our youth almost into a general characteristic, impressed itself
upon my mind very forcibly by many observations in this
regard that evening, and taking as my text "The Fear of
the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom", [Proverbs 9:10] gave them some
object lessons on Reverence. This subject I have followed
up on many other occasions since then. Passing through Parowan the following day, I arrived at Cedar
in the evening, attended Sunday School in the
morning of the Sunday, afternoon and eveningmee-
tings. The necessity of a Normaltraining for Sunday
School workers was very apparent in Cedar City.
An extenuating circumstances in regard to the back-
ward condition of their Sunday schools is the pe-
culiar occupation of the majority of the people in
that region of country viz: The dairy business is ta-
king young and old during a great portion of
the year into the mountains, thus braking up
day-, church-, and Sundayschools; the young
people returning late in the fall educationally
demoralised, and requiring much time to get
them back again into the spirit for studying any-
thing.
"Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 5 December 1893," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 18, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/GXmr