in any shape or form is one of the greatest scourges of the human race, and seeks to pledge all its scholars not to take or touch nor handle the accursed thing. Let the best element in the community so support the Sun- day School so that five years from now the great majority o our present scholar~ are on the voters'ist; there will be another story to tell. The Sunday School is the gr eatest deterrent to crime the world has ever seen. Few, very few indeed, comparatively, are the criminals who have been reg- ular at tendants at Sunday School. The following item from the Literary Digest, bears this out: "Regular at tendance upon Sunday School during the period of character-forming would cause the criminal courts and jails to close, for there would be no raw material to work on. This is not a platitude from the pulpit. It is the expression of belief of a judge who has had long experience. In the eighteen years that he sat on the bench in two courts, Supreme Court Justice Lewis I. Fawcett, of Brooklyn, had had more than 4,000 boys less than 21 years arrainged before him, charged ivith various degrees of crim~. But of this large number, only three were members of a Sun- day School at the time of the commission of their crimes. And says Justice Fawcett, as he is quoted in the New York Trib- une: " 'Even these three exception- al cases were technical in char- acter and devoid of heniousness, so that they are scarcely worth mentioning. All three cases had a girl in them. In one, a young man who wished to make a pleas- ant impression on a new siveet- heart, and not being well clad, stole an overcoat. In another, the young man was arrested for carrying a pistol without a per- mit. He said that he wished to protect himself against a gang member, ivho had become ag- grieved because he had taken his girl from him. In the third, the young man drew a penknife on his opponent in a quarrel over a girl. In view of the significaiit showing, I do not hesitate to ex- press the conviction that attend- ance by young men at Sunday School or other regular religious work, with its refining atmo- sphere, is signally preventative against crime and worthy of careful study hy those who are dismayed by the increase in crime on the part of the young men of America. " 'In 1,092 suspended criminal sentences, only 62 of the young men ivere brought back for vio- lation of the conditions of their paroles. In each suspended sent- ence case I insisted upon the re- turn of the youth, if he was a Protestant, to a Sunday School; if a Roman Cat holic, to at tend- ance at mass, and if a Jew, to rrttendance at a synagogue or temple. In each instance I had the earnest co-operation of the minister, the priest or the rabbi, and in each case I saw to it that the young man had a job to go tn as soon as he was freed on parole. In virtually all of the suspended sentence cases the re- form divas quick and, I believe, permanent." "And the method that will pro- duce the desired results in Brook- ly n, believes Justice Fawcet t, will produce them anywhere. i~1oreover, he is assured that N hat is good for the youth ivould be equally salutary with adults. kie asserts: " 'The sustairied ivholesome moral atmosphere imparted THE WEST VAN NEWS through habitual attendance up- on Sunday School and church will expel criminal impulses." 'Any man not contributing to support some church or or- ganized religious work is living on charity--riding on some other man's transportation. If he real- ly desires abatement of crime, he should ally himself with tho-.e agencies which prevent or abate crime.' Little Leonard had been told by his parents that whenever arsitors called at the house, it was his duty to pay them some at tention. Some few days later, a 11rs. Daniel, who had been asked to tea, arrive;l, and Leonard was cautioned to behave himself. Tea divas just ready when the small boy sauntered into the room and remarked, in his best drawing-room manner: "Hoiv do you do, IIrs. Daniel? So pleased you'e come. I'e just been reading about your hus- band's amazing experience in the den of lions." At a small country school the pupils ivere having a lesson on animals. The teacher had asked number of questions which were easily answered. At length she said: "Why does a dog hang out his tongue when running?" A lad who had not answered before held up his hand. "Yes, Tommy, what is it?" she enquired. To balance its tail," was the reply. CLASSIFIED ADS I'INTIN&', DECORATING,F RENCEI I'olishing. Phone %'est 71Y. FOR RENT--Seven room house un- furnished. Furnace. Garage. 23rd and Bellevue. Phryne West 2. C- C. &1. BICYCLE FOR SALE-- Carriers stand. F ull equipment, $ 10. Phone N est 31 i L $ 1~.00-- Furnished house for Rent. lint and cold water. Fireplace. Phone West 81R. CE&1ENT WORK--Rock %alla, Land- caping, Lawns, Rorkeries, Fencing,trellis work. Clearing; Grading. Phone T. Barnott, 23rd and Jeffer- son. kesidenre phone West 672R. WA.iTED TO ltF'iT--0 ith option of purchase, S or 6 roomed modern house with large living room. Give full particulars. "Renter," West Van News. FOIL PL IJAI BING REl'AIRS--Phone West 241R. WEBB'S SIIOE REPAIRS WEAR BEST--Dundarave. WANTED -- Land Clearing; Wood Sawing with machine. Large or small jobs. J. Glover. Phone West 214 R. SCHWEPPES LEMONADE, CAN- ADA DRY GINGERALE and all the Good Brands of Cigars at The Ambleside Tea Rooms. GARDENS DESIGNED, Laid Out and Maintained. Rock Gardens, Lily arvf Ornamental Pools, Lawns, Rustic work, Fencing, Concrete Paths, Drives, etc., Pruning and Spraying, Landscape and General Gardening R. J. Kyte, Phone West 172X1. FOR RENT--Four-roomed cosy cottage at West Bay, with el- ectric light, water, sink, partly furnished. $6.00 month. Ap- ply P.O. Box 666, Vancouver, HOl SEWORK WANTFD by ihe day by capable woman Phone Westrsi R. TO RE. iT--% arm furniehed house- keeping room for lady. near ferry Apply "Room" c n West Van News. CAPABLE HOLSEKEEPER wishes daily work, part time (regular aft- ernoon preferred). Apply -House- keper," c o %est Van News. FOR SALE--Small rook stove $9.00. Apply 264'awson; phone West 92L1. FOR SALF~Stump puller, cables. slings, blocks, etc. The lot $2250. Apply 2642 Lawson. West 92L1. FOR RENT--$ 12.00--Three room fur- nished cottage. Hot water. Inside toilet. Garage. Apply H. E. Ed- wards, ]420 Bellevue Avenue. EN HOL'SE FOR RENT--Furnish- ed. Corner 13th and Clyde. Phone West &SR. FOR SALF~Sonora Cabinet Grama- phone with 21 good records. What offers. Phone West 1l7R3. RANGES FOlt SALE--A Splendid assortment of used ranges. Com- pletely overhauled. Satisfaction guaranteed. Free de.'ivery. Phone Highland 3630. SEWING WANTED -- Ladica'nd Children' work. Mrs Bloxham Phone % est 226. CE~IE.'iT WORK--Rock Walls, Land- caping, Lawns, Rorkeries, Fencing. Trellis work, Clearing, Grading. Phone T. Barnott, 23rd and Jeffer- son. I HE PI KCE TO EAT--Luna's Cafe. Public phone West 611-0. GAltDEN BARROQ S--Strong, Light. unpainted; price $ 1.50, delivered subject to approval. Phone North 364R. H ESISTITCHING--Plain.. white. 5r yard; silk and colored 10c yard. Pearce's Drygoods, 14th Street and Marine. Phone West 144. TAXI--Peerless Sedan. Day or Night Service. Phone, %'ebster North 1234 ii EST VANCOUVER BOAltD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES TENDERS for CLEARING AND GRADl.iG Tenders are invited for Clearing and Grad'ng .28 acres adjoining the present playground at Pauline John- son School. Specifications may be obtained from Mr. J. Duncan. Municipal Engineer, at his office in the West Vancouver Mun- icipal Hall All tenders must be in the hands of the Secretary of the West Vancou- ver Board of School Trustees, Holly- burn P.O.. not later than S p.m. on hionday. October 7th, 1929. R. P. CLARK 4 CO. ESTATES LTD. OFFICE FOR RE.'iT in Royal Bank Block. Two single rooms or one double suite. Every convenience and central heat Moderate rent. CHEAI'OGTIE--S rooms, full plumb- ing, fireplace. hot and cold water basins in bedrooms. Good lot. On upper level bus route. $3300, or offe I.OT ON ESQUI&IALT AVE.--West of 11th Street, paved road, water, light, phone. Convenient to school and ferry, $225. R. I'. CLARK 4 CO. ESTATES LTD. 790 Dunsmuir St Seymour 74S4 Local Representative C. J. ARCHER. West 22S. Thirty-Gve years ago the sixth mission of sound, to make passible of June last, in a jeweller's shop Sound picture equipment. in a small town across the border, Apparatus similar in aU respects a young U S Government clerk to tiiatwhich has alreadybeenins- C. Francis Jenkins using the tailed bg Northern Electric en- m~~hi~~ pictured ab had just invented staged the first Canada, has ai o b l d i public exhibition of moving pie- the large theatres in England tures in America. France, Germany, India, Austra- lia, New Zealand, Braxil, WestIt remained, however for the indies, Central America, China,telePhone engineer and the scien- Japan and some '+,S00+'~ trained in the electrical trans- United States. The Theatre Lonsdale in iNorth Vancouver is equipped with the very latest "movie" and "talkie" equipment. A visit to the projecting room is a very interesting experience. Wlr. Will IIarper, the manager, keeps himself well inform~4 as to the latest developments in screen ivork and is always on the qui vive to discover and instal improved methods of screen por- trayals. DIr. Flarper is recognized as one of the best theatre men in this part of the world. He insists, not only for him- self, but for his employees, that no trouble is too great for the convenience and pleasure of his patrons. FOR REFT--A feiv very com- fortable, up-to-date homes. Reasonably priced. FOR SALE--A feiv houses spec- ially priced. Snaps. Newly constructed ivith every con- venience. I'HOibE I%EST 21 GEO. HAY Real Estate and Insuranc iiotary I'rsblir 1405 Marine Drive Office Phone IVest 21 or Sey. 1260 Residency Phone W. MR or V'. 204X The Development of the 'Talkie'achines Yesterday and Today