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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JACOBS.
OFFICIAL REPORT
OF THE
TENTH INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION
TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
DENVER, COLORADO
THURSDAY TO MONDAY, JUNE 26 TO 30
1902
EDITED BY THE RECORDING SECRETARY
E. MORRIS FERGUSSON, TRENTON, N. J.
PUBLISHED BY THE EXECUTIVE .COMMITTEE
W. N- HARTSHORN, CHAIRMAN, BOSTON, MASS.
MARION LAWRANCE, GENERAL SECRETARY
TOLEDO, OHIO
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CONTENTS.
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OFFICIAL ae 1902- 1905:
Officers of the Convention.—The Executive Committee.—
The Executive Organization—The Lesson Committee.
—The Primary Department.—The Field Workers’ De-
partment.—Secretaries of State, Provincial and Terri-
torial Associations—The Coming Conventions, . . ix
HistoricaL INTRODUCTION:
Natienal and International Convention Reports, . . xvili
Mr scopss Last MESSAGE, Os) 4002 9. 3 SO. ERT
MINUTES.
The Preparation Service._—First Session, Thursday Even-
ing.—Second Session, Friday Morning.—Third Session,
Friday Afternoon.—Fourth Session, Friday Evening.—
Fifth Session, Saturday Morning.—Sixth Session, Sat-
urday Afternoon.—Seventh Session, Saturday Even-
ing.—The Sunday Services——Highth Session, Sunday
Afternoon.—Ninth Session, Monday Morning.—Tenth
Session, Monday Afternoon.—Eleventh Session, Mon-
day Evening—Records of Other Meetings, . . . 1
ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
THE PREPARATION SERVICE:
Opening Words, Mr. Hartshorn.—The Teacher’s Mission
and Equipment, Dr. Dixon.—B. F. Jacobs Memorial
Service: Introductory Words, Mr. Hartshorn.—The
Lesson Committee’s Resolutions—A Student of the
Word, Dr. Potts.—His Real Greatness, Mr. Lawrance.
—A Man of Catholic Spirit, Dr. Hamill.—Transatlan-
tie Appreciation, Mr. Belsey—The Secret of his Life,
Dr. Dixon, 3
First SESSION, To aEeny Sues
Welcome to Colorado, Mr. Atwater.—Welcome to Denver,
Mr. Johnson.—Greeting from the Churches, Dr. Tyler.
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—Response, Mr. McCrillis.—Greetings from Ei i
Mr. Belsey.—-\Why we have Come to Denver, Dr. s, 40
Seconp Session, Fripay Morninc: r
Report of the General Secretary, Mr. Lawrance.—The
Triennial Statistical Report, Mr. Lawrance. Bea eg
of Home Department Work, Dr. Duncan ——The Work
among the Colored People. Mr. Floyd.—Letter of Mr.
W. B. Jacobs—The Last Executive ei of B. F. vr
DREODS: spt ok. I ae
TuIRD SESSION, Faopay “Avrennoon: !
How has the international Work Helped your State and
Province, Mr. Morse, Dr. Kelley, Mr. King, Mr. Hall,
Mr. Broughton.—Report of the Treasurer, Dr. Bailey.
—Our Needs and how to Meet them, Mr. Lawrance.—
International Pledges, 1902-1905.—Denominational Co-
operation, Mr. Spilman; 2.°/ — 2's :
FoturrH Session, Fripay Eventnc:
The Theological Seminaries and the Sunday-schools, Dr. 4
Mullins.—The Bible, our Text-Book, Dr. Hamill, . . 132 —
Friern Session, SarurpAY MorRNING: :
Opening Words, Dr. Tyler.—Report of the Lesson Com-
mittee—-Concerning the Temperance Lessons, Dr.
Potts.—Election of ‘the Executive Chairman.—How can
the International Lesson System be Improved, Mr. Bel-
sey, Dr. Blackall, Dr. Schauffler, Dr. Hazard, Mr.
Fraser, Mr. Johnson, Dr. Hamill.—Voluntary Ad-
dresses, Mrs. Mitchell, Mr. Scott, Mr. Brown, Dr. Neely,
Dr. Phillips. Mr. Johnston, Mr. McKamy, Mr. Hall,
Mr. Pearce. Dr. R. W. Miller—Review of the Consid-
eration of the Question, Dr. Potts——Discussion on the Ye
Adoption of the Lesson Committee’s Report, . . . 147
SIxtH SESSION, SATURDAY AFTERNOON: ~ ae
Opening Words, Mrs. Semelroth.—Organized Primary
Work, Mr. Black.—Report of the Primary Department,
Mr. Black.—Teacher Training, Mrs. Mitchell—The
Cradle Roll: Origin and Purpose, Mrs. Pettit—Little
Beginners: Principles and Practice, Miss Burton.—
The Primary Department: as it was in 1832; as it isin
1902, Mrs. Walker—The Junior Department: Crown
and Culmination, Mrs. Kennedy,. . : ~ 1908"
Seventy Session, SaturDAY EVENING:
The Problems of Organized Sunday-school Work on the
Pacific Coast, Mr. Merritt—How to Develop Scholars
into Teachers, Dr. Worden rete. of the Committee
on Obituaries, . . 220°
EIGHTH SESSION, SuNDAY Avressoan:
Opening Wor ds, Mr. Semelroth —Report of the Work in
Japan, Mr. Ikehara.—Letter from Mr. H. J. Heinz.—
Report of the Work in England, Mr. Belsey—Report
of the Work in India, Mr. “Burges. —Is Jerusalem the
Place for the World’s Fourth Convention, Mr. Warren, 235
CONTENTS. v
: Nints Session, Monpay Mornine:
5 . Promoting Intelligence and the Spirit of Giving in Mis-
‘ sions, Mr. Daniels——To what Extent are Public School
Methods Applicable to Sunday-school Teaching, Dr.
‘Brumbaugh, Principal Rexford. Dr. Phillips—vVolun-
tary Addresses, Dr. Schauffler, Dr. Roads, Mr. Scott,
Dr. Doherty——The Message concerning Mrs. Maxwell,
Dr. Hamill.—The Debate on the Lesson Resolutions, 251
TENTH SESSION, MonDAY AFTERNOON:
Report of the Field Workers’ Department, Mr. Day.—
3 City Organization, Dr. Clark—House-to-house Visita-
tion, Mr. Cork.—The Home Department, Mrs. Stebbins.
—The Graded Sunday-school, Mr. Fergusson——Teacher
‘ Training, Mr. Weld—Sunday-school Week and De-
cision Day, Mr. Pearce-—The Second Call for Pledges,
Mr. Lawrance——The Child for Christ, Dr. McKinney, 281
ELEVENTH Session, MonpDay EVENING:
The World’s Only Hope, Bishop Warren.—Report of the
Enrollment Committee—Address to the Pages, Mr.
Lawrance, . . Bee 8 PETS eRe har PA hob lyk SRS fe
ADDRESSES AT SPECIAL Seaenee
Reaching the Child we Teach, Mrs. Bryner.—The Pastor’s
Opportunity in the Sunday-school, Dr. Miller, . . . 328
APPENDIX.
I. PROGRAM AND ARRANGEMENTS:
The Official Program.—The Convention Organiza-
ION ee: een Use ere tee ee ee:
II. THe Protary Deparrunne:
The Western School of Methods, Mr. Black.—List of
Registered Students—Minutes of the Triennial
Meeting, . a 352
Iii. THe Frecp WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT:
Minutes.—Conferences of Department Superintend-
ents, Mr. Bingham.—Meeting Difiiculties in a New
County, Mr. Orchard—The Executive Chairman:
His Qualifications and Duties, Mr. Wallace—
Making a Convention Program, Mr. Plant—Sun-
day-school Statistics, Mr. Fergusson—What the
Associations have Done for the Sunday-schools,
Mr. Lewis.—State Representation in Counties,
Mr. Engle——The Tour Plan in States and Proy-
inces, Mr. Fox.—Sparsely Settled Territory, Mr.
Merritt.—The County Convention, Mr. Mitchell.
—Raising Money, Dr. George-——The Future of our
Field Workers’ Department, Mr. Merritt, Mr.
Shafer, Mr. Collins—Report of the Membership
Secretary, Mr. Meigs.—Report of the Treasurer,
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Mr. Meigs.—Roll of Members.“ Mewineae in At-
tendance,
1V. REPORTS FROM STATES, aor INCES AND TennrroRtes, 4 | 418
V, List OF DELEGATES, “2 0.) . =. =) . 447
_ INDEXES.
J. INDEX OF SPEAKERS,.° . . . - . «© era
iI. Toprcar INDEXJ .. . . =. . . 9» |S
ERRORS AND ADDITIONS.
Pages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 23. For MacLaren read Maclaren.
Page 24. In the notice of the Field Workers’ Department
meetings, erase statement of meeting on Saturday, June 28.
Page 25. Insert notice of the Pastors’ Conference, held on
Saturday afternoon, June 28, in the First Baptist Church at 3
o’clock: the Rev. George C. Lorimer, D.D., of New York, pre-
siding.
Page 25, 14th line from bottom. For George E. Wallace read
George G. Wallace.
Page 26, 9th line. For New York read Massachusetts.
Page 32, 4th line. For Cook County read Illinois.
In the statistical tables, pages 66 to 73, the footings have
been slightly changed from those given out at the Convention,
to include information from several states, received after ad-
journment.
The statistics of enrollment presented by the Enrollment Com-
mittee, page 326, have been materially increased through the
eareful revision of the roll at the office of the General Secretary-
The revised figures will be found on page 458.
PREFACE.
The Convention at Denver closed a period of twenty-one years
in the history of the Sunday-school cause in North America.
That period began with the action of the Convention of 1881 in
entrusting to B. F. Jacobs the leadership of the cause in matters
administrative; even as, nine years earlier, at Indianapolis, he
had been informally recognized and followed as leader in the
matter of Bible-study and lesson-selection. Only death could
remove such a leader as B. F. Jacobs, or reconcile his followers
to the sound of any other voice. And when the hosts assembled
at Denver, his voice was still.
But out of the old proceeds the new. Their leader dead, the
hosts recognized that the time had come for a great move for-
ward; a move for which the previous period had been a neces-
sary preparation. No more eloquent tribute was paid to the
memory of Mr. Jacobs and those who labored with him, than the
evident purpose of the Convention to build broad and high upon
the foundation amply planned by our chief’s imperial vision, and
firmly set by his unwearying toil; of which foundation Jesus
Christ was ever the chief Corner-stone.
In the consciousness that the time was ripe for progress, the
Committee in charge of the program aimed to summon as its
spokesmen those who could defend the old truths and utter the
new with more than wonted power. A like consciousness seemed
to possess every speaker and to govern each decision. That the
Convention marked the beginning as well as the close of an era
was not doubted by any participant; certainly not by those who
grieved that the Lesson Committee’s proposition of an advanced
lesson course failed of adoption.
The Executive Committee, therefore, have deemed it fitting
that the record of the Convention’s proceedings, herewith pre-
sented, should be edited with even more than the customary
completeness and exactitude. It was the expressed wish of the
Chairman of the Program Committee, before the Convention,
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that every address should be a classic in its sphere; and since
the Convention he, with the General Secretary, has heartily
seconded the Editor’s efforts to produce a book worthy to repre-
sent the new time in the united Sunday-school work of North
America. How far these aims have been realized, the diligent
reader of this book will know.
It has not been found possible to issue the book as early as
was hoped; nor did any effort avail to secure the manuscripts
of some of the most important addresses. On the other hand,
the Editor has aimed to include nothing that the readers of the
book would willingly spare; and everything of the nature of
routine has been reduced to the smallest possible compass and
placed where it may be readily found by those concerned. The
Historical Introduction has been revised and in part rewritten
by Professor Hamill.
In a cause so many-sided as this, it is natural that some topics
will be of especial interest to some people. Not a few of the
addresses and papers of this book have already been suggested
as worthy to be separately printed and circulated. If our work-
ers, instead of trying to separate a cause and a work which our
departed leader has well characterized as one and indivisible,
will endeavor to circulate the whole Report as a reply to the
specific questions they seek to answer, many who now under-
stand the cause dimly and in part will read and know; and the
number of those who believe that Sunday-school unity is the
condition of Sunday-school progress will be multiplied.
EK. M. E:
THANKSGIVING Day, 1902.
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OFFICIAL REGISTER, 1902-1905.
OFFICERS OF THE CONVENTION.
PRESIDENT, Rev. Benjamin B. Tyler. D.D., Denver, Colorado.
VICE-PRESIDENTS: :
First, E. R. Machum, St. John, New Brunswick, for Canada.
Second, W. A. Eudaly, Cincinnati, Ohio, for the Center.
At Large: A. B. McCrillis, Providence, R. I., for the East.
Rev. W. S. Jacobs, Nashville, Tenn., for the South.
C. M. Campbell, Sacramento, Calif., for the West.
Rey. E. R. Carter, D.D., Atlanta, Ga., for the Negroes.
Treasurer, Dr. George W. Bailey. Real Estate Trust Blde..
Philadelphia, Penn.
ASSISTANT TREASURER, Howard L. Merrick, same address.
ReEcorprine SrcreTary, Rev. E. Morris Fergusson, Trenton, N. J.
Assistant Recorpine Secrerary, Rev. E. W. Halpenny, Mou-
treal, Quebec. :
GENERAL Secretary, Marion Lawrance, Toledo, Ohio.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The President, Vice-presidents, Treasurer and Recording See-
retary of the Convention, with:
Alabama, W. T. Atkins, Selma.
Alaska, Sheldon Jackson, D.D., Washirgton, D. C.
Alberta, A. W. Ward, Calgary.
Arizona, M. W. Messinger, Phoenix.
Arkansas, B. W. Green, Little Rock.
Assiniboia, &. B. C. Sharpe, Moose Jaw.
British Columbia, Noah Shakesneare, Victoria.
California, North, H. Morton, San José.
California, South, Hugh K. Walker, D.D., Los Angeles.
Colorado, William BE. Sweet, Denver.
Connecticut, H. H. Spooner, Kensington. .
. Delaware, W. O. Hoffecker, Smyrna.
Distriet ef Columbia, W. W. Millan, Washingten, D. C.
H. C. Groves, Ocala.
Georgia, W. S. Witham, Atlanta.
Idaho, H. E. Neal. Boisé.
Illinois, A. H. Mills, Deeatur. :
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Indian Territory, Thomas Lain, Muskogee.
Indiana, W. C. Hall, Indianapolis.
Iowa, J. F. Hardin, Eldora.
Kansas, Don Kinney, Newton.
Kentucky, John Stites, Louisville.
Louisiana, E. P. Mackie, New Orleans.
Maine, L. R. Cook, Yarmouthville.
Manitoba, F. W. Clingan, Virden.
Maryland, John P. Campbell, D.D., Baltimore.
Massachusetts, W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
Michigan, BE. K. Warren, Three Oaks.
Minnesota, Rev. George R. Merrill, D.D., Minneapolis.
Mississippi, John T. Buck, Jackson.
Missouri, W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis.
Montana, H. M. Patterson, Butte.
Nebraska, W. R. Jackson, University Place.
Nevada, Rev. Charles DB. Chase, Reno.
New Brunswick, BE. R. Machum, St. John.
Newfoundland, Dr. N. S. Fraser, St. Johns.
New Hampshire, G. W. Bingham, Derry.
New Jersey, Rey. Frank A. Smith, Haddonfield.
New Mexico, H. E. Fox, Albuquerque.
New York, W. A. Duncan, Ph.D., Syracuse.
North Carolina, N. B. Broughton, Raleigh.
North Dakota, Rev. John Orchard, Fargo.
Nova Scotia, Dr. Frank Woodbury, Halifax.
Ohio, Ed. L. Young, Norwalk.
Oklahoma, Fred L. Wenner, Kingfisher.
Ontario, J. J. Maclaren, LL.D., Toronto.
Oregon, A. M. Smith, Portland.
Pennsylvania, H. J. Heinz, Pittsburg.
Prince Edward Island, Rev. D. B. McLeod, Charlottetown.
Quebec, Seth P. Leet, Montreal.
Rhode Island, T. W. Waterman, Providence.
Saskatchewan, ——————.
South Carolina, W. E. Pelham, Newberry.
South Dakota, Rey. Charles M. Daley, Huron.
Tennessee, H. M. Hamill, D.D., Nashville.
Texas, J. F. Sadler, Bonham.
Utah, Thomas Weir, Salt Lake City.
Vermont, D. M. Camp, Newport.
Virginia, J. R. Jopling, Danville.
Washington, W. D. Wood, Seattle.
West Virginia, Rev. C. Humble, M.D., Parkersburg.
Wisconsin, S. B. Harding, Waukesha.
Wyoming, D. R. Cowhick, Cheyenne.
Hawaii, W. A. Bowen, Honolulu.
Philippine Islands, Henry W. Newhall, Manila.
Porto Rico, ——————.
Cuba, Rey. Pedro Rioseco, Havana.
Mexico, Rey. Hubert W. Brown, Mexico City.
Central America, Rev. W. W. McConnell, San José, Costa Rica.
THE EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION.
CHAIRMAN, William N. Hartshorn, 120 Boylston St., Boston, 7
Mass.
First VICE-CHAIRMAN, E. K. Warren, Three Oaks, Mich.
SEcoND VICE-CHAIRMAN, J. J. Maclaren, LL.D., K.C., Toronto,
Ont.
Secretary, Rey. George R. Merrill, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn.
REGISTER.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE:
W. N. Hartshorn, Chairman. Boston, Mass.
George W. Bailey, Penn. A. H. Mills, Til.
Ww. A. Dunean, N. Y. W. J. Semelroth. Mo.
W. C. Hall, Ind. H. H. Spooner, Conn.
H. M. Hamill, Tenn. N. B. Broughton, N. C.
H. J. Heinz, Penn. E. K. Warren, Mich.
A. B. McCrillis, R. I. W. D. Wood, Wash.
J.J. Maclaren, Ont. Ed. L. Young, Ohio.
SUB-COMMITTEES.
WoRK AMONG THE NEGROES IN THE SOUTH:
J. R. Pepper. Chairman, Nashville, Tenn.
W. S. Witham, Ga. W. N. Hartshorn, Mass.
N. B. Broughton, N. C. Marion Lawranee, Ohio.
John T. Buck, Miss. E. K. Warren, Mich.
W. A. Eudaly, Ohio. George W. Watts, N. C.
Home DEPARTMENT WORK:
W. A. Duncan, Chairman, Syracuse. N. Y.
W. T. Atkins, Ala. Fr. W. Clingan, Man.
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES AND STUDENTS:
H. M. Hamill, Chairman, Nashville, Tenn.
W. N. Hartshorn, Mass. Geo. R. Merrill, Minn.
A. B. MecCrillis, R. fT. Wm. Patrick, Man.
A. F. Schaufifer, N. Y¥.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT:
W. N. Hartshorn, Chairman, Boston, Mass.
George W. Bailey, Penn. W. W. Millan, D. C.
Marion Lawrance, Ohio. W. J. Semelroth, Mo.
FINANCE AND AUDITING:
H. J. Heinz, Chairman, Pittsburg, Penn.
E. K. Warren, Mich. George W. Bailey, Penn.
COMMISSIONS.
Lonpon SunDAY-SCcHOoL Union CENTENNIAL:
John Potts, Chairman, Toronto, Ont.
George W. Bailey, Penn. Marion Lawrance, Ohio.
C. R. Blackall, Penn. E. I. Rexford, Que.
W. N. Hartshorn, Mass. A. F. Schauffier, N. Y.
(To be held in London, July, 1903.)
JAPAN:
H. J. Heinz, Chairman, Pittsburg, Penn.
W. J. Semelroth, Mo. E. K. Warren, Mich.
West InpIes:
George W. Watts, Chairman, Durham, N. C.
W. A. Eudaly, Ohio. Frank Woodbury, N. 8.
For the Round-the-World Commission, see p. 20.
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THE INTERNATIONAL STAFF.
General Secretary, Marion Lawrance, Toledo, Ohio.
International Headquarters, The Spitzer Building, Toledo; Of-
fice Secretary, Fred. A. Starr.
Primary Secretary (from January 1, 1903), Mrs. J. Woodbridge
Barnes, 33 Kearny St., Newark, N. J. 4
Negro Field Worker, Prof. Granville G. Marcus, Memphis, Tena.
Associate Negro Field Worker, Dr. James E. Shepard, Dur- 2
ham, N. C. as
Field Worker for Japan, Toshi C. Ikehara, Tokyo, Japan. es 4
THE LESSON COMMITTEE.
Rev. Joun Ports. D.D., Chairman, Toronto, Ont.
Rey. A. F. Scuaurrier, D.D., Secretary, 105 E. 22d St., New ;
York. :
Rey. B. B. Tyler, D.D., Denver, Colo.
Pres. J. S. Stahr, D.D., Lancaster, Penn. :
Prof. John R. Sampey, D.D., Louisville, Ky. ans
John R. Pepper, Memphis, Tenn. }
Rev. Mosheim Rhodes, D.D., St. Louis, Mo. |
Bishop H. W. Warren, D.D., Denver, Colo.
Principal E. 1. Rexford, M.A., Montreal, Que.
Prof. Ira M. Price, Ph.D., Chicago, Il.
Rev. O. P. Gifford, D.D., Buffalo, N. Y.
Principal William Patrick, D.D., Winnipeg, Man.
Prof. Charles R. Hemphill, D.D., Louisville, Ky.
Edwin L. Shuey, M.A., Dayton, Ohio.
Pres. H. M. Hopkins, D.D., Williamstown, Mass. (declined).
BRITISH SECTION.*
Rey. S. G. Green, D.D., London, Eng.
Charles Waters, London, Eng.
Edward Towers, London, Eng.
* Mr. Francis F. Belsey, under date of September 2, writes:
“T enclose you herewith as requested a complete list up to date of the
menibers of the British Section of the International Lessons Committee. The
appointment of this Committee has hitherto rested with our Sunday School
Union, by whow additions have been notified to your Committee. Several
of the names now sent have been co-opted and await the formal approval of
The Sunday School Union Council at an early date. They are appointed
until revocation or supersession.”’
The names, 2s thus furnished, are:
Rey. S. G. Green, D.D., Rev. W. Hardy Harwood,
Rev. C. H. Kelly, PF. F. Belsey,
Rey. Robert Culley, Mdward Towers,
Rey. Danzy Sheen, W. H. Groser, B.Se.,
Rey. W. J. Townsend, D.D., I. Taylor,
Rey. F. J. Ellis, Charles Waters,
“and the Colonial members.’’
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Rey. J. Monro Gibson, D.D., London, Eng.
W. H. Groser, B.Se., London, Eng.
Rev. C. H. Kelly, London, Eng.
F. F. Belsey; London, Eng.
Rev. Frank W. Warne, Caleutta, India.
Archibald Jackson, Melbourne. Australia.
THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
PRESIDENT, Mrs. J. A. Walker, Denver, Colo.
VICE-PRESIDENT, Mrs. E. Wesley Halpenny, Montreal, Que.
SECRETARY AND TREASURER (until January 1, 1903),
Israel P. Black, 913 Crozer Bldg., Philadelphia, Penn.”
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Mrs. J. Woodbridge Barnes. Chairman, Newark, N. J.
Alabama, Miss Minnie Kennedy, Opelika.
Arkansas, Miss Lucy Moore, Cane Hill.
California, North, Mrs. L. A. Maxwell, Napa.
California, South, Mrs. C. A. Baskerville, Los Angeles.
Colorado, Mrs. J. A. Walker, Denver.
Connecticut, Mrs. Frances S. Walkley, New Haven.
Delaware, Miss Florence Burke, Magnolia.
District of Columbia, Mrs. W. I. Crafts, Washington.
Florida, Mrs. W. L. Moore, Tallahassee.
Idaho, Mrs. J. C. Black, Albion.
Illinois, Mrs. M. S. Lamoreaux, Chicago.
Indiana, Mrs. Anna R. Black, Terre Haute.
Iowa, Mrs. Mary Barnes Mitchell, Des Moines.
Kansas, Mrs. Roxana B. Preuszner, Lawrence.
Kentucky, Miss Nannie Lee Frayser, Louisville.
Louisiana, Miss Myrtie Shively. New Orleans.
Manitoba, Miss C. M. Douglass, Winnipeg.
Maryland, Mrs. J. B. Rossiter, Baltimore.
Massachusetts, Mrs. Bertha Vella Borden, Fall River.
Michigan, Mrs. G. L. Fox, Grand Rapids.
Maine, Mrs. E. A. De Garmo, Portland.
Minnesota, Mrs. J. BH. Hobart, Minneapolis.
Mississippi, Mrs. J. L. Gillespie, Greenwood.
Missouri, Mrs. M. Park, St. Louis.
Montana, Mrs. EB. O. Railsback, Billings.
New Brunswick, Mrs. D. A. Morrison, St. John.
Newfoundlend, Miss Eleanor Woods, St. Johns.
Nebraska, Miss ©. Lena Spear, Central City.
Nova Scotia, Mrs. Stuart Muirhead, Halifax.
New Hampshire, Mrs. B. M. Smith, Sunapee.
New Jersey, Mrs. Alonzo Pettit, Elizabeth.
New Mexico, Mrs. Mabel Stevens Hurioe, Albuquerque.
New York, Mrs. Hattie E. Foster, New York City.
North Dakota, Mrs. S. P. Johnson, Grand Forks.
Ohio, Mrs. A. G. Crouse, Westerville.
Oklahoma, Mrs. Ora H. Morgan, El Reno.
Oregon, Mrs. C. M. Kiggins, Portland.
Pennsylvania, Mrs. J. W. Barnes, Philadelphia.
Prince Edward Island, Miss Marion Wathen, Charlottetown.
Quebec, Mrs. E. Wesley Halpenny, Montreal.
Rhode Island, Willard B. Wilson, Providence.
* After January 1, 1903, Mr. Black will be Recording Secretary, and Mrs,
J. Woodbridge Barnes will be Secretary and Treasurer, with office at New--
ark, N. J.
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South Carolina, Mrs. M. A. Carlisle, Newberry.
South Dakota, Miss Ida M. Pike, Aberdeen.
Tennessee, Mrs. H. M. Hamill, Nashville.
Texas, Mrs. J. M. Hickman, Waco.
Utah, Mrs. E. E. Shepard, Salt Lake City.
Vermont, Rev. G. L. Story, Milton.
Washington, Mrs. E. S. Prentice, Tacoma.
West Virginia, Miss Anna E. Meyers, Wheeling.
Wisconsin, Mrs. Chauncy P. Jaeger, Portuge.
Wyoming, Mrs. J. H. Collins, Cheyenne.
~ CENTRAL COMMITTEE:
Mrs. J. Woodbridge Barnes, Chairman, Newark, N. J.
Mrs. J. A. Walker, Colo. Mrs. W. J. Semelroth, Me.
Israel P. Black, Penn. Mrs. Alonzo Pettit, N. J.
Mrs. E. W. Halpenny, Que. Mrs. A. G. Crouse, Ohio.
Mrs. Mary Barnes Mitchell, Ia. Mrs. H. M. Hamill, Tenn.
CONSTITUTION.
1. Our name shall be The Primary Department of the International Sua-
day-school Convention.
2. Our object shall be mutual helpfulness for better work, by corre-
spondence, by interchange of papers on practical topics, the formation of
local primary teachers’ unions, and the publishing and circulating of litera-
ture, including a periodical, in connection therewith.
3. The members of this Department shall consist of all the members of
all duly organized unions, and other primary workers within the bounds of
ihe International Sunday-school Conyention. za
4. A meeting of this Department shall be held in connection with the
International Convention, and conferences may be held at such time and
place as is decided upon by the Executive Committee of the Brimary Depart-
ment.
5. The officers shall be a President, a Vice-president, a Secretary and
Treasurer, who may be one person, and who shall be elected at the triennial
meeting of this Department.
6. The Executive Committee of this Department shall consist of one
vepresentative from each state, territory and province, with the officers of
this Department and the Chairman of the International Dxecutive Com-
mittee, or his appointee, as members ex-ofticiis.
7. The members of the Executive Committee shall hold office for three
years, or until their successors are appointed; they shall choose their own
officers, and shall make a final report to the triennial meeting of the Pri-
mary Department.
8S. The Central Committee shall consist of nine persons chosen from the
Executive Committee, including the above-named officers and the Chairmaa
and Recording Secretary of the Executive Committee; all of whom shall be
elected at the International Convention and shall have charge of the business
of the Department between regular meetings, including the preparing of all
Erograms.
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT.
Present, Rey. E. Morris Fergusson, Trenton, N. J.
~ VICE-PRESIDENTS:
Hamilton S. Conant, Boston, Mass., for the North and East.
Rey. Geo. O. Bachman, D.D., Nashville, Tenn., for the South.
Rey. W. C. Merritt, Tacoma. Wash., for the West.
W. C. Pearce, Chicago, Ill., for the Center.
Rey. E. W. Halpenny, Montreal, Que., for Canada.
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Prof. G. G. Marcus, Memphis, Tenn.. for the Negro Organiza- -
tions of the South.
Secretary, E. A. Fox, Louisville, Ky.
TREASURER AND MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY.
B. F. Mitchell, Des Moines, Iowa.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
The officers as given above. with:
Alfred Day, Detroit, Mich.
Hugh Cork, Philadelphia. Penn.
Rey. A. Lucas, Sussex, N. B.
George W. Watts. Durham, N. C.
Noah Shakespeare, Victoria, B. C.
S. H. Atwater, Canon City, Colo.
C. M. Campbell, Sacramento. Calif.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE:
Rey. E. Morris Fergusson, Chairman, Trenton, N. J.
E. A. Fox, Ky. Alfred Day, Mich.
B. F. Mitchell. Iowa. W. C. Pearce, Il.
Marion Lawrance, Ohio.
BASIS OF ORGANIZATION.*
1. This organization shall be called The Field Workers’ Department of”
the International Sunday-school Convention.
2. The object of this organization shall be, to bring together its members
for mutual helpfulness, through the holding of meetings, the discussion and
advocacy of methods of field work, and the circulation of literature in con-
nection therewith.
3. The membership shall consist of International, state, territorial and
provincial field workers and otficers, paid and voluntary, and all other Sun-
day-school field workers endorsed by state, territorial or provincial associa-
tions. There shall be an annval membership fee of one dollar.
4. The officers shall consist of a President, six Vice-presidents, a Secre-
tary and Treasurer (who may be one person), and an Executive Committee
ef seven, tozetker with the above-named officers and the General Secretary,
the Treasurer and the Executive Chairman of the International Convention
ex-officiis; five to constitute a quorum.
5. Ali regular meetings of this Department shall be held in connection
with the International Sunday-school Convention, and annual conferences
shall be held at such times and places as may be decided upon by the Ex-
ecutive Committee.
SECRETARIES OF STATE. PROVINCIAL AND TERRI-
TORIAL ASSOCIATIONS>+
Alabama, Joseph Carthel, Montgomerr.
Alberta, E. H. Crandell, Calgary.
Arizona, M. W. Messinger, Phoenix.
Arkansas, Rey. G. A. Henderson, Fayetteville.
British Columbia, Horace J. Knott, Victoria.
California, North, Rev. Charles Fisher, 710 18th St., Oakland.
@alifornia, South, Prof. Charles M. Miller, Los Angeles.
* The action of the Department, in accordance with which the Basis of
Membership has been re-worded by the Editor, will be found on p. 363.
; Furnished by Marion Lawrance. General Secretary. Corrected to No—
vember 1, 1902.
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1% Colorado, Rey. John C. Carman, Denver. “<
: Delaware, Dr. Frank W. Lang, Wilmington.
Ay Dist. of Columbia, J. H. Lichliter, 470 Louisiana Avye., N.
~f Florida, H. H. Sasnett, Jacksonville.
Georgia, J. J. Cobb, Macon.
ldaho, E. C. Cook, Boisé.
fllinois, W. B. Jacobs, 132 La Salle St., Chicago.
’ Indian Territory, Thomas Lain, Muskogee.
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successful work of our General Secretary, Marion Lawrance.
During the past three years he has been a source of inspiration
and help to the Sunday-school workers of our land, North,
South, East and West. By his wise counsels, by his convention
addresses and conferences, by the assistance he has given in the
raising of money, he has greatly stimulated and helped our
organized Sunday-school work. We pray that God’s blessing
may rest upon him in the future, as it has so evidently done in
the past.”
The third resolution, or series of resolutions, concerning the
plan of lesson selection, was amended by the striking out of the
reference to an advanced course in Section A, and by the inser-
tion of Section B. Section C was referred to the Lesson Com-
mittee. Sections A, B, D and EH, as amended, were unanimously
adopted. The resolution as amended is as follows:
“3. Resolved, That the following plan of lesson selection shall
be observed by the Lesson Committee to be elected by this Con-
vention:
“A. One Uniform Lesson for all grades of the Sunday-school
shall be selected by the Lesson Committee, as in accordance with
the usage of the past five Lesson Committees; provided, that the
Lesson Committee be authorized to issue an optional ‘Begin-
ners’ ’ Course for special demands and uses, such optional course
not to bear the official title of ‘International Lesson.’
“B. Resolved, That at this time we are not prepared to adopt
a series of advanced lessons to take the place of the uniform
lessons in the adult grade of the Sunday-school.
*C. The Lesson Committee is urged to consider how far a
better continuity of Bible study may be secured by alternating
at longer intervals—of one or more years—the selections from
the Old and New Testaments respectively.
“DP. Resolved, That this Convention reaffirm the instructions
on the subject of temperance lessons adopted at Pittsburg and
reaffirmed at St. Louis and Boston. ’
“H. Whereas, The International Primary Department has
expressed its appreciation of the value to the primary work of
America of the action of the Lesson Committee in providing a
Beginners’ Course, and has asked that this course be extended
to two years:
“Resolved, That we transmit this request to the Lesson sane
mittee for their careful consideration.”
Resolutions 4 to 13 were separately considered and adopted,
and are as follows:
“4, Whereas, The Bible is not only the inspired Word of God,
but also the world’s greatest treasury of literature, and its
reading is now excluded from most of the public schools of
America:
“Resolved, That the Executive Committee is instructed to.
appoint a standing committee whose duty it shall be to consider
what means should be taken in the various states and provinces
to secure the reading of the Bible without comment in the public
schools of our land.
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“5. Whereas, A number of appeals from missionary workers
have been received expressing their desire that the subject of
missions be given special recognition and study in the Sunday-
school; be it
“Resolved, That this Convention heartily sympathizes with
the spirit that has prompted such communications, and urges
upon every worker and lesson-writer the utilizing of the con-
stant opportunities offered by the International Lessons to
inculcate the spirit of Christian missions, and to keep prominent
in all their teaching the sacred injunction of the Great Com-
mission.
“6. Whereas, The leading American students of the Bible and
publishers of Sunday-school lesson helps favor the use of the
American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible; and whereas,
the British and Foreign Bible Society has recently taken action
to supply the English Revision of the Bible to those of its
patrons who desire it; therefore, be it
“Resolved, That this Convention memorializes the American
Bible Society to take such action as will enable its patrons to
secure the American Revised Bible from that Society if they so
desire.
“7, Whereas, The necessity of having trained teachers in Sun-
day-schools is being more and more recognized ;
“Resolved, That this Convention respectfully urges all of our
Sunday-schools to establish, as integral parts of their organiza~
tion, teacher-training classes for the training of young people
as teachers of God’s Word.
“8. Whereas, This Association stands for Christ and Coun-
try, be it
“Resolved: A. That we gladly recognize the increasing ten-
dency to make our Sunday-schools nurseries of Christian
patriotism ;
“B. That we recommend that the teaching of Christian citi-
zenship be combined with that of temperance on the Sunday
known as the ‘World’s Temperance Sunday.’
“9, Resolved, That the Executive Committee is hereby
requested to nominate two or more commissioners, one of whom
shall be a member of the Lesson Committee, to represent this
Convention at the Centenary Celebration of the Sunday School
Union of Great Britain, to assemble in the City of London,
June, 1903.
“10. Resolved, That a Committee of five, consisting of W. J.
Semelroth, George R. Merrill, D.D., John R. Sampey, D.D., A. B.
McCrillis, and F. F. Belsey, be appointed to inquire into and
report upon the feasibility of this Convention creating a Com-
mission to make a tour of the world in the interest of the Sun-
day-school work; to report the names of suitable persons to
constitute such a Commission as can make the tour without
expense to this Convention; and to report its conclusions for
action by this Convention at as early an hour as practicable.
“11. Resolved, That this Convention hereby adopts the plans
of the International Bible Reading Association, now operative
in Great Britain, and requests our Executive Committee to
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devise measures for the greater extension of this work through-
out America. j
12. Resolved, That the hearty thanks of this Convention be
extended to Prof. E. O. Excell for his inspiring leadership in
our service of song, and for all that he has contributed to the
helpfulness and success of this Convention.
“13. Resolved, That the Convention tender its heartfelt and
sincere thanks to the City of Denver and to the various com-
mittees of its citizens for the hospitable and efficient manner in
which they have cared for its welfare and made its sessions and
sojourn enjoyable; to the families of Denver that have so gener-
ously provided for the entertainment of delegates; to the Young
Men’s Christian Association and its officers for their untiring
services; to the ministers and churches of Denver for their
unflagging hospitality and cordial co-operation throughout; to
the railroads of all sections of the country for the special facili-
ties and rates that were granted; and to the press of Denver for
the space so liberally given in its columns to the proceedings of
this Convention.”
The resolutions were adopted as a whole.
On motion of Dr. Hamill, the money collected for Mrs. Max-
well was handed to the Chairman of the Georgia delegation
(colored) , the Treasurer, Dr. Bailey, having left the Convention.
Mr. W. J. Semelroth of Missouri, Chairman of the committee
to inquire into the feasibility of the appointment of a Commis-
sion to make a Sunday-school tour of the world, presented the
report of the committee, which was adopted, and is as follows:
“To the Tenth International Convention :
“Your committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the
feasibility of a Round-the-World Sunday-school Commission and
to report names of suitable persons to constitute such a Commis-
sion to make the tour in the interests of Sunday-school work,
beg leave to report as follows:
“1. We are unanimous in opinion that such a tour is entirely
feasible and very desirable.
“2. We hold that the membership on the Commission should
be strictly limited to persons clearly identified with and experi-
enced in our organized Sunday-school work, and competent to
make public presentation of the departments of this work.
“3. We recommend that the Commission be created with the
distinct understanding that neither the plan nor the tour shall
involve this Convention in any expenditure whatever, that no
public fund shall be solicited in connection with the plan.
“4. The Commission shall elect its own officers, make its own
rules other than those specified herein or made by the Interna-
tional Executive Committee, have power to fill vacancies in and
add to its membership; its rules and its additions to membership
to be subject to the approval of the International Executive
Committee.
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“5. We recommend the election by this Convention of the fol-
lowing persons. to constitute the Round-the-World Sunday-
* school Commission, all of whom have been consulted, and there
is reasonable assurance of their willingness and ability to render
this service to this Convention by making the proposed tour:
“From the Executive Committee:
W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
W. A. Duncan, LL.D., Syracuse.
H. J. Heinz, Pittsburg.
E. K. Warren, Three Oaks, Mich.
Prof. H. M. Hamill, D.D., Nashville.
W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis.
“From the Lesson Committee:
B. B. Tyler, D.D., Denver.
Prof. J. R. Sampey, D.D., Louisville.
John R. Pepper, Memphis.
Bishop H. W. Warren, Denver.
“Sunday-school Editors:
Rev. James A. Worden, D.D., Philadelphia.
Rey. John A. McKamy, Nashville.
Rey. S. I. Lindsay, St. Louis.
“Primary Department Officers:
Mrs. J. W. Barnes, Philadelphia.
Mrs. M. G. Kennedy, Philadelphia.
Mrs. H. M. Hamill, Nashville.
Mrs. W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis.
“6, We recommend that this Convention convey by our fellow-
worker, F. F. Belsey, Esq., a hearty invitation to the London
Sunday School Union to add such members to this Commission
as the Union may elect, and to ask the co-operation of our
British brethren in the entire plan; and further, that this Con-
vention invite Mr. A. Jackson of Melbourne, editor of the Aus-
tralian Sunday School Teacher, and such other foreign repre-
sentatives as may be named by this Commission or the London
Sunday School Union to be members of this Commission.
“7. The Committee believes the tour should occupy from eight
to ten months and should be so timed as to enable a part at least
of the Commission to attend the Centenary Celebration of the
London Sunday School Union in 1903, and to have its termina-
tion at or as near as practicable to the next World’s Convention
at Jerusalem or elsewhere.
“Respectfully submitted in hope of a great blessing upon the
work of this Commission.
“W. J. SEMELROTH, Chairman;
“A. B. McCri1I1s,
“GEORGE R. MERRILL,
“JOHN R. SAMPEY,
“F. F. BELSEY.”
A communication, representing the action of a meeting in
behalf of Civic Righteousness, held on Saturday evening last
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in the First Baptist Church of Denver, was presented by Mr
I. H. Amos of Oregon and referred to the Committee on Reso-
lutions.
The report of the Lesson Committee, with its reecommenda-
tions as modified by Resolution 3, was taken from the table
and adopted, with the thanks of the Convention to the Com-
mittee.
Notices were given by Mr. E. K. Warren, representing the
Executive Committee, the President, and others.
The session closed with the benediction by President Tyler.
TENTH SESSION, MONDAY AFTERNOON.
The tenth session of the Convention, being the special Field
Workers’ Session, Monday afternoon, June 30, was opened at
2.10 o’clock with devotional exercises conducted by the Rey.
John Orchard of North Dakota and the Rey. Mosheim Rhodes,
D.D., of Missouri.
Mr. Alfred Day of Michigan, Ex-president of the Field Work-
ers’ Department of the International Sunday-school Conven-
tion, presided, and presented the report of that Department,
which was adopted.
Uuder the general heading “Discussion of Practical Methods,”
the Rey. Joseph Clark, D.D., of Ohio, read a paper on “City
Organization,” which was followed by discussion and questions.
Similarly, papers, followed by discussion on the topics pre-
sented, were read by Mr. Hugh Cork of Pennsylvania, on
-“House-to-house Visitation,” and by Mrs. Flora V. Stebbins
of Massachusetts, on “The ‘Home Department.”
The Convention engaged in song, the Chorister, assisted by
the Rev. John C. Carman of Indiana, singing by request.
The Chairman relinquished the chair to Vice-president Mc-
Crillis.
Chairman Eudaly of the Nominating Committee presented
the final report of the Committee, recommending the Rev. I.
Garland Penn of Georgia as member of the Executive Com-
mittee to represent the colored organizations; also the ‘follow-
ing as members of the Sixth Lesson Committee, te select the
International lessons for the years 1906 to 1911:
Professor John R. Sampey, D.D., Louisville, Kentucky.
Professor Ira M. Price, Ph.D., Chicago, Illinois.
The Rey. O. P. Gifford, D.D., Buffalo, New York.
The Rey. B. B. Tyler, D.D., Denver, Colorado.
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The Rev. Mosheim Rhodes, D.D., St. Louis, Missouri.
The Rev. Principal E. I. Rexford, B.A., Montreal, Quebec.
Mr. John R. Pepper, Memphis, Tennessee.
Bishop Henry W. Warren, D.D., Denver, Colorado.
The Rey. John Potts, D.D., Toronto, Ontario.
The Rev. A. F. Schauffler, D.D., New York, N. Y.
Principal William Patrick, D.D., Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Professor Charles R. Hemphill, D.D., Louisville, Kentucky.
President J. S. Stahr, D.D., Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
President Henry M. Hopkins, D.D., Williamstown, Massa-
chusetts.
The recommendations were unanimously adopted.
It was resolved that the committees nominated by this Nomi-
nating Committee be empowered to fill vacancies oceurring in
their respective bodies during the triennium.
It was further resolved, that the thanks of this Convention
be given to the Nominating Committee for their most excellent
and laborious services.
On motion, the Nominating Committee was discharged.
Dr. Potts made a statement for the Lesson Committee con-
cerning their deceased members, particularly the Rey. Warren
Randolph, D.D., and Mr. B. F. Jacobs. t
-Mr. Day resumed the chair, and announced that the next
speaker, the Rev. E. Morris Fergusson of New Jersey, yielded
his time, with the understanding that his paper on “The
Graded Sunday-school” would appear in the printed report.
Papers, followed by discussion, were presented by Mr. W. C.
Weld of California, South, on “Teacher Training,” and by Mr.
W. C. Pearce of Illinois on “Sunday-school Week and Decision
Day.”
General Secretary Lawrance, for the Executive Committee,
presented the plans of work proposed for the coming triennium,
and made a further appeal for subscriptions in support of the
International work.
The Rev. A. H. McKinney, Ph.D., of New York, made an ad-
dress on “The Child for Christ,” followed by discussion, inelud-
ing reports of the work of delegates in securing decisions for
Christ in the Sunday-schools of Denver on the previous Sunday-
Mr. Semelroth announced a meeting of the World’s Commis-
sion at the close of this session.
The session closed with prayer by Dr. McKinney.
ELEVENTH SESSION, MONDAY EVENING.
The eleventh and closing session of the convention, Monday
evening, June 30, was opened at 8 o’clock with singing, led by
Chorister Excell, and devotional exercises led by Dr. I. J. Van
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Ness of Tennessee and the Rey. Ernest Bourner Allen of
Ohio. Mrs. W. J. Semelroth of Missouri sang “Count Your
Many Blessings.”
The President announced the death of Mrs. Beach, wife of the
Rey. David N. Beach, D.D., of Denver, one of the appointed:
speakers; and Mr. William Randolph of Missouri announced
the death of Mr. Louis Hoffman, appointed delegate from Mis-
souri, who died on June 26. At the President’s request, the
Rey. F. T. Bayley of Colorado led the Convention in prayer.
Dr. MacLaren of Ontario introduced the following resolution.
which was referred to the Executive Committee:
“Resolved, That the time has come when this Convention
should take a permanent name, and its work be placed under a
more permanent organization.
“Resolved, That the Executive Committee be requested to
consider and report at the next Convention upon the following
matters:
“1. The adoption of such a name as The International Sun-
day-school Association.
“2. The adoption of a Constitution and By-laws.
“3. The propriety of having the proposed association incor-
porated.”
The Rev. S. M. Johnson of Illinois made a brief address con-
cerning the design of the “Convention Flag.”
Bishop Henry W. Warren, D.D., of Colorado, made an ad-
dress on “The World’s Only Hope.”
Mr. Arthur Whorton of Oklahoma, for the Enrollment Com-
mittee, made a final report.
An address to the pages of the Convention was made by
General Secretary Lawrance.
The Rev. Joseph Clark, D.D., of Ohio, upon Mr. Lawrance’s
invitation, presented each page with a book furnished for the
purpose by the Fleming H. Revell Company.
The Rey. E. Wesley Halpenny of Quebec was elected Assistant.
Recording Secretary, upon the nomination of the Executive Com-
mittee.
By request of the Convention, the Chorister and the Rev. Mr..
Carman sang “I am Happy in Him.”
Mr. Semelroth introduced the following resolution, which
was referred to the Executive Committee:
“Moved, That this International Convention hereby heartily
ratifies the recommendation of our Executive Committee that
the next World’s Sunday-school Convention be held at Jeru-
salem, if conditions are found to be favorable; and as dele-
gates we promise our earnest co-operation to make the Con-
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vention a success and a great blessing to the Sunday-school
work of the world.”
A motion to adopt the “Convention Flag” (a Latin cross, red,
in a white canton on a blue ground bearing the motto “By this
sign conquer,” displayed, white), and to carry the flag to
Jerusalem, was referred to the Executive Committee.
The President made a brief address of explanation and thanks
to the Convention.
A closing address, on “The Message of the Cross,” was de-
livered by the Rev. George C. Lorimer, D.D., of New York.
Chorister Excell led the Convention in singing “God be with
you till we Meet Again.”
The Tenth International Sunday-school Convention then
adjourned, with the benediction by Dr. Craft.
Recording Secretary.
RECORDS OF OTHER MEETINGS.
Tie WESTERN ScHooL oF METHODS FOR PRIMARY AND JUNIOR
TEACHERS met in the Central Christian Chureh of Denver, on
Tuesday, June 24, 1902. Sessions were held in the morning,
afternoon and evening of Tuesday and Wednesday, and on
Thursday morning. A report of the School, by Mr. Israel P.
Black, will be found in the Appendix.
THE FIELD WoRKERS’ DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION held its triennial meeting and con-
ference in the First Baptist Church of Denver, on Wednesday
morning and afternoon, June 25, and on Thursday morning and
afternoon until 2.45 o’clock, June 26; with adjourned sessions
on Friday, Saturday and Monday, June 27, 28 and 30. See the
minutes, by the Secretary pro tem., Mr. Lewis Collins, with
most of the papers, addresses and discussions, and a roll of mem-
bers, in the Appendix.
THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-
SCHOOL CoNVENTION held its triennial meeting in the Central
Christian Church, Denver, on Friday, June 27, 1902, at 2 o’clock.
See the minutes, by the Secretary, Mr. Israel P. Black, in the
Appendix.
Tue EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL
SunpAy-scHoot Convention, Mr. W. N. Hartshorn, Vice-chair-
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man, met in the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, on Thursday
morning, June 26, at 10 o’clock, and held sessions upon its own
adjournment until Saturday morning, June 28, when it ad-
journed sine die.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL
-SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION, Mr. W. N. Hartshorn, Chairman,
met in Denver on Saturday morning, June 28, at 9.30 o’clock,
and held sessions upon its own adjournment during the re-
mainder of the Convention.
Tue Firtu INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSoN CoMMIT-
TEE (to select the lessons for 1900-1905), Rev. John Potts,
D.D., Chairman, met at the home of Bishop Henry W. Warren,
Denver, on Wednesday morning, June 25, and held other sessions
upon its own adjournment.
On THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, the first alternative session
was held in the Central Presbyterian Church, Denver, Mr.
George W. Watts of North Carolina, one of the Vice-presidents,
presiding. The singing was led by Professor H. O. Seagle of
Tennessee. The audience crowded the church. The Rev. W. J.
Harsha, D.D., of Colorado, read the Scriptures, and prayer was
offered by the Rev. Smith Baker, D.D., of Maine.
The Rev. A. F. Schauffler, D.D., of New York, delivered an
address on “Teaching the Bible as Literature—Plus What?”
The Rev. Frank Johnson of London, England, Editor of The
Sunday School Chronicle, made an address.
A brief address in response to the Rev. Mr. Johnson’s words
was made by the Rev. A. E. Dunning, D.D., of Massachusetts,
who explained that the introduction of Mr. Johnson’s address
at this point, instead of his own address on “The Master and his
Disciples,” as announced, was at his, Dr. Dunning’s, instance.
The session closed with singing and the benediction.
On Fripay EVENING, JUNE 27, the second alternative session
was held in the Central Presbyterian Church, Denver, Mr.
George E. Wallace, Executive Committeeman for Nebraska, pre-
siding. Professor Seagle conducted the singing, and again the
audience filled the church to its utmost capacity. The devo-
tional service was conducted by the Rev. T. B. Neely, D.D., of
New York.
Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner of Illinois made an address on
“Reaching the Child we Teach.”
The Rev. George C. Lorimer, D.D., of New York, made an
address on “Christ, the World’s Greatest Hope.”
The session adjourned with singing and the benediction.
On SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, at the Central Presbyterian
Church, an illustrated lecture on “Colorado Versus Switzer-
land” was given by Mr. C. M. Hobbs of Colorado, in accordance
with arrangements made by the Local Committee.
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On Monpay Evenine, JuNE 30, the third alternative session —
was held in the Central Presbyterian Church, Mr. W. H. Me-
Clain of Missouri, presiding. Professor Seagle led the singing.
The devotional exercises were conducted by the Rev. F. J. Bay-
ley, D.D., of Colorado, and the Rev. George H. Clarke of Massa-
chusetts. The audience again fiilled the church. -
The Rev. Rufus W. Miller, D.D., of Pennsylvania, made an
address on “The Pastor’s Opportunity in the Sunday-school.”
The Rey. A. C. Dixon, D.D., of New York, made an address on
“Our Aims: Conversion, Training, Service.”
The session adjourned with singing and the benediction.
ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
THE PREPARATION SERVICE.
OPENING WORDS.
BY W. N. HARTSHORN, MASSACHUSETTS,
In the Chair.
More than six months ago, in Philadelphia and in Boston
and in other eastern cities, there was in the hearts of many
Sunday-school workers an earnest spirit of prayer that was
unusual in the hearts and thoughts of business men. This
feeling came in connection with tnoughts and plans for this
great Convention. When we came to Denver, in January, we
found the same spirit of prayer in the hearts of the local com-
mittee and in the pastors whom we met in this city. From
that time until this moment there has been, this country over,
an earnest spirit of prayer that I think is only heaven-born.
In the Committee meeting this forenoon at the Brown Palace
Hotel there was a profound spirit of prayer, inspired from the
view-point of Calvary alone. We have thought and planned
and prayed for this hour. Therefore, we are so glad, so grate-
ful, that there are so many hearts in this company ready for
prayer; and so let us join in prayer with Dr. Potts, the Chair-
man of the Lesson Committee.
THE TEACHER’S MISSION AND EQUIPMENT.
BY THE REY. A. C. DIXON, D.D., MASSACHUSETTS.
The purpose of the Sunday-school teacher is to study and to
teach the Word of God. It is fitting therefore that in this first
service something should be said about God’s word. I would
like to bring you a Scriptural thought that would strike the
key-note of this Convention and the coming year; the words
of Christ in John 5:39 and the words of the Holy Spirit in 2
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Tim. 3:16, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think y
have eternal life, and they are they that testify of me.” “Atl
scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for re-
proof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the
man of God may be complete, thoroughly furnished unto every
good work.”
We have in these words the sevenfold mission of the Sunday-
school teacher. First of all, the mission of the Sunday-school
teacher is to bring to his class the God-breathed truth. I be-
lieve Dr. West has proved that the translation of the King
James version is correct: “All Scripture is God-breathed.”
Of course writers of scripture were inspired; “the Holy Spirit
spake by the mouth of David.” “Holy men spake as they were
moved by the Holy Spirit.” “The Word of God came expressly
unto Ezekiel.” But there is more than that; not only every
writer was inspired, but every writing is God-breathed. As
God made man and breathed into him the breath of life and
he became a living soul, so God made the Seriptures and
breathed into them the breath of life, and they became the
living Word. And when we teach God’s Word we may know
that the breath of God that came as the rushing, mighty wind at
Pentecost, that came upon the bones of Ezekiel’s vision, is in
that Word, and his power dwells in his truth.
In the second place, it is the mission of the Sunday-school
teacher to bring to his class the God-breathed truth, as the basis
of faith; “for in them ye think ye have eternal life.” In
Christ we have eternal life; in the Scriptures we think we have.
And the thinking means more, often, than the believing. All
our powers of thought are captured by the fact that Jesus
Christ is our Savior. We proclaim Jesus as the Savior, and
teach the Word of God as the assurance of salvation.
In the third place, it is the mission of the Sunday-school
teacher to teach the Bible as the great witness for Christ: “they
are they that testify of Me.” Jesus said first, “I will make you
fishers of men;” and the primary mission of the Christian is
to win to Jesus. “Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord.” And in
the same box with the worker stands the Word of God as the
witness for Jesus.
In the fourth place, the mission of the Sunday-school worker
is to teach the Word of God as the book of utility: “All Serip-
ture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” A four-square
utility. ‘For doctrine’—official teaching; for that is the high-
est word in the Greek language for teaching. Lord Pauncefote
in Washington, talking to a party of friends in a private
capacity, might give his opinion, and it would go for just what
he said; but when he spoke as a minister from England to the
President and Congress, what he said was official, and had be-
hind it the army “and navy of the British empire. And so
God’s book is his official teaching, not simply private opinion
expressed; and behind this Word stands the power of
himself.
Teaching, and then “reproof.” Out of the book we not only
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gather the stones with which we build the wall of our teaching,
but we put the plumb line down beside that wall. We measure
the teaching by the Book. We not only prove, but reprove. And
then we correct—“for teaching, for reproof, and for correc-
tion,—for reconstruction, for making it right. You may put
the plumb line down beside the wall, and that will show it is
not straight; but the plumb line will not make it straight.
The yardstick shows that the cloth is too short, but it cannot
make it of the right length; but the Word of God not only shows.
that your teaching is not straight, but it makes it straight,—
profitable for teaching, for reproof, and for making it right
wherein it is wrong.
And then, for instruction in righteousness.” It is a strik-
ing fact that the word “instruction” means child-training—as
if it were .the special message from God to the Bible-school
teacher. Profitable for teaching, for reproof, for child-training
in righteousness. It is the word elsewhere translated nurture;
so that, as you make your creed and from your teaching, you
will train the child in right relation to God and to his fellows.
In the fifth place, it is the mission of the Sunday-school
teacher to present the Bible as every Christian worker’s equip-
ment: “that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly fur-
nished unto every good work;” and our dear Brother Jacobs.
illustrated this as few men do,—complete through the word
that he lived, thoroughly furnished unto soul-winning and to
edification, a man of power because the word of power was in
him. And when he spoke he spoke God’s breath, that made the
very dead bones come to life.
But in the last place, the mission of the Sunday-school
teacher is to present the Bible as the field of search and research.
“Search the Scriptures.” And the word is intense. It is that
word which we find in the passage, “the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God.” And as the Holy
Spirit searches the heart through and through, we all ought
to search the Scriptures through and through; and when you
begin to search the Bible you may know that the great Divine
Searcher is with you. And our mission is, with hard work and
persistent toil, to search the Scriptures. As the miner digs
for the gold, as the diver dives for the pearl, as we go after
things rare and beautiful, so we are to search in this book for
the treasures of truth.
There was a boy down at Montauk Point, after the Spanish
war, lying on a cot in the hospital. The surgeon said, “You
had better send to your western home some message, if you
have any;” and when the nurse came in after this rather sad
revelation to him, he said, “I wish you would take the old
knapsack out and get something for me. First of all, get the
old Bible that mother gave me.” By much searching the Bible
was found, and he laid it down on the cot before him. And then
he said, “Search further, and you will find Washington’s Fare-
well Address. Get that.” And he put that on the Bible. “Now,”
he said, “search further, and you will find a photograph in
there.” And when she found it, he held it up before him, soiled
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as it was, and said. “We were to be married after the war;”
and he put it on Washington’s Farewell Address. “Now,” he
said, “nurse, put Bible, and address, and photograph under
my head.” She lifted the pillow gently and put Bible, and ad-
dress, and photograph under his head; then he lay back upon
the pillow and breathed out his life—went up to God. That
soldier boy spoke the truth in parable. The Bible is the foun-
dation of the state and the home. And if we get the Bible un-
der the state and the home, we will have an enduring school,
and a home as pure as the vestibule of heaven. The greatest
need is that this Holy Spirit should be in us and God should
have the opportunity to work through us.
“All power,” said Jesus, “is given unto me; go ye and disciple
all nations, and I am with you.” All power may be there, with-
out ability. The Lord Jesus himself once stood in the midst
of the people, unable to do any mighty works. And more than
once the Holy Spirit has been in the midst of his people unable,
though omnipotent, to do his work. And why? Because the
channels through which his power flows were clogged by our
unbelief and failure to use his God-breathed truth.
I was traveling on a hot day once when the train came to a
standstill. We waited five hours before that engine could move
the train. It was one of the greatest engines I ever saw, and its
great muscles of steel and iron were at their highest tension.
It seemed anxious to go, but it could not move the train of
ears half an inch. It had all the power it ever had, but no
ability. A bolt about as big as my three fingers had been
broken. After the bolt was replaced, power became ability,
and the train went on at forty miles an hour. The need is that
the bolt of God-breathed truth should be in place, so that God
can work through it.
During these five days we look for the Pentecostal blessing.
We look not for the tongues of fire to be seen or rushing mighty
wind to be heard, but we look for the Spirit of God in mighty
power. Can Pentecost be repeated in Denver? What is there
about it that cannot be repeated? Certainly the one hundred
and twenty, and more, are here. Certainly the intelligence that
that early Church had is here. More organization than they
ever dreamed of is here. Certainly more money is here; for
though I know not how rich you may be in this church, I ven-
ture the assertion that there are individual members who could
buy out the apostolic Church and have a big bank account left
over. Preachers, imperfect like Peter, are here. The word we
‘ preach in the same straightforward manner is here. What did
they have that isnot here? All else is represented; can the God
of Pentecost be? Is God himself here? Do you believe it? The
God of Elijah that answered by fire was the God of Pentecost.
And the God of Elijah and of Pentecost is the God of the Conven-
tion in Denver, as he was the God of B. F. Jacobs, if we trust in
him and expect him to work. Let us pray.
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B. F. JACOBS MEMORIAL SERVICE: INTRO-
DUCTORY WORDS.
BY THE VICE-CHAIRMAN.
Just as I was stepping upon the train in Boston to go to Den-
ver, a telegram was placed in my hands saying, “My brother is
critically ill; may not live through the day.” From that mo-
ment until this my thought has been much upon the life and
spirit and work of B. F. Jacobs. I will only say, and then give
way to others, that to a large degree the work in the State of
Massachusetts, and what has been done by the men in charge of
that work, has been because of the life of that good man. When
we met in committee this morning our thoughts were much in
the past; and when one of our members spoke to us the words
last uttered by that man as he was passing into glory, our
hearts burned within us; and I bring to you as a message the
last words of Mr. Jacobs, sent? to the Executive Committee, and
through the Committee given to this company. They were
uttered in great weakness, and many minutes were occupied in
the speaking; but they breathed the life and the love and the
soul that were the controlling impulse of his life: ‘Men die, but
Jesus Christ lives, and the work goes on. Give my love to the
brethren. God bless you.”
And now we pass from the preparatory service to thoughts
concerning the man whose thought and life were, more than any
other man’s thought and life, the beginning and the growth of
this great organization. I will speak the name of one who for
years walked beside B. F. Jacobs, and one whom we all love to
honor and who honors us because of his association with us,—
John Potts, who will now speak to us.
THE LESSON COMMITTEE’S RESOLUTIONS.
READ BY THE REY. J. R. SAMPEY, D.D., KENTUCKY.
The International Sunday-school Lesson Committee, in session
at the home of Bishop H. W. Warren, University Park, Denver,
Colo., have learned, with profound regret, that their honored
colleague, Mr. B. F. Jacobs, passed away on Monday, June twen-
ty-third. Every member of this Committee feels personally
bereaved in the death of Mr. Jacobs, for he gave to us individ-
ually his love and confidence, and inspired us with something
of his unbounded enthusiasm for the Sunday-school cause
throughout the world.
In the midst of our grief over the death of our friend and
comrade, we cannot but express our sincere gratitude to God for
the gift of such a man to the Christian world. For almost half
a century Mr. Jacobs has been earnestly engaged in aggressive
Christian work. While yet a youth he took up his residence in
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set out on all his future campaigns for the extension of our
Redeemer’s kingdom. As early as 1856 young Jacobs was super-
intendent of a Sunday-school, and in 1859 he took part in the
organization of the Cook County Sunday-school Association.
During the terrible Civil War the Christian Commission ren-
dered invaluable service in meeting the religious needs of the
soldiers in the Union armies. Foremost in the noble work were
D. L. Moody, D. W. Whittle and B. F. Jacobs.
Pre-eminent as an organizer and an executive officer, Mr.
Jacobs swept men along by his magnetism and enthusiasm. Men
yielded themselves to his aggressive leadership because of their
confidence in his devotion to the cause of Christ and their con-
viction that his plans were wisely conceived and would be car-
ried through successfully by his tireless energy and* gracious
tact. Our great leader visited all parts of the United States and
Canada in the interest of the Bible-school, everywhere kindling
in superintendents and teachers greater zeal for the conversion
and the training of the young. For Mr. Jacobs the field was the
world. He sought and secured the co-operation of leaders in
Great Britain and on the Continent, as well as in all the fields
occupied by Christian missionaries. His name and fame are
held sacred in all the countries of earth.
The Lesson Committee remember with gratitude the skill of
this father of the Uniform Lesson Series in the selection of such
passages as are best adapted to use in the Sunday-schools of the
world. Nota single item of our work escaped him; his capacity
for taking pains gave him a right to be called a genius. He
always sought to provide something for the little ones. The
golden texts were his special province, over which he was the
recognized ruler. How we shall miss him! But we bow rever-
ently and submissively to our Father’s will.
In view of the inspiration we have received in all our work
from contact with our honored colleague, therefore,
Resolved, That the members of this Committee do hereby dedi-
cate themselves afresh to the glorious cause to which our
brother gave his life, praying God to give his people wise leader-
ship for the future.
JOHN POTTS,
JOHN R. SAMPEY,
Committee.
A STUDENT OF THE WORD.
BY THE REV. JOHN POTTS, D.D., ONTARIO.
Mr. Chairman: At half-past four last Monday afternoon the
greatest Sunday-school worker on earth passed into the heavens.
As Mr. Hartshorn has already said, four hours before the death
of our dear brother he said to Dr. Bailey, “Men die, but Christ
lives, and his work goes on.” To many of us to-day it is a
strange thing to meet in an International Convention of Sunday-
school workers and friends, without the dominant presence of
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B. F. Jacobs. Our great comfort to-day is that B. F. Jacobs
was a man in Christ; and we may add that he was a man for
Christ. And, blessed be God, we may add still further, a man
with Christ. In Christ as a Christian; for Christ as a conse-
crated worker ; with Christ as one of the glorified multitude that
no man can number. When we think of this organization and
work referred to by the resolution of the Lesson Committee, we
are bound to recognize in the memory of B. F. Jacobs a mas-
terful genius in organization and in leadership. Sometimes we
thought he was rather dominant in his will; sometimes we
thought he was rather dogmatic. You never met a great man
yet that had not a dominant will and was tinctured with dog-
matism as well; but while B. F. Jacobs was a man of strong will
and a man somewhat dogmatic, he was a man who had the gen-
tleness of Jesus beyond almost any man that I ever have known.
He was a wonderful student of the Word of God. There is
not a minister in the church this afternoon that would not have
said so in the years gone by, as he listened to B. F. Jacobs giving
a Bible reading or superintending a Sunday-school, and would
not have gladly sat at the feet of such a leader and such a
teacher of the Word of God. B. F. Jacobs had a marvelous
insight into the meaning of the word of God. He brought out
of the treasury things new and things old, until we thought we
were in the presence not only of an enthusiast but of a spiritual
leader and speaker. For over four and twenty years I stood
side by side with B. F. Jacobs in the Lesson Committee. I was
startled when I realized, as the announcement came to me of his
death in Chicago last Monday afternoon, that it left me the
senior member of our International Lesson Committee. And
as I review those four and twenty years, although few men are
more familiar with ecclesiastical gatherings and with boards
and committees of the Church of God, and boards and commit-
tees that are general and are not related to any particular
Church, I am here to-day to say that of all the meetings that I
have ever attended, no meeting equals the meeting of the Lesson
Coremittee, with the Word of God in our hands and the responsi-
bility resting upon us of selecting Bible lessons for five and
twenty millions and more teachers and officers and scholars in
the Sunday-school.
I am speaking to-day in the presence of brethren beloved from
my own country, who can recall the visits of B. F. Jacobs to our
conventions. No matter who else was there, no matter how dis-
tinguished other speakers were, B. F. Jacobs was easily the
leader in giving impetus and inspiration to the conventions he
attended in the Province of Ontario and throughout the entire
Dominion of Canada. It would be a poor compliment to B. F.
Jacobs if we were to come to the conclusion to-day that because
he died on Monday afternoon at half-past four o’clock, therefore
the work of the Sunday-school must suffer. No, my brethren.
Many thought when Dwight L. Moody died that the work of
D. L. Moody would suffer; but I have visited the Institute of
Chicago, and went there determined to see if I could recognize.
the spirit of the great and mighty evangelist of the last cen-
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tury, and I found it there. And the work of God in connection
with the Moody Institute and other departments is moving on;
and so we recognize to-day that there shall come a blessing to
this Convention by the death of B. F. Jacobs, greater perhaps
than any blessing that ever touched our conventions by his life
and by his word. I was wondering to-day, if he stood on this
platform what he would say to us; but, brethren, it seems to me
that B. F. Jacobs would say to all the officers of the organization
and Lesson Committee and Executive Committee, and to every
delegate here, “Give yourself to Christ afresh, and to winning
the child and youth to the Lord Jesus Christ.”
HIS REAL GREATNESS.
BY MARION LAWRANCE, OHIO.
It seems almost impossible for me to express what I have in
my heart to say to you to-day; and I would rather sit and listen
to brethren that are to speak than to take one moment of time.
I remember the point of contact, the first point of contact, that
I ever had with B. F. Jacobs, in my own state convention in
Ohio, in the month of June, 1889. As I was sitting upon the
very rear seat of the church, with Mr. Jacobs upon the platform
answering questions, the question was asked, “What shall we
do with our work in Ohio?” and to my great astonishment he
spoke my name and said that he thought I ought to be asked to
take hold of the work in our own state. Before that convention
had adjourned it was settled; and I have been in the Sunday-
school work ever since. I believe, friends, that Mr. Jacobs, by
the touch of his hand, by the magnetism of his word and pres-
-ence, has been instrumental in starting, in this publie work at
least, more men and women than any other man that ever lived.
He was a great man. Not as the world counts greatness; but
he was great in the size of the monument he leaves behind. He
was great because this organization is great, and he, more than
any other individual, contributed to its greatness. His own
life, his own consecration, his own sacrifices, were the founda-
tion stones upon which it rested, so far as human power and
human means were available; and I believe to-day that there is
not a single Sunday-school man or woman anywhere that is not
willing that his name should be graven upon the shaft that
~reaches so high.
B. F. Jacobs was great in his vision. He could look through
the blackness of the darkest obstacle and see the silver lining on
the other side. When others seemed to lose their heads, he saw
victory and went ahead. He was great in leadership. As we
have heard from the dear Doctor who has taken his seat, it takes
a great man to be a great leader. He was great in leadership.
I believe more men were willing to obey his expressed will than
that of any man I ever knew, and that without questioning. He
-avas great in magnetism. Wherever he spoke there seemed to be
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a fountain of power. Wherever he spoke there seemed to come
the living Word, and wherever his eye flashed there went light-
ning. He was a man of magnetism.
But more than that: he was a man of purpose. While he had
all this, and purpose too, he was not so set in his way that he
would not listen to others. Walking down the streets of Chi-
cago only a few weeks ago with me he said: “Lawrance, a man
in this world usually gets the most by yielding the most.” And
I believe that that was one of the elements of his character, that
when he saw he was mistaken he was willing to yield the point.
B. F. Jacobs had a great heart. He loved. He loved many.
He loved all. He loved the Word of God. He loved the cause.
And he was great because he loved and he was loved because he
was great.
Friends, he was great in many other ways. I do not need to
speak of them; but I want to say that all I am under God as a
Sunday-school worker I owe to that word of his, and to the
counsel he has given me from that time to this. Perhaps I
should not say all; but to the impetus he gave me that day I
owe the start in this line; and I have found, friends, all along
the way his kind advice and counsel.
Mr. Jacobs was never too busy to listen or too occupied to note
the simplest detail of the work. He was great because he could
see things that were not great; and we know that this life is
great as its little details are cared for and carefully looked
after; as is mentioned in the two resolutions of the Lesson
Committee.
Personally, I shall greatly miss our leader. We shall all miss
him; but, friends, the best compliment that we can pay to him
is that of embodying some of his spirit, and trying to he great,
not for his sake but for the sake of the Christ whom he served.
A MAN OF CATHOLIC. SPIRIT.
BY THE REV. H. M. HAMILL, D.D., TENNESSEE.
On the other side of the sea at this hour there is lying, upon
his bed of pain, the ruler of a great people, our mother land.
His sceptre lies by his side fallen, but for a little time, we trust,
from his nerveless hand. The prayers of Christendom ascend to
God, that he may make that hand strong to reclaim in righteous-
ness the fallen sceptre.
On this side of the sea, down from the mountain-tops and by
the lakes, there lies in a humbler mansion another great ruler
of an empire that sweeps around the world, that marshals all
the hosts of Protestantism, that touches the hearts of all living
beings. One man’s supremacy is temporal; the other man’s was
spiritual. One man comes to his throne and sceptre by heredity
of countless generations; the other by hard, patient, seltf-
achievement.
I think it exceedingly timely, Mr. President, that you set
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aside the opening hour in this great Convention as a time of
preparation for the duties that Providence has committed to
our trust. I think it peculiarly pathetic that, all unforeseen by
managers, there should enter into this hour the memorial service
of which these speeches and resolutions have been a part. It is
Horace who sings, “Death treads, with evenly measured step,
the palace of the prince and the hovel of the pauper.”
And it is indeed for us an admonitory lesson, in the very ini-
tiation of the Convention, that while the work goes on, God calls
home the worker. I was trying to recall to-day the old guard of
the International host. One by one they have slipped away
from us. Moody came to his “coronation day;” Reynolds died,
as he sought to die, “in the harness ;” and now our Chieftain has
gone. The International work has passed into the hands of a
younger generation. I echo the prayer of those who have pre-
ceded me: “May the spirit of the chosen and masterful men of
* the International past be transmitted in double portion to their
sons.”
Jacobs was a great man, by any law of analysis, by any canon
of greatness. He was great in his personality, that indefinable
quality that no man can measure, but all men experience. He
had a strange magnetism that won men who came to him preju-
diced, and sent them away loyal supporters. He had only to
blow upon his trump the silver blast of Roderick Dhu, and ten
thousand men would spring forth to follow him. Never from
the days of Xerxes and his three million men has any one swayed
so great and intelligent and consecrated a host as has this man.
I need not argue his greatness. No man could have held in his
grasp for nearly a half century the work that bears the name of
“International” without having been truly a great man.
He was a catholic man. And he deserves not a little credit
for the catholicity that was willing to recognize merit in all
faiths and in all men, if touched by the Spirit of God. More
than once I have been rebuked for impetuousness in speaking
against some work that seemed to me to be against the settled
convictions of our Protestantism. “Be patient and tender,” he
said, “and trust to Christ.”
He was called of God to his work. I believe that God calls
no small man to a great service. He has second and third-rate
men in abundance. He has angels who are his ministering ser-
vants, if he chooses to use them. But if ecclesiastical history
be read aright, it will prove that God never calls any but a
great man to a great service. God honors his handmaiden Na-
ture, and calls to service of greatness only those whom Nature
has stamped already with greatness. And so when he put B. F.
Jacobs into the leadership of the International work, Jacobs
knew in his soul that he was called of God. He responded to
that call. Insistently, patiently, inflexibly, Jacobs held the
place where God put him, to the end of his life. I am not sur-
prised that his last word was addressed to the International
Committee, and his last thought, as he passed into the moun-
tains of God, of those who were climbing these mountains to
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has wrought his perfect work, and no man can take away his
crown.
When Wycliffe, morning star of the English Reformation,
had turned the Latin Vulgate into our mother tongue, his
boast was, “I will make the English Bible cheap enough that
every plow-boy shall have a copy of it;” and the Bible in four
hundred tongues and dialects, distributed around the world,
is ample vindication of the boast of the English reformer. They
persecuted him almost to the death. They took his dust from
the grave and cast it into the passing stream; but the poet
truly sang:
“The Avon to the Severn runs,
The Severn to the sea;
And so shall Wycliffe’s dust be spread
Wide as its waters be.”
Jacobs said, “I will go one step further than Wycliffe. I will
go one step further. I will make the Bible plain to every plow-
boy or prince, child or sage, black man or white man, in the wide,
wide world.”
TRANSATLANTIC APPRECIATION.
BY F. F. BELSEY, ENGLAND.
Mr. Hartshorn and Fellow Workers: I have a mournful sat-
- isfaction in having arrived in Denver just in time to place a
wreath from Great Britain upon the bier of our lost friend.
We knew him on our side almost as well as you knew him on
this. It was my pleasure during three World’s Conventions to
be brought into the closest possible relationship with my de-
parted brother; and we in England owe much to that intense
energy and that fervent piety that thrilled our hearts just as
it thrilled the hearts of American workers. We shall never
forget his addresses and the spiritual dynamics he seemed
to bear about in that loving heart of his. And I am very glad,
on behalf of Great Britain, to be here to-day to say how we
share your sorrow and our tears fall with yours.
There is one little incident about the Second World’s Con-
vention that [ never have forgotten. and never shall forget. We
were at St. Louis together, and we were both stopping at the
great Southern Hotel; and he said to me, “I am determined,
if I can, to win some of these press men to Christ.” The Con-
vention was attended by a large number of most intelligent
and superior reporters; and from time to time Mr. Jacobs took
every suitable opportunity of showing the kindliest sympathy
with their work, and at the same time of presenting to them,
as men capable of measuring Christianity and knowing Christ-
ian life, the possibilities which that Convention brought to
them in their professional opportunities. I remember well how
from day to day he seemed to have set his heart on winning
some of those men for Christ. I was sure the Lord Jesus would
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not disappoint that faithful work. As we left that hotel to-
gether he was a little late; and he said, “Belsey, I have just
had a reporter of a sporting paper here, and he has come to tell
me that the appeals made in that Convention have won his
heart to Christ. He laid his hand in mine and said, ‘That
hand, Mr. Jacobs, shall never write another paragraph for the
sporting paper. Henceforth it writes for Christ and for him
alone.’” I shall never forget that illustration of his intense
desire to win souls for Christ. It was in my memory in subse-
quent years. As I passed through Chicago just now, I was hop-
ing earnestly that I might get one more grasp of the hand of the
friend I loved.’ It is not so to be. But I am very thankful to be
here this afternoon just to utter these simple words of sympathy
and condolence and to assure you that this common loss is bind-
ing together these two great Christian peoples just now. Our
Council will pass a resolution of sympathy full and complete
just like yours; and the loss of Mr. Jacobs will be felt by thou-
sands upon thousands of Sunday-school workers in England.
I am glad of that message from those dying lips. On the
battle fields of Spain the Moors put their old Cid on horseback,
and led his corpse into action, that the memory of his deeds
might nerve them for the fight. We have no need to do that; but
in future conflict the memory of his thoughts and words and
energy and love will be an inspiration to all of us. ;
THE SECRET OF HIS LIFE.
BY DR. DIXON.
B. F. Jacobs was owned of God, and he recognized that owner-
ship: “Whose I am.” He was possessed of God, and he surren-
dered to that possession; and there is a world of difference be-
tween being owned and being possessed. You can own a thing
without possessing it; and you can possess a thing without
owning it. I owned and possessed a splendid umbrella a few
days ago. I still own it; but some one else possesses it. And I
know people who, owned of God, are not yet wholly possessed
of God. Jacobs could say, “I am owned of God, and by his
grace I am possessed of God. I recognize that I have been
bought with a price, and all there is of me is at the disposal of
Jesus Christ my Lord.”
B. F. Jacobs served God, as Paul did, by believing him. It
was in the storm that Paul said, “Whose I am and whom 1
serve;” and he believed God in spite of his senses, in spite of
the appearance of things, in spite of his eyes. It looked as if
the old vessel was going down; but Paul said, “I believe God,
that we shall get ashore.” And B. F. Jacobs believed God’s Word
when everything was against him. To him there was nothing
too difficult for God. He was brave in the presence of difficulty.
It sometimes takes more courage to meet great difficulties than
it does to meet great dangers.
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With one closing paragraph I would like to give what I think
is the secret of his whole life. Men possess other men by bind- ©
ing bonds upon them. Men enslave by shackles of one kind or
another; but God has a way of owning us by setting us free.
The Psalmist said, “Lord, I am thy servant; thou hast loosed
my bonds.” I am thy servant because loosed and free. Thou
hast liberated me, and therefore I want to serve thee. I have
read of an English traveler going through a slave-market im
Cairo and coming upon a great black man, whom he bought.
Then he came to him with a roll of money in one hand and a
piece of paper in the other, and said, “My man, I have bought
you; but I give you back to yourself. Go out and make the
most of yourself; and take this money to begin your life with.”
That black slave had been cursing the Englishman because he
was trying to buy him; but when the Englishman came with
the money and the freedom, he said, “Do you mean it, that I can
do what I please?” “Certainly, go out and make the most of
yourself for the rest of your life.” . The black man replied, “If
I can do what I please, I would like to go with you and serve
you.” He made himrhis slave by making him free. Jacobs was
God’s free man; and therefore God’s bond-servant, tied to God
by love and by gratitude.
I have been thinking of the meeting in heaven. “What a
meeting with Moody, and Whittle, and Reynolds, and Spurgeon,
and the rest of them! Moody said as he was going up, “Earth is
receding, heaven is opening, let me go.” Brethren, I declare,
as we grow older the heaven that opens grows brighter, and the
gravitation is upward. And may God help us to go out from
this Convention to take upon us the mantle of Jacobs in that
he trusted God, was owned of God, possessed of God, and given
to God for time and for eternity. And then death will be just
the beginning of life.
FIRST SESSION, THURSDAY EVENING.
WELCOME TO COLORADO.
BY S. H. ATWATER, COLORADO,
President of the State Association.
Hail, Sunday-school workers, hail! The vision of your com-
ing, which we saw at Atlanta three years ago, is now incarnate.
You come, you go; but I hope this Convention will not be a
finished thing; that it will never be over in the hearts of any
enjoying it. Not alone shall the countries here represented feel
the uplift of this meeting; for plans shaped here and now will
affect the whole civilized world for many years. This will be a
history-making convention. We pray that God’s blessing may
so rest upon these deliberations that the waves of influence here
put in motion shall not cease until the kingdoms of this world
become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.
As we look backward to-day we see upon what an eminence
we stand. Our sons and our daughters indeed do start in many
steps ahead of where we started; but their responsibility in the
work will be that much greater than ours. In these days of vast
combinations of capital, I wish we might have a Sunday-school
trust planned, organized and managed exclusively to take the
Sunday-school to all the world, with the profit of the same not
figured in dollars, nor in pounds, shillings and pence, but in the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ and his kingdom.
I am asked to voice the greetings of Colorado to this advance_
column of Sunday-school workers, to these delegates who repre-
sent the millions afar, and who come to this first International
Convention of the opening century, and the first in the great
West. In the name and behalf of all the good and loyal Sunday-
school people of this commonwealth, I greet you and extend to
you a most cordial welcome.
Several of the states have had International conventions.
This is our first; but we do not expect it to be our last. You
will not know how to keep away. It was the eloquent words of
Major Halford that secured the Convention for Denver; but I
had the privilege of carrying the official invitation and of first
presenting it to the Atlanta Convention, which makes it doubly
pleasant to welcome you at this time. We thank you for your
coming, we thank you for what you bring to us, and may you
get Heaven’s richest blessings in return for your giving to us.
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May you meet your God and ours here in Denver; may you
learn to serve him better because of your coming; and may
you get nearer to the Great White Throne.
WELCOME TO DENVER.
BY THE HON. H. V. JOHNSON, COLORADO,
Chairman of the Local Committee.
The Queen City of the Plains, from her throne at the foot of
the Rockies, bids me welcome you, my friends, within her gates.
You come as angels in our midst; and all that you wish, and all
that she has, Denver lays at your feet.
The states and territories and provinces from whence you
come rise like a majestic and sublime panorama before our
minds to-night. I see a land teeming with plenty and overflow-
ing with prosperity, a veritable “land of milk and of honey,” a
country where highland and lowland, mountain and valley, lake
and river, torrid and arctic and temperate zones, all seem to
conspire for man’s happiness and joy. It is a land blessed as
never was land blessed; and when we remember that it is our
land, it seems that our very hearts should burst forth in one
grand paean of praise. It is our “Ain Countree!”
‘‘Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
‘This is my own, my native land’?”
And so from this fair land, from Canada, from Mexico, from
Maine and from Oregon, from orange-groves of California and
from pine-glades of Florida, from the “Empire State” and from
the “Lone Star State,” you have come as the representative of
all that is most Christ-like in your own particular section. As
angels, messengers of peace and love, you have come many, many
weary miles, always climbing higher and higher, until at last
you are wrapped in the glorious atmosphere of sunlit Colorado.
We have you in our gates, and we want you to feel while you
are here that this is your home. We want you to have so good a
time while here that when you depart you shall always feel like
saying, “Next to heaven, and the best place on earth to go to, is
Denver!”
We hail you, and welcome you to our midst because you culti-
vate, encourage and fan into a blaze of life the divinity in our
children. May your stay in our midst bring the greatest meas-
ure of blessing to our children, our people, our state and our
city. May your visit be most enjoyable for you, and when you
return to your homes, we hope you will feel it was as pleasant
for you to be here as it is delightful for us to have you.
On behalf of each member of the Local Committee and for our
city we bid you a heartfelt welcome.
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GREETINGS FROM THE CHURCHES.
BY THE REV. B. B. TYLER, D.D., COLORADO,
President of the Denver Ministerial Alliance:
Mr. Chairman and spiritual kinspeople: I speak in behalt of
the Christian pastors and churches of Christ in Denver. I am
instructed by our Ministerial Association to utter a word in
behalf of the under shepherds and their flocks. It is with
unusual pleasure that I deliver this message. Be assured that
it comes from a warm heart and that it represents those whose
hearts are aglow with a divinely generated affection and who
are zealous in behalf of every good cause. In the name of the
Christian people of our goodly city and their pastors, I bid you
Welcome, with a large “W.” Our joy, believe me, on account of
your presence with us is great. To your coming we have looked
with pleasant anticipation; we have talked about you, and have
prayed that you might have a prosperous journey. Our prayers
have been answered, the realization of our hopes has commenced,
and we are glad. Three years ago, through Major E. W. Hal-
ford, our representative, you were invited to come to Denver.
The invitation was most cordial. In extending it our repre-
sentative waxed eloquent. His eloquence, however, did not mis-:
represent the desires of Denver in this matter. The need of your
presence in this city was the motive presented. You were needed
then: you are needed now. It is our purpose to give you the
best we have; but we confidently expect to receive more and
better than it is possible for us to give. We believe that, coming
to us in the spirit of our Lord, you will be to the people of this
municipality a blessing—social, moral, spiritual. Because we
expect to receive inspiration and a spiritual uplift as a result
of your visit to us, we bid you welcome.
Not as tourists, pleasure-seekers, sight-seers, do you come to
this Switzerland of America. Such persons come to us in great
numbers and at all seasons. Not less than sixty thousand men
and women came in this capacity to Denver last summer. We
were pleased to see them. They were, apparenily, at least, glad
to see us; for ten thousand of them concluded to remain in, and
near to, Denver. There is no reasonable doubt that men and
women not a few who have come to this Convention will become
permanent residents of this Paris of the New World. We wish
you, without neglecting the special business on which you have
come, to look upon our mountains and enjoy their solemn
majesty; to go up and down our streets and note the cleanliness
and beauties of our wonderful city; to enjoy the homes of our
men who have been successful in business; to go on excursions
through our canons and look through rugged Nature up to the
infinite God, the Creator of all; to enter our humbler homes and
increase our social joys, while you will deepen the currents of
our spiritual life; to come into our places of public devotion and
join with us in prayer and praise. And we bid you remember
that you are in a city whose beginnings reach back only about
forty-three years.
FIRST SESSION, THURSDAY EVENING. 43
But not alone to see, to admire, to enjoy the things here men-
tioned, and others of similar character, have you come to Den-
ver. You come as the representatives of the Church Catholic to
do a portion of the work entrusted to his people by our Lord
Jesus Christ, i. e., to plan for the instruction of the young in
the fundamental principles of the Christian religion. It is
impossible for any higher, or holier, purpose to call men and
women together. This Convention is, out of sight, the most
important and far-reaching in its consequences and in the char-
acter of work that it will do of any assembly that will be held
in this year of grace 1902. Nor is this remark made for the
purpose of disparaging other conventions. It is made to indi-
cate the importance of this Tenth International Sunday-school
Convention—this, and nothing more. The enterprise which has
called you together, the religious instruction of the young, can-
not fail without involving in ruin our social, commercial, and
political life. To say that the continued life of our republic
depends on the moral and spiritual training of the young is to
speak the words of truth and temperance.
But there are those in this assembly who live under other
flags and other forms of government than ours. What has just
been said as to the importance of religious discipline in national
life is true of every civilized government on the face of the earth.
That government of the people, by the people, and for the people
may not perish from among men, our young people must be
trained in the eternal principles of righteousness imbedded in
the ancient Hebrew writings which we now call the Scriptures
of the Old and New Testament. It is this undisputed and indis-
putable fact that gives to this Convention its supreme impor-
tance and peerless dignity ; and it is because of the character and
value of your work that we bid you welcome to Denver.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of our time is the
steadily increasing interest in the study of the Bible. At no
period in the history of mankind has the Book of books been
studied as it is read and studied to-day. There are more copies
of the Bible now in existence than ever before. The Scriptures
originally written in Hebrew and Greek are translated into the
languages of the people as at no other time. A larger number
of people can read the Bible, and are reading it, than at any pre-
vious period. The interest in this heaven-inspired literature is
good, and it is steadily increasing. Men of profound scholar-
ship are examining the books of which this divine library is
composed, as they have never been examined. They are studying
in a large way and microscopically. The greatest debate ii
which men have ever engaged is now in progress. The discussion
is engaged in by a larger number of men, by men of the largest
capacity, and it moves on a higher plane. This great debate is
in regard to the Bible. Nor is it between the friends of the Bible
and its enemies. The friends of this holy Book are seeking to
understand its nature and messages. The issue is not doubtful.
The Bible is God’s book. He will take care of his own. The
Bible will not suffer. It is better understood and more highly
appreciated already because of the careful, critical, thorough
examination through which it is passing.
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In the midst of this increasing interest in Bible study; in the
midst of this great debate; in the midst of the present splendid
opportunities for securing the best intellectual and spiritual
results, you have come to this place in the prosecution of your
transeendently important work. You are here to take account
of stock. You are in Denver to recount some of the things that
have been done and to plan greater things, and better, for the
future. No Bible-school convention ever came together with so
much to arouse the best within us as this Tenth International
Sunday-school Convention. There are difficult problems before
-us. Wisdom is needed. The course of wisdom you know. As to
the condition on which it may be secured you are not ignorant.
Because of the peculiar conditions under which this Conven-
tion is held, and its unparalleled opportunity for doing a work
unequalled in the past, we are especially pleased that you have
come to Denver. May the Spirit of wisdom abound.
Mr. Chairman and spiritual kinspeople, in the name of the
Ministerial Association of Denver, I bid you welcome. In the
name of the churches of Christ in Denver, I bid you welcome.
In the name of the Christian men and women of Denver, I bid
you welcome. To-day, at this hour, there are no parties, no
denominations, no sects, among Christians, in Denver. We are
one body. In the supreme joy of this radiant hour we think of
the Christ and the great work to which, in the mysterious opera-
tions of his wondrous grace, we have been called; and as one
body, the spiritual body of the glorified Son of God, and as co-
pastors in his blood-bought Church, we bid you welcome, wel-
come to our city, to our places of public worship, to our homes,
to our hearts. We believe in you; we love you; the best we
have is yours. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be on you
and abound. Amen!
RESPONSE TO THE ADDRESSES OF WELCOME.
BY A. B. M’CRILLIS, RHODE ISLAND,
In the Chair.
Brethren, representatives of Colorado, of the beautiful munici-
pality, and of the churches of Denver, it devolves upon me, in the
absence of our honored President, to respond to your words of
welcome, so eloquent, so cordial, and so appreciative of the work
in which we are engaged. I would not have abridged one word
that has been said by our kind, loving brethren in welcoming us
here; but I must try to abridge my response, without deducting
anything from its heartiness.
I have condensed the religious experiences of my life and all
my knowledge of Sunday-school work to a five-minute state-
ment. I have it written out here, and will, likely enough, spring
it upon you before the Convention is over. But I have decided
to omit it now, because we want to express our sympathy for our
English brethren who have been so suddenly arrested as they
were about to crown their King, and we must make a place for
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their representatives who are here, our honored brethren Belsey
and Johnson.
Please consider that on behalf of this Convention assembled
from the Dominion of Canada and all the states of our Union, I
have thanked you for your welcome in the heartiest and most
impressive way possible. The whole convention will please rise
and give our Colorado friends, whose guests we are, the Chau-
tauqua salute.
GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND.
BY I’. F. BELSEY, LONDON.
My dear fellow-workers: First of all let me thank you, as a
very humble representative of the British nation, for the very
kind way in which you fg Sth the references made by my
friend the Chairman to our King. I am quite sure your hearts
are with us in our present sorrow, and that your prayers are
rising with ours that he may be spared to us. We think that
though you are a republic, and our government is a limited
monarchy, we are very closely allied in all our ideas of govern-
ment.
The first time I was in America I had the very great pleasure
and honor of a long conversation with Mr. Blaine while I was
in Washington; and I have never forgotten what he said to me.
He said, “You know I am a republican, and a republican by con-
viction; but I am bound to say that if I exchanged my repub-
lican ideas for any others I would go for a limited monarchy,
with a woman at the head of it.” He said she was never likely
to do any political mischief, and there was a chivalry among her
subjects which made her rule easy and delightful. I do not
know what he would have said under present conditions. I know
he spoke very kindly of our present King, then Prince of Wales;
and I am almost inclined to think that he would have found
some very nice and gracious thing to say about our present ruler,
Edward VII. I am perfectly sure he would have been one with
us all in earnestly hoping that his reign may be prolonged for
many years and be fruitful in blessing to the great people over
. whom he rules.
I heartily thank those friends who have given us so cordial a
welcome to Denver. ‘here is a good and sufficient reason why
I should feel at home in Denver. I am a rate-payer of Denver,
and have been for many years. During the first World’s Con-
vention, of which I was president, one of the vice-presidents per-
suaded me to invest $5,000 in a lot in Denver. [ did so; and
there the money still lies. Our friend said, if we found anything
tied up in Denver [great laughter] we were quite welcome to
untie it. I wanted to ask him whether he would kindly come
with me and help me to untie my $5,000. Anyway, I feel that
that is a reason why I should take a very substantial interest
in the future of Denver. I am sure there is no resident of Den-.
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ver present to-night who hopes Denver will become a city of half
a million inhabitants more earnestly than I do.
I am here, however, for a far higher reason than any material
interest in your city. I am here, dear friends, as the representa-
tive of your friends in England who are cordially with you in
your great aims, and who share with you these glorious respon-
sibilities with reference to God’s work. One book, one language,
one lesson,—these three magnetic words bind our hearts ~
together in support of the International Lesson and of the Inter-
national Convention from which it springs. We are here rejoic-
ing in what, by means of that International Lesson, we have
been privileged to accomplish in my own land and in yours, in
the study of the Word of God by the coming millions of our
people. And we are here to pledge afresh our hearty support to
that happy notion which, gives one lesson in every school, and
one subject for contemplation. And as we go over that portion
week by week, and teach our children far away in the old
mother-land those truths that you are teaching here in this vig-
crous republic, we rejoice to think that the thoughts that are
moving our hearts are moving the hearts of millions on this
shore and on the other shores of our world; and we are here to
ask you to give afresh a new lease to this glorious idea.
And may I say that I am here not only to convey this m
to you from your fellow-workers on the other side of the Atlan-
tic, but to say that there exists in England at this moment what
I believe exists also in America,—an earnest longing that the
God-fearing people in both countries should join hands and link
the two countries together in union never to be broken or dis-
turbed, and put these two nations in the very fore-front of the
civilization of our world; and that, these two nations seeing
what our old Norse Vikings saw,—the White Christ in our
midst with a little child beside him,—that should be the emblem
of our work of instruction, which shall make the child of to-day
the faithful Christian citizen of to-morrow, glorying in Christ
and bringing this great world of ours into subjection to that
glorious Gospel so dear to us.
WHY WE HAVE COME TO DENVER.
BY THE REY. JOHN POTTS, D.D., ONTARIO.
We are here because heartily invited, and the invitation given
in Atlanta has been cordially indorsed by those authorized to do
so by city, state and churches.
Now that we are here, in the good providence of God, we may
all of us ask the question found upon the program of the evening,
“Why here?” If I attempt to answer the question, it is because
I have been asked to do so and for a purpose. Weare not a pur-
poseless crowd, not able to state why we left home and business
and at considerable sacrifice have journeyed to Denver.
We have come to Denver because of the interdenominational
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and international nature of this organization. There was a
time when there was no such organization. The Sunday-school
was a feeble thing. It attracted little attention and had little
influence. As we think of individual schools, as we think of
township, county and state or provincial organization, and
broaden our vision to the International and World’s Conven-
tions, we may well exclaim, “What hath God wrought!” And
we may well add, “This is the Lord’s doing: it is marvellous in
our eyes.” We see in this gathering to-night the happy inter-
blending of both churches and nations. If the Sunday-school did
nothing more than to create a genuine spirit of brotherhood
between the denominations and the nations, it would be worth
all it costs to come together.
The Sunday-school to-day is the great “evangelical alliance”
which proves the unity, the spiritual unity, of evangelical Chris-
tianity. This could not be effected by correspondence; it requires
the vital touch of the presence, the sympathy and the mutual
faith and prayer of at least representatives of this great organ-
ization. In it we are more Christian than Presbyterian, or Bap-
tist, or Congregational, or Lutheran, or Methodist, and yet not
less interested in and not less attached to our respective
churches.
While the international is of less importance than the spirit-
ual blending, I venture to say that it means a good deal in the
cultivation of a right spirit between your great republic and the
empire I represent. We have each our national loyalty and our
noble flag; but in this Sunday-school work we rise above com-
mercial and other differences and unite in this international
Sunday-school platform in a great religious organization for a
well-defined object. May this and other reasons lead America
and Great Britain to stand shoulder to shoulder in the work of
a world-wide civilization and evangelization!
We have come to Denver because we represent a constituency
worthy of all that this Convention means. Our constituency is
numerically large. Let us ponder the millions of children and
young people under our teaching and influence, that we may be
seized with the grandeur both of our responsibility and of our
privilege. Our constituency is prophetically influential, both
as it regards the Church and the nations. Great futures are
wrapped up in the childhood and youth of to-day. This may be
seen, when we remember that in a few years they shall occupy
the positions common and uncommon, both in Church and State.
Whatever, therefore, is done for childhood is done for the home,
for the Church, and for the world.
Our constituency is worthy of the best brain and heart of the
whole Church. It must have more and more the consecrated
service of Sunday-school soul-winners. This large and prophet-
ically influential constituency is the most fruitful field for intel-
lectual, moral and spiritual cultivation within the reach of the
agencies of the Church of God. Right dealing with our constit-
ueney accelerates the progress of the kingdom of God beyond
almost any other form of agency. On account, therefore, of the
attractive and hope-inspiring character of those whom we repre-
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sent, we are in Denver at this time and for their sake. The sal-
vation of this glorious constituency is the wonderful work for
which we are responsible. That is what it all means. Do we
grasp its significance? Think of it in the light of the evangel-
ization of the world and as to the beneficent activities of the
Church of the future, and not a far-off future.
We are in Denver because of the mighty bond of the Uniform
Lesson System. The Bible is the throbbing heart of Sunday-
school work. The Bible is the great text-book of the Sunday-
school. To the Bible, and the Bible alone, is given the place of
supremacy in the educational and evangelistic work of the Sun-
day-school.
By the good providence of God the Uniform Lesson scheme
was adopted. The history of the Uniform Lesson System has
been the history of the greatest growth of the Sunday-school.
It has done much to unify the denominations in carrying out the
word of the Chief Shepherd to Peter, “Feed my lambs.” It has
done more than anything else to make possible the interdenom-
inational and international organization now visiting Denver.
In the absence of the Uniform Lesson System there would fail
to be a magnet sufficiently powerful to attract the elements of
this Convention to any one place. Anything, therefore, that
would do away with, or even impair, the System of Uniform
Lessons would in my opinion mean disintegration of what has
been such a demonstration of interdenominational fellowship of
study, of prayer, and of teaching.
Beautiful and helpful is the oneness of the text of the lesson
every Sunday in every Sunday-school connected with this Inter-
national Convention. On this ground of the mighty bond of the
Uniform Lesson System are we in Denver.
We are in Denver because we feel the expansion of the new
century and the consequent responsibility resting upon us. We
have-just entered the gateway of this new and to be wonderful
century in the history of the kingdom of God in this world. The
old century was wonderful in many respects; and in nothing
more than in the growth and development of the Sunday-school
idea.
In 1781, 121 years ago, at the suggestion of a young woman
who afterwards became the wife of Samuel Bradburn, one of
Wesley’s most eloquent preachers, Robert Raikes organized the
first Sunday-school. John Wesley was the first person of note
to approve of the institution, and published its constitution
with approval in the Arminian Magazine. In the same year
John Fletcher introduced the Sunday-school into his parish and
wrote an article on “The Advantages Likely to Accrue from
Sunday Schools.” In 1786 Bishop Asbury started the first Sun-
day-school in America in a private house in Hanover County,
Virginia. In 1790 the Methodist Episcopal Conference ordered
the organization of Sunday-schools. Hours, from six to ten
A. M., and from two to six P. M., when it did not interfere with
public worship. After a little more than a century, behold the
magnitude and grandeur of the Sunday-school institution. Now
that we breathe the air of the twentieth century, and feel the
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spirit of expansion all around us, we of the Sunday-school
department of the Church of the living God are ready to enter
into the ever-widening sphere of the world-wide mission which
opens before us.
We are here because we desire to be worthy of the more than
golden opportunity which is ours at the dawn of this new cen-
tury. Why are we in Denver? Because the Sunday-school is
the great, if not the greatest agency for enlarging the kingdom
of God. There is no rivalry, much less antagonism, between the
Sunday-school and any other agency of the Church of God.
Where you find a Sunday-school crowned with soul-winning suc-
cess and blessed of God in remarkable additions to the church,
you will find a pastor in beautiful sympathy with the superin-
tendent and teachers in their efforts to win the souls of the chil-
dren and young people for Christ and the Church. Such a
pastor would be the first to attest that his Sunday-school is the
great feeder to the church, and that a very large proportion of
those joining the church are from the Sunday-school. Nearly
all in the membership of the church to-day were directly or indi-
rectly helped to decision for Christ through the Sunday-school.
We shall not be far into the twentieth century until all in the
church shall have been trained in the Sunday-school.
At the close of a Sunday evening service, a young man decides
for Christ and avows his determination to follow Christ and
unite with the church. By common consent the pastor is con-
gratulated on the result of his earnest appeal to accept Christ.
How may Christ look on the scene? May he not, in awarding
his reward for the saving of that young man, recognize the
patient, prayerful, loving service of the Sunday-school teacher,
who for years taught and influenced that boy in the direction ot
Christ and salvation?
Then directly, many teachers are blessed in the great joy of
winning their scholars for Christ. There was a young lady at a
Sunday-school convention in Birmingham, England. Under the
impetus and inspiration of the convention she resumed her
teaching, and soon seven of her scholars accepted Christ. What
happened in England may happen in hundreds of classes repre-
sented in this Convention. Even if I speak to some not ready to
admit that the Sunday-school is the greatest agency, I know all
will cheerfully concur that it is a great agency in enlarging the
kingdom of God; and we are in Denver to make it greater and
greater in this respect.
We are in Denver because we are desirous of a better equip-
ment of spiritual power for the blessed work of Sunday-school
teaching and soul-winning. Do I interpret the mind of this
Convention aright when I say that there is a deep and prayerful
desire for a more complete fitness for the Sunday-school depart-
ment of the work of the Lord? The review of this Christian.
service is not as satisfactory as it should be. Is not this sense:
of comparative failure begotten by the Holy Spirit, as well jas.
by our estimate of what should result from such service?
The spirit of this Convention shall to some extent leaven the:
Sunday-school organizations of the world. This may be a Mount
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of Transfiguration which shall bring us into communion with
our glorified Lord and thus better fit us for the valley work
lying before us. Shall this Convention, shall this meeting, mark
a renewal of our covenant with the Master for service? Shall
this Convention, in its individuality, be afresh baptized with
the Holy Spirit? Shall I remind you of the need of the Spirit
by those ringing words, ““Not by might, nor by power, but by my
Spirit, saith the Lord”? This does not warrant us in such
dependence upon the Spirit as to neglect the right use of means,
of all available means, to render our work successful; but it does
remind us that all efforts without the presence and help of the
Spirit shall be as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Dear friends of the Sunday-school, we are living in the dis-
pensation of the Holy Spirit, the last and crowning dispensation
of Divine merey. We do not need to wait ten days for the Pen-
tecostal experience of power from on high, which transfigures
us and multiplies our effectiveness, in some thirty, in some
sixty, and in some an hundred fold. ‘Have ye received the Holy
Ghost?” Let the glorified Christ say to us to-night, as he said
to the disciples after his resurrection, “Receive ye the Holy
Ghost,” and let us one and all, in the name of our ascended
High Priest, in the attitude of devout expectancy and believing
prayer, say from the depths of longing hearts:
“Assembled here with one accord,
Calmly we wait the promised grace,
The purchase of our dying Lord;
Come, Holy Ghost, and fill the place.”
“And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they
were assembled together; and they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of Ged with boldness.”
SECOND SESSION, FRIDAY MORNING.
REPORT OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY.
BY MARION LAWRANCE, OHIO.
Dear Brethren: With gratitude to God for his infinite good-
ness and mercy displayed in a thousand ways, I take pleasure in
submitting my report for the last three years’ work as your
General Secretary.
We are sitting to-day in the shadow of a great sorrow, be-
cause of the absence of our beloved Chairman, whose magnetic
presence, wise counsel and prophetic vision have done so much
to make our International work what it is and has been for a
score of years. He has been the central figure of our great con-
vertions. We miss him to-day, and with sorrow-filled, yet pur-
poseful hearts take up the work we have in hand.
Presuming that Mr. Jacobs would be able at least to prepare
his report, even though another read it, and that all that would
be required of me would be a bare statement of my own doings
for the past three years, I had no purpose of entering into + a
general review of what has been done, nor giving a survey of
the field. Nor have I now in any elaborate way, but have been
asked to embody in my report some few statements concerning
the general condition of our work.
In the beginning I would like to express my hearty appre-
ciation of the uniform kindness and consideration shown to me
in all parts of the field. Wherever I have gone, whether in states
or provinces, it has been the same, and the associations formed
are among the choicest of my life. I thank the brethren, one
and all, and give God the glory. At the hand of our dear brother
and Chairman, Mr. B. F. Jacobs, I have received kindnesses in-
numerable, and shall never forget the inspiration of his words,
nor the helpfulness of his counsel. Thanks are due to our
splendid Treasurer, Dr. George W. Bailey, for his uniform cour-
tesy and promptness. He has carried us many times when we
had no money with which to carry ourselves. Also to Mr. W. N.
Hartshorn, Chairman, and the other members of the Program
Committee, for their patience, and to the Denver Local Com-
mittee, which is one of the best and most thonane ly organized
committees I have known.
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ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
LETTERS.
It may be interesting to know that we have printed and used
over 26,000 envelopes. They were all used for full rate letters
and circulars, and certainly 10,000 of them were for full rate
letters, though we have no accurate statement in regard to that.
We have used 3,000 postal cards. The fact that our postage
bill, including some express and telegraph items, has amounted
to $492.74 will give some little idea of the extent of our mail.
It is not at all uncommon to open letters from thirty to forty
states and provinces in one mail. These letters bear on all fea-
tures of our work, and some are very amusing. I try to answer
them all, but have a fear that the man who wrote, “Please give
me your views on the Sunday-school, past, present and future;
I want to use it in 4n address,” did not get as full a reply as
he had hoped.
PRINTED MATTER.
We believe in the stimulating and educating influence of the
right kind of printed matter. There have gone out from our
office during the last three vears 511,300 separate pieces of
printed matter, all advertising in one way or another our Inter-
national Sunday-school work. Of this large number 351,500
are Round Table leaflets, which are furnished free to the officers
of the state and provincial associations for convention use.
Every one of these leaflets has a half-page explaining and adver-
tising our International work. It may be interesting to know
what these leaflets treat upon, and I give herewith the number
and subject:
No. 1. Organized Sunday-school Work.
No. 2. Sunday-school Management.
No. 3. The Sunday-school Teacher.
No. 4. The Home Department.
No. 5. The Sunday-school Bujperinten tei
No. 6. Sunday-school Normal work, or Teacher Training.
No. 7. Primary work.
No. 8. House-to-house Visitation.
No. 9. Sunday-school Week and Decision Day.
With others to follow.
Each leaflet contains twenty-five suggestive questions on.
the topic it treats of.
IN THE FIELD.
During the triennium, which closes with this Convention, [
have been permitted to visit every state and territory of the
Union (Alaska excepted), speaking in all but Nevada and
Indian Territory. I have likewise visited the Canadian prov-
inces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island,
Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.
Below will be found a record of my visits to the various
states and provinces. The first figure following the name indi-
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cates the number of visits to that state or province. The second
figure in the same parenthesis indicates the number of places
in which I spoke in the state or province, counting the same
lace several times if it was visited on different occasions.
Alabama (1-2;, Arizona (1-2), Arkansas (1-2), British
Columbia (1-1), California, N. (2-4), California, S. (1-2), Col-
erado (3-4), Connecticut (1-3). Delaware (1-4), District of
Columbia (1-1), Florida (2-4), Georgia (2-4), Idaho (1-1).
Illinoi s (2-2), not counting 12 visits to Chicago; Indiana (2-3),
Towa (1-1), Kansas (1-3), Kentucky (2-2), Louisiana (1-1),
Maine (2-5), Maryland (1-1), Massachusetts (4-4), Michigan
(7-7), Minnesota (3-3), Mississippi (1-1), Missouri (3-3), Mon-
tana (1-2), New Brunswick (1-3), Nebraska (1-1), Nova Seo-
tia (1-3), New Hampshire (1-1), New Jersey (2-5), New Mex-
jco (1-1), New York (4-4), not counting 4 visits to New York
City; North Carolina (2-4), North Dakota (1-2), Ohio (2-19),
Ontario (3-6), Oklahoma (1-2), Oregon (1-2), Pennsylvania
(3-5), not counting 6 visits to Philadelphia; Prince Edward
Island (1-2), Quebee (1-1), Rhode Island (1-1), South Carolina
(1-2), South Dakota (1-3), Tennessee (2-9), Texas (1-4), Utah
(2-4), Vermont (1-2), Virginia (2-4), Washington (1-3), West
Virginia (2-2), Wisconsin (3-10), Wyoming (2-2).
INSPIRATIONAL TOURS.
A considerable part of the traveling, not only of myself, but
of others, during the past three years, was in connection with
two great inspirational tours. The first was known as the
“Northwestern Tour,” and was in charge of your General Sec-
retary, accompanied by Rev. E. S. Lewis, D.D., of Columbus,
Ohio; Rev. Alexander Henry. of Philadelphia; Mr. Robert T.
Bonsall, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Prof. E. O. Excell. On this
tour we visited Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Mon-
tana, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, Oregon, California,
Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. The party traveled, in the aggre-
gate, nearly 40,000 miles, and spoke 238 times. The tour lasted
eight weeks, and the entire expense, not counting the salary
of your General Secretary, was about $1,000. The other mem-
bers of the party gave'their services without compensation.
One man had contributed $1,000 specifically for this tour, and
we collected $598.50 en route toward the expense account and
for the work. Besides this we raised in pledges for the work *
in the states visited the sum of $8.615. As a result of this tour
British Columbia was organized, and has made remarkable
progress. Wyoming was reorganized, and, while they have
had many difficulties to contend with, they are doing excellent
work. Idaho has taken new life, and all the states visited are
greatly quickened.
The second was known as the “Trans-Continental Tour,” and
was in charge of our Field Secretary, Dr. H. M. Hamill, who
invited your General Secretary to join him in the management
of the tour. The party was composed of Dr. and Mrs. Hamill:
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Rey. B. W. Spilman, of North Carolina, now of Tennessee; Prof.
E. O. Excell, and myself. All but the two secretaries contributed
their services. This was by far the greatest tour ever under-
taken in the interests of Sunday-school work, reaching literally
from ocean to ocean. It took in the states of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona, Southern California, Northern California, Utah, Wyo-
ming, Colorado and Kansas. We traveled, in the aggregate,
over 50,000 miles, and made 586 addresses. The tour lasted
thirteen weeks. Considerable money was raised to pay the ex-
penses of this tour before we started. We received on the way
the sum of $1,803.90. It was quite a little more than the entire
expense of the tour, without saying anything of the money
that was raised for the purpose before starting. Over $12,000
was raised in the various states for their own work. One fea-
ture of this tour was the contact with the colored work of the
South. The Rev. Mr. Maxwell had arranged for colored meetings
at various points, and was present at most of them. Something
of the interest manifested on this tour may be learned from
the fact that the average audiences numbered over 700 people.
We had opportunities to address large numbers of Sunday-
schools and several Indian schools, besides a number of edu-
cational institutions. Mrs. Hamill established twenty-eight
primary unions. Reorganization was effected in Florida and
New Mexico.
Professor Hamill, as Field Secretary, was always very active,
and covered a great deal of ground. In addition to the Trans-
Continental Tour, he has visited every state in the Union and
nearly all of the provinces, and some of them a number of
times. I presume that he is the best known Sunday-school
worker in the United States to-day, and our Association sus-
tained a very great loss when he closed his service with us.
Everywhere I go I see the marks of his master hand as a
speaker and instructor. In his leaving us I feel a personal loss,
and wish here to record my appreciation of his helpfulness and
kindness to me.
Any record of extended travel in connection with our work
would be incomplete if we did not speak of several other people.
Charles D. Meigs, connected with The International Sunday-
school Evangel, has represented our Committee in a very large
, number of the states and provinces at various times during the
last three years. He has visited many of the Eastern, South-
eastern and Southern states, and made several tours to the
Pacific Coast. He has rendered efficient service wherever he has
gone.
~ Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner has been giving the past two
months to International work in the Northwest, visiting the
states of Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, British Colum-
bia, Montana, Nebraska and Iowa. Her work is spoken of in
the highest terms, and Washington has asked her to give them
two months next fall.
Quite a number of our state secretaries and others have from
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time to time gone into other states and provinces to represent
our Committee, and have all done excellent work. Among these
are Alfred Day, who has recently visited both Dakotas; also W.
J. Semelroth, Lewis Collins, W. C. Pearce, W. C. Merritt, W. H.
Irwin, Joseph Clark and others. W. H. Irwin, Secretary of
Manitoba, has just made a trip into Assiniboia, Saskatchewan
and Alberta in the interest of our International work. This
trip covered several weeks’ time, and, while he did splendid ser-
vice, the results were greatly interfered with by almost impassa-
ble roads.
I have reserved for the last to speak of our Chairman, who,
in the early part of the triennium, was able to do some work in
the field, and always did what he was able to do, and more. But
as failing health came upon him, he was obliged more and more
to give up his visits to other states, though he never lost one
particle of his love and interest.
ADDRESSES AND CONFERENCES.
While much of my work has been public addresses on the
platform, I have considered that the best service I could render
was in the state and provincial executive committee meetings,
and in conference with the brethren. My addresses and confer-
ences during the three years number 782.
MILEAGE.
During the last three years I have traveled something over
76,000 miles, an average of about 25,000 miles a year, at a net
cost to the Association of $255.30 above the sum paid for that
purpose by the states and provinces visited. We are glad to
know that the state and provincial associations are coming more
and more to understand that they should pay the traveling
expenses of the International workers, in addition to the pledge
they make for International work. The first year my net
expense for traveling was $184.67, while during the year just
closed it was but $36.70 for the same amount of mileage.
MONEY RAISED.
In many of the states and provinces I have been called upon
to raise the funds by means of pledges and cash for their own
work. I have raised in this way something over $35,000. I have
also solicited individual contributions for our International
work as I have had opportunity, and have raised in this way
about $4,000. This does not include the money raised on either
of the great “Tours” referred to above.
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THE CONDITION OF ORGANIZATION.
The organized Sunday-school work is in better condition to-
day, we believe, than ever before in its history. The feeling
throughout the entire country is one of loyalty and deep interest.
While the thoughtful are everywhere reaching out for better
things, they are not unmindful of the good things they have, and
are seeking to improve them. The organization has gone for-
ward steadily. and, we believe, surely. British Columbia has
effected a new organization, and is doing well. The organization
has been re-established in Wyoming, Wisconsin, Florida, and
several other states where it had lapsed. Indeed, the only states,
provinces and territories unorganized at present are *Nevada,
Indian Territory, Alaska, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. In
many of the states and provinces the organization is in a very
prosperous condition. One indication of activity is the number
of paid workers in the various states and provinces. Highty-five
people are now in the employ of these associations. Siaty-four
of them give full time, and twenty-one of them part time, to
forty-one different states and provinces. :
One instance of enterprise deserves special attention. Prince
Edward Island has but 213 Sunday-schools, enrolling 12,000
members, and is so small that on the map it looks like a mere
speck in the sea. Yet at their convention last fall they put in a
general secretary for full time. Nine months have passed, and
they have been enabled to push their work vigorously, pay all
their bills, and have now nearly $300 in the bank. Their general
secretary, Rev. G. P. Raymond of Charlottetown, is present in
this Convention. They also contribute regularly $25 a year to
the International work. If all other states and provinces paid
in that proportion our Treasurer would handle over $50,000
each triennium, instead of about half that sum. If Prince Ed-
ward Island, with a handful of people. can accomplish such
results as these, is there excuse for any state or province?
One state has nine workers, two have five, two have four, five
have three each, eight have two each. Ontario has two workers,
five other provinces one each, all on full time. The work accom-
plished by some of our secretaries is something wonderful. For
instance, Mr. J. H. Engle, secretary of Kansas, has attended the
conventions in 102 of the 105 counties of his state during the
past year. Oklahoma, without a paid worker, has every county
organized, and each county held a convention during the past
year. The South is taking on new life, with Alabama clearly
in the lead among the Gulf and South Atlantic states in the con-
dition of its organization. Texas has put in a secretary during
the last three years, and is doing efficient work. We know of no
state, however, that makes a better showing, all things consid-
ered, than Washington, under the efficient leadership of Mr.
Merritt.
The “Tour” idea for county work is being adopted by some
* Nevada was organized June 23, 1902, but the fact had not been re-
ported when this report was written. Every state is now organized.
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states, notably Ohio and Kentucky. Ohio has a plan on foot to
visit every county in the state within the next year with a com-
pany of five expert workers. Kentucky undertook something of
the kind with great success last year. Others are working along
the same line.
THE CITIES.
Our eyes are toward the cities. More work has been done in
the large cities during the last triennium, probably, than for
many years. The more thorough city organization, followed by
house visitation, has attracted a good deal of attention and
accomplished much good. Chicago, Philadelphia, New York,
Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati and St. Louis have set the pace
for other large cities, while effective house visitation has been
carried on in nearly all these cities named, and very many
others, including Tacoma, Seattle, Toledo, Buffalo, and hundreds
of smaller cities. Pennsylvania easily leads in house visitation,
having visited twenty-eight cities, calling upon more than a
million people to invite them to the house of God. As this is the
home of our great apostle of house visitation, Mr. Cork, this
result is not to be wondered at.
CONVENTIONS.
The convention is the point of contact between the organiza-
tion and the people. In many cases it is all they see of the organ-
ization, but the convention is the result, rather than the cause.
So far as we can discover, the conventions have been much larger
and better the past year than ever before. The last convention I
attended was in Indiana, just one week ago, and there were 1,712
regularly enrolled delegates. It is worthy of notice that our
reports show that over 18,000 Sunday-school conventions have
been held during the past year in the various states, provinces
and territories under the auspices of our Association. Probably
nearly 50,000 conventions have been held during the last tri-
ennium.
THE HOME DEPARTMENT.
We have great reason to rejoice over the magnificent growth
indicated in the home department. Our statistical report will
show a gain of about 100.000 in membership, and the interest is
widening and aeepening every day. There is no limit to the use-
fulness and practicability of this department of our work. It
will be fully reported by Dr. Duncan.
EDUCATIONAL.
The interest in teacher-training is growing. In the best organ-
ized states it is a rare thing for an annual convention to pass
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without the presentation of diplomas to a class of graduates.
Illinois leads in this work, largely due to the years of efficient
work of Professor Hamill and his associates. In nearly all the
states and provinces specific work is being done along normal
lines, and we believe it is growing everywhere. Our statistical
report will show that there are over 1,300 normal classes
reported, with a membership of about 14,000, and that fully
1,500 have received graduating diplomas the past year. We are
confident that many normal classes have not been reported, for
some states have paid no attention to that feature of the blanks
sent out.
In this same connection the teachers’ library is growing in
favor. Many schools are coming to realize that a small library
of choice books for their teachers will do their Sunday-schools
more good than-a larger library of books for the scholars.
EVANGELISTIC.
Something like a year ago I stepped into a meeting of the
New York state executive committee. There were eighteen men
present. all upon their knees, praying for the conversion of the
children of New York state. I was told that they had just closed
a half-day meeting before this one, in which the same theme had
been the burden of their prayers. They were so impressed with
the Divine leading in the matter that they changed their pro-
gram, to make room for some special addresses by a children’s
evangelist on this very subject. As a result, there has been a
very large number of conversions of children and young people
reported in the state of New York this year. This same spirit
we have found in very many parts of the country, and we believe
that specific results in conversion are being sought for more defi-
nitely and persistently than ever before. This thought brings
us to
SUNDAY-SCHOOL WEEK AND DECISION DAY.
We are glad to know that Decision Day, and the accompany-
ing Sunday-school Week, are growing in favor rapidly. The spe-
cific accounts of Decision Day are often heard in conventions and
seen in religious papers, and we believe that very many from
whom we have no report whatever have been led into the Chris-
tian life through the observance of Decision Day. Over 300
schools in Chicago observed the day last March, with blessed
results. Fully five thousand decisions, we are told, are definitely
recorded as the results of one Decision Day in Philadelphia.
Nearly, if not quite, half the states and provinces have adopted
a uniform Decision Day, and wherever I go I hear of most excel-
lent results. Not for years has there been the deep interest in
child-conversion there is at present. About 150,000 of our schol-
ars have been converted and added to the church during the past
year, according to our reports, for which we greatly rejoice, and
thank God.
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THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES.
We are glad to notice that our theological seminaries are be-
ginning, in answer to a very general and wide-spread demand, to
pay more attention to sacred pedagogy, normal classes and such
lines of study as will more thoroughly fit the young men who go
out as ministers in the arts of teacher-training and Sunday-
school management. The purpose is not that the ministers
should in all cases do this work when they become pastors, but
they should be familiar with what is needed, and see that it is
done. In some of our seminaries regular lecture-courses have
been established on “The Sunday-school,” and courses of study
are being introduced which will greatly help in the line above
indicated. Many of our ablest ministers and laymen are giving
valuable help in these institutions. We are constantly in receipt
of invitations to go to seminaries for the purpose of lecturing on
Sunday-school work. It has been our privilege to address the
students at Lane, Crozer, Montreal, Hartford and Xenia semi-
naries, and I have had invitations from quite a number of others,
including Auburn, Princeton, Chicago, McCormick, Southern
Baptist, ete. When we remember that probably not one church
in a hundred is making any systematic effort to supply its Sun-
day-school with trained teachers, and only one church in thirty-
three, according to our reports, has a teachers’ meeting of any
character, we see the need which the seminaries are coming to
recognize. If it is true that in this country fully four-fifths of
those who are added to our churches by conversion come through
the Sunday-school (and even a greater proportion in England
and Wales, according to the statement of Dr. John Clifford), it
is certainly proper that the Sunday-school should receive more
attention in our theological seminaries than it has in the past.
We are glad that this topic is to be spoken upon in this Conven-
tion by Dr. Mullins.
TOE WORK IN JAPAN.
Mr. T. C. Ikehara has been working continuously in Japan
since our last Convention. The signs of progress are very
marked. He has organized a large number of districts, and held
a great many Sunday-school meetings. We hear from many
sourees of the great spiritual quickening in Japan, and our
hearts are rejoiced. Mr. Ikehara has started a Sunday-school
publication, in the form of a pamphlet. It is printed entirely in
the Japanese language, except the title. We presume it is very
interesting and helpful, but have not read it. What the future
relation of this organization shall be toward the work in the
“Flower Kingdom of the East” should be definitely determined
at this Convention.
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
We are able to report practically nothing concerning the Sun-
day-school work in our newly acquired possessions. We have a
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very interesting communication from the Hawaiian Islands,
stating that the Sunday-schools there are carried on in so many
different languages that it is very difficult to secure much in the
way of co-operation. A lady is in attendance from Honolulu,
who brings us their greeting. Though an Ohio woman, she is
recognized asa delegate from Hawaii.
We know practically nothing regarding the Sunday-school
work in the Philippines or Porto Rico.
GONE TO TITEIR REWARD.
We have lost by death during the last triennium some of our
very choicest workers. Our Obituary Committee will make due
mention of all of them in their report, and they are likewise
referred to on pages 36 and 37 of the Program, but it is proper
that a simple record, at least, of their passing away should be
entered here,
Rev. Warren Randolph, D.D., for twenty-four years the sec-
retary of the International Lesson Committee, died December
13, 1899.
Frank Woods of Maryland, for thirteen years secretary of the
International Executive Committee, died in the summer of 1900.
Ebenezer Sharpe of Helena, our International Committeeman
for Montana, died in 1900.
Philip G. Gillett, LL..D., president of the Fifth National Con-
yention, held in Indianapolis in 1872, died on October 2, 1901.
Gen. J. J. Estey, our International Committeeman from Ver-
mont, died March 7, 1902.
Rev: L. B. Maxwell, our field worker among the colored people,
after seven years of splendid service, died March 15, 1902.
Rev. B. M. Palmer, D.D., a member of the International Les-
son Committee from 1880 to 1886, died in New Orleans May
28, 1902.
B. F. Jacobs, our International Chairman, and member of the
International Lesson Committee from its very beginning, died
last Monday afternoon, June 23. IL have it in my heart to turn
aside from this report and pay to his memory the choicest
tribute I could frame in words, but it is not my province to fore-
stall the work of the proper committee nor of this Convention.
I will refrain from saying much that might well be said, and
simply remind you all of what you already know, that a great
man has fallen in Israel.
The world is better because these men have lived, and their
works do follow them.
THE WORK OF THIS CONVENTION.
Many matters of mighty moment will come up for considera-
tion at this great Convention. The selection of new officers to
serve us for the next three years; the selection of a new Execu-
tive Committee; the selection of a new Lesson Committee; plans
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for extending and widening our work, with the selection of
needed extra workers; selection of a colored worker for the
South; the adjustment of our departmental work; the satisfac-
tory adjustment of our Lesson System; our part in arranging for
the next World’s Convention: and many other matters, but we
need to guard ourselves, dear brethren, lest in our great anxiety
to bring to pass specific lines of legislation, which to us seem of
paramount importance, we shall forget to consider the great
field at large, and that the highest good can only come by doing
that which brings the best results to the largest number. We
are met together as God’s servants, and should remember that
he is more interested in what we do than we can possibly be.
This is not the time nor place for advancing personal interests
or pressing personal ambitions. The great work of this Conven-
tion is to try to Jearn the mind of God and to see our great field
through the eyes of Jesus Christ. Let us remember that there
are millions of boys, girls and young people in our land who are
not in any Sunday-school at all. Let us remember that we are
engaged in that department of church work which promises most
for their salvation.
We have (1) the people to be saved, as no other church service
gathers them. (2) We have them at the right time—the time
of promise and opportunity, in their childhood and youth.
(3) We have the workers. Over a million and a half of earnest,
consecrated, faithful men and women are addressing themselves
to this particular task as officers and teachers in our Sunday-
schools. (4) We have the weapon—the “sword of the Spirit,
which is the Word of God,” through which, by the aid of the
Holy Spirit, the work alone can be accomplished. Oh, that we
might get a vision of our opportunity, and’ remember that the
real issue before this Convention is not manipulating our Lesson
System, nor the insertion or omission of temperance lessons at
stated intervals; nor the selection of this man or that man for
any particular place, though all of these things are of tre-
mendous importance, but to ascertain, by waiting upon God and
studying the field, what he would have us to do to build up his
kingdom and bring glory to his name.
God grant that. when our deliberations are ended, and the
decrees of this Convention are put in print and promulgated
throughout our field, it may be appropriately said of all we have
done, in the words of that matchless letter sent from Jerusalent
to Antioch about which we studied a few Sundays ago: “It
seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us.”
FINALLY.
A careful survey of the work, and a study of our statistical
report, give us occasion for much gratitude to God for the pro-
gress that has been made. While our gain in membership is not
what we had hoped, there is, nevertheless, a gain. The greatest
cause for rejoicing is the large number of conversions, and the
deep spiritual interest manifested everywhere. Also, the fact.
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62 ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
that much more attention than ever before is being paid to the
perfecting of our organization, extending our normal, home
department and house visitation work, and the inculeation of
missionary intelligence among the scholars.
The best part of the work done, however, by this or any simi-
lar organization is never reported. lt is impossible to report
how many schools have been benefited, how many pastors en-
thused, how many superintendents aroused, how many teachers
blessed, how many inactive Christians quickened, how many
hearts encouraged, how many souls won for Christ. We are very
sure that such work as has been done during the past year in the
-more than 18,000 conventions by our faithful seeretaries, and
those who have assisted them, will never be known this side of
the pearly gates.
Of one thing, however, we are certain—that not a word
spoken, nor a deed performed in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ was ever lost, and some day will be the harvest time. Our
great need, brethren, as we sit together in this Tenth Interna-
tional Convention, is that we may not lose sight of the great
purpose for which we exist, and that we may keep close to God,
remembering ever that from him come all our blessings, and in
him is all our hope.
In honor of our beloved Chairman, who is not here to-day to
speak the words of cheer and courage, I would like to be per-
mitted to close this report with the same lines with which he
closed his report—his last report—at Atlanta:
“God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line.
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine,—
Lord God of hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget.”
Respectfully submitted,
General Secretary.
THE TRIENNIAL STATISTICAL REPORT.
BY MARION LAWRANCE, OHIO,
General Secretary.
The only thing about which we are absolutely certain in con-
nection with this report as a whole is that it is quite incomplete
and unreliable. It was understood that the statistics should be
gathered as heretofore by our Recording Secretary; and not
SECOND SESSION, FRIDAY MORNING. 63
until the middle of December, 1901, was it discovered that it was
impossible for him to do the work, and it was placed upon me.
This gave but six months in which to gather the reports from
our great field, and it is all too short. Harly in January I pre-
pared a comprehensive statistical blank, and sent it out to the
proper officers in all the states, provinces and territories. This
original request was followed by letters the first of each suc-
ceeding month to all who had not reported, again calling their
attention to the matter, and urging promptness and accuracy.
In some eases many additional letters have been required, espe-
cially where a report was sent in showing an unnatural gain or
loss, or inconsistencies. We have done everything in our power
to fulfill the commission given to us, but not with very satisfac-
tory results. Fresh reports have been received from forty-six
states, provinces and territories, and, to encourage promptness
in the future, we give below the dates on which they were
received, and also the names of the persons sending them in:
ls Michigan—January 24, 1902; Alfred Day, Detroit.
2. Pennsylvania—January 30, 1902 ; Hugh Cork, Philadel-
phia.
3. New Jersey—January 31, 1902; Rev. E. M. Fergusson,
Trenton.
4. Utah—February 8, 1902; L. M. Gillilan, Salt Lake City.
5. Prince Edward Island—February 18, 1902; Rev. G. P.
Raymond, Charlottetown.
6. Mississippi—February 21, 1902; John T. Buck, Jackson.
7. Missouri—February 25, 1902; Rev. A. P. George, St.
Louis.
8. Connecticut—February 25, 1902; George S. Deming, New
Haven.
9. Quebec—March 17, 1902; Rev. E. W .Halpenny, Montreal.
iS Illinois—March 20, 1902; W. B. Jacobs, Chicago.
. Arizona—March 29, 1902; M. W. Messinger, Phoenix.
ie Rhode Island—April 10, 1902; W. B. Wilson, Providence.
13. Delaware—April 14, 1902; Dr. Frank W. Lang, Wil-
mington.
14, Ontario—April 14, 1902; J. A. Jackson, Toronto.
5 ginia—April 18, 1902; J. A. Sprenkel, Richmond.
16. California (Southern)—April 29, 1902; Charles M. Mil-
ler, Los Angeles.
17. Wyoming—May 7, 1902; Mrs. P. F. Powelson, Cheyenne.
18. Alaska—May 12, 1902; Hon. Sheldon Jackson, Washing-
ton, D. C.
19. British Columbia—May 12, 1902; Horace J. Knott, Vic-
toria.
20. North Carolina—May 12, 1902; H. N. Snow, Durham.
21. Louisiana—May 21, 1902; Mrs. H. M. McCants, New
Orleans.
22. New Mexico—May 26, 1902; F. W. Spencer, Albuquerque.
23. Nebraska—June 2, 1902; R. H. Pollock, Beatrice.
24. North Dakota—June 2, 1902; John Orchard, Fargo.
25. Maine—June 2, 1902; Edward A. Mason, Oakland.
26. Nova Scotia—June 2, 1902; Stuart Muirhead, Halifax.
64 é ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
27. New York—June 2, 1902; Timothy Hough, Syracuse.
28. Texas—June 4, 1902; Lewis Collins, Dallas.
29. New Hampshire—June 4, 1902; J. N. Dummer, Rowley,
Mass.
30. New Brunswick—June 4, 1902; Rev. Aquila Lucas, Sus-
sex.
31. Kentucky—June 4, 1902; Prof. E. A. Fox, Louisville.
32. Tennessee—June 5, 1902; Rev. George O. Bachman, Nash-
ville.
33. Colorado—June 6, 1902; Mrs. Jean F. Webb, Denver.
34. Idaho—June 7, 1902; E. C. Cook, Boise.
35. Oklahoma—June 7, 1902; Arthur Whorton, Perry.
36. District of Columbia—June 9, 1902; We W. Millan, Wash-
ington.
37. Montana—June 9, 1902; W. H. Irwin, Brandon.
38. Alberta—June 10, 1902: George A. Reid, Edmonton.
39. Ohio—June 10, 1902; Joseph Clark, Columbus.
40. Kansas—June 11, 1902; Fayette A. Smith, Abilene.
41. California (Northern)—June 12, 1902; Mrs. C. A. Harp,
Stockton.
42. Oregon—June 13, 1902; A. A. Morse, Portland.
43. Iowa—June 14, 1902; Mrs. B. F. Mitchell, Des Moines.
44. Washington—June 16, 1902: Rev. W. C. Merritt, Tacoma.
45. Massachusetts—June 18, 1902; Hamilton S. Conant,
Boston.
46. Indiana—June 20, 1902; Rev. J. C. Carman.
In all cases where we have not received a new report, we have
used the last report available. No reports as yet (June 21) re-
ceived from the following states, provinces and countries:
1. Arkansas. 11. Vermont.
2. Florida. 12. West Virginia.
3. Georgia. 13. Wisconsin.
4. Indian Territory. 14. Hawaii.
5. Maryland. 15. Assiniboia.
6. Minnesota. 16. Saskatchewan.
7. Montana. 17. Newfoundland.
8. Nevada. 18. Mexico.
9. South Carolina. 19. West Indies.
10. South Dakota. 20. Central America.
There is but one way to secure complete and accurate statis-
tics, and that is by thorough organization. The best reports
invariably come from the states and provinces which are the
best organized. It is next to impossible to secure accurate sta-
tistics through any other agency. The denominational year
books help very much, but many denominations do not issue
them, and there are many undenominational and union Sunday-
schools which are not reported anywhere. We believe, on the
whole, however, that the reports herewith presented are as
accurate as any previously given.
We want to commend especially the accuracy and complete-
oa
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SECOND SESSION, FRIDAY MORNING. 65
ness of the reports from Illinois. Ohio, Washington, Kansas,
(Kansas got a fresh report from every one of its 105 counties).
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Prince Edward Island, Rhode Island,
Delaware, Alaska, Nova Scotia and Alberta; while others show
great care, and those who make them deserve much credit for
their painstaking. The gathering of statistics, it ought to be
said, is the most trying and difficult work our secretaries have
to do, and yet nothing can be more valuable to our work than
reliable statistics.
We believe, on the whole, those who gathered these statistics
are not given to over-estimates, and that these figures may be
relied upon as conservative, and under, rather than over the
truth.
The statistical tables presented herewith tell their own story.
We believe statistics gathered only once in three years will
never be accurate unless the states and provinces do something,
at least, toward keeping track of the growth of their Sunday-
school statistics from year to year. Accurate statistics are an
inspiration, but estimates are very depressing. The “guessing
at half and multiplying by two” process does not commend itself
to thinking people, and yet this is the basis of some of our
statistics.
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ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
STATISTICS PRESENTED TO THE SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-
SCHOOL CONVENTIONS.
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1, Baltimore, May 11-13, 1875,
United States.............. 64,871) 753,060| 5,790,683) 6,543,743
Oangda wate imps srracha- Som 4,401 35,745 271,381 307,126
2. Atlanta, April 17-19, 1878.
United States........ re 78,046} 853,100! 6,504,054 7,357,154
Canada yet .cs..% ss arate ces 5,395 41,693 339, 381,636
3. Toronto, June 22-24, 1881.
ntted States. ia. % « <0na0seis 84,730| 932,283) 6,820,835! 7,753,118
British America............ 5,640 42,912 356,330 399,242
4, Louisville, June 11-13, 1884,
United States..........00. 98,303| 1,043,718) 7,668,833) 8,712,851
British America............ 5,213 45,511 387,966 433,477
5. Chicago, June 1-3, 1887.
United States.............. 99,860| 1,108,265; 8,048,462! 9,156,727
British America i 52,938 440, 493,921
6. Pittsburg, June 24-27, 1890.
United States.............. 108,939! 1,151,340! 8,649,131! 9,800,471
British America............ 7,020 58,086 497,113 555,199
7. St. Louis, Aug. 31-Sept, 2, 1893
United States.............. 123,173] 1,305,939| 9,718,432) 11,024,371
British America............ 8,745 71,796 599,040 670,837
8. Boston, June 23-26, 1896,
Mnited States: <..).0dcereialesiels 132,639] 1,396,508) 10,890,092} 12,286,600
British America............ 9,450 79,861 666,714 746,575
9, Atlanta, April 26-30, 1899,
United States....... aide ialete ie 137,293] 1,399,711) 11,327,858) 12,727,569
British America............ 10,527 81,874 680,208 732,082
PAPRIOO chine nici S tin ainalbie Waele 319 723 9,259 |, 982
10. Denver, June 26-30, 1902.
Mmited! WSEAS. cio0e oe0c sieeve 139,817| 1,419,807) 11,493,591) 13,092,703
CATT SAS SS ae cia aeecor 10,220 82,156 i 786,654
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enw, Geeaddoscieo soe bene 319 723 9,259 10,082
WERE IMIUWICE <2 )~ clue to's 6s Ue ae 2,306 10,769 111,335 122,104
*Central America............ 231 577 5,741 6,218
Total for North America...... 153,246] 1,516,406] 12,328,562] 14,042,901
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service of God and the good of men by proclaiming the simple
story of the cross.
“After he was graduated from Atlanta University and Hart-
ford Seminary, he remained for ten years the pastor of the First
Congregational Church at Savannah, Ga. During the last six
years of his life he was the Field Worker for the South of the
International Sunday-school Convention.
“Mr. Maxwell died young, being only forty-one years old at the
time of his departure. His sun set while it was yet day. I knew
him well and loved him. For three years I was his assistant in
carrying out the work of the International Convention, and it is
a pleasure for me to state, speaking out of the fulness of an inti-
macy that extended over many years, that he was one of the
most Christ-like men I ever knew.
“Tn addition to his Christianity and learning, the thing that
impressed me most was his great, good common sense. He did
more to bring the different denominations among the negroes.
together for common work on a common basis than any religious
teacher of this generation.”
In concluding this report, may I not say that it is the wish
and prayer of the colored people of the South that the work of
the International Convention may be continued among them?
In spite of rumors and reports to the contrary, the colored peo-
ple as a whole are a grateful people, and they realize that the
International Convention has done more for them than they can
ever hope to do for it. If we are here in small numbers: if we
do not make the showing that you think we ought to make, it
is because for more than a year now no one has been authorized
to work among the colored people of the South. Brother Max-
well’s protracted illness, his absence from the field, and that
alone, accounts for any shortcomings that may be apparent on
our part at this time.
In Brother Maxwell’s last letter to The Evangel, he said:
“The tour of our secretaries through Georgia has set the state
on fire with Sunday-school enthusiasm, and we are going to try
to keep it ablaze.” God willed otherwise. Brother Maxwell was
not permitted to help in keeping alive the enthusiasm created by
the Trans-continental Party. God knew best. But it is the
duty of the International Convention, as I see it, to take no
backward steps in their work among the colored people, and I
plead with you now with all the earnestness of which I am
capable, in the name of my race, in the name of humanity, in
the name of God, to continue to lend a helping hand to a strug-
gling race that is willing to take up the work where Maxwell
left off and go on fighting the battles for the perpetuity of this
nation through the moral and religious training of the young
people.
94 ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
LETTER OF MR. W. B. JACOBS.
READ BY W. C. PEARCE, ILLINOIS.
Cuicago, June 25, 1902.
W. N. Hartshorn, Chairman.
My DEAR BROTHER: During my beloved brother’s illness, the
chief subject of his thoughts, and the one upon which his mind
has been perfectly clear, was the Denver Convention and its rela-
tion to the future work of the International and Lesson com-
mittees. After his physician announced last week that he might
not live twenty-four hours, my brother spoke with great calm-
ness of the International work, and expressed his unfaltering
faith that God would continue to direct and bless the Interna-
tional Committee in its plans for.the advancement of the Sun-
day-school work. After repeating to me the doctor’s statement
regarding himself, he said: “It is all right, William; God
makes no mistakes. He will take care of his own work.” Then
he told me of God’s guidance during the dark days of Interna-
tional work, twenty or more years ago, and of his uplifting
power and abounding grace since then; and his voice grew -
stronger, and his eyes lifted with his old-time look of enthusi-
asm as he recounted instance after instance of the Holy Spirit’s
presence and power in state and provincial conventions.
Toward the close of this heaven-sent message (which he may
have expected me to bear to the Convention) his voice grew
more tender, and in a pleading vein he uttered these last words:
“O, William, if only our brethren will put aside all personal
ambition, all desire to have their own way, and will let God lead
them, he ae surely guide us to greater victories, and give us
true succe He spoke frequently of his own death, and ex-
pressed fe hope that by it the Convention might be brought
nearer to God. His first and last thought and desire has been
that the power of God may come upon the great Convention,
humbling all at his feet, that thus he might draw all to himself,
and send you forth in “the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel
of Christ.” In the spirit of our Divine Master, he longed and
prayed and worked unceasingly for the unity of all in Christ,
and I know of no words which more truly express his heart’s
desire than these from our Lord’s own lips, “That they all may
be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us:” and then, what? “that the world may believe
that thou hast sent me.”
May God hasten that day!
With love to the brethren, and unceasing prayers for God’s
blessing upon your deliberations, and upon the great Conven-
tion,
Yours in prayer and service.
W. B. JACOBS.
SECOND SESSION, FRIDAY MORNING. 95
THE LAST EXECUTIVE REPORT OF B. F. JACOBS.
EXTRACTS FROM HIS REPORT TO THE ILLINOIS CONVENTION, 1902,
READ BY W. C. PEARCE.
DEAR BRETHREN: We are yet in “the morning twilight of the
Twentieth Century,” and from this point in our history, as from
a mountain summit, the past may be advantageously surveyed.
We review the progress, changes, successes and failures, and
study the value of our work by its history as an operative force
in human affairs. It occupies a prominent place and engages
the thoughtful consideration of truly great men and compels
their approval.
A century ago a writer in an English magazine said of the
Sunday-school: “It is subversive of that order, that tran-
quility which constitutes the happiness of society . . . . and so
far from deserving encouragement and applause, it merits our
contempt, and ought to be exploded as the vain, chimerical insti-
iution of a visionary projector.” And a bishop warned his
clergy against Sunday-schools, ‘‘because in them the minds of
the children of the very lowest order are enlightened, that is to
say, taught to despise religion and the laws, and all subordina-
tion.” Compare these utterances with the words of John
Bright. In an address delivered in Edinburgh, Scotland, he
said: “I do not believe that all the efforts men have ever made
tend so much to the greatness and true happiness, and to the
security and true glory of this country, as have the efforts oi
your Sunday-school teachers.” And as to the enlightenment of
the children of the lowest, and our responsibility for them, the
Hon. Seth Low, the distinguished ex-president of Columbia Uni-
versity, now the mayor of Greater New York, in his message to
the Board of Education, said: “Remember that every child
within the city’s limits is a child of New York, and that no
child is so insignificant as to be beneath the city’s care.” And
President William McKinley, who was a Sunday-school teacher,
in a letter to the editor of The Sunday School Times, said:
“Every youth who is taught to observe the principles of justice
and forbearance becomes an intelligent friend of the doctrine of
peace, and every endeavor which aims at such instruction is
deserving of the highest commendation.”
Remembering that as we enter this century we are living in a
new world, and looking anxiously but hopefully to the world
which our children are to inherit, and that no nobler service can
be rendered to our Lord, and no better work can be done for our
country, than the teaching and training of the children and
youth in the Sunday-school, your Executive Committee and the
officers of this Association have tried to perform faithfully the
work assigned them. . . .
Decision Day was more generally observed than ever before,
and the results prove the wisdom of this observance. The Rey.
William E. Hatcher, D.D., in his lectures to theological students,
says: “A crowning phase of church evangelization—perhaps
the most powerful and far-reaching of any yet devised—is the
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Sunday-school. It has the Bible for its text-book, mankind for
its constituency, and the sweetest hour of the Lord’s day for its
opportunity.” The Sunday-school is the great harvest-field of
the church, and an annual reaping is surely the least that we
should expect.
The work of systematic annual house visitation is making
progress, but it does not receive sufficient attention. It is
helped by the home department and by Decision Day, but it
should be included in the purpose and plan of every county and
township association. It offers the only solution to the prob-
lem of reaching those who do not attend the Sunday-school. It
must be understood that the work of house visitation is not
finished when every family in the township has been called
upon. That is but the beginning, not the end. When the cards
have been returned by the visitors, indicating the church pref-
erences of the people visited, a most solemn obligation is created,
and the pastor or committee that does not faithfully and prayer-
fully call upon the persons whose names are given to them, may
well fear the displeasure of the Lord. And the visitation of
every family should be made annually, at least, if not oftener.
Thorough organization must include regular and faithful visi-
tation. Organization may be defined as that condition of a boay
when all the members or parts act together to produce the high-
est and best results, each member or part contributing its pro-
portionate share, whether in the human body or any other.
Another has said: “The body is a healthy and beautiful organ-
ization only when the principle of life acts generously through-
out its parts.” And another has said: “Organization is indis-
pensable to growth: beyond a certain point there cannot be ~
further growth without further organization.” ....
If our plans need changing, they should be changed. All
living things grow, and growth may mean change; but let us
heed the Apostle’s injunction to prove all things, and hold fast
that which is good. If indifference, leading to inactivity, is the
cause of decrease in members, then every effort must be put
forth to arouse the Sunday-school workers in every county and
every township. The power of this Convention will be mani-
fested by the abiding influence which it exerts on the character
and lives of those who have been called together, and on the
future history of our work in this state. Everything said and
done here will affect the result. “Before God,-nothing is indif-
ferent, and in the furtherance of his purpose the commonplace
becomes sublime.”’ We cannot do anything of ourselves alone;
but with God nothing is impossible. And we do well to remem-
ber that “the source and vitality of every great movement is
prayer, and every forward movement may be traced to the hid-
den place.” And yet we know that greater effort and more faith-
ful work is needed. If our organization is perfected, we can,
with the blessings of God, forecast the future of Illinois.
But we believe that the true reason for the lack of interest on
the part of workers, and the decrease in members, if traced to its
source, will be found in the wide-spread criticism that sows the
seed of doubt whether the Bible is the Word of God, the disbelief
SECOND SESSION, FRIDAY MORNING. 97
in miracles and the supernatural, and in extreme cases, to the
denial of the Divinity, the Incarnation, the Resurrection and
Return of the Lord Jesus Christ. “Criticism is becoming an art
of saying fine things.” “Up-to-date” Bibles, and “up-to-date”
preachers and teachers, with modern, “twentieth century” ser-
mons and methods are loudly talked of. But there are no ad-
vanced teachers compared with Jesus Christ, and he alone hath
wer on earth to forgive sins, and to give eternal life. It is
said that the leading educators do not believe; but this is not
new. It is written of the leaders in Jesus’s day: “Neither did
the Pharisees and rulers believe in him; but the common people
heard him gladly.” In another connection it has been well said:
“It was not the plain people who were led astray; it was the
representatives of education who made spectacles of them-
selves.” And another adds: “There is no better illustration of
the superiority of judgment sometimes shown by the great mass
of men, to that arrogantly boasted of by the select body of self.
appointed arbiters or so-called educational leaders.” Truly the
foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God
is stronger thanmen....
The importance of this meeting [the Denver Convention] will
be seen when we consider that this Convention will elect the
American section of a new International Lesson Committee to
serve for six years. The discussion as to the improvement of
the Lesson System, as it has been successfully carried on for
thirty years, will be most important. Doubtless you are all
familiar with the effort that is being made to change the plan
from one lesson for all the school. and have either two or three
or possibly more different lessons for each school, or at least for
as many schools as will approve them, on each Sunday. This
radical change, if made, should be the thoughtful act of repre-
sentative Sunday-school workers. It is not the purpose of this
report to approve or disapprove such changes, but to solemnly
appeal to you to consider carefully and act wisely in this mat-
ter. It may be possible to improve the Lesson System, but it
is one thing to modify and quite another thing to destroy. It
is probable that the question, “Shall the new Committee retain
the quarterly temperance lesson?” will be decided, and your
representatives will prefer to have this Convention instruct
them on this point... .
One of the hopeful features of Sunday-school work is the
growing interest manifested by many theological seminaries in
the training of ministerial students in practical Sunday-school
methods. The value of such training can not be over-estimated.
SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK IN OTHER LANDS.—The work in Mexico.
is making slow but steady progress. Their annual convention
oceurs in July. It would be pleasing to them and profitable for
us if some delegates from the United States could visit them.
The centennial celebration of the London Sunday School
Union, the oldest Sunday-school organization, is to be held in
1903. For this anniversary great preparation is being made.
A series of Sunday-school meetings is being held throughout
the United Kingdom, to arouse the workers and advance the
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work. Special effort will be made to interest the friends of
‘Sunday-schools on the continent, and in India, Canada and all
the colonies. The Raikes Centennial, held in 1880, was attended
by a number of Americans, and we hope that some representa-
tives of our own Association may attend the Centennial; they
may be assured of a warm welcome.
Reports from Mr. 'T. C. Ikehara, our International Field
Worker for Japan, are very encouraging. Organized Sunday-
school work is making progress, conventions, institutes and
summer-schools for teachers are being held. A great spiritual
awakening has taken place, special meetings for children have
been held, and many have been led to the Savior. Mr. Ikehara
says: “Since Japan began, there never was such a triumph of
truth as this has been.”
Inspired by reports of the work in Japan, the missionaries of
North India, in conference at Missoorie, banded together for a
mighty effort on behalf of that country. To this end they issued
a world-wide appeal for united prayer and work. Mr. Richard
Burges, representative of the India Sunday School Union, writes
warmly endorsing the proposal, made by your Chairman, that a
company of Sunday-school workers make a tour of the world,
and he pleads for a large:part of time to be given to India. The
good results, he says, would be incalculable.
Even from Russia there comes a cheering word. Nearly fifty
years ago Mme. Christine Altchevsky established the first Sun-
day-school in her own home. To-day from her office in the Cen-
tral Sunday School Establishment in Harkoff, she can count its
branches by thousands. For more than ten years she fought for
recognition from the government. In the seventies she secured
additional concessions placing the Sunday-schools of Russia on
the same footing as the primary schools. The university city of
Harkoff offered the use of the school building on Sunday, and
when this became too small Mme. Altcheysky erected the first
Sunday-school building in the land of the Czar. There are now
in the large cities six thousand Sunday-school teachers and a
much larger number in the country districts. It is reported
that a half million of peasants now attend the village Sunday-
schools. The first Sunday-school in Russia is but little older
than our state organization, and the woman who organized it
yet lives to see the great results. Their methods may not be as
advanced as ours, and we do not know to what extent the Bible
is used; but when we compare numbers, their half a million
looks large when placed by the side of our eight hundred thou-
sand, if we also contrast the despotism, darkness and persecu-
‘tion of Russia with the liberty, light and opportunity of ‘the
United States.
May God save the Commonwealth of Illinois.
For the Executive Committee.
B. F. JACOBS,
Chairman.
THIRD SESSION, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
HOW HAS THE INTERNATIONAL WORK HELPED
YOUR STATE AND PROVINCE?
BY A. A. MORSE, OREGON.
Probably no state of the Union felt the panic of 1893 more
than Oregon. We were the last to feel its effects and the last to
recover from it. For the ten years prior to the panic our state
had enjoyed wonderful and continued prosperity, and when at
last the panic reached us it swept over our state with dire
results, reaching every hamlet, crippling every industry, and
entirely wiping many of them out of existence. Farmer, stock-
raiser, mechanic, manufacturer, merchant and banker alike felt
its effects and many succumbed thereto.
It was but natural that this depression in all lines of business
should have its effect upon our Sabbath-schools. Many of them
in the country districts were closed altogether, and those in the
larger towns and cities were much reduced in numbers and work-
ing force. If money could not be had for necessary home sup-
plies, it certainly could not be for our Sabbath-schools.
Our enrollment of Sunday-schools for 1895 showed 1,223, with
a total membership of 91,880; and this was reduced so that in
1899 we could only report 982, a loss of 241 schools, and a total
membership of 72,425, or a loss of nearly 20,000. It must be
remembered that Oregon is a very large state, larger than all
New England with New Jersey and West Virginia thrown in.
Some of our counties are larger than some of your Atlantic sea-
board states. What do you think of a county larger than Massa-
chusetts with only four Sunday-schools? These larger counties
are without railroad connection, are sparsely settled and hard
to reach.
Our State Association was struggling to keep itself together,
unable to pay its pledge to the International Association, and so
badly in debt that the question of giving up the struggle was
seriously considered; and had it not been for the debt I think
the motion to abandon the field altogether would have carried.
But we could not throw up the sponge and repudiate this. debt;
so it was resolved to first wipe out the debt and then see what
the future had in store for us.
This was our condition when the year 1900 opened. The out-
look was gloomy indeed. But early in the year a cloud no larger
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than a man’s hand appeared in the Hast, and the word came to
us that the International Association was trying to send us help.
How earnestly we prayed, and how eagerly we watched that
cloud grow, hoping against hope that it would increase in size
until it should reach us and give us “showers of blessing.” The
letters of one week would be full of encouragement and our
hopes would rise, to be followed the next week by letters full of
doubt and our hopes would fall; but our kind heavenly Father
knew our needs and heard our prayers and would not let the
cloud fade away. It was gaining strength all the time for its
western journey, although we did not realize it, and even after
it had started and was well on its way the speaker traveled 250
miles to meet it and spent one full day under its gracious influ-
ence. I wish you could read a telegram I sent to one of our ex-
ecutive committee at Portland that night. I felt that “Oregon
would be saved to our country.”
Many of the Sunday-school workers of our State will never
forget the night of June 13, 1900, when we opened our fifteenth
annual convention at Portland in the First Baptist Church.
The cloud had reached Oregon, and beside me on the pulpit plat-
form were our General Secretary, Marion Lawrance of Toledo,
Dr. Henry of Philadelphia, Dr. Lewis of Columbus, and in the
choir loft that prince of singers, E. O. Excell of Chicago. The
cloud had opened, and the “showers of blessing” began falling
when Lawrance gave that magnificent address on “The Bad Boy
Problem.” For the next two days blessing followed blessing in
rapid succession, and at the last session of our convention, when
Excell called for the song “Count Your Many Blessings,” we
could not count them; our cup was full.
Last year the International Association sent us a whole bottle
filled with “drops of ink;” and after spending two full days
with us, pouring the drops from the bottle so fast that they be-
came a perfect stream, Mr. C. D. Meigs left us with our hearts
so full that we are still blessing him and the powers that sent
him to us.
This year the International Association sent us the only Mary
Foster Bryner, and words fail me when I try to do her work
justice. For two days she not only taught us by word of mouth,
but her blackboard was so vivid that we will carry her teaching
to the end of our days, not only in our Sunday-school work but
in our home life as well.
I have made no mention of the help given us by Reynolds and
Hamill, because they came to us in our prosperity and helped
us greatly; but 1 emphasize the help of the past three years be-
cause it lifted us out of despondeney into throbbing life.
Through the splendid platform work of Lawrance we were en-
abled to raise the funds to employ a field worker and keep him
in the field all last year. Then came Meigs full of life and love
binding us still closer together, and then Mrs. Bryner, teaching
us how to lay the foundation in the Cradle Roll and primary de-
partment on which to build our superstructure, a work that.
shall be owned and honored by our Master.
Through the help thus given by the International Association.
Oregon to-day can report a greater enrollment in our Sunday-
—
THIRD SESSION, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 101
schools than ever before, having passed the total of 1895. Our
people have been brought into closer touch with the Sunday-
school, and have learned that the work means something. Our
clergymen have been aroused and are fast realizing that future
help in work for our Lord and Savior must come from those now
in our Sunday-schools. While Mrs. Bryner was with us last
month fifty different pastors attended our sessions, more than
for the three years preceding put together.
The prayer of Oregon is, that God will lead and guide our
International Association in the future as he has in the past,
and that he will raise up one like unto Jacobs, and that he and
Lawrance and those associated with them may long be spared
to help us on the way.
BY DR. F. W. KELLEY, QUEBEC.
Canada is larger than the United States. It is the country
mentioned in the Bible, that stretches from ocean to ocean, and
from the great river even unto the ends of the earth. We have
six millions of people on our side of the line, and one million of
our people on your side. The province of Quebec in its western
boundary is north of Buffalo. It stretches fifteen hundred miles
to the east, to the Atlantic Ocean at Newfoundland. It is four
hundred miles wide, and has a population of one and a half
million; and of these one million and a quarter are Frenchmen,
with the French language and the Roman Catholic religion.
We are for six months of the year, almost, in ice and snow. Our
people leave us and go to your great cities.
This Roman Catholic Chureh in our province is a mighty
power. The young men of our province do not go into business—
J mean the brainy young men of the French nation. They go
into the Roman Catholic. Church. They are under the lead of
strong men. The men of the Roman Catholic Church are no or-
dinary men. They are brainy men, broad-shouldered men, far-
sighted men. The whole of the educational institutions of their
country are under the power of the bishops. It would be almost
an impossibility to get an educational measure carried through
our legislature without the consent of the bishops. Brethren,
you will see further what power they have when I say that the
children in many parts of our country drop on their knees at the
approach of a curate. Further, he is entitled to one-twenty-
sixth of all the produce of our country. And when the French
owned Canada they gave great possessions to the Church. It
has been said in our country that one seminary has under its
control sixty millions of money. No Protestant farm to-day, if
in the market, is allowed to remain with the Protestants. The
French will get it. We conquered the French on the Heights of
Abraham; but to-day they are conquering us. Large families
are the rule. Our Minister of Education was the twenty-sixth
child in one family; and it is not an unknown thing among us
to have such families. The result is that the French are not
only taking possession of Quebec, but of parts of Ontario, and of
parts of New England. We must reckon with the great Roman
Catholic Church.
102 ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
In this time of difficulty, brethren, the Convention has come.
It has taught us the value of the boy. It has taught us that the
highest work we can do is to train that boy; and that to do this
we must get the best teachers. And the work of this Convention
has found and developed and secured the teachers. And thus we
have among us, in our different churches, the very cream of the
Christian people of the country. But more, these teachers are
being trained. We have our institutes and conventions, and are
influencing the churches. The theological colleges are being
brought to the help of the churches. We have a home depart-
ment at work during the season. And, though we have only
forty thousand children scattered through that territory, we are
getting hold of them through the work of this Convention.
We have tremendous difficulties. In one of our wars we had
a company of Canadians whose duty it was to be the rear-guard.
A large force came down upon them and tried to rush them. It
rushed some of the other companies. They were called on to sur-
render, but the Kingston boys said: ‘No; no surrender.” And
those men of the Kingston Guard stood there and fought there
until every man was killed or wounded, and then they broke
their muskets and threw them aside. In our country we have
the same spirit, men who know no difficulty and no surrender,
but are determined to do their duty and do it well.
Secondly, the work in our province has been especially helpful
in doing away with misunderstandings. What does it matter
whether you are a Presbyterian or an Episcopalian, in the face
of the great common foe? So one of the great necessities of the
work is to bring the different parties together. At Boston you
wisely selected a leader in temperance and educational work, a
good man in his Church. He determined to bring the Protestant
Episcopal Church to see the value of this work. And to-day we
have not only in the province of Quebec, but from one end of
Canada to the other, the Protestant Episcopal Church working
with us. In this grand work we begin to see what may be. As
we see this great Convention and look into your faces, I do not
see any national or denominational line, but simply this, that
you are going forward sweeping this continent into the fold of
Christ. We, away on the northeast snowbanks, are the rear-
guard, and are trying to do our duty there. But looking further
forward, I see a foretaste of that time when we shall stand be-
fore the Great White Throne, and shall see the people gathered
from all kingdoms and tribes and peoples, shouting Salvation
to our God and to the Lamb.
BY W. C. KING, MASSACHUSETTS.
Massachusetts was inspired by the International Convention
through its Executive Committee and in the person of our repre-
sentative, Mr. W. N. Hartshorn, to begin active and aggressive
work, near the close of the eighties. Among the delegates who
returned from the World’s First Sunday-school Convention in
London in 1889 was the chairman of our state executive com-
mittee, Mr. Hartshorn.
- THIRD SESSION, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 103
At that World’s Convention, largely inspired by our own In-
ternational Executive Committee, through its chairman. Brother
Jacobs, we learned, not only at the London convention, but stili
more thoroughly upon that memorable voyage on the “Bothnia.”
of the extent to which organized Sunday-school work in this
country had grown. Massachusetts was chagrined to find that
she was behind many of her more enthusiastic western and sister
states; and immediately upon return to America steps were
taken to put into line, for a forward movement, the Sunday-
school workers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Up to
this time all or nearly all of the work that had been accom-
plished was a direct result of the visits of the International
Executive Committee’s chairman, our beloved Brother Jacobs,
and the general field secretary, Mr. William Reynolds. The
visits of these and other workers continued to inspire courage
and confidence, mingled with enthusiastic interest in our Massa-
ehusetts workers.
The first convention under the organized plan of our state was
held in Tremont Temple in November, 1889, when Dr. A. E. Dun-
ning, the present secretary of our International Lesson Commit-
tee, was chosen as the first president. This office he continued
to hold until 1892, since which time annual state meetings have
been held with increasing attendance, interest and success. Each
year has noted marked and most encouraging and satisfactory
growth.
It was in 1895 when another forward movement was taken,
and plans made for more extensive and practical work through-
out the fifty districts into which the state had been divided-
Organizations in these districts were effected, and these districts
continue to maintain good, effective working organizations, hold-
ing annual and in many districts semi-annual conventions, and
numerous rallies in the various centers of their respective dis-
tricts.
Our state now employs not only a general field secretary but
three department secretaries and an office secretary the entire
year. Our general field secretary, Mr. H. S. Conant, has the
whole Bible-school situation of the state within his grasp, and is
an Inspiration to an army of workers. The secretary of our
home department, Mrs. Flora V. Stebbins, is a woman of genius
for securing co-operation of pastors and superintendents in
organizing home departments. We have over 650 home depart-
ments, with a membership of over 25,000. Our teacher-training
work, under the direction of Secretary Miss Ada R. Kinsman, is
rapidly taking root all over the state. and during the past year
we have had scores and scores of training classes in normal
work. Our primary secretary, Miss Lucy Stock, went into the
field six months ago, sueceeding Miss Bertha F. Vella. Primary
unions are organized in various parts of the state. Miss Stock
is meeting primary teachers in conferences by the hundreds
throughout the districts of the state, and at our headquarters in
Boston we have a secretary, Miss Cooper, who knows just what
to do when all the other secretaries are in the field. Thus the
work of our state is being prosecuted in the various departments
with efficiency, zeal and wisdom.
104 ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
While we have not during the last decade needed or sought
assistance from the International Convention and its committee
directly, yet it has been a great chain binding us, in common
with the other states, into close, harmonious co-operation ; and
the fact that we were a part of this great organized body has
made us feel strong in self-reliance. Practically all of the preju-
dice heretofore existing against interdenominational organized
work has disappeared, and to-day we have the co-operation of
the Bible-school leaders and active workers throughout the
entire commonwealth.
Having received the impetus with which to begin organized
work in our state through the inspiration of the great Interna-
tional movement, we recognize to-day our obligations to the
parent organization through whose vitality our state organiza-
tion came into existence. It has been our constant aim, inspired
especially by our state chairman, Mr. Hartshorn, to act the part
of a loyal and devoted child during these past years of our
growth and prosperity.
BY W. C. HALL, INDIANA.
Our good brother from Canada spoke of having a million
Canadians in the United States. I hope they are not the same
kind as those we have in Canada.
In 1872, at Indianapolis, was born the International Sunday-
school Convention. That was the first truly International Con-
vention, though called National. But the whole world was
interested in the adoption of the Lesson System at that time. In
1872 Indiana was away back in Sunday-school work. The Con-
vention came to Indiana and gave us an investment, and we have
considered it such ever since.—an investment that has paid us
great dividends. It has given us, since that day, a home depart-
ment work, Decision Day, Rally Day, and the Cradle Roll De-
partment. Some years ago, when Indiana for the first time took
up the Cradle Roll, it was objected to; but the good sister who
voiced the objections is here to-day to record her approval of the
movement. So of our new plan for the Sunday-school messenger
service, last year made one of the official movements of the State
Association. So we are putting them to work early; and in
building them up in the school and getting them interested in
the work, after awhile the question is not going to come in our
county conventions: “What shall we do to retain the young
men in the Sunday-schools?” They will be there, and they will
be at work. And soI plead for the messenger service. The state
of Indiana has delegated conventions, and we have as many
present at state conventions as are in this room to-day. That is
what the International Convention has done for Indiana. The
state of Indiana has sent to this Convention every state officer,
its superintendents of the home department and of the primary
department, and its general secretary, and they are all here.
For what purpose? To go back better prepared to do the work
which God has given us to do in Indiana. We have come here to
know how the city of Denver entertains a convention, because
we are going to entertain the Convention in 1905.
THIRD SESSION, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 105
BY N. B. BROUGHTON, NORTH CAROLINA.
The International Convention has helped North Carolina:
By sending to us some of its noble leaders from whom the Sun-
day-school work received new life and new inspiration for living.
The first of these was that peerless organizer, great-hearted man
and tireless worker, William Reynolds. He found us without
organization, and although a stranger, with a new message, in
fifteen days ne had spoken in our prominent cities and towns
and closed that quick campaign with a state convention which
has not since failed of its autumnal meeting nor in sending its
delegates to the International gatherings.
By sending to us that scholarly speaker, the teacher, the man
of methods, H. M. Hamill, who not only aroused us to more per-
fect organization, but with each visit left us with most anxious
desire to seek for the better ways of working, a closer study of
the Word and increasing loyalty to the International work.
By the visit of Marion Lawrance. And what shall we say of
his visits? Fascinating as a speaker, full to the brim of every-
thing that is practical and desirable in the great work to which
he has given a life of study, North Carolina has been greatly
blessed by his coming among us.
By the sweet singing of Excell; the illustrated teaching of
Mrs. Crafts, Mrs. Hamill and others.
The International Convention, in sending to us these conse-
crated, wise men and women, and through them and its various
agencies holding before us the excellencies open to the Sunday-
school, has so stimulated us that our state is now represented
on this floor by about twenty delegates, some of them from
Sunday-schools not surpassed in organization and equipment
by any to be found in all the world.
The International work, when it entered our state, found it
not only without any general interdenominational organization
among Sunday-school workers, but also without any organiza-
tion within the denominational ranks, except as incidental or
side issues, and even with little or no systematic organization
in the individual schools. ‘To-day some of our denominations
have their own field secretary, giving his whole time to the work,
and about all of them have state committees or executive boards,
who are charged with looking specially after the Sunday-school
interest. :
When the International Convention first began work in our
state, it had not been the custom of any one of the denomina-
tions to hold institutes, Chautauquas or summer schools; and,
with possibly one exception, no state Sunday-school convention
had been held by any of them. To-day the Sunday-school has a
place on the program of every fifth Sunday meeting, of every
quarterly conference, of every synod, of every religious body,
and the more prominent denominations have their regularly
appointed boards who give attention to the Sunday-school work
generally. Summer gatherings for the study of methods of
work have been instituted and to these some of the leading
workers of the country have come.
106 ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
The coming of the International work to our state found us
not only without uniformity in lesson study, but with such a
variety and mixture of lessons as could hardly now be believed,
ranging from Webster’s blue-back spelling-book to Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress. To-day it would be difficult to find a Sun-
day-school, even in our most remote rural settlements, that is
not following the regular lesson course of the International
Committee.
Before the coming of the International Sunday-school work
to our state, each denomination working along its own lines,
there was fast growing a spirit of rivalry not altogether becom-
ing to those who should dwell together in unity, and there was
serious need of the common bond of Christian fellowship. Many
good men and women opposed the International Convention as
the beginning of an attack upon their distinctive principles, and
an effort te establish union Sunday-schools. In some cases, cer-
tain of the religious press papers bitterly opposed the Interna-
tional work. But to-day all the denominations are represented
in our district, county and state conventions, and the editors of
the religious papers are our strongest supporters and friends.
The International Convention has brought such helpfulness,
such strength, such power to the Sunday-school work in North
Carolina as to break down the barriers, drive away all clouds
and give us sunshine and gladness, hope filled with joy, and a
glorious looking to the future and the coming of our King, such
as we never knew before. ’
The great good accomplished in North Carolina by the Inter-
national Convention, through the brief visits of its able repre-
sentatives, has brought us to our present condition, when the
state is ripe for a thorough and complete organization into the
International work. To accomplish this, we need money. To
secure the money, we need a strong man from this body for one
to two months’ work, doing on a larger and more extended scale
what William Reynolds did in visiting our cities and towns.
Give us this worker, and we feel fully assured in saying that we
will give back to you sixty and a hundred fold.
REPORT OF GEORGE W. BAILEY, TREASURER OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.
From April, 1899, to June 25, 1902.
Receipts.
SATPANBIAINIAS 15 oii ee Ae Ne at a $300 00
Acct: Trans-Conts Tour.) 2). duces ae 72 00 f
————— _. $372-00
ATTA SICA: 209-02 <8 ahs 2 oA eee
Sheldon Jackson: 27... 00 420.40 025 $5 00
5 00
ARIZON AG He Pe ele Be
Acct. Trans-Cont: ‘Tour. .s2 se. ee - $100 00
THIRD SESSION, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
M. B. Hazletine, acct. Trans-Cont.
SGU hie Se gh eI fe a 25 00
M. B. Hazletine, acct. Trans-Cont.
JIU, Lee Bere aoe 25 00
EAE SEALS 5S aie Se ee $50 00
‘Aect. Trans-Cont. Tour........... 50 00
Expenses of Mr. Hamill........... 40 50
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA........... $322 35
Aceh. REtnS-CONL. POUL: 35.06 8. 2 101 00
Collection, Northwestern Tour..... 14 00
Expenses, C. D. Meigs............. 50 00
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA........... $100 00
Acct. .erans-Cont. Pour. <5 529.2). 4 155 00
MCRMOVESA DION eer 2 writ ha itis es oles See $150 00
Acct. Trans-Cont. Tour............ 75 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 25 00
Supts.’ Association, Denver........ 7 00
SOPORNDEGREGUD ac scan a. apricce!orsreurie $225 00
Expenses, Mr. Hamill............: > 55 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 40 00
Menem nnren is. § oo 7c os 30 00
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA... 2s. 55-5. $445 00
Primary Teachers’ Union.......... 10 00
MOIGEEM eiy- WMION 2s t= = 6). okeh ret e's 120 39
Expenses; Mr. Hamill). 50. 0.0... 10 11
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 10 00
ID TEU Ne ND Sites ete cree Se erie EE ae $300 00
Ma OMOSDV 5 ora sie isiete isie! ass aisisiiais's 300 00
WE Scan Kee CC LOSDY aie. wcteie oheis 23dea cis eueass eee 200 00
As Wanchester: 20.6.1 cake cset 1 00
DOE NGOS ries: oi /s wis aoc ayehacs te ae 1 00
BAG WU ey Ge Vk 2 rs, Slade dares 2 eae 25 00
AGE ViGHSIIG Wise sus Sis: os aes 1 00
TPHTOUPHI VB. SACODS ei. cle nc 2 cdg 9 10
D. C. Cook, aeet. Trans-Cont. Tour. . 100 00
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K. O. Excell, acct. N. W. Tour...... 250 00
Vio Oh. EGE TS Naar a OL re eee ione circ 10 00
VW 2 IDO a ee On eI ore 5 00
Mrs. Nettie Harrison, Japan acct... 2 00
RoW. Hare, Japan acct............ 7 00
River Forest Primary Dept., Japan ~
DEGbas ooo ABE oS GOBCH Cit 1 00
Bloomington First Baptist S. S.,
SP pAUE AEC es Mons fa slo des: oles iste ay 1 00
Riley Township, Japan acct........ 3 79
Proceeds of Solicitation Books..... 5 00
Convention offerings.............. 215 51
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 58 00
Expenses, Mr. Hamill............. 10 00
TIDVANESS) 1 Sere e ai diet a. aerate $85 00
Expenses, Mrs. Bryner............ 56 20
PAA SASS Bs ASS ee Cie AROS $299 00
RESIZE GOVE ciara Setcrete cheat sate «niet 5 00
Lp [iis DINE CoB AEP ciregoig Potsecnore ic 10 00
1D, galee 1 0) Ti Eas eee Dee RES 6 00
Dodge City S. S., Japan acct...... 1 00
Acct. ‘Frans-Cont. Tour............ 100 00
Wiser VERE UUM: 20-5 tens cyers oe ae 1 00
Expenses, C. D. Meigs............. 25 00
SSHRC ROVE Co clon se a) cies wraisrse gre s's/e eos * $450 00
Ea Sapes mSCOUL n Ps ay farelole motele cranes 10 00
flipalvteenisctlT a EGh ye. <'s stave! aiw's''s cre's os 0 5 00
Expenses, Mr. Hamill............. 15 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 20 00
OCURUESUAUNE AG oi reiere arate taieistay etisalat eters c $100 00
Acct. PEAnS-CONt. DOUI.). 2 vin. s/c ss 5 100 00
Bixpenses, Mr. Hamill... 2.2... 2... 25 00
UATE TD Ss Ae ee ae he as een ina $300 00
Balance Boston Pledge............ 150 00
lop LEA) Sh SBF RB Reo Be ae cricioe 5 00
Ide DL UIGHON EIS Bee oe mine Gar inoREneoe 25 00
Expenses, Mr. Hamill............. 13 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance..........- 25 00
AEE WAU AONED) etn cnetssotaisle ol sigs clas epee se $150 00
Expenses, Mr. Hamill............. 10 00
PAS SAGES Br ES ya eicic . olla se clnietsla'sls $1,500 00
eevee Este SORT. leche o pets cles esa. 10 00
USE AVNON, foe slats aa 'alalaia ois satensiors’s 75 00
MV rbcny TO Tee htt cis) .. « orcloiofe a crs eae te hve 5 00
1h. IES 1G Tate ME Otero Siete eT eis 25 00
OE We EEAIOES rte hr. Uh loth) Potato ss 50 00
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Proceeds Solicitation Books........ 37 50
MESSISSIPPL 2 03.45... tes eek See $100 00
Acct. Trans-Cont. Tour...... i tee aie 9 00
expenses, Mro Hamill some 50 00
MUNNESOTA. 26 15.25.8002 cee ee $180 00
Acct. Trans-Cont. Tour............ 10 00
MISSOURI wise. cave ete te ae eee $275 00
Wed. semelroth: .. ar ee team rene 30 00
DPR. WYOLLC Ss noo de, ¢ Ree eed oie oe Rie 168 00
Expenses, Mr. Hamill............. 20 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 35 00
VION AI Ais ola. ose ce ea sctelere aie iene $150 00
INGIBY ER ANS Ke A bys cagatene \c os5i2, cree, wie ee ote Se $150 00
INE VW AMIPSEIIRE: 0% o. 52. ee eee $300 00
Expenses. Mr. Lawrance........... 50 00
RBI) THURS eek tke ee $1,567 42
iw GHeroUssOnE. ccc: choise ceieiere 30 00
Mrs. High WH ergussont: |. 2... 1! hr 30 00
Mars: Nis: SETS. rate eins cosle ole eases 5 00
Daniel Haw arasis ice). ks ateemieie we eee 15 00
Balance Boston Pledge............ 500 00
Ge W,. eiehes s ...c.. cies sien Se 5 00
TiBABrokaws ac aieee 4 ce ee ewes 5 00
Acct. Trans-Cont: Tour... .6 0.56 08% 20 00
Geo! (Warbarley ea: <) ssk. eee 300 00
TW Synnoet:. = wine. cee eee 750 00
KY Re, Ackerman «206 | hie eae 5 00
‘Two, Priendsie:.’t 2.45 eee aie 20 00
Proceeds Solicitation Books........ 10 00
MEN, MEXICO! Se. one eee ee ce oe
Acct. T[rans-Cont. Tour. oo... coe $50 00
ENTS WUESY OUR oor are ed Sek Re ee tba dae $525 00
Rev: Wa. sBroOwm:*: Je hincsa ces ee 15 00
HY BAC BHIOETIS| 1. & > ats tran Seve 200 00
WioA a DInCa i+ =). Vc SERIES womens 50 00
HS BIS TUE era's shee caer ee ders OS) See 75 00
Geowivaetonse.. 2 oo) cok ae eis Rie ee ies -25 00
754 50
159 00
190 00
528 00
150 00
150 00
350 00
THIRD SESSION, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 111
Pee TOMmUel de piers © .teiat ot) aps he 50 00
AGOUISRUOPSCD sn. (here sh 0)0 6S «ere! wis lee 50 00
DraArghe Schafer: .s.c-cistecds oats 50 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 65 00
Expenses, Mr. Hamill............. 20 00
Proceeds Solicitation Books........ 34 75
————_ 1,259 75
INQRARED (CARG@ETNIAS ...cisrc sw cis a avontors= $50 00
Acct. Trans-Cont. Tour............ 50 00
G. W. Watts, acct. Trans-Cont. Tour, 25 00
NaBaBroughton:.......... Sheds *10 00
Hxpenses,pNirsdetamills |. <.5- . sues 25 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 30 00
—_— 190 00
NCO EV TRETe) ANIC@ TAT oc s31c, serene, anal shana Shane aie $150 00
Collection, Northwestern Tour..... 16 60
PR wba ey GMI G IAS 12) syaerslcetec eevee <, ac: 6 « 10 00
xpenses; Alfred: Day... ...-.-.--- 25 00
—_—_—— 201 60
RETO Paley hehe Uae asin Peles, wise eS che wATREE $1,333 99
lors @.Melarenm 25). «sie, -0 sis 6 00
Bonmiex McG... se 6 sieve e is isle he eee 1 00
H. C. Corson, acct. Trans-Cont. Tour, 100 00
G. L. Kedzie, acct. Trans-Cont. Tour, 25 00
S. L. Severance, acct. Trans-Cont.
OUT MR es ais eves -Porsi oe ace 34 gente 25 00
eee peu ENGKeY 5 2's. 5%.5)s is ia. eae 10 00
HEIs Or COTSONG) 0, sce sa.c eis s,s els o.6 xe 150 00
PEL ISOVOT ATIC). 5 a8 5 sv )auds eect 1,000 00
Moariomaiawranees, cies. sa cs 110 00
IisaibelpiNed rier: 2h aS she rs sho. ee wes, are 10 00
See MONI 58 cuss occieneis, oaene:g 02% 10 00
TET ear ROSSLYN Fete cele aiaeeswis eke ecco 25 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 34 25
Proceeds Solicitation Books........ 206 00
Collected, Mr. Lawrance........... 2 50
Dr. W. G. Moorehead............. 10 00
——— 3,058 74
CORSET OMA aya sofia: 5c Aviaries. cys Seelestaeie
ACceE Erans-Cont,, LOUn.... sie 4s - $50 50
Expenses, ©. D. Meigs............. 25 00
2 75 50
CIR TIGIOIN, 15 2 Se Ae es as ee el $150 00
Special collection by Mr. Lawrance. . 7 00
157 00
HBUNIN TS VEEQWAAINIEAL 53) 5. 5c loce)e.cis nudge share $3,000 00
TELS Vp dati), Seo ene moe Ce Pee ere 300 00
Mass: Ave enny..c'sdc fo 3. 2 = oie ase 4 00
Balance Boston Pledge............ 500 00
John Wanamaker, N. W. Tour..... 190 00
Alexander Henry, acct. Trans-Cont.
POM eeepasd hth so cicchenore de eee 50 00
John H. Converse, acct. Trans-Cont.
LNG TS GES acta tercoae me atic oe eee 25 00
Ch gy ene ae nay, ¥)
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112 ' ADDRESSES AND PAPERS.
Chas. W. Henry, acct. Trans-Cont. Ay
Pon Fs 22. =): ce See ee 50 00
Mrs. C. W. Henry, acct. Trans-Cont.
POUR 22%... 3 2 2'.s tenses) ee 50 00
R. M. Coyle. . . 2.0.5 a aoe eee 50 00
Sunday School Times............. 120 00
Special contribution.............. 77 34
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 89 00
RHODE. ISWAND:. 2.08 tote ones $275 00
Providence Lith: Cos...) 3./. ode see 300 00
Balance Boston Pledge............ 275 00
Expenses, Mr. Lawrance........... 15 00
Expenses, Mr> Hamill...........54 25 00
Proceeds Solicitation Books........ 1 00
SOUTH: DAKOTA )..2)..3 Sabie 22 eee
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SOU'EH CAROLINA. 05.5 Axe alee $350 00
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Rey. W. W. Kingston, Denyer......... 5
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W. S: DuPel, Canon City.......:..... 1
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Dr. A. H. Stockham, Delta.. ac 10
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Fifth St. M. E. S. S., by William A.
Marsh, Grand Junction............ 5
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R. M. Pollock, Rocky Ford........... 10
St. Paul M. E. S. S., Denver......... 5
UTD E i : aeee SOE See emer 100
Wreikior Alion,) @Heshire.< 66606 65c0e5s 5
LUT? ee a ee ee eo eee ee 100
PIMBENE) OL) COMMER D2 0 22k been casan sens 130
A. L. Dietrich, Washington........... 5
W. W. Millan, Washington............ 5
SUITE OWES PE RS eS ee 50
To ee SBOE: BEES RICE: Bonner 100
(Colored Work) Floyd................. 25
Meet. Gairesr, Atinnts.- 2.5 cncesccccess 235
George Hiains, Augusta................ 5
W. S. Witham, Atlanta,.............. 10
Rey. A. D. Williams, Atlanta......... 5
Second Pres. S. S., Augusta, Mrs. H. W.
Burwell 5
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Oakland M. E. S. S., Chicago........ 10
Edward G. Gedelman, Chicago........ a
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KE. H. Nichols, Chicago................ 25
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J. R. Musselman, Coal Harbor.........
R. B. Griffith, Grand Forks............
Miss M. B. Johustone, Grand Forks....
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Mrs. lu. L. Uhls, Ossawatomie.......... 33 1 00 46 00
EORECTIERC aisha aimase o.ac4, obte a elie ate or eaeinis 5 00 15 00
Miss Finie M. Burton, Louisville 5 00 15 00 30 00
SINATIIG, aiovn ss iccn c simsecrsair's nw'ateiaee stesier eters steers 20 00 60 00 60 00
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Miss Lucy G. Stock, Boston............ 1 66 5 00 230 00
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Mrs. W. D. Long, Las Vegas 5 00 15 00 15 00
SNOW PRGIK: iets: nin(nicie = a:sherwietyuik ala cls eie's ale lem Aor 75 00 225 00 7
Mrs. H. Austin Clark, Owego.....:.... 15 00 45 00 270 00
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Mrs. A. G. Crouse, Westerville........ 5 00 15 00
Mird: JE ploy SMILH, AVY OUSEED's\u/s © ielere pia sat 1 00 3 00 18 00
tls) Saae SSO seaman 5 IcSsoa a doSsGe foadses 20 00 60 00 60 00
PONUSPLVAWIG 6 canis scans a= Melee hale e's /s 100 00 300 00
Israel P. Black, Philadelphia... . sia 2500 7500 375 00
Cusliac! >. seo se Castine am eae wake eee
George H. Archibald, Montresl......... 10 00 30 00 30 00
Mhodae Islands...) eae cee ee see ie sibel 10 00 30 00 30 00
PONTE REGGE 'Pa/o\e aipictainia win ae winintalntereeta laleia stots tateiei 20 00 60 00
Mrs. Alice Warren, Knoxville.......... 1 00 3 00
Mrs. H. M. Hamill, Nashville......... 5 00 15 00 78 00
DOO ASAE Gamat Rouen fenhe sj tasasedon 15 00 45 00 45 00
TE Te SDR TIS DlG td JO ORNS SOA to Seo oS 10 00 30 00 30 00
Washington 20 00 60 00 60 00
WRIBOOTISEN osu ois. .c 0 o's nlathtass ae 15 00 45 00 45 00
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ft
THIRD SESSION, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 127
DENOMINATIONAL CO-OPERATION.
BY THE REY. B. W. SPILMAN, TENNESSEE.
Co-operate means to work together. This is the underlying
principle upon which the International work is based. Without
denominational co-operation there would be no place for the
International Convention. The men, therefore, who can solve
the problem of bringing about denominational co-operation will
do much to increase the efficiency of the International work and
vastly more for the denominations which lend themselves to the
work. That interdenominational Sunday-school work is most
effective which results in the greatest good to the denomina-
tions enlisted in it.
To obtain this co-operation is no easy task. There are diffi-
culties in the way. Let us note some of them.
Perhaps the one most frequently encountered is a misappre-
hension of the object in view in the work. Many people, really
interested in Sunday-school work, have an idea that the one
object sought by the workers in the International Sunday-
school field is to break down all denominational differences and
bring about a nondescript sort of denominational unity at the
sacrifice of all doctrinal convictions.
Others imagine that the one purpose in view is to establish
union Sunday-schools; and still others, that we are an unde-
nominational missionary agency preaching a jelly-fish gospel.
This misapprehension was very clearly manifest in a recent
conversation which I had with a man holding an important
position among the Baptists. He said to me one day not long
ago: “I tell you, we must bestir ourselves along Sunday-school
lines. Do you know this man A who has charge of the In-
ternational Sunday-school work in this state? Well, he is push-
ing that thing so that if we are not on our guard he and his folks
are going to capture this state. Why, sir, he has this county
now so captured that every Baptist Sunday-school in the county
is sending workers into their conventions. Something must be
done, and done quickly and vigorously, or we are gone.”
With a serious expression on my face, as if I were already
catching a glimpse of the impending calamity, I asked: “Brother
B , What on earth do you suppose those International folks
are going to do with our Baptist Sunday-schools when they cap-
ture them?” He did not know, but felt quite sure that it would
be something very undesirable. It took me only a few minutes
to tell him what would take place if every Sunday-school in the
state should co-operate with the International work. I told
him that it did not mean a surrender of one “iota of the things
held dear by us as a people; it did not mean union Sunday-
schools; it did not mean an interference in any sort of way with
our missionary work. But I told him that it did mean a quick-
ening of the interest in Sunday-school work; it did mean an
increased number of scholars in our schools through the house-
to-house canvass and the personal work following it up; it did
mean Sunday-schools better managed; it did mean a home de-
partment and a cradle roll and some normal work and a trained
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teaching force; it did mean a quickening of the spiritual life of
the churches ; it did mean a hastening of the day when we should
hear the rumbling of the chariot-wheels of our coming King.
Speaking for myself, I pray God that the day may come on
apace when every Baptist church in America shall feel the im-
pulse of aggressive modern Sunday-school work. Could the
spirit which animates the leaders of this great movement in
America be planted in every member of every denomination in
the land, a religious awakening would shake this continent from
ocean to ocean.
Another real difficulty in the way is a lack of appreciation of
the importance of the work. People who think this way do not
object to going into the work, but simply do not see the neces-
sity for their denomination, perhaps with a splendidly organ-
ized Sunday-school work of its own, taking part in the interde-
nominational work. Experience, I think, goes to show that the
people who do most for their own denominational Sunday-school
work are the people most interested in the International work.
1 know that this is true in my native state.
Denominational conceit sometimes plays a part in hindering
denominational co-operation. The world is full of people who
imagine that the sum total of the accumulated wisdom of earth
resides in the councils of their denomination, and that all ideas
coming from elsewhere are hardly worthy of serious considera-
tion. They imagine that they do not need the help which comes
from a comparison of ideas with people holding ideas widely
divergent from their own.
I believe that there are some people in the world afflicted with
a mental disexse which makes it practically impossible for them
to co-operate with anything. I searched the dictionaries and the
medical books for a word to describe it. But I failed to find it.
So I coined a word. Synergophobia is made up of two Greek ©
words. “Synergos” means standing together to accomplish a
given interest ; and “‘phobos” means fear, or more exactly a mor-
bid dread. Synergophobia, then, is a morbid dread of co-opera-
tion; and the person afflicted with this malady is a synergopho-
bian. It isa bad malady. The person who has a violent attack
rarely recovers.
The symptoms are easily recognized. In the milder forms the
one thus afflicted simply declines to work with anybody else in
any sort of religious work. As the disease develops the syner-
gophobian begins to turn his guns on those who are standing
together and striving to be helpful to one another in hastening
the coming of the Kingdom of God. There are well-authenti-
cated cases on record, though none have ever come under my own
observation, in which two persons having synergophobia in its
most violent form have met and for days together have cudgeled
each other almost to the point of spiritual insensibility. And
they named this sort of performance a religious debate. These
same men would avoid an International Sunday-school Conyen-
tion as they would the smallpox or a den of rattlesnakes. Syner-
gophobia in its worst stages makes a man devote his energies to
pulling down all that other men try to build up. Standing
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squarely across the way of this Convention and its work is a
countless multitude of people who are afflicted with synergo-
hobia.
to our work? What has united our hearts as one, so that
although of many separate divisions, we feel ourselves to be one
mighty host? The lesson. About what does our solicitude most
center, as we are all here with one accord, in one place? Is it
not this, that the Lesson System, which has stood now the best
of all tests, the test of time, should be continued to us in its
integrity —modified, if you will: brought, if you will, into closer
touch with our present needs,—but continued as our guide to the
study of the Scriptures and a bond of our union in the Lord?
The last thing those honored fathers who projected the Lesson
System would have said of their work was that it was perfect.
Nor is any one so wedded to it in its present form,—modified in
some respects from its original shape,—as to declare it ineapa-
ble of improvement. The Sunday-schools are not, it must be
remembered, for the lesson system, but the lesson system for the
schools; and I mistake greatly the spirit of our schools and of
this Convention if they are not eager, and this Convention is not
eager, for any improvement by which the great object of all
teaching of the Word of God is to be reached, namely, to lead to
a truer knowledge of the Word and, through that knowledge, to
a holier life and an ampler service.
Speaking for myself, and I think also for our Canadian people
(for I have taken pains to discover their views upon the ques-
tion), I would say that there is solid satisfaction with the pres-
ent Lesson System. Imperfections in detail? Doubtless; what
human work is perfect, and especially what plan embracing so
wide a range? But our people are, on the whole, inclined to
say: “Hold fast—hold fast that which, having been proved, has
been found good.”
There are > dir ections, however, in which no small number are
desirous of some change. I am speaking from actual study of
replies to certain questions sent out to leaders in Sunday-schoot
work in all denominations throughout Canada. There is a
bunch of correspondence which includes letters from members
of the International Lesson and Executive Committees; editors
of lesson-helps; Sunday-school officials, provincial and denomi-
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FIETIL SESSION, SATURDAY MORNING. Lire
national; city and town ministers; country ministers: city
and town superintendents and teachers; county superintendents
and teachers; and special primary workers.
Here are some of the points made:
1. Greater continuity is demanded. A period once taken up,
let it be finished. The Israelites once started on the journey
from Egypt, let them go on, until at least Canaan is reached.
The development of the Christian church as recorded in the
Acts of the Apostles once begun, let there be no jarring break.
but let the whole story be given. Probably no more satisfactory
course has ever been set than the year and a half studies in the
life of our Lord, completed twelve months ago.
2. The Beginners’ Course. The primary teachers who have
answered my inquiries, all approve. There is criticism and sug-
gestion in detail. What new course,—or old course, for that
matter,—is not open to criticism? But a goodly number of the
primary teachers, especially in the larger schools, will weleome
this course as an honest and earnest attempt to stand with the
little beginners on their own level and from their own level to
teach them the great things of God. More than half of my cor-
respondents,—and they are quite representative,—favor a be-
ginners’ course; although it is only fair to say that some of
those who have the largest outlook and leadership amongst the
schools of their own denomination prefer that things should
remain as they are. The beginners’ course, which, personally, I
think a move in the right direction, will have a fair trial in
many of our Canadian schools.
3. The Advanced Course. Strong approval on the part of a
few, rather than any widespread interest, sums up the views of
my correspondents in regard to an advanced course. The matter
has not been so definitely before Sunday-school workers as has
the course for beginners; but there is little doubt that for a con-
siderable class of scholars a course chosen on somewhat different
lines from those of the present series, might have advantages.
The main purpose of the present course—and I think very prop-
erly so—is to givé the interpretation of the current passage,
with:such look backward and forward and to other portions of
Scripture as may be possible in the allotted time. The course
as set invites and encourages to the larger view, but as a matter
of fact this larger view is seldom possible. The brief study-hour
is all too short for the explanation and application of even the
passage itself. For older scholars the wider view is indispensa-
ble. They demand it and they need it, and, as a preparation for
becoming themselves intelligent teachers, it is most valuable.
It would not be hard to outline, in the rough, some good ad-
vanced courses. For example, on the books of the Bible, their
contents and their mutual relations; the prophets, in the order
of their appearing, and their message to their own times and to
ours; the great doctrines of the Word in their order; the ethical
teachings of the Scriptures: sacrifice, as it appears in the his-
tory of redemption and in its culmination and crown on Cal-
vary. It is not that new truth will be taught, but truth from
the standpoint of the more mature mind and therefore fitting
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closer to the need of the older scholars, and more attractive to
them. The presentation by the Lesson Committee of a course or
courses on some such lines would be hailed as a boon by many
ministers and other teachers of advanced scholars, and would
doubtless have strong effect, in many cases, in holding the older
scholars to their school and to the study of the Bible. The direct
demand from our side of the line seems scarcely as strong as
from quarters on this side; but the trend, even with us, is,
although perhaps slowly, in the direction of an advanced course.
4. In regard to special lessons. There are some—and these
amongst the most aggressive temperance men—who think that a
better purpose would be served by a less frequent lesson on tem-
perance, or, rather, perhaps I should say, by the taking of the
temperance lessons in their order as they come up in the Serip-
tures, rather than by the present system of a quarterly temper-
ance lesson, whether this be found in the section of Scripture
under consideration, or not.
There is much to be said for this view. Even we who are
ardent abstainers are sometimes forced to admit that the repeti-
tion of a temperance lesson often has an effect on the scholars
precisely the opposite of that intended. The very artificiality
of the arrangement—the projection of the temperance lesson out
of its order into the course—to no small extent discounts it in
the eyes of many teachers and a still larger number of scholars.
The question is a difficult one. For myself I should prefer to
have temperance not Jess but more zealously taught; and the
great majority of those whom I have consulted prefer—many of
them insist on—the retention of the present arrangement. In
any case, whether by the present method or in some other way,
the emphatic demand of a very wide constituency must be met.
Shall we have a quarterly missionary lesson? Opinion, so far
as my correspondents go, is about equally divided. One thing is
very sure, that the Sunday-school has not done its whole duty
until the scholars have been taught that a religion falls short
that does not take the form of active service, and that the very
widest and most urgent field of active service is to win our fel-
low-creatures to Christ, who know him not. Perhaps the, time
is not yet ripe for a quarterly missionary lesson. Some have
suggested that the temperance lesson and a missionary lesson
should alternate. However wise or unwise such a method might
be, the strong sense of the Church demands emphasis upon mis-
sions. Our eyes are at last opening to the world’s needs and to
the enrichment that comes to our own spiritual life through
effort to win others to the Lord Christ; and further, to the im-
portance, from every point of view. of engaging the fresh enthu-
siasm of our boys and girls in this high form of Christian ser-
vice. An instruction to the Lesson Committee to have an eye to
frequent missionary lessons, without breaking in upon the regu-
lar course and order, would be hailed by many with satisfaction
and delight.
This presentation of the various points enumerated has been
necessarily hurried and imperfect. We may not all see eye to
eye in our decision; and in so large a matter as the choice of
FIFTIL SESSION, SATURDAY MORNING. 173
lessons for a world-wide constituency, no one view must be too
persistently pressed. The Convention will not forget that its
Lesson Committee needs to consider, not merely what is best
theoretically, or proper for the larger school, but what will best
meet the needs of all grades of schools, the humble as well as
those more completely organized and equipped; that the lessons
should be such as to knit home and school together in their
study of the Word; and that the Sunday-school, develop as we
may its educational side, is not a mere educational agency, but
evangelistic also, and educational in order that it may be the
more surely evangelistic.
These considerations, it seems to ine, have by no means been
forgotten in the issue of the new beginners’ course and in the
proposal for an advanced course now before the Lesson Com-
mittee, which, it is to be hoped, may, in the near future, take
practical form.
BY THE REV. FRANK JOSINSON, ENGLAND,
Mr. President, and comrades in service: It is an honor and
delight to be thus associated with the Sunday-school workers of
America and Canada. Your fellowship has been an inspiration,
the Convention meetings seascns of rich blessing, your welcome
to your kinsmen from the South, the North, the West, and the
East affectionate and generous. My distinguished and honored
friend Mr. F. F. Belsey and myself have reason to say—Mr. Bel-
sey perhaps with a twinkle in his eye, recalling a certain inci-
dent in the past,—‘‘I was a stranger and ye took me in;” but I
can say it with the simple gratitude of a heart that answers love
with love. They of Great Britain salute you, earnestly desiring
to strengthen your hands in the ministry of the Gospel to the
world’s children. We stand with you uncovered by the grave of
B. F. Jacobs, and we thank God for all that has come to the
world through that noble and Christly soul, now forever with
the Lord, and forever with us as an inspiring memory.
The International Lesson has been a world-wide gospel min-
istry. It has led millions to Christ, promoted the study of Holy
Scripture, fed the sources of church life and activity, and drawn
states and nations into fraternal and Christian union.” Our
work is spiritual, educational, unifying. The International
Lesson has not only become a factor in the world’s redemption,
but a factor too in the federation of the nations.
The further increase in power and usefulness of the gracious
ministry of the International Bible Lesson is the object of all
our prayers and efforts, and it may assist this conference in de-
ciding upon the momentous issues just before us, if I briefly
sketch the condition of affairs in Great Britain as they bear on
the International Lesson.
Since the British Sunday School Union adopted the Interna-
tional scheme in 1874, as an expansion of its own Uniform Les-
son Plan, the International Lesson has won the adhesion of
thousands of our schools by the sheer force of its intrinsic
merits. Among the denominations that have given it practicai
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recognition and that are represented upon the British section
of the Lesson Committee are the Wesleyan, Congregational,
Baptist, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Free Church, Primi-
tive Methodist, and the Society of Friends.
But though this support is considerable, there is a powerful
body of opinion less friendly. Some regard the International
Lesson as purely an American institution, failing to recognize
the fact of International counsel and co-operation. Some de-
nominations prefer to plan their own lessons. The Church of
England has its own scheme. Wales has an independent course,
-and two years ago a national Scottish scheme was launched.
Besides these denominational schemes, we have individual sys-
tems of Bible study, put forth with the claim that they are more
scientifically planned than the International. Independent pri-
mary courses also claim some support. Such a course was in-
deed prepared on behalf of the British Sunday School Union by
Mr. W. H. Groser and Dr. Samuel Green some years ago; and a
year ago the head master of Southlands Wesleyan College sent
out a Book of Lessons with Notes and Hints for Infant Class
Teachers.
In addition to these definite attempts to displace or improve
the International Lesson, there are many schools and many
teachers that are a law unto themselves. In some schools you
will find one teacher a loyal supporter of the International, and
the teacher in the next class following a kangaroo course of his
own. So dear a thing is freedom to the human soul! In senior
¢lasses, from the nature of the case, the International Lesson is
not strictly followed, though I know some P. S. A.’s [Pleasant
Sunday Afternoons] or adult Bible classes where the Interna-
tional Lesson forms the basis of the address given.
Roughly, we may classify British attitudes to the Interna-
tional Lesson as follows: 1. A multitude favorably disposed
towards it as the best lesson scheme ever produced. 2. The de-
nominationalists, who wish to keep in their own hands the con-
trol of the teaching given in their Sunday-schools. 3. The edu-
cationists, who would grade the lesson on psychological lines.
4. The higher critics, who think the time has come when chil-
dren should be taught the latest views on the structure of the
Bible. 5. The priestly party, who believe that to teach the
Bible alone, without the dogmatic interpretations of tradition
and Church authority, is an injury to religion.
At the present hour the priest, in the guise of the ritualistic
section of the Established Church, is in the ascendency. The
Government Education Bill proposes to abolish the Educational
Compromise of 1870, by which Bible reading without note or
comment was established in the board schools, and all creedal
teaching in day schools banished to the voluntary or denomina-
tional schools. All schools now, however, including the Roman
Catholic, are to be placed upon the rates, and wholly supported
by public money, while their control is left practically in the
hands of the denominationalists. By this arrangement the dis-
tinetive tenets of one or two denominations will be taught at
the public expense, and the supposed neutral tints of Seriptural
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teaching displaced by that more vivid doctrinal teaching, which
alone is regarded by the priest as satisfactory. Incidentally,
the bill, if carried, will further affect the Sunday-school by ren-
dering its work in the eyes of many more or less superfluous.
From this point of view the Evangelical Christians of Eng-
land are disposed to welcome with exceptional cordiality a wider
diffusion of the International Lesson amongst them. Nothing
but the pure Word of God can meet and destroy the supersti-
tions of Rome; and the more the Bible is subordinated to dog-
matic ereeds, the more necessary it is to claim for it its rightful
supremacy. Just now we need your co-operation more than
ever in leading the children direct to God’s Word, and to Christ
our sole High Priest.
The claim that the results of the higher criticism should find
a place in the International scheme has been advanced by few.
Even Canon Cheyne stated a few months ago that he was not in
favor of introducing critical questions into Sunday-school
classes below the senior level. But of late years the critical
wave in Great Britain has been subsiding, and to-day the signs
of a great reaction are plainly visible. In the providence of God
criticism has done a service to the truth. It has but cleared
away the rubbish from the wall, and shown us the everlasting
rock. A living interest has been re-awakened in Scripture, and
the treasures of their inheritance in the Bible are being discoy-
ered anew by the people. There is a return to expository preach-
ing in the pulpit and a growing distaste for rhetorical fireworks
and the essay-sermon. There is a keen hunger for Bible study,
and the fact that the Bible still remains the best selling book of
the day is a welcome corrective of the hasty pessimism which
concluded that the power and authority of Scripture were de-
stroyed. From this point of view one sees in the new century a
grander career for the International Lesson.
Our greatest immediate difficulty is presented to us by our
friends the educationists, who contend that the principle of a
uniform lesson for every grade of scholar is contrary to a sound
psychological method. We are met—though in a much less de-
gree than is the case in America—with some demand for an ad-
vanced course, and a more vigorous one for a separate primary
course.
In dealing with these demands we recognize the desire for the
highest efficiency which prompts them. But we have defended,
and we are inclined still to defend, the present uniform lesson,
by the following arguments among others:
The vast majority of our constituency is the intermediate
class, into which the juniors pass, and from which the seniors
proceed.
There is undeniable difficulty in adapting the same lesson for
the three grades of scholars; but the individual teacher has only
to adapt the lesson to a single grade. And this task is mainly,
though not solely, a matter of teaching skill. The difficulty
seems to us to point to the need of further teacher-training
efforts. We would rather try to grade the teacher than the
lesson.
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The teachers of advanced classes must be conceded perfect
freedom. They like to choose their own subjects as current life
and the needs of their classes direct. Often they prefer to enlist
their young men’s interest by a program mutually arra
We also feel that simplicity is a condition of universality. It
is easier to secure an extensive adoption of the Lesson, and inter-
national union concerning it, when there is only one course to
consider.
We admit that measured only by the standards of the educa-
tionist the International Lesson scheme is more popular than
scientific. But then God has owned and blessed its ministry,
and the experience of the great bulk of our teachers approves it.
Tt is still young, and does not appear to have reached the limit
of its growth. Further, when closely driven by the educationist,
who points us to the standards of normal secular education, we
are compelled to affirm our belief that the Sunday-school is less
a school than a family, less a series of classes than a home, less
a group of teachers and scholars than a band of brothers, sisters,
and friends. We do not aim primarily at the training of the
intellect, but at the training of the conscience, the affections,
and the will. We believe that our best teaching force is a con-
secrated personality, a soul in living communion with God
through the Holy Spirit, revering Scripture as the Word of God,
yearning for souls as Christ yearned and wept over Jerusalem,
loving the children with the sacrificial passion of our blessed
Redeemer.
But are the demands for separate courses to be ignored? Are
not these brethren who desire to improve the teaching methods
in our Sunday-schools also lovers of Christ, and do they not be-
lieve that their proposals would make the school still more suc-
cessful in winning the children for the Savior? We have long
known that you in this country must face and answer these
questions, and it is evident from what we have heard during the
meetings of this memorable Convention that the answer cannot
be delayed.
Now we do not presume to offer you advice in a matter so
closely concerned with your own national life, and one which
you have such splendid resources for settling. But speaking
from the standpoint of Great Britain, we affectionately urge
that nothing be done to imperil the continuance of the Lesson
as an international institution. There is no general demand in
our country for a graded system of lessons. The uniform lesson
is growing in popularity among us, and there are thousands of
schools still to be won to its adoption.
We fully appreciate the danger of ignoring the deraana now
made, since that might result in making the International Les-
son one of many competing systems, and possibly might lead to
the evolution of an intermediate course from some.other center.
What we venture to suggest is that any acceptable authority
should prepare and issue primary and advanced courses and
meet the felt needs of America, but that the name “Interna-
tional” be withheld from them, and reserved for that lesson
which meets the general needs of the world. By this means a
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useful experiment may be made without imperilling the Inter-
national scheme and the way prepared for an ultimate absorp-
tion of the new ideal if God seals it with success.
Reverting for a moment to the present scheme, I have some-
times wondered whether we should lose anything by a shorter
course. I incline also to the selection of longer passages of
Scripture for the lesson, to some method by which a class may
discover the light that Scripture throws on Scripture, and to
the encouraging of scholars and teachers to rely more on the
direct use and prayerful study of the Bible itself.
Finally, I would say that nothing of late years has done more
to popularize the International Lesson in Great Britain than
the significant change made by the Convention in describing our
members on the Lesson Committee as the British Section of the
Committee. You offered us your hand there, and your heart
with it, and we give you ours in return.
If now the suggestion thrown out by Dr. Dunning in a letter
to The Sunday School Chronicle a few months back, that the In- _
ternational Committee might be invited to meet occasionally in
one of our own cities,—if that suggestion proved workable, you
would give the Lesson an immense impetus in Great Britain.
At any rate we trust that you will be represented at the Cen-
tenary Celebration of the British Sunday School Union in the
summer of next year. You have given us a royal welcome.
Come and prove that under our frigid, reserved, and somewhat
haughty manner, there beats a true and tender heart. We love
you, and we'll tell you so!
BY THE REV. H. M. HAMILL, D.D., TENNESSEE.
Mr. Chairman: Before I begin my address I desire to intro-
duce it by reading a series of resolutions which I shall ask the
Chair to allow me to put in the form of a motion:
“Resolved, By the Tenth International Sunday-school Conven-
tion, that the following plan of lesson selection shall be ob-
served by the Lesson Committee:
“First. The study of the quarterly temperance lesson shall be
continued as heretofore.
“Second. One uniform lesson for all grades of the Sunday-
school shall be selected by the Lesson Committee, as in accord
with the usage of the past five Lesson Committees.
“Third. The incoming Lesson Committee is urged to consider
how far a better continuity of Bible study may be secured by
alternating at longer intervals, of one or more years, the selec-
tions from Old and New Testaments respectively.
“Fourth. During the next triennium, the Lesson Committee
is instructed to submit, in person or by correspondence, to the
authoritative ecclesiastical bodies of the denominations now
using the International lessons the following questions, and to.
report their answers to the next International Convention:
“A. Do you favor the continuance of the present uniform In-
ternational lesson for all grades?
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“B. What modifications or additions do you officially ask?”
Now, Mr. Chairman, as to the temperance lesson. I learned ;
how to be whipped and to stay whipped gracefully, at Appo-
matox, at the age of sixteen, in a “beginners’ course” condu
by one General Grant; which means, in reference to the temper-
ance lesson, that the last word (which you know a woman will
always have) from the lips of the now sainted Miss Willard, at
Pittsburg in 1890, determined my future course as to stated
quarterly temperance lessons. If I had my temperance friends
who believe in a compulsory lesson in one great gathering—and
it would be a great one—I think I could demonstrate to them a
better way. But if I cannot win them to my way of thinking, I ~
shall not give aid and comfort to the friends of the saloon and
the enemies of temperance by seeming to take a backward step.
As to the better continuity of lessons, this has been forcibly
presented by one or two speakers already. I believe that the
Lesson Committee, asked to “consider” (not instructed, how-
ever), may come upon a better arrangement of alternate selec-
tions from Old and New Testaments. For ten years and more it
has occurred to me from an educational standpoint, that the
transition was too frequent, often too abrupt, and at illy-defined
and chaotic points in the onward progress of Bible history. I
think that might be improved by an alternation from Old to
New Testament with the calendar year, possibly one year to the
Old followed by one year to the New. I am glad to find that the
“advanced course” now proposed, which for the first time I now
see, alternates, within two years, from Old to New Testament,
giving one year to each.
As to the continuance of the uniform lesson for all grades of
the Sunday-school, we have before us two courses urged as addi-
tional ones to the system. It is a radical change from the old
order. It is vain to say, in the light of Indianapolis and of suc-
ceeding Conventions, that the change from the principle and
method of one uniform lesson for all grades to a “uniform lesson
with optional courses” is not a radical departure. I am per-
suaded, from the standpoint of a teacher, that there could hardly
be a more radical departure. Speaking as a teacher, I would say
this: If we are to depart from a uniform lesson for all grades,
I would rather go over bodily to that other system which has
been so often urged upon us. The only logical thing to do, if we
are to disrupt the one uniform lesson, is thus going over into
the other camp. There is no compromise or half-way station
between the two. : *
As to a “beginners” course,”* I beg pardon for calling your at-
tention through that splendid paper, The Evangel, to the various
epinions from primary teachers whom this Convention delights
to honor. These come after long deliberation upon the question
of an optional beginners’ course. It is their thoughtful, delib-
erate expression of judgment. One teacher, long famous as a
primary leader and holding high International place, says:
“The whole school should hold fast to the uniform lesson.” An-
other says: “Not a year’s course, but a two-years’ course.”
Another hints that “‘a four-years’ course is needed.” I take it
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for granted that if option is given at one end and then at the
other end of the line, the greater body, the intermediate teach-
ers, in the near future will stand up and say: “We also ask an
optional course.” It is a disruption from center to circumfer-
ence, when you grant optional lessons under the sanction of the
International Convention.
Another primary leader says: “The lessons must revolve
about the mother.” Still another says: “The beginners’ course
is not satisfactory in that it assumes that the child can be led
to know the heavenly Father through the earthly father.” An-
other says it “should not be arranged according to the calendar
of the church.” Yet the chairman of the sub-committee submit-
ting this course declares, in the last Evangel, that ‘‘the lessons
lead up in December to Christmas, and in the spring to Easter.”
Yet another primary leader says: “The course consists largely
in preparing for festival days; to which, it seems to me, we
already give too much time.”
Now I am going to take Froebel, in his “Education of Man,”
and read you what the master of all these primary teachers has
to say:
“Not only in regard to the cultivation of the divine and relig-
ious elements in man, but in his entire cultivation, it is highly
important that the development should proceed continuously
from one point, and that this continuous progress be seen and
ever guarded. Sharp limits and definite subdivisions within the
continuous series of the years of development, withdrawing
from attention the permanent continuity, the living connection,
the inner living essence, are therefore highly pernicious, and
even destructive in their influence. Thus, it is highly pernicious
to consider the stages of human development—infant, child,
boy or girl, youth or maiden, man or woman—as really distinct,
and not, as life shows them, as continuous in themselves, in un-
broken transitions: highly pernicious to consider the child or
boy as something wholly different from the youth or man.”
I must beg pardon, after these words of the old German father
of the “New Education,” if I take my appeal from the disciples
to the master.
Lastly, with apologies to “Timothy Standby,” let me say that
every sensible person here knows how the little fellow in his
high-chair takes a piece of beefsteak and chews it until the juice
runs down like the oil upon Aaron’s garment; and how the
father and the grandfather can find nothing better than this
same good wholesome beef. And so the last and finest word of
modern education is that which says that “the teacher must
know his subject and have the skill to adapt it to the pupil.”
The fundamental heresy behind all this clamor for “optional”
and “graded” courses, as abundantly confirmed by the tendency
and practice of modern secular education, is, that you are trying
to grade the matter, rather than go to the fountain-head and
grade the teacher.
In the skill and power of a great surgeon of America, I saw
recently a fitting illustration of this latest deliverance of both
secular and religious education. He was at once the renowned
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master of his subject and his art. He needed no X-ray to dis-
cover to his keen eye and hand the parts, great or small, secret-
or superficial, in a man’s body. He was past master of body
and scalpel at once. He stood before little children, under seven
years of age. He drew a heart, and then explained its location,
and its greatest function. That ended his primary lesson-
Again, to youth of ten to eighteen years, he taught, in more com-
plex form, the structure of the same heart, and its power to reg-
ulate the blood as the very life of the body. Lastly, on another
day, before the anatomical students of a great university, that
same heart with all of its wonderful and complex parts and
functions this master of surgery and of teaching revealed in its
tullness as the great vital organ of life and health.
HOW CAN THE INTERNATIONAL LESSON SYSTEM BE
IMPROVED.—VOLUNTARY ADDRESSES.
BY MRS. MARY BARNES MITCHELL, IOWA.
Under the auspices of the International Primary Department,
there was held in this city, on the two days preceding the open-
ing of this Convention, a Primary and Junior Teachers’ Summer
School. There were more than five hundred enrolled,—the larg-
est number of primary teachers ever assembled in one place.
Thought and prayer was given to the teaching of the Word of
God to the little child. As a result of the conference held on
this subject, the International Primary Department desires to
present to you the following resolution, which was unanimously
adopted :
“Resolved, That we express to the International Lesson Com-
mittee our appreciation of their action in providing a Beginners’
Course, and would respectfully ask the Convention to approve
this action, and to instruct the Lesson Committee to provide a
Beginners’ Course extending over two years.”
BY ROBERT SCOTT, NEW YORK.
In the question propounded there are three things implied:
(1) that of lessons; (2) that it is a system; (3) that it is capa-
ble of improvement.
To admit the last paves the way to progress, and this ean be
done in part by helpful suggestion and constructive criticism.
As to the first point, let us ask the question, For whom are the
lessons prepared? If for the primary department, then we
should seek to find out what are the distinctive characteristics
of the child-mind; and the same plan should be followed as to
the pupils in the other departments of the school. We are not
in a position to provide lesson material until we know something
of what the child really is. Having discovered his interests, his
characteristics, we should provide material accordingly. If
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this is done it means that we will require different lesson ma-
terial for the different departments in the Sunday-school, and
that each be related to the other.
How are we to secure this knowledge regarding the mind of
the pupil? Psychology points out to us the way, not unerringly
by any means, but sufficiently to guide us intelligently in the
preparation of a curriculum that will be adapted to the needs
of the pupil. This is the method we apply to the physical devel-
opment and well-being of the child. We endeavor to give that
which accords with the child’s age. interests and capacity. If
this idea had been kept in view by the Lesson Committee, the
course of lessons from the book of Acts would not have been
given to the whole school. The larger number of the lessons for
the past six months were too far advanced in subject-matter to
be taught to the primary department. The book of Acts is de-
signed to show the growth and spread of the Gospel, and should
belong in a course for the intermediate and senior departments.
Again, there is no justification, pedagogically speaking, for a
break in the study of a particular book at the end of six months
by introducing for the remainder of the year a course from the
Old Testament, and then at the beginning of the new year re-
suming the study broken off at the middle of the previous year.
This is exactly the regime under which we are now working.
Secondly, that it is a system. The great claim made for the
International System is that of uniformity. Uniformity in this
connection has no special merit. We should aim to provide a
system that will be in harmony with the scientific spirit of our
time. We should aim to make that system as efficient and as
thorough as is the public school system. We should aim to give
a course that will be comprehensive enough to meet every need
and that will develop a strong Christian character. Further-
more, we should aim to promote the spirit of unity in the whole
course of selected material. With these aims in view we shall
rescue the system from all periodic well-meaning tinkering and
put it on a basis that will make the school a power for religious
instruction.
Thirdly, that it is capable of improvement. We have already
indicated wherein the improvement could be made, and would
only add that if this condition is to be realized it must come
about by those who understand something of the operations of
the mind, just as the body is only understood by those who have
given close application to its various functions.
BY THE REV. WALTER SCOTT BROWN, NEW YORK,
One of the “Men of 1872.”
At the Indianapolis Convention in 1872, Mr. Jacobs, Dr. Vin-
cent, and Edward Eggleston. with the Chairman, the late Philip
Gillett, LL.D., were the honored leaders. Each of these except
the last-named had a separate scheme for uniform lessons which
he advocated most strenuously at several sessions of the con-
vention, but without success. Finally. at the closing session,
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Bishop Vincent arose and said, addressing the Chair: “Sir, [
went out of this meeting last night firmly determined to adhere
to the plan of uniformity, so long conducted in The Sunday-
school Teacher; but having spent the night with the irrepressi-
ble Jacobs, I come to this meeting converted to the system which
he proposes, and am prepared to return home, break all my
stereotype plates, and begin anew.” The Convention thereupon
arose, sang the Long Meter Doxology, and, after electing the
First Lesson Committee, adjourned.
Your speaker returned to his parish in Sullivan County,
N. Y., and in the following January, 1873, commenced, in The
Liberty Register, what Dr. S. H. Tyng, Jr., said was the first
preparation on the Uniform Lesson System that ever appeared
in a secular paper.
BY THE REV. T. B. NEELY, D.D., LL.D., NEW YORK.
Mr. President and members of the Convention: I would not
speak at all at this time were it not for the fact that I represent
a great constituency. I represent over three hundred and fifty
thousand officers and teachers, and a membership in the Sunday-
schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church of over three mil-
lions. We have the greatest output of Sunday-school literature.
Therefore we have some interest in this matter. We also pay
the largest amount of money to the expenses of the International
Lesson Committee. We ought therefore to have a chance to be
heard. I will speak as rapidly as I can, and hope the minutes
will be extended in some possible way.
You have heard to-day some remarkable statements; you
have heard covert attacks upon the Uniform System; and it is
therefore well for us to consider the bearing of these statements,
and what will be the results if they are heeded.
I believe in the Uniform System. There may be sporadic
eases in the great church to which I belong, desiring something
else, but the church as a church in its millions wants the Uni-
form System. We are told here, that educators sniff at the
system. Why, they sniff at their own systems, and do not agree
among themselves. Here is a system that has been tested. The
International Lesson Committee tells us.in the report that this
lesson matter has been studied over for thirty years by some.
There is a fallacy in that. They are very few indeed who have
studied their lessons over for thirty years in succession. We
are to think most of the young membership. The most. of them
have not gone through a six years’ course in the Bible.
Now, as to the beginners. I believe in a beginners’ course,
for this reason: it is for the children who cannot read the Book.
Therefore, they need to be taught the Bible stories, and have the
topic presented and rolled around and around. This is the kind
of circularity for those who cannot read. But when we come to
those who can read, we need the Uniform System. And I want
to tell, you that the action of the editors has been misappre-
hended. A true statement of their action would show that it
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was their wish that this advanced course should not interfere
with the Uniform System. That is to say, the Uniform Lesson
should be studied in every department of the Sunday-school, ana
if it is best to do something else in connection with that, that
might possibly be done; but this report proposes to displace the
regular Uniform Lesson in the senior department and substitute
the advanced course. I am against that, and I think you are
against it also.
Now I believe in graded preparation. We can begin with the
simplest, and close with teachings so profound that it would
make the head of a theological professor ache. We need better
teachers, and better studying. We need to study at home. It is
not fair to assume that the scholars in the Sunday-school have
mastered their Uniform Lessons. They have not touched them,
and the average teacher has hardly touched them: and the day
has hardly come when we can do away with the Uniform System.
BY THE REV. A. L. PHILLIPS, D.D., VIRGINIA.
I wish to present to you, by authoritative instruction, the
desire of the Southern Presbyterian Church, as expressed by
that church in General Assembly at Jackson, Mississippi. They
desire me to assure you. first of all, that they are determined to
stand by the Uniform System of Lessons; and secondly, respect-
fully to ask this Convention if it is not possible in some way to
amend this System somewhat. They specify three particulars.
First, would it not be possible to have a shorter period for going
through the Bible? Secondly, is it not possible to provide for
closer historical continuity? Third, is it not possible in some
way to provide for a better adaptation of the lessons to the
needs of different grades of pupils?
This church makes no imperative demands or threats. It
comes with deep conviction, and with gratitude for all that has
been accomplished, and for the marvellous progress that has
been made in the Lessons themselves and in their treatment.
At the same time, we most respectfully and earnestly ask if it
is not possible that there should be some improvement. There
is a considerable demand among us for improvement in these
particulars. Leaving this matter in the hands of the Conven-
tion, and rejoicing in the hope of great improvement out of this
discussion, we go away in the expectation of a wide and more
eonstant usefulness for this great Convention. I beg for my
great church to say that we believe in the Uniform System, but
desire to have just as much improvement as circumstances will
permit.
BY THE REV. D. S. JOHNSTON, WASHINGTON.
I speak for the Washington Sunday-school Association. We
are loyal to the System of Uniform Lessons. But we believe ina
graded system of uniform lessons. The association believes in
and maintains graded schools. Why should we have the graded
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school without the graded lessons? Let us have both, and our
methods will be all right.
BY THE REV. JOHN A. M’KAMY, TENNESSEE.
The last speaker touched a salient point in this discussion.
We are pleading everywhere for graded schools. One of the
great barriers that are presented to successful gradation is the
Uniform Lesson. The time, however, in the Sunday-school
movement in America, as I view it, has not yet arrived for the
adoption of a completely graded system. I believe that the sys-
tem of lessons can be improved by maintaining the present Uni-
form Lesson and by adding to that the optional beginners’ course
and the course of advanced lessons. I believe that the sentiment
of the progressive primary teachers of America, those whose
voices should weigh with us, has been expressed by Mrs. Mitchell
on this platform ‘alr eady. I do not believe that we can success-
fully resist the demands that are made upon us for modification
and improvement, upon the specious plea that the suggestion
comes from German rationalism. I do not believe that we can
shut our eyes to the fact of the educational progress of this day.
I do not believe that we can impeach the marvellous revelations
of child-study. We must meet the facts of the age. We are con-
fronting not a sentiment but a condition. And as Sunday-school
people, as representatives of the great Sunday-school movement
in North America, we must take care of our own interests. I
believe that the Sunday-school movement in North America is
at Kadesh-barnea. I believe the sentiment expressed by the
Lesson Committee points toward Canaan. I believe that the
opposition points back to the wilderness. But I do not propose
to join it and go backward to the wilderness.
BY W. C. HALL, INDIANA.
Neither as a professor nor as a D.D., nor as a teacher, but as a
simple workman in the Sunday-school movement, do I speak to
you. The motto of Indiana is to bring souls to, to build up souls
in, and send out souls for Jesus Christ. We in Indiana need
the Uniform Lesson System. I appeal to you that are experi-
enced in the country places. Give them a graded system, with
the Bible-class above the others, and where are you going to get
all your teachers? We have brought into the churches in the
state of Indiana, from the Sunday-school, eighty-four per cent
of all the Christians that came into the churches by profession
of faith. If that system is not good enough we want something
better. We want to save the other three hundred thousand chil-
dren in Indiana.
Now, Lesson Committee, if you want to do us a service, give »
us a supplemental lesson wherewith we can grade our schools,
but not to interfere with the Uniform Lesson System. Let it be
a separate, independent, supplemental lesson with which we can
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teach our scholars to be teachers and the teachers to be better
teachers, wherewith we can teach the Bible classes instead of
getting on to a high theological plane, to learn how to get down
to our classes, and to lead the scholars to Jesus Christ.
BY W. C. PEARCE, ILLINOIS.
I speak as one who visits from three to eight Sunday-schools
each Sunday, and I am fully persuaded that we are not yet
ready to depart from the Uniform Lesson System.
1. By multiplying the courses of lessons, we correspondingly
multiply the difficulty of securing teachers, a problem that is
difficult enough now.
2. By abandoning uniformity we would strike a blow at our
family prayers, wherever there is a family that would have
representatives in the various grades. The daily reading on our
Uniform Lesson is not only an encouragement, but an aid in giv-
ing intelligent direction to our family prayers.
3. The thought which has evidently been in the minds of our
Lesson Committee for the last thirty years has been the evan-
gelization of our boys and girls and the bringing of the world to
the saving knowledge of Christ. I believe that the Uniform
plan is the best possible method we can adopt in achieving this
end. By having a unitorm lesson, all the songs, prayers and the
general exercises of the school may be utilized to help us in this
work: and that could not be if we were using several different
courses of lessons.
However, I believe there is a need and a place for graded
work. No doubt we all realize this need. The place for it is, in
my opinion. as a supplemental course. I should like to see such
a course of graded lessons prepared either by the Lesson Com-
mittee or a special committee appointed for that purpose. It
seems to me by such an arrangement the Uniform Lessons could
be maintained as in the past, chiefly evangelistic; while the
supplemental lessons could be devoted largely to giving our
scholars a comprehensive knowledge of the Bible, and training
them to become Sunday-school workers.
I am convinced that such a plan would enable us to keep invio-
late the Uniform Lessons, as we all seemingly desire to do, and
yet meet the conditions which have arisen and which seem to
demand graded work. I believe that such an arrangement would
be heralded with joy throughout the Sunday-school work. As
an evidence of the feeling in Illinois concerning this matter, I
should like to present the following resolutions recently passed
by unanimous and hearty vote of the Legion of Honor Alumni
Association at our last Illinois Sunday-school Convention:
“Feeling that there is need of our giving to our Sunday-school
scholars a more connected knowledge of the lessons, and also a
more comprehensive knowledge of Gad’s word, therefore we ex-
press our belief that a supplemental course of Bible study should
be prepared and used concurrently with the International Les-
‘sons; said course of Bible study to become a sort of preparatory
normal course.
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“We further believe that our normal work would receive a a:
great impulse if our International Convention would provide an
International course of study to be known as a post-graduate _
course, and also prepare an International Diploma to be given
to those who complete this course of study.”
BY THE REV. RUFUS’ W. MILLER, D.D., PENNSYLVANIA.
Two years ago the Alliance of Reformed Churches throughout
the world holding the Presbyterian System, representing twenty
millions, met at Washington. The entire trend of the discussion
upon the subject of the Sunday-school at that Alliance was in
favor of a course for the primary department, the beginners’
course as we have it now, and practically the advanced Bible
course for older ages. I represent a church that has committed
itself to this plan suggested by the Lesson Committee. It seems
to me we ought to trust the Lesson Committee, and accept its
recommendations.
REVIEW OF THE CONSIDERATION OF THE QUESTION.
BY THE REY. JOHN POTTS, D.D., ONTARIO.
We have listened with unusual interest to all the speakers
this forenoon on this vital but delicate and difficult subject. We
have heard the voices of perhaps some of the most eminent ex-
perts in connection with Sunday-school work. And we ask you
now, Were they all agreed? Were there not various voices and
various views? And yet I think we are able to come substan-
tially to the recommendation of the report of the International
Lesson Committee. We are bound, I think, Mr. President, as a
Convention, to take care of the great bulk of the schools
throughout your country and my country, and throughout the
world. Sometimes people talk about the classes and the masses.
This Convention must take care of the masses. And the Uni-
form Lesson System must not be interfered with in its true
principle. That represents, I believe, the overwhelming ma-
jority of Sunday-schools throughout the world.
And yet I think, with that, we may have something that will
meet the growing demands of advanced classes and teachers in
connection with our Sunday-schools. I believe therefore, Mr.
President, that this Convention will come to the conclusion of
adhering strenuously to the Uniform Lesson System; and at the
same time allow a course for beginners at the one end and for
advanced students at the other, that will not be stamped “Inter-
national.” Now we are in great danger of getting into a tangle
with those stubborn Britishers across the Atlantic. I know
them well. But we are extremely anxious to live in peace and
Sunday-school harmony with the Belseys and Frank Johnsons
and all whom they represent.
Now, Mr. Chairman, my one difficulty is in branding these
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advanced studies as American. You know the difficulty is here.
We in Canada own the greatest half of the continent, and you
people may be absorbed. And if we call it the American course,
the geographical and historical students will say: ‘Why, that
must be Canadian!” [Great laughter.]
Now, my dear friends, let us steadily move forward in support
of the Uniform Lesson System. Let us provide, as that sub-
committee has provided, for advanced students. My own opinion
is that in most schools it will get a severe letting alone. But
let it be ready for those who demand it. 1 wish from the bottom
of my heart that I could believe that the exodus at a certain
age from the Sunday-school is because the lessons are not diffi-
cult enough. And 1 wish I could believe that a more advanced
course of lessons would bring back the Sunday forenoon and the
Sunday afternoon wanderers from the house of God and from the
Sunday-school.
Now I think that, after the most interesting discussion that
has ever been had in a Convention in relation to the Lessons,
we may safely adopt the report of the Lesson Committee.
DISCUSSION ON THE ADOPTION OF THE LESSON
COMMITTEE’S REPORT.
STENOGRAPHIC REPORT.
A motion to adopt the report of the Lesson Committee having
been put by the Chair and declared carried, the Rev. T. B. Neely,
D.D., of New York, raised the point of order, that he was enti-
_ tled to be heard, having claimed the floor before the question
was put. The Chair ruled the point well taken; the vote to
adopt was reconsidered: and Dr. Neely said:
Dr. Neety: I think that action like this ought to be taken
with due consideration. It does not follow, because I am ready,
that my neighbor is ready to act. I would not desire to say a
word in this Convention. I am not on the program, though I
represent a great denomination. But I owe something to my
denomination; and therefore I have been bold enough to make
the point of order which any parliamentarian knows is correct,
that a member is entitled to the floor whenever he arises, if he is
in order; and no call for the question can take a member off the
floor or prevent his recognition.
Now to the matter in hand. You have already referred to the
Committee on Resolutions the resolutions offered by Dr. Hamill.
They involve the very things that are in this report from the
Committee. And as they involve the same, we ought to wait
until they come back from the Committee on Resolutions before
we act on the report of the Lesson Committee. That is my
point. And so, Mr. Chairman, I move that action on the report
of the Lesson Committee be deferred until a later period in the
meeting.
T have already, Mr. Chairman, given you the reasons why that
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ought to be done. I think we are not clear on this matter of an
advanced course of study. I am sure that the editors in their
meeting put in a proviso that it should not interfere with the
regular Uniform Lesson study. That is to say, that the Uni-
form Lessons should go up to the very highest grade. But if
good courses could be brought in and run parallel with that, a
certain time given to the one and a certain time to the other,
then it might be a good thing. I believe the remedy for the
whole thing is not in an advanced course of this character, but
a course that will proceed from the very beginning. You call it
“supplementary.” I do not believe that is a good word. A sup-
plementary course follows the main study. An “additional”
course would be better. I have been running in my journal
what we have called a “five-minute additional course.” I believe
a better word is a “general” course, which will give a general
view of the geography and history and books of the Bible; which
shall go on ‘from the very beginning so that those in the begin-
ning of the Sunday-school will know certain principles, and
then other principles, and then yet others. If you can bring
people to study this particular lesson in the Uniform Series who
already know the geography involved in that lesson and the
history that leads up to that lesson, then you will be able to
teach them the doctrines and make an ina that you can-
not make without that.. So I believe in the “general lesson”—
am not particular about the name—that shall go all the way
up. And then, if you want an advanced course, let it be specified
that this is not to displace the Uniform Lesson, but is to be used
as a sort of additional lesson in the same course of study.
And so, for these reasons, I hope we shall not take action now.
Let us allow it to go over. We can come to a calmer considera-
tion of the subject later.
A DELEGATE: Would it be satisfactory that this should be
referred to the Committee on Resolutions?
Dr. NEEty: I am willing.
Dr. Ports: I hope, Mr. President, that the report of the Les-
son Committee will be allowed to lie upon the table until we
have the report of the Committee on Resolutions.
Tux PresIDENT: That is Dr. Neely’s point,—that we simply
defer action on the adoption of the report of the Lesson Com-
mittee.
Mr. C. D. Metcs, Indiana: Before Dr. Hamill’s resolutions
are submitted to the Committee, I would like to make one sug-
gestion, which, if it is approved, I will gladly add as an amend-
ment to these resolutions. It is that if we are going to have a
beginners’ course and an advanced course, selected by the Inter-
national Lesson Committee, such courses shall not be published
by the denominational houses in quarterly or leaflet form with
the specified date to each one, but published in book or booklet
form, as a whole, in connection with the whole series. Then we
shall not get mixed up.
T116 PRESIDENT: The question before the house is on suspend-
ing for a time action on the adovtion of the report,
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tion of this report at 11.45 o’clock on.
a was to have this report and discussion, and
‘the action go over until that time.
vote was taken on Dr. Neely’s motion, and it prevailed.
ourned.
SIXTH SESSION, SATURDAY AFTERNOON
OPENING WORDS.
BY MRS. W. J. SEMELROTH, MISSOURI,
In the Chair.
He who will not work for the coming of the Kingdom should
not pray for it. The program planned for this afternoon very
' beautifully and truly shows how’ the thousands whom we repre-
sent to-day have been working for the coming of God’s kingdom
in the hearts of his little children. It is as if we would take an
invisible cord, and, fastening it with a strong love-knot in the
heart of the mother, would wind it around the mother’s baby in
the cradle, and gently drawing and leading, through the baby’s
birthday, and love and sympathy for the mother, would bring
both mother and baby into the way of the beginners, where by
the lessons taught on the Father’s love and care and the Savior’s
“Come unto me,” we would wind our cord around the heart of
the little beginner, and lead him on through the green pastures
of the Twenty-third Psalm, in the primary department, to know
the Shepherd’s voice and to follow him as he leads on to higher
and better things, the study of his Word, and the opportunity
for decision, in the junior department. And here we would tie
a strong love-knot in the heart of the teacher, binding her close
to the heart of the mother, from the cradle through to the junior
department. But we would not break the cord here. The
teacher, with her hand on the mother’s heart, trying to train the
young Christian whom she has led to know the Christ, reaches
out for help, and would take the mother with her into the teach-
ers’ circle, and bind her more closely to the primary union and
its members, who together reach out into the county, through
the county into the state and International work.
The program of this session has been planned to show the
progress made by the International Primary Department in its
several “movements” since the last triennial meeting at Atlanta.
As far as was possible, also, the presentation of these moye-
ments to the teachers of this Convention has been assigned to
those who were instrumental in first working them out.
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ORGANIZED PRIMARY WORK.
BY ISRAEL P. BLACK, PENNSYLVANIA,
Secretary of the International Primary Department.
The first primary teachers’ meeting was organized in Newark,
N. J., in the year 1870, and was known as the “Infant Teachers’
Class.” Mrs. Samuel W. Clark had the honor of being the leader
and teacher of this class. The second class was formed in New
York City in 1871, and was presided over by Mrs. Wilbur F.
Crafts, the Honorary President of our Department. The third
class was formed in Philadelphia in 1879, of which the speaker
had the honor of being president during the first five years of
its history. The fourth class was organized in Washington,
D. C., in 1881. At this last date these four classes bore the name
of “primary union.”
In 1884 a National Primary Union was formed by the union,
in the city of Philadelphia, of the Philadelphia, Washington
and New York unions. The first officers of this organization
were: President, Mrs. W. F. Crafts; Vice-president, Mr. Israel
P. Black; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. Frank Hamilton.
As the work increased, it was thought best in 1887 to extend
its benefits and include the provinces of Canada, and the name
was changed to The International Primary Union. Notwith-
standing there were many misgivings in those early days as to
the future of what some were pleased to call “a paper organiza-
tion,” the faithful few persevered with the work at a great ex-
pense of their time, thought and money, while they endeavored
to present to every primary teacher in the Jand the newest and
most improved methods of work. First, the individual teacher
was reached and helped through means of a small but very valu-
able leaflet published every month. Then the state and county
secretary was helped in many ways as fast as these officers were
appointed; and the unions were encouraged and helped by cor-
respondence and publications,
Time will not admit to tell what has been accomplished since
1884. I have carefully outlined this work at previous Conven-
tions and Field Workers’ Conferences. However, in order to
answer the often-asked question, ‘‘What does the Primary De-
partment do, and how do they do it?” I will repeat what I said
at the last Field Workers’ Conference, as to the methods by
which we seek to encourage and assist organized primary work.
1. A state or county secretary writes as follows: ‘There is
a very good field in the town of A for organizing a union.
Can you not send a copy of the Primary Workers’ Manual, a few
Bulletins and other publications to Mrs. B , who is ready to
call the teachers together to discuss the advisability of organiz-
ing a union?” The Secretary at once writes to Mrs. B :
sending her a sufficient number of copies of all our publications
to distribute among the teachers, so that they may learn the
value of an organization for teacher-training.
2. A union writes: ‘We want to arrange a program for the
next three months; can you give us some suggestions?” The
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Secretary sends samples of a blank program, and also copies of
programs which different unions send to him every quarter. It
is very helpful to unions to know what others have done in this
line of work.
3. A general secretary of a state or province writes: “We are
talking of organizing the primary work at our next convention.
Can you give us any suggestions in this line?” The Secretary
sends copies of the different constitutions which others have
adopted, so that he may see what has been done in this line of
work. This often results in the organization of a state or pro-
v ain primary department.
4, A union writes: ‘We are not able to purchase a teachers”
library, but we do need very much to read a few books en
teacher-training. Can you help us in any way?” As soon as
possible the Secretary loans this union for three months one of
the small libraries which contains just the helpful books they
need, and which have been greatly appreciated by all the unions
that have read them.
5. A primary teacher writes: “Where can I find a list of
helps and appliances for primary teachers? I am just begin-
ning to work, and feel the need of all the helps I can find.” The
Secretary writes a helpful and encouraging letter for beginners
and encloses a copy of the “Primary and Junior Teacher’s Hand-
book,” which contains a list of over two hundred helps and ap-
pliances, suggesting to this teacher that she send to the pub-
lishers for sample copies and make her own selection of such
things as may best suit her present needs.
These are a few of the many ways in which the Primary De-
partment is trying to help organized primary work in the
United States and the British Provinces.
Individual teachers also are using this Department very
freely for the purpose of obtaining all manner of information
regarding the primary class and its work, and it has become a
very convenient agent for the purchase of such supplies as they
may require, in the way of books and appliances.
I ask your attention to the printed report in your hands.
[See page 194.] Please notice on the map the letters and figures
in nearly every state and province. The letter “D” indicates
that a primary department or council or union has been formed
under the authority of the state or provincial Sunday-school
association. Ina few cases these departments are new and have
not accomplished very much; but in most cases they have been
the means of accomplishing much good and have been very help-
ful to the whole work of the state or province. They now num-
ber 23, a gain of 5 since the Atlanta Convention.
The letter “S” indicates that a superintendent or secretary
of primary work has been officially appointed to work under the
direction of the Sunday-school] association. In a few cases they
give all their time and are paid a regular salary. In most cases:
they are paid only for time and labor as given; but in some cases:
they give time and labor without any compensation, because of
lack of funds for this purpose. They now number 43, against 13
at the Atlanta Convention.
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The figures indicate the number of unions in each state or
province. In these there has been a gain since Atlanta of 130.
During the past three years 240 unions have been formed, but
owing to many causes 110 of them have either ceased to exist or
are now taking a recess until some primary secretary can make
them a visit and encourage them to start again. These visits
have been successful in many cases. During the Southwestern
Tour Mrs. H. M. Hamill organized 27 unions, and nearly all of
them are still engaged in active work. Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner
has also organized a number of unions during some of the tours
that she has made. Greater care, however, should be exercised
in the future in organizing unions, so that they may become per-
manent and thereby accomplish more for the neighborhood.
Please notice on the reverse side of the map the names of the
officers of the Central and Executive Committees. We are glad
to report that through the co-operation of state and provincial
associations we have nearly completed this Executive Commit-
tee. This gives us many centers from which we can encourage
organized work.
Please notice the work which has been accomplished with the
Training Course during about two years’ time. Fully 1,000
students studying the Course, and 391 papers examined and
passed upon, and 38 have received the diploma. One interesting
feature of this educational work is that fully forty classes have
been formed for the study of this Course, and many of these will
no doubt be organized into unions. The detailed work of the
Training Course will be given to you by Mrs. Mary Barnes
Mitchell, who first suggested the need of this Course.
The statistics regarding office work and publications will indi-
eate what has been accomplished in this line of work. The
“Quarterly Bulletin” has been issued to the extent of 108,000
copies, 28,000 of which have been distributed free to individual
teachers, institutes, conventions and summer schools, and these
have been the means of creating great interest in the work.
The statistics gathered by the state and provincial primary
secretaries, while not so complete as we desired, indicate a very
small part of the work that has been accomplished.
The receipts of money for carrying on the work will be found
in the Financial Report. We are very grateful to the different
states and provinces, and unions and individuals for these gifts,
which have enabled us to accomplish much. We regret that
$164 of the pledges made at Atlanta were not paid, as this would
have enabled us to have enlarged the work on many lines that
were greatly needed. The accounts for the three years ending
Deember 31, 1901, were closed with a balance on hand of $5.78.
Owing to our fiscal year not being the same as that of the Inter-
national Convention, the receipts do not show an additional $250
from the Executive Committee, making $1,500 from July, 1899,
to July, 1902. Weare very grateful to the Executive Committee
for their generous gifts to our work.
This Department has just held, in the city of Denver, a two
days’ session of a School of Methods, which has been attended -
by five hundred registered students, and many others. Great -
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interest was manifested by the students, many of whom came
long distances in order to avail themselves of this opportunity
of a training-school in primary and junior methods. The cost
of this School was paid from the offerings taken at two evening
sessions.
It has been possible during the past three years for the De-
partment to render valuable service to the work of the South-
western Tour, in which Mrs. H. M. Hamill organized twenty-
‘seven unions; and also to Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner in the many
tours which she has taken. This Department sent to these
workers primary literature for free distribution at a cost of $25
for the Southwestern Tour and $15 for Mrs. Bryner’s tours. We
regret that our funds did not admit of a larger distribution of
helpful literature to these primary and junior workers.
In this report I have kept strictly to what has been accom-
plished, and will leave Mrs. Barnes, the Chairman of our Execu-
tive Committee, to outline what this Department requires for
its future growth and development.
I desire to thank everyone, present or absent, who has in any
way helped the Secretary and the whole Department to carry on
the work during the past three years.
REPORT OF THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
BY ISRAEL P. BLACK, SECRETARY AND TREASURER.
I. LOCAL PRIMARY ORGANIZATION.
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SIXTH SESSION, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. 195
Totals: D (fields having an organized primary department),
23; total number of primary unions, 430; S (fields having a
primary secretary or superintendent), 43.
Il. OFFICERS SND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
[See the Official Register.]
Ill. THE “TRAINING COURSE NUMBER ONE.”
Fully one thousand students.
Papers examined, 391.
Graduates, 38, as follows: Alabama, Mrs. HE. P. Miller, Talla-
dega; Arkansas, Miss Lucy Moore, Cane Hill; Illinois, Miss
Mabel A. Torrey, Taylorville, Mrs. G. W. Barkley, Hazel Dell,
Miss Carrie A. Rigg, Edinburg, Mrs. Mary F. Hurst, Sweet
Water; Indiana, Miss Annie L. D. Swann, Indianapolis; Mary-
land, Miss Bessie Pennington, Baltimore, Miss Eleanor M.
Brooks, Baltimore; Massachusetts, Andrew H. Cleveland, Hyde
Park, Miss Ida M. Goucher, Lowell; Michigan, Mrs. Mary L.
Hall, Coldwater, Mrs. Charles L. Smith, Kalamazoo, Mrs. Will-
iam Strong, Kalamazoo; Minnesota, Mrs. Jean E. Hobart, Min-
neapolis; Missouri, Miss Millie M. Lewis, Clarksville, Mrs. L. L.
Allen, Pierce City, Mrs. A. Robinson, Pierce City; New Jersey,
Miss Mary A. Hageman, Readington, Miss Lillie Cole, New Ger-
mantown; New York, Miss Minnie Osman, Lestershire, Mrs. H.
Adele Streeter, Mrs. Eleanor H. Platt, Miss Floriner Doxtater,
Mrs. Maria Sylvester, Miss Lillian C. Miller, Miss Dora A.
Harding, Miss Nina A. Bentley, Miss Lena May Bishop, Miss
Bessie Dexter, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Baldwin, Mrs. Rose M. Sadle-
myer, Miss Mabel L. Slater, Miss Hazel Ruth Gardner, Miss
Mary Louise Fuller, Mrs. Helen Peckham, Mrs. Rose M. Hard-
ing, all of Fulton; Pennsylvania, Mrs. W. H. Bricker, Cham-
bersburg.
IV. OFFICE STATISTICS.
Publications, from June 1899 to June 1902: Quarterly Bul-
letin, 108,000 (28,000 free distribution) ; Primary Manuals,
large, 1,500; small, 2,000; Primary Hand-books, 1,500; Primary
Programs, 2,000; Training Course Leaflets, 50,000.
Correspondence: Letter-heads, 6,500; envelopes, 7,500; wrap-
pers, 19,000; circulars, 9,600.
Vv. GENERAL STATISTICS.
Twenty-three states and provinces report primary depart-
ments; 43 report primary superintendents; 49 are represented
on the Executive Committee.
Twenty-eight report 736 county primary secretaries.
Fourteen report 1,116 cradle rolls.
Seventeen report 7,119 separate primary rooms.
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Fifty-two report 407 primary unions, also 23 not fully organ-
ized ; total, 430.
Twenty report 4,069 members of primary unions.
Twenty-one report 151 unions and training classes studying
Course No. 1.
Fifteen report holding 258 primary institutes.
Eight report holding 25 summer schools.
Four report reaching 4,573 teachers in summer schools.
VI. FINANCIAL REPORT.
Receipts for three years, from January 1, 1899, to December
31, 1901.
From state and provincial primary departments and unions:
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California, (Ni) 'si9; ses wae 10 00 New York.... - 239 00
California’ (8;) .i ote eee est 18 50 North Dakota 1 00
Colorado ...... : 66 90 ORO 0. fee 75 00
*Connecticut sia 2 00 Oregon «\<>abcalehee 7 00
Delaware ....... 1 00 Oklahoma Territory 1 00
District of Columbia 15 00 Pennsylvania .. 300 00
Georgia 15 00 Rhode Island... 15 00
Idaho .. 3 25 South Curolina. 7 00
Illinois . 150 97 North Carolina. 1 00
Indiana -- 33 00 South Dakota ne 1 00
Iowa ...... ae -- 8000 Tennessee... s/s evan awe ee 18 25
LOUIS IAIN jails amcllawm en ae 3 00 TEXAS 2.00500 ts pre hcmee 2 25
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habit of jumping on children and asking them ridion seen
tions, in order to see how quickly their minds will wi in
answer. Professor George Adam Smith was with him when he ‘
jumped on to a newsboy and said to him, “Sonny, what time is
it by your nose?’ and the boy said to him, “Mine isn’t running;
is yours ?” y
BY THE REV. CHARLES ROADS, D.D., PENNSYLVANIA.
There is no truer statement than that in Professor Brum-
baugh’s paper, that the public school teacher is very far from
reaching his ideal; and I can speak as the principal of a gram-
mar school for a number of years. The ideals of the modern
public school teacher are two. The development of character
in the child is his purpose, no less than it is the purpose of the
Sunday-school teacher. We say that the body of knowledge is
one, and not that there is a certain science of astronomy, and
one of geology, and all these other sciences, absolutely separate
from each other.
Now we are not reaching our ideals either in the public school
or in the Sunday-school, and yet we are doing fully as well in
the Sunday-school, if not better. I wish to make one point, that
we have really two purposes in the Sunday-school, very distinct,
though vitally related the one to the other. One is to give cer-
tain definite information to the pupil, to teach the facts and
truths of the Bible. And I do not agree for a moment with the
men who say that it is not the purpose of the Sunday-school to
teach, as richly and as fully as possible, all that is in the Bible,
because the history and geography and biography of the Bible
are all vitally related to its spiritual influence and character.
It is according to the mind of the Bible that we have the divine
truth, and the more we get of divine truth in the soul, the more
do we insure its salvation; so that as we enlarge the boundary
and enrich the knowledge of our scholars concerning the Serip-
tures, we put them under spiritual influences the more surely,
and develop them in all that is Christlike.
That is one purpose of the Sunday-school,—that threefold
purpose: to bring every soul to Christ, to build every one up in
Christlike character, and to train every one for specifie Chris-
tian work,-—that is our purpose in the Sunday-school. And next
to that is the educational side of Sunday-school work. Though
related vitally to this, as I have said, it ought to be held dis-
tinct.
‘If we have two purposes in the Sunday-school, we must have
two forms of lessons to accomplish those purposes. We must
have the International lesson for spiritual impression and de-
velopment, not to be replaced by the substitution of anything
else. There can be nothing’ found that will bring the lesson
to a human soul so powerfully as a selected passage of Scripture
treated in an expository way; and that the lesson-makers haye
given us in the International lessons. Let that be used espec-
ially for spiritual lessons,—not history, geography, or the edu-
cational facts of the Bible in the lesson helps; but use it in all
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its power to build up the soul in Christ; only so much history
and geography as are necessary to do that.
- And then have another series of lessons that will give fifteen
or ten minutes to develop the geography and the connected his-
tory of the Bible, and the books and contents of the Bible, and
analytical studies, and synthetic studies, covering the whole
arrangement of the Bible throughout. You can give ten min-
utes to it; and you can do more to teach history in one quarter
than you could incidentally in ten years, in the International
lessons. You ean teach the.history of the Bible in the Sunday-
school if you do it systematically; but if you connect it with
the International lessons as now existing, you will fail, as we
have failed, to teach these facts in a systematic way. So we need
to copy the methods of the day school, in having two lessons in
every session. I believe that the greatest advance that could be
made in the Sunday-school lesson to-day would be to have a two-
lesson plan. Wherever that has been tried—I could give you
eonerete examples—there has been marvelous success in this
line. ¥ j
BY ROBERT SCOTT, NEW YORK.
Mr. President: When Dr. Schauffler took his seat, the dele-
gate next to me said, “He is one of the grandest men of this
Jonvention ;” and if he is here now, | may have something at
the close of my talk that I would like him to know.
First of all, I want to thank Professor Brumbaugh and Prin-
cipal Rexford for what they have given us this morning. After
twenty years of close Sunday-school teaching, I have come to
believe that this training is so much more important than
sehool training, that I believe, if we go along in right methods,
one of these days we will absorb the day schools, rather than
find the day school principles absorbing us. It is because I be-
lieve this training is so much more important than school train-
ing that I am in favor of psychological and pedagogical methods
being applied to religious training.
Professor Brumbaugh gave us two things that I want you to
know. In the public school tue conductor recognizes the child’s
mind as determining the selection of material, and I feel that in
the past the International Lesson Committee have not recognized
that. Both Dr. Schauffler and Dr. Dunning have said, and with
reason, that one reason why the theological graduate, who grad-
uates from our seminaries to-day, is not fitted for any especial
work in the Sunday-school] is that he has not been trained ac-
eording to that line. True. Now, the Lesson Committee has
been made up largely of theological men. We have got to have,
in the International Lesson Committee, men who understand
the nature of men, and who will give us the material that nature
observes.
There are distinct stages in nature, and we ought to observe
them. First the blade, then the ear, and then the corn in the ear.
We must observe this in grace also; then we can make some
headway. If character is developed through struggle, I do hope
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that the struggle which some of us are having in securing the
recognition of our views by this Convention will result in the
recognition of mind in the departments of the Sunday-school
more largely than to-day.
BY ROBERT R. DOHERTY, PH.D., NEW JERSEY.
Principal Rexford said that information-subjects do not cal
for close grading; and he instanced geography, and said it mat-
tered little whether geography was begun by teaching concern-
ing Great Britain or Canada or the United States. With the
profoundest respect, Principal Rexford is greatly mistaken.
The teacher in Denver begins with Denver; and if she is a wise
teacher she begins with the street in which her school is located.
The prime principle of education on information-subjects is to
begin with the known, and lead from the known to the unknown.
This applies to every part of Sunday-school teaching. It applies
to the child of five, to the child of eight, to the child of fifteen.
The child of eight has a right to have a teacher who will begin
at the information of eight years of age, and not begin with the
information of the child three years older. The child of fifteen
requires the teacher to begin with the information that that
child possesses at fifteen. The grading is absolutely necessary,
and is closely followed even in our homes, if we look at our
homes with philosophical eyes. The mistake, I think, if a mis-
take is ever made in the selection of our lessons, lies not in the
fact which Mr. Scott has mentioned, that our Lesson Committee
is composed largely of theologians. I do not think they are any
worse, necessarily, for that. But the delusion of a great many
teachers is that which Mr. Hamill unfortunately did not sueceed
in driving out of our minds, that the Bible is at first a graded
book. The boy is graded, the girl is graded: but the Bible is not
graded. And what we want is not a series of different lessons
tor different ages, but the different teacher and the different
method, and close, close, close, grading.
Principat. REXFoRD: One word of explanation. I was so hur-
ried that very likely 1 may have left out some important state-
ment, which may have given you some misapprehension. I tried
to leave this impression with you, that while grading in our
Sunday-school work has a definite place, we are entitled to infer
from the peculiar functions of the day school that it is not as
important in the Sunday-school as in the day school. My second
point which I tried to make is, that the International subjects,
which are so important in the Sunday-school, are the subjects
which call for the least grading in the day school. And if my
friend who spoke just now will give us the beginners’ course,
in which he can work out in his plan of teaching geography from
the street to the country for a little while, then, it seems to me,
we may be prepared to go on with the general work without any
detailed grading.
NINTH SESSION, MONDAY MORNING. 273
THE MESSAGE CONCERNING MRS. MAXWELL.
BY DR. HAMILL.
THE PRESIDENT: We have a message from the Executive Com-
mittee sent to us through Professor Hamill.
Dr. Hamitt: My message is a brief one, and I want the heart
and ear of every one in the room. We are coming to the round- ©
ing’ up now of the International Convention. You and I have
had a great time. I have not had so much real and solid pleas-
ure in three years as I have had at this Triennial Convention.
You have enjoyed this great city, and the great addresses, and
the great people that live here. All that goes without saying.
You are going back to your homes with a very precious memory
of Denver and the Convention.
There is a little black woman in Decatur, Georgia. by the
name of Mrs. L. B. Maxwell, with four little children clinging
to her skirts, who is thinking about this Convention, and about
the man who was at Atlanta but is not here, whom God has
taken away from her and their protection. I loved Maxwell. I
was with “Marse Robert.” as a boy of sixteen. My cradle was
rocked by the hand of a slave. And you are very much mis-
taken if you think that a black man cannot love a white man
and a white man love a black man. I was with Maxwell on
train, and in convention, and on many occasions; and I found
him to be a very white-spirited, docile, patient, fine gentleman,
in every respect. This continent and the mother continent, our
London brethren especially, found that while he was a Christian
gentleman, he was also a stalwart thinker. They paid homage
to him there, as you have done here.
The International Executive Committee sends me to this plat-
form to ask you not to adjourn this great Convention without
remembering that poor Maxwell had a small salary, that he
wore out his life in this work of the International service, and
has left his little family down in Decatur without a single dol-
lar. I want you to give what your hearts move you to give.
Just drop it quietly, in remembrance of Maxwell and in the love
of God, into the basket, and it will be handed to his family as
a substantial tribute to his memory.
THE DEBATE ON THE LESSON RESOLUTIONS.
STENOGRAPHIC REPORT.
THE PRESIDENT: We are now ready to hear the report of the
Committee on Resolutions. The Rev. Dr. Alexander Henry of
Pennsylvania will present the report.
Dr. Henry: If any one doubts that this is a great Conven-
tion, he should have been sitting with the Committee on Reso-
lutions, and seen the memorials, appeals and resolutions that
have come to our hands. You may perhaps wonder at the num-
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ber of resolutions that are presented by the Committee. But if
you had seen the memorials that came to us, you would wonder
that we present so few this morning, in view of the large num-
ber of very excellent and very worthy causes we have had to
pass by. Also, I wish at this time to express my regret to some
gentlemen and others who have offered resolutions which per-
_ haps we gave some reason to think we would present to this
body, but wnich we find it impossible to do; one reason therefor
being that there are so many of them.
I also desire to say that these resolutions will not please
you in their entirety. No member of the Committee on Resolu-
tions was entirely pleased with them. We had to take the mat-
ter into Christian and brotherly consideration, and, looking over
the whole field, to give up our own feelings in many cases, for
the sake of presenting the resolutions that seemed to the major-
ity of the Committee to be best. But in every case we were
unanimous. And I trust that this same spirit may prevail here
to-day. I trust that, unless there is some vital principal in-
volved, we will not find it necessary to go into extended debate
on these resolutions.
Shall I read the resolutions as a whole, or will you take them
up seriatim?
On motion of Dr. Neely, the resolutions were taken up seri-
atim. The first and second resolutions (see pages 16, 17) were
adopted without debate.
The third resolution, or series of resolutions, was presented
as follows:
“Resolved, That the following plan of lesson selection shall
be observed by the Lesson Committee to be elected by this Con-
vention:
“1. One Uniform Lesson for all grades of the Sunday-school
shall be selected by the Lesson Committee, as in accordance with
the usage of the past five Lesson Committees; provided, that
the Lesson Committee be authorized to issue optional ‘Begin-
ners’’ and ‘Advanced’ courses for special demands and uses;
such optional courses not to bear the official title of Interna-
tional Lesson.
“2. The Lesson Committee is urged to consider how far a
better continuity of Bible study may be secured by alternating
at longer intervals—of one or more years—the selections from
Old and New Testaments respectively.
“Resolved, That this Convention reaffirm the instructions on
the subject of temperance lessons adopted at Pittsburg and re-
affirmed at St. Louis and Boston.
“Whereas, The International Primary Department has ex-
pressed its appreciation of the value to the primary work of
America of the action of the Lesson Committee in providing a
Beginners’ course, and has asked that the course be extended
to two years;
“Resolved, That we transmit this request to the Lesson Com-
mittee for their careful consideration.”
A DELEGATE: I move that Item 2 be referred to the Lesson
Committee, and the rest be adopted.
NINTH SESSION, MONDAY MORNING. 275
Dr. NEELY: I desire to cal] the attention of the Convention
to this fact, that it is an impossibility for this Convention to
adopt anything, and then say to the world that it cannot bear
the name of the Convention. I think that in regard to advanced
lessons the best thing we can do is to let the matter rest and
let individuals experiment as they please during three years.
Then, when we come to the next Convention, we can consider the
results of the experimentation. We are not ready now for the
advanced system. The Committee has done its work well, and
we thank it for what it has done. It has suggested an advanced
course. But if you will study that advanced course, what will
you find? Simply that you have a series of lessons such as you
have had in the Uniform Series time after time, and nothing
more; only this, that they are different from the Uniform
Series, and will make confusion in the school.. The only differ-
ence is there. Now, how are you going to get your advanced
thought? The only way to get your thought is by an advanced
treatment; and you can get your advanced treatment on the
Uniform Lesson, the ordinary lesson, just as well as you can
upon the special lesson.
Furthermore, I object because the thing is not definite; it is
not guarded. Have you studied the proposition as it has come
tous? What does it say? It assumes that these are to be used
only by classes who have followed the International lessons
during a period of six years. That means that anybody who
has followed the International series for six years can take up
these lessons. Begin with six years in the primary department,
and add six years’ study of the Uniform Lessons, and you have
one ready at the age of twelve years for this so-called advanced
series, which will practically drive out the Uniform Lessons
from the Sunday-school. Let me call your attention to this fact,
that the Bible is not a graded book. You can begin the study
of it almost anywhere. And this series of advanced lessons, so-
called, concedes this fact. It seems to me the thing to do is
simply to give an advanced treatment for the: higher grades in
the Sunday-school: then you have your advanced series.
Have you realized how much time the Sunday-school takes to
study the lesson? Fifty-two half-hours in the whole year. That
means simply one day of twenty-four hours, plus two hours.
That means simply that the time you are to give to the study of
these lessons is about the time you will spend in traveling from
Denver to the city of Chicago. Now anybody that comes to us
to talk about an advanced series, as though we could have a
theological seminary course, does not take into view this fact of
the limited time for study. And I hope we shall take no action
whatever in regard to advanced lessons, for this day. We can-
not afford to risk the Uniform International Lessons.
I am in favor of a beginners’ course for the little ones who
cannot read the Book. Let us give them a treatment by them-
selves. But for those who can read, let us give them a uniform
lesson. I think we shall thus preserve unity. If we are Inter-
national, we ought to have unity in Great Britain, Canada, the
United States, and everywhere else.
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What I propose is to substitute, for this part of the resolution
in regard to an advanced series, the following:
“Resolved, That at this time we are not prepared to adopt a.
series of advanced lessons to take the place of the Uniform Les-
sons in the adult grade of the Sunday-school; but we recom-
mend:
“1. That there shall be a more advanced treatment of the
Uniform Lessons for the upper grade of the school.
“2. That there shall be used, in connection with the study of
the regular Uniform Lessons. short additional or general les-
sons, presenting in a systematic manner general facts about the
Bible, to occupy not more than from five to ten minutes, preced-
ing the study of the regular Uniform Lesson for the day.
“3. That the period for the class study of the lesson be length-
ened.
“4, That wherever possible there be formed in every Sunday-
school a teacher-training department, to meet at the same hour
as the school; said department to be composed of older scholars
who shall study the Uniform Lesson and also a teacher-training
course.”
Tue PRESIOENT: Are these resolutions seconded?
A DetrecaTe: I second Dr. Neely’s resolutions.
Dr. Neety: I will give you the thought in regard to this.
The advanced series of Scriptural lessons, so-called, are not
advanced simply because they are called advanced. It must all
be in the matter of treatment. And if you add an advanced
course like that, and do not have a progressive course of general
character, giving general facts, your advanced course would
utterly fail. Let us at this time agree to a beginners’ course,
but not touch what is called the advanced course and yet may
not be any more advanced. But let us have the uniform course
all the way through; and add these thoughts that I believe you
will heartily concur in, as matters that you recommend. We
do not adopt them, but simply recommend the schools to follow
this suggestion so far as they can. I therefore move the sub-
stitution of this for that part which refers to advanced lessons.
1 believe in three lessons; and I am trying to teach my chureh.
as far as I have opportunity, to have a five minutes’ lesson of
general character, and a five minutes’ doctrinal lesson to teach
the doctrine of the lesson, and twenty-five or thirty minutes for
the Uniform Lesson.
THE PRESIDENT: Before I recognize any person, I must say
that I recognize, as I am sure you do, the necessity for a time-
limit. And I wish, unless you order otherwise, to limit the
speakers to three minutes in the discussion of this question.
The question before the house is the substitute presented by
Dr. Neely.
Dr. MAcLAREN: Mr. President, I would suggest that the
resolution presented by Dr. Neely be divided. I am prepared to
support the first part of the resolution. For some of the con-
cluding parts I am not ready.
Dr. NeeLy: Iam quite willing that that should be done.
Dr. MAcLAREN: Then I speak in favor of the first part of the
NINTH SESSION, MONDAY MORNING. 27T
resolution, acquiescing in the beginners’ course, but not being
ready to adopt at the present time the advanced courses.
speak in the first place as a humble Bible-class teacher of about
twenty years’ experience. I give it to you for what it is worth.
Others have had much longer and wider experience than myself.
In the next place, I speak authoritatively for the province from
which I come. Our last provincial convention almost unani-
mously pronounced in favor of the beginners’ course, and
against the advanced. I speak in behalf of the largest Protest-
ant body in the province, which at its last Conference pro-
nounced against both these courses. }
A DetecaTe: Could we have read in connection with this
just now the recommendations of the Lesson Committee? It
seems to me that might save debate and time, if we could have
these recommendations, which are brief, read just at this time.
Dr. Hamitt: Mr. Chairman: I have great admiration for
Dr. Neely’s views, and a yet larger admiration for the millions
of Sunday-school scholars represented by him in the Methodist
Episcopal Church. But I have very strong convictions on the
matter also. I came to this Convention believing, as I have be-
lieved for years from every standpoint, Scriptural and peda-
gogic, that the best thing we could do would be to let the Uni-
form Lesson stay as it is. That was the conviction of my heart
and of my mind. But you know that there is a local demand
for the beginners’ course; there is also another element asking
for an advanced course. And the International Lesson Com-
mittee have gone so far as to lay before us an outline of a be-
ginners’ and of an advanced course. They are perfectly willing
to recognize the rights of any new demand that might arise here
and there, provided always it did not conflict with the integrity
and power and broad usefulness of the International Lessons.
And when I heard the chairman of the Lesson Committee say
that so far as the beginners’ course was concerned he was will-
ing to try it but not to call it “International,” I said, That is
honorable; but don’t ask us to dub it “International.” Why?
Because Europe and Canada, as certain sections of this country,
are interested in the one uniform series of lessons. And there
will be no collision with them if we keep to that Uniform Les-
son onthe main track, but prepare a side-track for these other
courses. Dr. Neely says he is willing to allow the beginners’
course to get on the side-track. But I want to allow the ad-
vanced course to get on the side-track. Let us put both these
courses on probation. That is a good Methodist term.
THE PRESIDENT: Are you ready for the question?
Dr. NEEty: I desire to simplify the matter, and I have con-
sented to a division. And so, when you come to vote, I propose
that you shall vote first on this: “Resolved, That at this time
we are not prepared to adopt a series of advanced lessons to
take the place of the Uniform Lesson in the adult grade of the
Sunday-school.”
But I wish to say again that it is impossible for you to give
birth to a child and then say that that child shall not bear your
name. If the International Convention decides on this thing
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the world will say it comes from the International Convention.
I do not think we have reached the time for that. The experi-
menting can go on, under this, by individuals,
THE PRESIDENT: Those in favor of Dr. Neely’s motion will
say “Aye.” Those opposed, “No.” The Ayes have it.
Dr. WorDEN: Mr. President, I call for a division on this
question.
A DELEGATE: Will the Chair state whether Dr. Neely’s state-
ment is not a misstatement?
THE PRESIDENT: The call has been made for a division of
the house.
During the putting of the question to a rising vote, some con-
fusion ensued. In answer to requests from delegates, Dr.
Neely’s substitute, and the resolution to which it was a substi-
tute, were read. The Chairman then stated that the substitute
had twice been adopted, first by a viva voce vote, and secondly
upon the division.
THE PRESIDENT: This substitute having been adopted, it be-
comes a part of the report of the Committee on Resolutions.
Dr. Sampey: Mr. Chairman, I am heartily in favor of both
resolutions. They do not interfere the one with the other. I can
vote for both. What was proposed by the Lesson Committee
was a graduate course, and not an advanced course for the adult
department. We were not trying to get something instead of
the Uniform Course. There are a limited number, a few thou-
sand choice spirits, who want to keep step with the great Inter-
national Convention; and to meet their needs the Lesson Com-
mittee presented their resolution.
Dr. BLACKALL: I want to suggest whether it would not be
better for us to drop all reference to any other course than the
International Course. If you begin with the beginners’ course,
which is yet untried, in a general way, you have already broken
your uniformity. Now let those who are trying this have their
opportunity. Let those who are trying an advanced course have
their opportunity. But let the Convention stand by the first
part of this report and stop after these words: “One uniform
lesson for the whole Sunday-school shall be selected by the Les-
son Committee, as in accord with the usage of the last five Com-
mittees.”
Dr. NEELY: We have already acted, and amended this report ;
and we cannot strike out what we have just put in. I move that
we adopt that part of the report read, as amended.
Mr. Betsny: May I venture, sir, to ask the Convention kindly
to consider the motion just made by my friend Mr. Blackall as
fully representing the opinions of Great Britain and of our In-
dian workers? And may I ask you, before you take the final
vote on this matter, to inquire whether it would not be very
much better to adopt the suggestions giving these two courses a
trial, without risking the general reception of your splendid
International Uniform System? I would urge that, for the sake
of a few graduates and highly educated young people, who want
this graduate course, it is not worth while to confuse your splen-
did Uniform System throughout the world.
NINTH SESSION, MONDAY MORNING. 279
Principat RexForD: I think you will observe from what I
have said this morning that I am not one of those who care to
see a great principle carried as far as many of the members of
this Convention would like to see it carried. But I do not think
we should be acting unwisely to pass a resolution here which
does not postpone, but in its wording seems to give us a way
absolutely open to a beginners’ course. I think that under the
circumstances in which we are placed on this continent, with
the work that has been done during the past five years, we shall
corsult the interests of our general Sunday-school work by
recognizing the fact that those who are prepared to do so may
wisely take up a beginners’ course for the little one of six years
old and under. I believe we are here to-day, this morning, to
encourage the workers in this primary department, where some
of the best work is being done in all our Sunday-school associa-
tion, by giving them the privilege of a beginners’ course.
THE PRESIDENT: Now, that the matter may be perfectly
clear, Dr. Henry has put the matter in shape. I think this will
clarify the way, so that we will now see how the resolution as
amended stands.
Dr. Henry: This is the resolution, with Dr. Neely’s amend-
ment:
“Resolved, That the following plan of lesson selection shall
be observed by the Lesson Committee to be elected by this Con-
vention:
“One Uniform Lesson for all grades of the Sunday-school shall
be selected by the Lesson Committee, as in accordance with the
usage of the past five Lesson Committees; provided, that the
Lesson Committee be authorized to issue an optional Beginners’
Course for special demands and uses, such optional course not to
bear the official title of ‘International Lesson.’
“Resolved, That at this time we are not prepared to adopt a
series of advanced lessons to take the place of the Uniform Les-
sons in the adult grade of the Sunday-school.”
The vote being taken on the resolution as amended, it was
passed unanimously.
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Henry will read the next section.
The section was read, as follows:
“2. The Lesson Committee is urged to consider how far a
better continuity of Bible study may be secured by alternating
at longer intervals—of one or more years—the selections from
Old and New Testaments respectively.”
PrRINcIPAL RExForD: While I represent practically the small-
est member connected with this organization, probably during
the last six years greater inroad has been made by the Interna-
tional scheme upon the denomination which I represent than
upon any other. The one thing which has made it possible for
the Church of England in Canada, as we eall it, which works by
the Christian Year, to come in with us into this great work, has
been this, that you started in the earlier part of each year with
six months from the New Testament, and in the latter part have
had lessons from the Old Testament. Otherwise, my denomina-
tion would have done nothing with it. In this republic, only
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the Protestant Episcopal Church stands absolutely outside the
International System. But in order to secure their co-operation
we must make it possible for them to come in. And if you pre-
scribe in the early part of the year the subjects that are utterly
out of relation with what is absolutely fixed in their church life,
you might as well ask the Baptists to give up adult baptism.
One other thought: Is it wise to continue for a longer period
than six months studies upon subjects of a purely Old Testa-
ment character, without bringing the general average class
under the influence of the New Testament teaching? :
Dr. Porrs: I sincerely hope that this matter will be left to
your new Committee.
The section was referred to the Lesson Committee.
The remaining lesson resolutions, concerning the temperance
lessons, and concerning the request of the International Primary
Department, were adopted without debate.
TENTH SESSION, MONDAY AFTERNOON.
REPORT OF THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT.
BY ALFRED DAY, MICHIGAN,
President.
The International Field Workers’ Department has adequately
justified its designated relation to this Convention, which. with
throbbing heart in the central states stands with helpful hands
outstretched to the shores of two oceans; whilst, standing on the
Mexican gulf, it rears its head amid the brain and brawn of
Canada, thus scanning the whole continental field of the might-
iest evangelism of the centuries.
This relation has been sustained:
(1) By the personal co-operation so cheerfully aceorded at
call by field workers in the furtherance of the mission of this
Convention; both in their own fields, and by the mutual inter-
change of service in sister states and provinces. Through the
generous spirit of the states and provinces they serve, many
brethren have been enabled to render faithful and gratuitous
service to the International Executive Committee in fields which,
but for such service, could hardly have been accorded the help
they so much needed; and whilst this feature of our work has
had no visible relation to the Department as such, it is safe to
say that the community of interest our fellowship has begotten
has made such service more easily and cheerfully available.
(2) By conferences, in which technical field problems have
been subjected to the searchlight of experience by men and
women who have successfully “tried and proved” the practical
value of their theories. Of these conferences, one was held in
Toledo, Ohio, in 1900: one in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1901; and
a third in connection with this Tenth International Convention.
In Toledo, sixteen states and provinces were represented by
thirty-nine members, whilst in Baltimore nineteen states and
provinces were represented by forty-eight members. With the
exception of the triennial conferences, which meet in connection
with the International Convention, and which in consequence
are more representative of the whole field, the attendance upon
the interim conferences are practically from the same states
and provinees from year to year; and the Department has there-
fore formulated plans with the object of extending the influence
of similar conferences to suitable geographical sections of our
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International territory not now reached. This is especially de-
sirable in view of the obvious fact that the triennial meeti
are limited in their educational value as compared to the
interim conferences, by limitation of time, as well as by the
overshadowing attractions of the larger Convention.
(3) The Department has measurably met this need of exten-
sion, by the publication, in book form, of the proceedings of
these annual conferences. These issues, carefully edited at great
personal sacrifice by our secretaries, Rev. E. Morris Fergusson
and Rev. Joseph Clark, D.D., constitute the latest and best, if
not the only working hand-book for the training and guidance of
field workers in the various departments of their work. In
furtherance of the same object, copies have been offered free and
even mailed to workers in the states and provinces where they
would not be likely to become otherwise available.
(4) By the interchange of association papers, which are val-
ued by the recipients as professional help in all departments of
work, rather than as records of work in the particular fields
they represent. Nineteen state and provincial papers are now
included in this exchange, thus enabling each member of our
Department, by the annual payment of an extra dollar, to be-
come familiar with the plans and proceedings of nineteen states
and provinces, and thus practically making available a monthly
conference in which these foremost of our associations demon-
strate “the more excellent way” to the solution of perplexing
difficulties which hinder progress.
(5) By the exchange of working literature, circulars, leaflets,
etc., which constitute the material tools of effective field work,
and the latest results of ripened experience in concrete form.
The interest of field workers and their unsalaried associates in
the practical utility of our Department is evidenced by the
steady growth of our membership, which has steadily grown
from the inception of our Department to the present time. Our
income from membership fees and from sale of reports has been
sufficient to meet our liabilities hitherto, and a small balance is
at present in our treasury; but the exactions of voluntary ser-
vice are becoming every year more and more embarrassing to
brethren already overworked by the claims of their own fields,
and the employment of a paid secretary will become an urgent
necessity if the Department is to continue to extend its legiti-
mate influence over so vast a field.
Through these various avenues of mutual contact, have fel-
low-workers been helped and enheartened for better service: and
correspondingly has the work broadened and deepened, and the
true aim of our International organization been perceptibly
subserved. Few workers in the Master’s vineyard bear heavier
or more constant burdens of responsibility than the average
state or provincial field worker. He is no hireling; he scorns
time-service,—leaves home and home treasures during by far the
greater part of the year; and notwithstanding millionaire field
workers are in the minority, the greater number of those that
attend these annual conferences do so at their own personal
cost, for the work’s sake and for the sake of Him who commis-
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sions them, and cheerfully return to sow their own fields with
the seed thus gathered; counting not their lives dear unto them-
selves so that they may finish their course with joy, and the
ministry which they have received of the Lord Jesus to testify
the gospel of the grace of God.
ALFRED DAY, President.
CITY ORGANIZATION.
BY THE REY. JOSEPH CLARK, D.D., OHIO.
I am to speak on the newest and most undeveloped phase of
organized Sunday-school work,—city organization.
It has not been left for students of sociology, or sanitation, or
government alone, to wrestle with “the problem of the city;”
for the one unconquered bit of promised land, the possession of
which has baffled the most skilful Joshuas of the organized Sun-
day-school work, is the city. The city, in its self-complacency
and municipal pride, has usually frowned upon the organized
work as an unwelcomed intruder. It has regarded the interde-
nominational Sunday-school association as possibly a good thing
for schools in the country, but of little or no value to the city
school.
For forty years interdenominational organized Sunday-school
work has developed, until it has become established in thousands
of political divisions in North America, and has become one of
the most potent forces in Christendom. Reports to this Conven-
tion reveal the organization of more states, territories, prov-
inces, townships, districts, beats and parishes than ever before.
To a casual observer the whole of the promised land seems to be
possessed ; yet the centers of population in the very best organ-
ized of these states, territories and provinces (which represent
fully one-third of the population) have been untouched by this
movement. They are its unconscious beneficiaries; for, almost
without exception, and for more than thirty years, their schools
have used the International lessons. Indeed, through denomi-
national] publications, the cities have become heirs of the organ-
ized work. A few home departments and normal classes and
cradle rolls, etc., have seeped into some of their schools; but the
co-operation of city schools in the interest of all schools—the
contact of teacher with teacher, officer with officer, school with
school, in convention and institute—the elbow-touch, inspira-
tion and help that comes through interdenominational associa-
tion work-—this is unknown. Indeed, the average city school
has not yet realized, and many have not so much as heard, that
there is such an interdenominational co-operative agency as
“The Organized Sunday-school Work.”
For this condition neither the city schools nor their leaders
are responsible. It can be attributed chiefly to two causes, viz.:
(1) The tendencies of city life that lead away from the ‘“com-
munity idea,” and so incline the individual to center thought
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and effort upon self, that the spirit of the city may be inter-
preted in the motto: “Every man for himself; every family for
itself; every church for itself: every school for itself; every city
for itself.”
(2) The failure of the organized work, through the Interna-
tional or state associations, to present to the city a feasible or
practical plan of organization that would appeal to city schools:
one that would eventually create, in school and worker alike,
the community or co-operative spirit.
I can perhaps best give this Convention information of prac-
tical value by presenting the experience of Ohio in city organ-
ization. During the past eighteen months Ohio has suecessfully
effected city organizations of a permanent character in eight of
her largest cities: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Columbus,
Dayton, Akron, Canton and Newark.
With the organized work established in every county and
almost every township in the state, the cities were discovered to
be absolutely out of touch and sympathy with the movement.
The failure to enlist the co-operation of Ohio’s eight large cities
had completely cut off about one-third of her population (more
than a million people) and about one-seventh (1,000) of her
Sunday-schools irom the benefits of interdenominational co-op-
erative Sunday-school work. The organized work had fallen
down in Ohio, as it had elsewhere, at the edge of the city.
A study of the conditions that most favored the growth and
development of this work revealed that it best prospered in™
localities where the community spirit was most marked. It was
noted that this spirit disappeared in proportion to the increase
of centralized population; that in townships and counties in
which there was found community of interest, and where there
existed a local esprit de corps, the work needed only proper
leadership to insure its success. Many large towns shared this
local pride, and affiliated in the work; but if the population of
the city equalled or exceeded the rural county population, the
community spirit was absent and the city stood indifferently
apart. The county was not able to hold the city to the work
through the township or city organizations, for they were not
adapted to city conditions. A hundred or more schools in the
city could not be reached by an organization devised to serve
only a half-dozen schools in a township. It was clearly evident
that the city must have a plan of organization peculiarly
adapted to its needs. After a study of the Philadelphia city
organization and interdenominational Sunday-school move-
ments in other cities, the state proceeded to create a plan now
known as “The Ohio Plan of City Organization.”
The plan was soon introduced to several of the large cities by
means of a superintendents’ luncheon, to which the superin-
tendents of the city and such persons as would be interested in
the movement were invited. At the close of the luncheon the
plan was formally and accurately presented and the necessary
steps toward organization were taken in the appointment of the
necessary committees.
The Ohio Plan of City Organization provides, first, for reach-
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ing the large city population by districts. The city is treated as
it would be were it a county. It is subdivided into districts, .
just as the county is subdivided into townships. Ward lines are
not followed except as they naturally fit into the plan. The size
and shape of the districts are determined by the location of the
Sunday-schools; for thé value of district-division is the group-
ing of the schools to form a community, in which, through organ-
ization, a “community spirit” may be engendered.
The plan further provides for a “central” or “city” organiza-
tion and as many auxiliary district organizations as there may
be districts in the city. The central organization holds the
same relation to the county as does the township, reporting to
and afliliating with the county and state associations.
The city association, with its full quota of officers and depart-
mental secretaries, operates under a plan of general work, the
several features of which are fostered by standing committees.
The plan of work includes a weekly interdenominational teach-
ers’ meeting for the study of the International lesson, a pri-
mary union, an annual house-to-house canvass of the city, a
permanent teacher-training institute, an annual primary insti-
tute, an annual superintendents’ and pastors’ luncheon as an
introduction to the fall campaign, an annual city convention, an
annual statistical report, and a course of lectures on Sunday-
school and Bible themes.
The expense of sustaining these several features of work is
estimated (together with current expenses, and the city’s pro-
portionate share of state and county work) and thrown into a
budget, after which it is prorated to the districts according to
their organized strength and their ability to pay. The money_
all finds its way to the city treasury, from which all bills are
paid.
The district association also has its definite plan of work.
As a loyal auxiliary it heartily co-operates in executing the
general plans of the city association; but it also may have its
own meeting of primary teachers and its weekly teachers’ meet-
ing, especially in the large cities. It may have its district
luncheon, its district teachers’ meeting and its district superin-
tendents’ union; and of course it will hold its annual district
convention, and will approach each school in the district for its
annual offering, which is made only once a year, and ineludes
the support of the city, county, state and International work.
I am glad to state that this plan is actually operative in sev-
eral Ohio cities. In Columbus it has been working for more
than a year, with increasing success. The schools are liberally
supporting the work and are loud in their praises of its value.
The interdenominational teachers’ meeting is largely attended,
as is also the primary union. The districts are independently
planning and executing their work, and several hundred people
as well as almost one hundred schools which two years ago knew
nothing of the work are to-day affiliating with and enthusiastic-
ally supporting it.
In Cleveland a paid city secretary gives his entire time to the
work. Cleveland and Toledo have had thorough house-to-house
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canvasses. In the eight cities now organized the work is quick-
ening the schools and awakening the public. Ohio to-day has
more than three hundred business and professional men in her
organized cities officially tied up to the work, and enthusiastic-
ally supporting it, who one year ago were either indifferent or
utter strangers to it.
An experience of almost two years in this special department
leads me to believe that the Ohio plan of city organization in
modified form, omitting the district feature, can in time be
operated in one hundred and forty-three Ohio cities—in fact in
all communities of more than three thousand population; and
I further believe that the day is coming when every city in North
America will be in constant and vital connection with the inter-
denominational, co-operative activity of Sunday-school workers
now known the world over under the distinguishing name of
“The Organized Sunday-school Work.”
DISCUSSION.
Q. How would you go to work to organize a city?
A. If the city is situated in a county in which there is a live
county organization, I would take the initiative through the
officers of the county association, but otherwise I would ap- ~
proach the city direct. Im either case the following would
probably be the order of procedure:
1. By personal interview awaken the interest and secure the
co-operation of a few recognized leaders in Sunday-school work.
2. Having interested these men separately, I would then get
them together and logically and systematically spread before
them the comprehensive plan of city organization, and secure
their consent to serve as a committee to arrange for an informal
luncheon and conference of superintendents and pastors, for the
purpose of considering the welfare of the Sunday-schools of the
city. At this meeting, after luncheon (a light spread at not
more than twenty-five or thirty-five cents a plate, each guest
paying for his own plate, as announced on invitation), let the
state secretary or organizer deliver an address on “‘The Possibili-
ties of Organized Sunday- school Work in the City of. ad
in which the whole plan from A to Z should be unfolded. At’
the close of the address an opportunity should be given for ask-
ing questions.
Q. What special features does the plan for city organization
include?
A. (a) The division of the city into districts, in which from —
five to thirty schools are grouped and organized into district
organizations, just as the schools of townships in the more
densely populated states are organized under the county plan.
(b) The establishment of an interdenominational or union
teachers’ meeting for the study of the current Sunday-school
lesson.
(c) The establishment of a primary union.
(d) An annual house-to-house visitation of the city.
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(ec) The establishment of a permanent teacher-training insti-
tute.
(f) An annual city convention.
(g) An annual superintendents’ and pastors’ luncheon.
(h) A semi-annual convention in each district.
Q. How is this work to be supported ?
A. By apportioning to each district its share of the expense,
swhich shall include the support of city, county, state and Inter-
national work. The money to be raised by free-will offerings
from the schools. The entire receipts to find their way to the
city treasurer, by whom they shall be disbursed on order. The
bills for executing the several plans of city work are all to be
paid from a common treasury.
Q. Is there a city in which there is a teacher-training insti-
tute?
A. Yes, in Philadelphia; and one is about to be established
in Columbus, Ohio.
Q. Are all of these lines of work necessary before a city can
be said to be organized ?
A. No. The whole plan of city organization should be un-
folded at the outset, but I would advise the operation of only
one or two of the features in the beginning.
Q. Do you find it more difficult to organize the city district
than the country district?
A. No, sir.
Q. Then why have the cities been so long unorganized ?
A. Because the organized work has never before presented a
definite and practical city plan, which appealed to city Sunday-
~school workers.
Q. Do I understand you to recommend the same plan of organ-
ization for the city as for the county?
A. No, sir, not at all; the “City Plan of Organization” is very
different, as before explained.
Q. Where can printed matter be had for city organization?
A. At the office of the Ohio Sunday-school Association, Co-
lumbus, Ohio. Ohio is the only state which has published lit-
erature on this subject. Some valuable information relative to
city organization may be found in the proceedings of the ninth
annual conference of the International Field Workers’ Depart-
ment. ;
Q. Do you personally work up the luncheon for superintend-
' ents and pastors?
A. No sir, I do as little myself as I possibly can. If I were
to organize a city, I would first visit that city and interest those
who are already interested in the work in the county. I would
get the county officers together, and have them call a meeting of
the superintendents of the city and tell them what we want to
do. I would have them invite the superintendents of all depart-
ments of the schools, and have them sit together in a luncheon.
I would do anything to get their mouths open. In the few toasts
that follow, the “City Plan” can be unfolded until they under-
stand it.
Q. What would you do if, when you called that meeting, the
superintendents failed to respond?
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A. 1 would try, and try again.
Q. And then what?
A. I would make the most of what I had. I learned long ago
1o do the best I could with the material I had in hand.
Q. Under the circumstances, would you not be obliged to
make all the responses to all the toasts yourself?
A. Well, if I had to do so, I would undertake it.
Q. What would you do, if, after you organized once, the
organization never met again?
A. I would see to it that it did meet again. No organization
will run itself. You may set up a machine, but it will never
run itself. There must be some one behind it to watch it and
see that it runs, some one who wholly commits himself to the
work.
Q. Who should take the initiative in these cities?
A. There is no authority in this matter. Wherever there are
enough interested in this question, let them go ahead and organ-
ize, and the state will help them all it can. But in Ohio the
state takes the initiative.
Q. If there is a county organization should it not go ahead?
A. Certainly. Work through the county organization if you
can possibly do so. We never step over the county organization
in Ohio, except as a last resort.
Q. How long did it take to get the nine cities organized which
you state are already organized in Ohio?
A. In Cleveland it took about six months; in Cincinnati, ten
days; it depends upon how you go at it. If we have an itinerary
we organize one every night. We lay our plans. beforehand so
that everything works to a nicety.
Q. Do you plan to hold these district or ward conventions in
the same week in rapid succession, so as to have the state repre-
sentative attend them all?
A. That is the plan in some districts. In Columbus our com-
mittee has mapped out an itinerary in which they purpose to
hold seven district meetings in about as many days, with a
specialist in attendance.
Q. How small a city can be organized under the “City Plan?”
A. The city plan of organization can be applied to cities as
small as three thousand. Such cities can have a weekly inter-
denominational teachers’ meeting; « primary union; the house-
to-house canvass, etc. They can have all the features that char-
acterize the work in the large city, omitting the district
features.
HOUSE-TO-HOUSE VISITATION.
BY HUGH CORK, PENNSYLVANIA.
A few months ago, in company with a committee of thirty
gentlemen from a meeting in session in the city of Washington,
it was my privilege to eall upon the President of the United
States. During his interview with our committee, Mr. Roose-
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velt asked concerning a certain minister in New York City.
When he found there were those there who knew this man, he
said: “Tell him to come and see me. I want to meet him again.”
1 wish you could have seen the evident delight of that company
of men who were entrusted, by the President of the United
States, with a particular message to a particular man. I did
not read in their faces any question as to whether the man would
come. I saw there a desire, only, to gratify the wish of him
_whom, because of his position, our country delights to honor.
A greater than Roosevelt is here. Do you hear his request?
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every crea-
ture.” “Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them
to come in: that my house may be filled.” “Run, speak to this
young man.” In the words of the President: “Tell him to come
and see me. I want to meet him again.” Whether he comes or
not, shall there be any question as to our going? “If ye love
me, keep my commandments.” Let him take care of the results:
“ours not to reason why.” When he says “Go,” we must not
stay. Since the unreached are many, the messengers are few,
and the request is urgent, we must not waste time and energy
in fulfilling the command.
During the last three years I have had to superintend ingath-
erings in more than a hundred places, large and small, having
a combined population of between five and six millions, and
which have taken over 20,000 visitors to accomplish the work.
Therefore I feel I can state, without hesitation, some facts which
will guide us to a more speedy solution of the problem of dis-
charging the obligation which our Master has imposed upon us.
1. Over ninety per cent. of those whose children are out of
Sabbath-school have decided denominational preferences, and if
they are brought under the instruction of God’s Word, it will
be, in nine cases out of ten, through a school of the denomina-
tion of their preference.
2. These who are unreached are scattered all over our land,
in country, hamlet. town and city, many of them right under
the eaves of some of our best schools and churches.
3. It is not enough that we let them know that there is church
and Sunday-schoo] at a particular time and place; for many of
them care not when and where and what we do, so spiritually
numbed have they become. If they are reached, it must needs be
by the personal touch of some sympathetic worker.
4. There are many in the church not doing much personal
work, but in my judgment it is because no special work has been
assigned. When specific undertakings are mapped out and defi-
nite assignments are made, there are hosts of workers who
gladly take part.
5. There must be a stirring up of each church in a commu-
nity, that they may appreciate their responsibility, and be fully
aroused to the fact there is a portion of the population which
they are directly responsible for, and that no other church can
do their work.
In view of the above, it is very evident that we should speedily
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get each individual in touch with the church of his choice.
There are three ways by which this may be done.
1. Each local church working by and for itself. This is the
usual method employed, and means overlapping and missing.
It usually means little enthusiasm; but if, perchance, much in-
terest is aroused, then friction with other churches often results
from accusations of proselyting. If happily there are none of
the above results, there is certainly a waste of time and energy
in calling at homes where other churches should visit, and oft-
times boring people by visits from many denominations. By
this plan of ingathering we have not been keeping step with the
inerease of population.
2. Paid visitors representing all the churches. In several
communities I have known, the churches haye combined and
hired, at so much per day, qualified persons to call at each home
and gather such information and extend such invitations as
each church desired. In each place this method was not followed
by the best results. Being done for pay, the people visited were
not so well impressed, and ofttimes refused to give the informa-
tion sought. Fewer open doors were left behind the visitors.
The information gathered was not the most reliable, and taking
all together it was not satisfactory to the churches.
3. An interdenominational visitation by volunteer visitors.
In the many places I have worked, this has been the method
tried; and we found it an easy matter to federate all the
churches for a one-day’s investigation, when the denominational
preference of every person in the community visited was easily
found and the names and addresses were handed to the pastors
preferred. This third method, in my judgment, is to be the
popular plan of stirring interest in reaching the unreached.
The day is not far distant when, at least once a year, every
community will be thus visited.
In preparing for such a visitation, several matters must be
taken into consideration.
1. The active co-operation of all churches is desired, but the
endorsement of all denominations, even the Roman Catholie, is
absolutely necessary. This is easily accomplished by limiting
the visitation to securing the name, address, number in the
family, denominational preference and local church desired, of
each home visited, and by striving to have each understand that
all churches would be glad to have them attend, but especially
the church of their preference. All direct personal work must
be left for the-churches to do in their own way, after the infor-
mation gathered has been placed in their hands. This, clearly
understood, will bring co-operation.
2. The work will be better accomplished if planned for one
particular day. In most places an afternoon is better, for the
visitors will do as much from one to six o’clock as their strength
will allow; and besides, those on whom they call will be more
prepared to receive the visitors in the afternoon.
3. Such a visitation must be very carefully organized and
announced. Those who are to take part must be carefully as-
signed to their proper places. From the chairman of the com-
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mittee down to the humblest visitor, much of the success of the
undertaking depends on the workers being rightly placed.
Especially is this true in working the slums, where most care-
fully selected persons of more experience are sent.
For a city of over 50,000 population, the organization and the
method of putting it into operation should be something like
the following:
1. At a representative meeting of pastors and Sunday-school
superintendents, the feeling should be quite unanimous that the
work should be undertaken. At such meeting a committee
should be appointed to select the general chairman of the com-
mittees, and with him @istrict the territory and appoint the fol-
lowing committees: district, advisory, press and finance.
2. The general chairman of the committees is the most im-
portant person in the organization and should therefore be
chosen with the greatest care. He should be a man of strong
Christian character, whose heart is burdened for souls. He
should be broad, tactful, enthusiastic, having executive ability,
the confidence of all churches, and a heart not easily discour-
aged, and being as prominent in business as possible. Such a
one is usually a layman. ;
3. The territory should be divided into areas not over three-
quarters of a mile square, each one being designated a “dis-
trict.”
4. The district committee should be made up of one person
from each district, whose business it is to map out the territory
for each visitor on diagram cards furnished, select a church for
headquarters on the day of the canvass, and have everything in
readiness for the visitors to begin at the time set.
5. The advisory committee should be made up of one minister
from each denomination, whose work is to watch the develop-
ment of the plans, seeing that they are in line with each denomi-
nation’s desires.
6. The press committee should be made up of those who know
how to write for the daily papers, and there should also be repre-
sentatives of the foreign-speaking papers, and the various relig-
- lous journals.
7. The finance committee should be made up of one person
from each denomination, whose business it is to secure the funds
for paying all expenses incurred. The estimated expense should
be apportioned among the denominations according to their
strength, and the members of the finance committee allowed to
raise their proportion among their co-workers in any manner
they choose.
8. The chairman of the four above-named committees, with
the general chairman, should form the executive committee, to
decide all minor matters.
9. With all the committees appointed and the territory di-
vided, the general chairman should bring all committees to-
gether and lay before them the plans in detail, have them set
the day for the work, and decide as to the order of the cam-
paign, and the information to be indicated on the cards to be
used by the visitors.
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10. The churches should be told, by a letter from the general
chairman, just how many visitors are needed, and that none are
to be under sixteen years of age, and all are to be carefully
chosen by pastor and superintendent and thoroughly instructed
by printed page and public meetings.
11. The community should be informed by the pulpit and
press just why the work is undertaken, and the story should be
told them a little at a time so that it will constantly increase
in interest.
12. Just before the day of visitation, several meetings of visit-
ors should be held and the work of the day carefully gone over.
All should be urged to go slowly, work thoroughly, and con-
stantly remember that the interests of immortal souls are at
stake.
13. On the day of the visitation, the general chairman should
lave a goodly number of boys to act as messengers between the
general headquarters and the headquarters in each district, so
that he may know at any hour just how the work is going, where
they lack visitors, and where there are visitors to spare.
14. After each visitor, or a pair of visitors, as they may
choose to go, has returned, after calling at from forty to sixty
homes as indicated on their diagrams, the cards should be
handed to the district chairman, who, with his assistants, should
classify them according to a plan decided upon by the general
committee: and they are then returned, intact, to the general
headquarters, where they are returned to the respective pastors
indicated on the cards or decided upon by the committee in cases
where no pastor’s or denomination’s name was given.
15. As soon as the cards are all returned, there should be a
popular meeting to emphasize the importance of the work done
and the grand opportunity just presented for each church to do
a marvelous work in following up the work which has only just
begun. Unless the afterwork is thoroughly pushed, much of the
advantage gained will be lost.
For a city of less than 25,000 population, the same general
plan should be followed, but modified to omit the third point,
in that the entire city can be worked from one headquarters
without districts. This of course does away with points four
and thirteen, and modifies point fourteen.
For a rural community, we use the same general plan, but
make the districts mean a whole township or small town, the
county-seat being the central headquarters. Instead of the boys
in point thirteen, we have used the telephone, which has been
usually granted free of charge.
Results to be expected:
1. A wonderful stirring of the community, which can be
turned to excellent account if followed by simultaneous revival
meetings in all the churches.
2. A great reviving in the churches, especially among those
members who took part in the visitation, which means the be-
ginning of an active Christian life to those whose pastors are
wise enough to lay hold of the interest aroused and plan more
of such work.
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3. The finding of many needy cases among those visited. The
“lonely hearts to cherish” are not all in the hovels of the poor,
but ofttimes they are surrounded by all that money can buy.
4. The finding of numerous church letters which have been
hid for years, and so the housing of those who have been this
long time without a spiritual shepherd.
5. The bringing into church and Sabbath-school services, im-
mediately, of large numbers of people.
6. The classifying of the entire community denominationally,
so that each pastor may go directly to the persons preferring
his church, and none will be missed, and none visited by others
than of their own preference.
7. Most important of all: the satisfaction of knowing that
we have in a measure, at least, complied with our Master’s com-
mand to “go.”” No one can now truthfully say, “No man careth
for my soul.”
DISCUSSION.
Q. How much money will it take to canvass a city of two
hundred thousand people?
A. That depends much on your committee. In Buffalo we
spent about $600 for 352,000 people. In Minneapolis, a city of
nearly two hundred thousand, we did it for about $200. I would
rather have the $600, but it need not be very expensive. There
is no trouble about the money, if, as in Buffalo, each precinct
is apportioned according to its strength.
Q. Why would you need $600 to canvass a city of 352,000?
A. There was an office, and stationery in abundance, and cir-
culars were sent out more than were really needed. We never
sent out a one-cent letter. There were two-cent letters sent on
an average of four or five to every pastor, superintendent and
young people’s society president, in Indianapolis and other
cities. For Buffalo I have forgotten just how many cards it
took: twenty or thirty thousand, I think. All of this, postage,
and clerical hire, etc., amounted to about $600, having one
person in employ all the time.
A DELEGATE: The state of Indiana was canvassed pretty
thoroughly for less than $500.
A DELEGATE: We canvassed another city of about 400,000
people, for about $75; but the use of my office was given for
that purpose. Let me say that the distribution of cards through
the various churches is a fatal mistake. We held the cards in
my office, and every church was urged to come and take them
away.
Mr. Cork: My experience shows that it is well to have the
eards.
A DerecaTe: Just in that connection, in our district we
made duplicates of the enrollment cards by having them printed
in small books on thin paper, and using carbon paper, so that we
had a copy to be sent out to the churches, and a copy to be kept
in the secretary’s office. We canvassed the entire district in a
single day, at an expense of $125, by turning the house of the
president of the association into an office.
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Q. Would it not be well to require the pastors to report back
to the central committee what they have done with the cards
furnished them?
A. That is a good point. There is the trouble. There are too
many ministers here, to say all that I could say. I think that
we should be very careful in all that we say about the Lord’s
anointed. But a pastor stood in a meeting where this matter
was to be decided, and said: “I have no use for this humbug
scheme. We had a visitation in our town four years ago, and
what ever came of it?” A man made reply: “We did have a
visitation, and I referred a certain family to this pastor who
has just spoken; and a few days ago the head of that family
told me that after the lapse of four years the pastor has never
been near them.” I believe a large part of those who do not
believe in this scheme are those who do not follow it up.
Dr. W. Hamitton, OnTARIO: In Toronto we used this dupli-
cate scheme to our great satisfaction. One copy was given to the
pastor, and the other kept at the office. ;
Mr. Cork: Iam going to ask our Canadian friends concern-
ing their visitation. I think they visited the ward first, and
the city afterward. Some one told me they were not going to
make the visitation very public through the press. Is that the
case?
Dr. HAMILTON: We refrained from doing it, because we knew
that some papers might do us harm.
Mr. Cork: The papers are after news. And often, if you go
to a paper that you think will not help you much, if you present
the newsy side of the matter they will help you.
Here is an argument for visitation. I have purposely not
given you figures. I believe that we have been doing too much
of that sort of thing. You have been expecting one hundred
additions to your school, and when you got but five you were
disappointed. But if it gives us a chance to discharge our obli-
gation, we should not grieve too much if we do not get large
additions. It pays heavily to make this visitation.
Q. I want to know what you do with a city that has been can-
vassed first by one denomination, and then by another?
A. I would have a visitation like this, and I believe it will
add to the other kind. They will see that they will have more
of the other kind of visitation than before.
THE HOME DEPARTMENT.
BY MRS. FLORA V. STEBBINS, MASSACHUSETTS.
Some time age, Admiral Sampson was invited to speak before
the Young Men’s Christian Association in New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts. He was entertained in a beautiful home, and every-
thing was done for his comfort and pleasure. A five-year-old
boy, visiting in the next house, was asked in to meet the ad-
miral, and was introduced as living in Boston. “So you are a
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Bostonian, my little man,” said the admiral. “I don’t know
what you mean, sir,” said the small boy; “but I’m an Ameri-
ean!” True it is that America is very dear to every Bostonian,
and every good thing that she has comes to find its way into the
old Bay State.
No branch of Christian work has been, and is, more warmly
welcomed than the home department; and we can say of that, as
Dr. Bateman, the Abraham Lincoln among educators, said of
education: “It is true in its conception, wise in its adaptation.
and sound in its methods.” In the Home Department we mee:
as many conditions that promise eminent success as in any form
of church work; and right royally are we marching on to our
goal. With Knox we say, as he said of Glasgow of old:
“America shall flourish by the Word of God.” Glasgow to-day
flourishes any way that she can; but here the standard shall
never be lowered; and to that end our state associations are
working. For the highest type of home the home departments
are working; for the State is what its homes make it.
While in Buffalo last year I heard two foreigners make this
criticism of Americans: “They spell easily; they have a large
vocabulary; but they do not clearly define.” After a thorough
trial, we in Massachusetts have learned that the clearest deti-
nition is: “The home department is the lengthening of the
cords and the strengthening of the stakes of the Bible-schcol,
by taking it, with its twofold purpose of ‘bringing souls to
Christ, and building up souls in Christ,’ into the home, to those
who for any reason cannot attend the regular sessions of the
school.”
This means work; but we believe that as grave results may
be feared from inactive negligence as from active sin. Again
and again we are told that the inefficiency of many of our
churches is due to the lack of Bible-study on the part of the
members. It may be a bit irreverent, but such cases put me in
mind of a valuable (?) domestic servant, who, when questioned
by a prospective mistress, said, in response to the question.
“Are you a good cook?” “No, ma’am; I don’t cook.” “Can you
wash and iron clothes?” “No, that is too hard on my hands.”
“Can you sweep?” “No, I am not strong enough for that.”
“Then in the name of common sense what can you do?” Placidly
replies the maid, “I dusts.” The home department has been
one of the most potent factors in reducing the number of those
.who “dusts,” and adding many to the number who believe that
the dominant note in Christian life is, “Service through knowl-
edge.”
Foundation principles never change; and while those have
been closely adhered to, the methods used to carry on the work
in Massachusetts may be of interest to you. In each of the fifty
districts into which the state is divided, there is elected annu-
ally a district home department secretary, with whom.-the state
secretary keeps in close touch; and they together do all that
they can to establish a department in every Sunday-school in
the district, and to hold at least one special home department
conference each year. They are the medium of correspondence
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with the individual superintendents, and gather the annual sta-
tistics which are sent to the state office and filed. Great credit
and praise are due these faithful co-workers for the measure of
success attained.
Aside from the convention work, the state secretary has found
that a presentation of the work to a Sunday morning audience
in the place of the regular sermon by the pastor, has been of
great value in introducing the work, and in strengthening it.
That, followed by an appeal in the Sunday-school for a superin-
tendent, visitors, and messengers and members of the Sunshine
Band, almost never fail of the desired results. Personal calls on
pastors and superintendents who have been willing to be ignor-
ant of the work and its benefits have never failed to make such
duly ashamed of themselves, and the enlightenment brings the
right action on their part.
The membership canvass always begins with the church mem-
bers; and as there is no patent on the following plan, and it is
tried and proved, try it. A visitor, having twenty church mem-
bers to see, started out with the determination to secure them
all for the home department. Returning to report, she said:
“T’ve had such poor success for the home department. I have
but three shut-ins and two shut-outs.” “What of the other fif-
teen?” was asked. “Oh, they are all coming to the regular
school.”” When asked if she was sure, she said: “Yes. See this
blank? Here are the twenty names down one edge, and after
them four columns; the first headed ‘Regular attendant ;’ the
second, ‘Shut-in;’ the third, ‘Shut-out;’ and the fourth,
‘Won’ts.’ I told them that as a church we were trying to raise
the standard of Bible-study, and as the best way to do that we
must all join the study department of the church, the Bible-
school. Then I showed them my blank, and told them that I
would place them anywhere they said; explained the home de-
partment to them, the simple requirement of a half-hour’s
study, recorded and reported each week, of the Sunday-school
lesson; told them that I’d be glad to be of any service to them
that I could, that I was commissioned by the church to make the
canvass, and that the pastor and superintendent, as well as the
home department superintendent, were to see my blank. The
fifteen said that they were not shut-out or shut-in, and that they
could and would come to the regular school.” A copy of the
names was given to the pastor and the superintendents, and
they watched. In less than five weeks the entire number were*
in the school; three of them soon became teachers, and now
three years have gone, and they are still in the school.
After all the church members have been secured, the homes
represented by the children in our Sunday-school are visited,
and then, if there is a single house in the parish left uncalled
upon, that one is canvassed.
Quarterly meetings of the visitors with the superintendents,
the messengers and the Sunshine Band keep a steady interest on
the part of the workers. By means of socials, receptions, calls,
special gatherings, and neighborhood prayer-meetings, plus the
kindly attention of the boys and girls, the members are kept in
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a close, loving touch with the church and school, and their abid-
ing interest is secured.
There is a saying that figures never lie, but liars often figure:
but to the best of my knowledge, as a result of pursuing the
above course, we have about six hundred and fifty home depart-
ments, with a membership of twenty-five thousand. More than
forty-seven per cent. of the members are not church members.
We claim people of all classes, conditions, nationalities and
ages, from the dear old saint in the Odd Fellows’ Home to the
five-year-old boy in the country home. We have all kinds of
classes, from the seventeen housemaids who meet in the church
parlor every Sunday afternoon, and the class of fifty-five of the
nurses, physicians and attendants in the Taunton Insane Hos-
pital, to the lonely boy in the Philippines. A gentleman riding
on the front seat of the electric car watched with interest the
motorman who, as they came to a switch and had a few minutes’
wait, took out of his pocket a quarterly and commenced to study.
The gentleman said: “Getting your Sunday-school lesson?”
“Yes, sir, and it’s a good one this week.” “Where do you go to
church?” “I cannot go anywhere very often, but I belong to
the home department of Trinity Church.”
Massachusetts claims about twenty-three hundred visitors,
six hundred messengers, and three hundred members of the Sun-
shine Band. The last-named bodies of workers have been of
great service in promoting the growth of the work. It would be
hard to find a more loyal band of boys than our home depart-
ment messengers. One Sunday a boy accosted me with this
query: ‘“Aren’t you sorry to see me here to-day?” On being
asked why, he said: “All my folks have gone to the farm for
the summer, and as I could not get anyone to take my route, L
had to stay behind. I couldn’t leave my dear old people without
their papers and calendars: they cannot take vacations, you
know. If I can get some one to go next Sunday, all right; but
if not, I shall have to come down next Saturday and go back on
Monday.” To every perplexed person who has “the boy prob-
lem” on the brain, we say, Get it off your brain, and let the boys
into your heart, and give them something to do that counts:
then you have no problem.
Last year, when down on Cape Cod, we had two conventions
in one day. Leaving Plymouth at noon, we arrived in a smali
out-of-the-way place. To our surprise the church was filled. £
was that unfortunate individual, the last speaker. The people
were all tired, and I was sorely afraid that I should not be able
to hold their attention. Looking around the church I saw, ’way
down on the front seats, twelve boys. I was reassured; for boys
are never tired. Alas! Just before they finished singing the
hymn before I was to speak, those twelve blessed boys got up
and started for the door. I got there first, and said, “Boys, are
you coming back?” “No, we are not; it’s been a good conven-
tion, but there hasn’t been a thing in it for us boys, and we
can’t stand it any longer.” At my earnest entreaty and promise
to say something especially for them, they went back and sat
down. I told them how much we needed their help to bring our
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members into weekly touch with the church and school, how
much minister and superintendent needed their help in many
ways. At the close of the session they came to me to learn
more about it. One lad said, “Does Mr. truly want us
to help him?” The pastor was right there to answer for him-
self. Five of the boys went to the station with me. It was
bitterly cold, and the warm waiting-room looked very inviting.
As I was about to step in, one of the boys pulled my skirt and
said, “Are you very cold?” I just couldn’t be cold with such a
face looking into mine. “Well, you let the old folks go inside,
and you stay here and talk with us.” Then came this question:
“Have we got to wait until a department is formed in our
church, before we can be messengers? You know our superin-
tendent is very slow, and there is so much to be done: can’t we
begin now?” I opened my suit-case and took from it the badges,
and pinned ‘one to each boy’s coat; then, joining hands, we
prayed the Father’s blessing on his messengers. Feeling thor-
oughly initiated, they planned immediate work, the getting of
members. One said, “Grandmother always helps me to get my
lesson, and I know she would like to belong.” Another, “My
mother will join;” and so on, until all had spoken save the
tallest boy of the five. He turned to me with his brown eyes full
of tears and said, “Mrs. Stebbins, why didn’t you come and tell
us about this before? I cannot get my father; I can my mother,
but Papa!” “Why not?” “Papa died just before Thanksgiving,
and he loved me so, he would have done anything for me. If he
had only studied the Bible with me, Ma and I would not have
felt so badly when he died. Why didn’t I know?” Give the boys
a chance to build up the membership, and to care for those who
are in, and you may prove that it is true that “a little child
shall lead them.”
The girls of the Sunshine Band live their name in the homes
of those who are shut-in, help in the lesson-study, read to the
blind, carry flowers and sing to the sick, and help overburdened
mothers with the housework and with the care of children;
thus aiding the mothers to attend the church services.
Some few weeks ago we attended a home department social
where we had the opportunity of speaking to about a hundred
members, and to fifteen little ones under five years of age. At
four o’clock the superintendent came and said that there were
about thirty boys who were asking for “Mother Stebbins.” I
went out, and there they were, a noble band. They were invited
in to have some refreshments and to have a talk. Ten of the
Sunshine girls came in too. We gave them this watchword for
the year: “FREEDOM ;” and their text was: “And ye shall know
the truth; and the truth shall make you free.” This was pre-
sented from the moral and spiritual standpoint, and every boy
and girl promised that they would go home and find the verse
that was somewhere in the book of John, mark it, and live it all
this year and every year. The next morning, when on my way
to the station, a couple of youngsters working in a garden called
out, “Say, we found the text and we marked it. It’s a dandy!
Dad says so, too.” “Dad” is not a church attendant even; but
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no man can long withstand the pleading of such a boy. Free-
dom,—soul-freedom,—is one of the aims toward which we are
working. As we possess it, let us lead others to share it.
The work as it is is good; but as yet the home department
has only made a beginning. Firmly do we believe that God’s to-
morrow will be greater, grander and more sublime than any of
his yesterdays. To this work let us all pledge our unswerving
loyalty and affection. Our thought is, “For others;” and our
purpose, “Until all are reached.” Our prayer is:
Lord, help me live from day to day
In such a self-forgetful way,
That even when I kneel to pray
My prayer shall be, For Others.
Help me in all the work I do
To ever be sincere and true,
And know that all I’d do for You
Must needs be done for Others.
Let self.be crucified and slain
And buried deep; and all in vain
May efforts be to rise again,
Unless to live for Others.
And when my work on earth is done,
And my new work in heaven’s begun,
May I forget the crown I’ve won,
While thinking still of Others.
Others, Lord, yes, Others,
And none of self for me:
Help me to live for Others,
That I may live like Thee.
DISCUSSION.
Q. How shall one conduct a home department social ?
A. Get the officers and teachers of your regular school to-
gether socially, in the first place. Be sure you have some re-
freshments that will not hurt the oldest person. I would have
plenty of tea and no coffee. I would have the teachers get up
the best kind of a literary and musical program. I would ask
the teachers to beg, borrow, or hire carriages for the members
of the home department who will be unable to reach the place
unless they are literally carried. I think the best time is from
half-past four to seven o’clock in the afternoon.
Q. What are the ages of the messengers and Sunshine Band?
A. Eight to sixteen years for messengers, eight to seventeen
for the girls of the Sunshine Bands.
Q. What means would you take to overcome the danger to the
work of having a change of visitors?
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A. I think we have had no difficulty at all at this point. If
the visitor feels at all timid, the superintendent generally ac-
«companies her on the first round of calls.
Q. What do you mean by “shut-outs” and “shut-ins”?
A. “Shut-outs” are those whose occupations keep them from
attending the Sunday-school services.
Q. Have you any specified occupations for the Sunshine
Band?
A. Simply to love their enemies, and to carry the sunshine
into homes.
Q. Ought not the home department to reach the railroad men,
etc. ?
A. It does so. Going home from Boston the other day, I had
my Bible on my knee. When the conductor came through the
car, he noticed it, and said, “I am glad to see you studying that
Book.” I said, “Who are you?” He said to me, “I am a member
of the home department of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh in
Leominster.”
THE GRADED SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
BY THE REY. E. MORRIS FERGUSSON, NEW JERSEY.
In addition to the other things that a Sunday-school is, it is
a school. Its fundamental purpose is the saving of souls in
Christ: its most conspicuous function is its service as a social
bond among the children, the youth and the homes of the com-
munity. But because its evangelizing function is fundamental,
and its social function is conspicuous, it does not follow that its
educational function is unimportant. If there are those who
would make of the Sunday-school a school and nothing more,
there are also those whose life’s ambition is to raise the Sunday-
school to its highest possible efficiency and fruitfulmess as a
school, in order that its educational results may be the more
surely harvested into the spiritual garner. That progress for
which the friends of graded and specialized Sunday-school in-
struction are pleading to-day is a progress in which neither the
social, the ethical or the evangelistic power of the Sunday-school
is taken away, but rather established.
Considering the Sunday-school, then, as a school, the educa-
tional arm of the Church of Christ, it is subject, so far as it is
a school, to the laws of the modern science of education. It is
not the same kind of a school as a day school; in fact, it is so
different that arguments and analogies from the one to the other
are usually erroneous and misleading. The principles, however,
that have governed the development of modern methods in the
secular school are equally susceptible of application to the more
limited educational opportunities in the Sunday-sehool. We
may expect that the methods will widely differ, because the con-
ditions and the educational purpose differ; but the principles
are the same. And of these principles the first, the most imme-
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diate, and the most far-reaching, in its application to modern
Sunday-school needs, is the principle of gradation.
What is gradation, as applied to the Sunday-school? In order
to answer this question, it is not necessary to draw upon the
analogy of the public school. We have in the Sunday-school all
the analogy we need, in the shape of the primary department.
Every Sunday-sechool that has a primary department is a par-
tially graded school. When the whole Sunday-school is divided
into departments, each of which is run on the principles that
govern the work of the primary department, then we have a
graded Sunday-school. The primary department is a true grade ;
and the best way to grade the Sunday-school is to study the
primary department, and, in the light of what we learn, to es-
tablish other departments as fast and as far as we find neces-
sary and practicable.
We note, then, that in the primary department are placed all
of the scholars within certain average age-limits, usually from
three or four to eight. To this department a teacher, or a corps
of teachers under a superintendent, is assigned. The primary
ilepartment undertakes to give to the primary scholars, while
they are primary scholars, a primary education in the Bible and
Christian truth. In order that the department may have an
opportunity to develop its own proper life and spirit to the full,
it is cut off as far as possible from the rest of the Sunday-school.
Everybody recognizes that good primary teaching is important,
and that good primary teachers are scarce; hence the primary
teacher, once found, has been kept at her post from year to year,
the school realizing that it cannot afford to have her take
charge of any one class and grow up with them. She is needed
at one place in the school; and there she stays, gathering experi-
ence from year to year, developing and perfecting her methods
and her stock of teaching material, uniting in helpful alliance
with other teachers who are in the same permanent position,
and bringing a blessing not to a few but to all of the children of
her church and her community.
But the many and increasing benefits of the organized pri-
mary department are not secured without a struggle. Some
scholars object to being forced to leave their teacher; but the
school says, “You must,” and they go, their will-power being
still subject to control. Some parents object; but the superi-
ority of graded instruction is so obvious, and likewise the need
of keeping scholars moving if grades are to stand fast, that a
word of explanation and an appeal to the claims of the cradle
roll toddlers coming on soon brings them to agree to the needed
transfer. Some primary teachers, even, cling to their gradua-
ting pupils and hold back promotion; but there is such a sense
of satisfaction and widened opportunity in being a graded
teacher, a member of the school faculty, that better counsels
soon prevail: the teacher agrees to lose her best pupils; and the
permanence of the grade is not jeopardized.
We need the primary department; and the primary teachers
now see that below the primary we need the beginners’ depart-
ment, the two departments covering six years of the average
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scholar’s school life, from three to eight inclusive. No separa-
tion is needed between the life and work of these departments,
but only a differentiation in the teaching material. And such a
differentiation, in the shape of a separate course of Bible lessons
for beginners, this Convention has already most happily pro-
vided for.
The primary age closes with the child’s acquisition of the
ability to read. When he is able to use the printed page as a
vehicle of instruction, it is time for the methods of instructing
him to be changed. So we move him into the main room and
give him a class and a teacher. This is well; but we also need
to give him a department. The school life is too big, and the
class life is too little, to satisfy all his educational and social
wants. His teacher, too, needs a department, that all those who
are teaching children of approximately one age may have a
chance to work together, and to continue together in the one
work. Hence the junior, department, embracing the children
from nine to twelve, and representing usually four years of
school life. Those who seek for specific suggestions upon junior
department work are recommended to procure from Mr. Israel
P. Black of Philadelphia his little manual of the junior depart-
ment (ten cents), or, wherever possible, to attend a session of a
“school of methods for primary and junior teachers,” or to visit
the weekly meetings of a local primary and junior teachers’
union. The actual experience of junior superintendents, as
voiced in council at such meetings, is worth more than all the
published courses and plans ever issued, apart from such ex-
perience.
The modern American Sunday-school of one hundred members
or more already has a primary department; and it may now, if
it will, equip itself also with a beginners’ department and a
junior department, finding in the general Sunday-school market
all necessary supplies for the work of these departments, and
in the organized International fellowship all necessary encour-
agement and instruction for those detailed to serve as its graded
workers. It need not deem itself debarred from the benefits of
this measure of gradation because it has no separate rooms for
the new grades; for a good beginning has been made in solving
experimentally the difficult but by no means impossible problem
of running an organized junior department as part of the main
room; and as for the beginners’ classes now springing up every-
where, most of them have no closer housing than a sereen and
a circle of little chairs in a corner.
On primary principles, therefore, and in the clear light of
primary experience, we may now give, or begin to give, the bene-
fits of gradation to all our pupils under the average age of
twelve years. At the other end of the course, also, we may
organize a normal or teacher-training class or department, sup-
plying it with one of the numerous available courses of normal
or advanced Bible study, and making it what may be called an
elective grade, for such senior students as desire advanced in-
struction and training for service; and those whom we appoint
to be teachers in this grade will find at their own county con-
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vention some one already engaged in a like work, or competent
to direct them where substantial fellowship and guidance can
be found. The progressive impulses which have developed these
ideas, secured the creation of these materials, organized these
bodies of workers, tested and standardized these methods, and
gained for them the attention of the Sunday-school world, can
be traced, under God, to no other source than the work of this
International, interdenominational Sunday-school Convention
and its auxiliaries.
When we leave the junior department, however, and the nor-
mal department,—omitting the strictly adult classes, which are
in no present need of graded organization,—we find ourselves
at the edge of the wilderness. Here are eight pregnant years of
Sunday-school life, from thirteen to twenty inclusive. The
classes that represent these years enroll, in most schools, the
majority of the scholars. The work is recognized by all to be
of momentous importance: the difficulty of so teaching these
classes as to produce regular and happy results in conversion,
character-building, Bible knowledge and Christian efficiency, is
also clearly seen, and the successful teacher is known and prized
accordingly. But the work of these teachers, successful or un-
successful, is ungraded work. The scholars and teachers in the
main room are organized by classes, but not by departments.
When we discuss the losses, the failures, and the inefficiencies of
modern Sunday-school work, having regard particularly to the
work of the main room, we are confronted with a condition and
not a theory. But when we view the main room in the light of
primary principles and experiences, and imagine what would
follow if the adolescent boys and girls, from twelve to sixteen,
with their teachers, were closely banded together in an inter-
mediate department, and if the intelligent young people from
seventeen to twenty were similarly organized into a senior de-
partment, each with a permanent life and work of its own,—
then, alas, we face a theory and not a condition. Here and there
is a Sunday-school that has ventured boldly into the unknown
and really graded its main room; and such testimony as we can
get from these experimenters is all in favor of making the
change, though with certain important cautions. But this testi-
mony and experience has not yet been put into available and
standard form, nor have these workers come together into help-
ful and confident alliance. ‘There is a vision, a belief, an expec-
tation, but as vet no movement. Howbeit the intermediate
movement is coming; and the senior movement will follow; and
blessed is the man with faith and courage enough to help it to
come. But that is theory.
Would you grade your Sunday-school? Then do these things:
1. Get in line with the standard grades already established,
and put your graded teachers into contact with that fraternity
of workers which has the help they need and is waiting to wel-
come them.
2. Classify your ungraded classes according to the years of
Sunday-school life which they represent. Then, taking the pri-
mary department as the base line, the first four years will repre-
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sent the junior department; the next four the intermediate de-
partment; and the next four the senior department. If the pri-
mary department promotes its graduates at the average age of
eight, then the junior pupils will range from nine to twelve, the
intermediates from thirteen to sixteen, and the seniors from
seventeen to twenty. These ages, however, will be approximate
only.
3. The classification being determined, organize these depart-
ments as fast and as far as the way opens. Draw the classes
closer together: build up a department life and spirit among the
scholars. Organize the teachers, and set them to working, study-
ing, planning and praying together for the scholars of their de-
partment as well as for the scholars of their respective classes.
4. Put the teachers on an annual footing, with the officers;
so that every year, at the anniversary, the officers, having been
duly elected, shall assume their respective offices for another
year, and the teachers, having been duly appointed or reap-
pointed, shall take charge of their respective classes for another
year. A simple installation service will help.
5. Postpone the question of promoting classes and scholars
out of their department and away from their teacher, until the
next higher department actually exists, ready to welcome those
who are found worthy to enter it.
6. Postpone the question of retaining the teacher when the
class is promoted, until the plan of annual appointments is in
working order, and until grade spirit has begun to develop. The
opposition to change and removal is natural and creditable:
meet it by an impartial system duly adopted and agreed to, and
by temporizing until the teachers have tasted the benefits of
gradation. ‘ i
7. Postpone the revision and regrading of the classes until
the work can be done by the department teachers in council.
Follow the public school gradation as a convenient guide, sub-
ject to exception. Make changes publicly and all at once, usu-
ally as part of the anniversary exercises, before the teachers are
assigned to the revised classes for the new year.
8. Postpone the question of grading the lessons until you have
graded the teachers and revised the classes, and thus prepared
the school to handle graded lessons, supplemental or regular.
9. Postpone the general adoption of any specific system of
graded lessons until you are sure that you have done the best
you can with the International lessons.
When we have graded the individual school, we shall have
solved, or be on the way to solving, for that school, one-half of
all the difficulties and problems that have so long beset and per-
plexed us as Sunday-school workers. And when five or ten per
cent. of the schools in any one territory are graded with meas-
urable completeness and uniformity, three-fourths of the re-
maining difficulties will be, for those schools, in course of extinc-
tion. The old “chestnuts” of the convention question-box will
nearly all yield to the touch of practical and uniform gradation,
reinforced by inter-school fellowship among the graded workers.
The work of securing an extension of gradation in our schools,
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therefore, is the most promising and far-reaching line of field
endeavor that our secretaries can enter upon. All the wonderful
triumphs of the primary cause may be repeated and some day
will be repeated for every other grade, from the little ones of
three up to the maturing students of twenty,—if we will join
hands and go forward together.
TEACHER TRAINING.
BY W. C. WELD, CALIFORNIA, SOUTH.
I lived twelve years in the beautiful San Gabriel valley of
Southern California before I took that matchless trip to the top
of the Sierra Madre mountains. I was quite familiar with the
details of the towns scattered throughout the valley; but when
I ascended higher and higher the mountain-side, I saw new
beauties open at every turn of the road, until, when I stood on
Echo Mountain and looked off toward the Pacific Ocean, there
lay before me a scene of loveliness of which I had no conception
before. I was enabled to see the plan and arrangement of the
various towns, with the winding San Gabriel River meandering
its way to the sea, and obtained a new view of the entire
country.
In like manner does a student of our normal course obtain a
new and more comprehensive view of the work he is te do and
the Book he is to teach. He sees events of Bible history in a
synthetical manner and thereby gains a bird’s-eye view of the
whole, grouped in a new setting which gives him an idea of
God’s plan concerning man and his redemption and the work of
the Christian Church in the world.
Fifteen minutes passes so quickly that I shall follow the
exhortation, of Dr. H. Clay Trumbull some years since, in an
editorial in The Sunday School Times, in which he urged Sun-
day-school teachers sometimes to “begin in the middle” of the
lesson. I shall begin even past the middle, and take it for
granted that those who are in attendance at this Convention de
not need exhortation or enlightenment as to the necessity of
teacher-training.
We must not, however, overlook the fact that many of our
teachers are not well equipped for their work, and we ought to
provide the necessary means to enable them to more thoroughly
prepare themselves for the responsible task of teaching in the
Sunday-school. The necessity for especial training is empha-
sized by the fact that the Sunday-school teacher has his pupils
only one half-hour each week in which to teach for eternity:
while the public school teacher has his pupils twenty-five hours
each week in which to teach things pertaining to this world.
The purpose of a normal course is to give the student a new
and comprehensive view of the Bible, with special reference to
God’s thought and purpose as Creator and Redeemer, and thus
making the philosophy of Bible history a living, moving inspira-
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tion to him. This mode of Bible study is not touched by the
International Lesson System, except in slight measure. Indeed
its purpose is to teach along spiritual lines, whereas the normal
teaching is designed to be along pedagogical lines.
There is a great advantage “to the Sunday-school teacher in
being familiar with the history of the Sunday-school as an
institution, becoming keenly alive to its purposes, its methods
of work, and its opportunities. He should also become well
versed in the qualifications necessary to suecessful work in his
chosen field of labor. There is great advantage and power in
having clear, definite knowledge of Bible geography, so that
places and events connected with them stand out with vividness.
Many have no more definite knowledge of Bible lands and places
than some of us had as to the exact longitude and latitude of
the Philippines in the year 1898, when Admiral Dewey sailed
into Manila Bay. Many others have no more accurate idea of
the principal places in Palestine than did the small boy who,
when asked where Manila was, replied, “In front of Dewey’s
guns, of course.”
Having thus briefly hinted at the necessity and advantages of
special training, permit me to note some of the difficulties in the
way of securing students to take the course and qualify them-
selves for the great office of teacher in the Church of Christ.
Some find it impossible to take an evening for the class study;
some could attend a week-day class, whereas their particular
school has a class during the regular session. Others, who know
they ought to prepare themselves for this work, are not willing
to give up the pleasure of staying with their old class in which
they have been so long and which they love so well. Other aiffi-
culties present themselves; but I pass on to more serious hin-
drances.
In my experience as superintendent of normal work in South-
ern California, I have found the greatest of all difficulties to be
the securing of proper teachers to lead the classes. This em-
barassing situation has been brought about, in my judgment, by
our normal lesson system or rather lack of system. In stating
this defect in our system I am not alone, for Mr. W. J. Semel-
roth recently set forth the same idea in an editorial in The
Evangel. I would give him all the credit for the discovery of
this need, were it not for the fact that my own observation and
experience had brought me to the same conclusion, and I had
publicly stated it before I saw his article. To my mind all
other difficulties would melt away like “frost before a June
sun,” if a uniform series of lessons could be arranged; so that
when we assert that the lack of proper teachers is the difficulty
to be overcome, and can suggest a way to secure such teachers,
we will have accomplished our mission.
Closely akin to the inability to secure good teachers is the
trouble caused by the diversity of normal text-books. There
are many of them, and they are all good, but not enough alike
to be used interchangeably; and the result is that one of the
first questions asked of a superintendent of normal work is,
“What text-book shall we use?” Thus distraction is at once
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started and uncertainty engendered. If we could secure a uni-
form system of normal lessons, as Mr. Semelroth so forcefully
urged, our greatest difficulties would disappear.
Do you ask how they would thus disappear? I reply that the
average normal course is as dry as dust. I mean no reflection
upon the authors of these text-books, for they are only outlines.
These skeletons need to be illumined in some way, and thus
relieve the teacher of the necessity for so much independent
study and research. You quickly say that the latter is the very
best way to study; and I as quickly reply, I grant you; but
the average Sunday-school teacher is a very busy person, and
eannot give the time to such study, and indeed does not know
where to go to secure the needed information. I have no
patience with those ever-present decriers of lesson-helps, but
believe most intensely in their use and utility.
This is the plan: To appoint a committee to provide a normal
course of Bible-study and Training Lessons that shall become an
integral part or department of our Uniform Lesson System, and
require the publishers to furnish helps by which the course may
be illumined by illustrations, by reference to recent discoveries
in Bible lands, by quotations from various relevant literature,
by maps locating places, noting events connected therewith, by
brief sketches of Bible and modern characters which touch the
lessons directly or indirectly, and in many other ways furnish-°
ing helpful material.
To illustrate my thought, take the first lesson on “The Bible
asa Book.” Attention might be called to the words of Sir Wal-
ter Scott as he lay dying. When he knew that his end was near,
he said to his daughter, “Read to me from the Book.’ She re-
plied, “Which book, father?” He said to her, “There is but one
book, the Bible.” Such words from a noble writer of mighty
books is a tremendous testimony to the fact that the Bible is
the Book of books. There is inspiration in such an illustration,
and how wonderfully it would help point the way for more
elaborate teaching along that line.
Then, too, if we had a uniform normal system, the vacation
period with its demoralizing tendency would be practically
eliminated: for the student could find his place to study,
whether at the mountains, or the seaside, or at home.
The Bible lessons are usually more thoroughly taught than
those on Teacher-Training, because the Bible itself is such a
mine of information; but when the average teacher comes to the
lessons on the Sunday-school he is at a loss for material.
In our plan the editors could come to his help, and suggest
ideas from the life of Robert Raikes, and show that while he
was such a foppish dude that he insisted upon his servant
sweeping the street before him as he went to his printing office,
yet he was such a soul-loving man that he would go into the
vile prisons of that day and read and pray with the poor,
miserable ones there gathered. The editors could go further in
the history of the Sunday-school movement and show that, while
Robert Raikes hired his teachers, there came a time when some
noble soul came forward and volunteered his services gratui-
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tously. Some one has said that the next greatest man to Robert
Raikes in the Sunday-school movement was that man who came
forward and offered to assist him without pay. How marvel-
ously God has honored the volunteer services of his followers in
the Sunday-school field of Christian endeavor!
The editors could further amplify this history by showing
the large place the printing-press took, when in 1794 the British
and Foreign Bible Society was formed and published Bibles and
distributed them throughout the Sunday-schools of that land;
also how in 1810 the Religious Tract Society was formed and
issued tracts, pamphlets and religious books, thereby helping on
the great movement.
Attention could be called to that prophetic utterance of John
Wesley, who was a contemporary of Robert Raikes, in which he
said, referring to the Sunday-schools of that day: “Perhaps God
may have a deeper end therein than men are aware of. Who
knows but some of these schools may become nurseries for
Christians?” Behold what marvelous fulfilment of his prophecy
have we seen in our day!
The editors could likewise take of the helpful things in Trum-
bull’s “Yale Lectures on the Sunday-school,” and his “Teaching
and Teachers,” and Vincent’s “The Modern Sunday School,” and
Schauffler’s “Ways of Working,” and Wells’ “Sunday-school
Success,” and serve them in small doses at the opportune time
and thus do a wonderful work for the overtaxed normal class
teacher.
Now I believe this is feasible. Let this Convention take the
initiative and request or instruct the Lesson Committee to
formulate a plan or system for the normal course, covering the
time needed therefor, be it one, two or three years, and let it
become a part of the International Uniform Lesson System.
The publishers can just as well do their part concerning this
new branch proposed as they can publish a separate primary
course or 2 separate beginners’ course. Some of the denomina-
tional publishers are issuing normal quarterlies, and good ones
too; but the International Association, through the state asso-
ciations, does not or cannot recognize them, so their usefulness
is curtailed. Some states recognize only one normal text-book,
others several; while some recognize all; but there is no uni-
formity. The normal training work is just about in the condi-
tion that the Lesson System must have been in in the years
prior to 1872, when the Uniform System was adopted at the
Indianapolis Convention.
If there is opposition to our recommendation, I assert that.
there is the same crying need for this branch of Sunday-school
work that there was in 1872 for the general Bible-study work.
The status of teacher-training work at the present time is like a
patchwork quilt,—it lacks uniformity and continuity.
May God speed the day when the difficulties to teacher-train-
ing shall be removed, and we may in all parts of the world be
pursuing the same lessons under the same general supervision,
and thus secure added power to the endeavor of each teacher.
When a uniform normal lesson system is adopted, and good
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helps are provided, it will be possible more easily to secure
efficient teachers; and when these uniformly instructed classes
shall have had time to graduate a large body of well equipped
teachers, God’s cause will have been advanced in the world: so
that the great object of discipling all nations shall soon have
been accomplished. Shall we not now take the most progressive
step in our history along this line? Let us dare to do it.
SUNDAY-SCHOOL WEEK AND DECISION DAY.
BY W. C. PEARCE, ILLINOIS.
Two issues are vital to the perpetuity and growth of the
Sunday-school: (1) We must enlarge our membership and con-
sequently our influence: (2) We must win those in our ranks to
a definite decision to lead a Christian life.
However important other issues may be, they are secondary
and subordinate to these. Our improved plans, modern methods,
complete organization, yea, even our knowledge itself, counts
for little if they do not help us to meet them. In a sense these
two issues are one, for nothing tends more to attract outsiders
to the Sunday-school service than the genial glow and enthusi-
asm that exists in the Sunday-school where the teachers and
officers are filled with a passion for souls; and the best way
of holding the young men and women to the Sunday-school is to
lead them to Christ while they are boys and girls. In our
righteous eagerness for advanced methods and more systematic
plans for Bible-study, it is just possible that we need to be re-
minded that even these are really to be commended and desired
only so far as they help us in winning the world for Christ.
Thus Sunday-school Week and Decision Day have come to
help us.
Sunday-school Week is a movement which involves two prin-
ciples,—co-operation and concentration: the co-operation of all
Christians and all denominations and societies in a city, county
or state engaged in a campaign, concentrating their attention
for a whole week to the work of the Sunday-school. It seems
unnecessary to the speaker that any time should be consumed
emphasizing the value of co-operation and concentration. Since
as a boy I walked miles to join my companions in work or
study, I have appreciated the value of co-operation. And since
the time I used to hold the magnifying glass and set fire to the
stubble, or watched the old village blacksmith heap the coals
in one place and by his permission was permitted to work the
bellows, and thus help to bring the iron to white heat in prepa-
ration for the welding, I have known the value of concentration.
Consequently I shall take it for granted that we are all agreed
that it is a great gain to the kingdom of Christ for all Chris-
tians to co-operate, and, from time to time, concentrate their
attention upon the different departments of church work, and
will proceed at once to discuss the plans of Sunday-school Week.
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It must be kept in mind that Sunday-school Week, to be
really very helpful, is not a spontaneous movement. Rather it
is the flower or fruitage of an entire year’s work. The larger
cities should be divided into districts and competent leaders be
found for them, as well as for the townships and precincts out-
side of the cities. The hearts of these leaders should be filled
with zeal for the work of reaching and saving our boys and
girls. This movement again emphasizes the great need and
absolute necessity of having our organization completed in every
part of the International field.
Frequent interviews and .conferences should be held with
county officers, pastors, leaders of young people’s societies and
superintendents. In these interviews care should be taken to
clearly and definitely place before them the purpose and plan
of Sunday-school Week. By so doing you will secure the co-
operation of all who see eye to eye in regard to the great im-
portance of bringing our boys and girls to a saving knowledge
of Christ. By having these leaders thoroughly understand your
plans, you will avoid many undesirable conflicts with young
people’s rallies, receptions and other public meetings.
The greatest of care and pains should be taken in the issuing
of proper literature, securing speakers and planning for the
public meetings to be held. The following plans are suggested,
which have by experience proved to be valuable:
1. A conference of county, district and township officers
should be held in each county six weeks or two months before
Sunday-school Week. At least one entire evening should be
given to this conference, devoted to the consideration of definite
plans. Blanks should be distributed to the officers, asking them
at that time to answer the following questions: (1) How many
meetings do you desire in your district or township during
Sunday-school Week? (2) On what evenings of the week do
you wish these meetings to be held? (3) What speakers do you
desire? The information contained in the answers to these
questions is a source of great help in completing final arrange-
ments.
As to literature, we suggest, first, that a personal letter be
written to each superintendent by the county officers, explain-
ing fully the purpose and plans for the entire week. In this
letter should be enclosed a suggestive letter suitable for super-
intendents to write to their teachers and other officers, and
also a decision or confession card, to be used on Decision Day,
and any other leaflets or tracts, containing suggestions or in-
structions concerning the observance of Decision Day, and a
complete puogram of all the meetings to be held during Sunday-
school Week.
It has been our experience that it is wise for the county ex-
ecutive committee to secure and assign all speakers for the
meetings of the entire campaign. These speakers should be
carefully chosen from those who thoroughly believe in the work
of the Sunday-school and child-conversion.
For Sunday-school Week we suggest the following plan of
campaign:
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1. Ask the pastors to open the week’s campaign by preaching
sermons in their various pulpits on the value of the Sunday-
school as an evangelistic agency. It is not always possible for |
a pastor to respond to a request of this kind, but many of them
will gladly do so; and we can think of nothing that will more
properly introduce such a movement and which will more cer-
tainly secure the co-operation of all the churches and awaken
an interest on the part of the public.
2. Request the officers of the young people’s societies to devote
their services on the opening Sunday of the campaign to some
phase of the Sunday-school work. In our own experience we
have had more difficulty in bringing this to pass than any other
suggestion we have made. But we believe it is not the fault of
the young people, but because their leaders have thus far failed
to understand how much they can aid the kingdom of Christ by
joining heartily in such a movement.
3. In cities or counties, where it is possible, a meeting for
ministers should be held and in large cities a union meeting of
the different ministerial associations should be arranged. This
can easily be done by taking the matter in hand in time.
4. Ask the church officers to devote the midweek prayer-
meeting to Sunday-school work. Make it a service of prayer for
the Sunday-school teachers and for the conversion of the
scholars they teach. If there is any class of workers who need
to be upheld by our prayers, it is the Sunday-school teachers,
and especially so in the work of winning their scholars for
Jesus.
5. The public meetings held at other times during the week
should be of such a character as to magnify the Sunday-school
work in the mind of the public, and especially the church offi-
cers; to reveal the needs of the various parts of the field to the
workers; to give instruction concerning organized Sunday-
school work; to emphasize the responsibility resting upon the
teachers in the work of winning their scholars for Christ; and
to furnish to the teachers all possible help and encouragement
in the work of dealing with their scholars personally; also to
emphasize the importance of caring for young converts. It
would be no more foolish to leave a new-born babe out in the
cold of a winter night, and expect to find that babe well and
strong the next morning, than to leave a young convert out in
the world, without help, advice or guidance, and expect him to
develop into a strong Christian character, filled with the grace
of God and prepared for efficient Christian service.
After an entire week spent in such preparation as we have
briefly suggested, we can readily understand the advantage of
closing the week with the observance of Decision Day. It is
impossible within the limits of my time to discuss the various
Decision Day methods that have been found helpful; but we ask
permission to speak of a few advantages to be gained by ob-
serving Decision Day.
1. It helps to remove the apathy and sometimes opposition
which we meet in our work of bringing the boys and girls into
the church of Jesus Christ.
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2. It deepens the sense of the teacher’s responsibility. Once
each year, at least, the most careless teacher is reminded that
the church is looking to him for the conversion of his scholars.
In one church the pastor went through all the class-books and
made a list of the names of scholars who had not confessed
Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. At a special meeting
held by the teachers for prayer, while they were kneeling, the
pastor said, “Now while you are engaged in silent prayer I wish
to read the names of our boys and girls who have not openly
accepted Christ.” One by one he read their names; and when
the roll-call was completed and the service was through, every
teacher’s heart was filled with the desire to win his scholars
for Christ.
3. It helps young and inexperienced teachers to begin to do
personal work. I am sure that in the hearts of Sunday-school
teachers throughout the entire Sunday-school field there is a
great yearning for the ability to win souls to Jesus Christ; but
they are timid and do not know how to begin, or how to proceed
in this most blessed work. On Decision Day, when the more
experienced teachers begin to talk personally with their scholars
concerning their soul’s salvation, the inexperienced teacher
catches the same spirit and begins to do the same kind of work.
When once they have begun to do this kind of work, it will
never end: for the joy of winning souls to Christ is the most
unspeakable joy that the human heart can ever experience.
4. It directs the pastors and superintendents to their duty
of looking carefully over the enrollment of the entire Sunday-
school, discovering which of the scholars are unsaved, and
directing the teachers and officers associated with them in the
work of winning the scholars to Jesus Christ.
5. It helps the timid boys and girls, and makes it a little
easier for them openly to confess Jesus Christ. I very much
fear that most of our boys and girls are left to confess Christ
in an open public meeting, conducted especially for older people,
without having any Sunday-school teacher or worker near them
to speak a personal word of encouragement. It seems to me
that every boy and girl in the whole world, when ready to
accept Christ, should have a teacher near, ready to show the
way and help in making the decision.
6. Decision Day brings results, and that is best of all. In our
county the schools observing Decision Day are those that re-
ported the largest number of additions to the church. In fifty-
three schools, where we have personal knowledge that Decision
Day was carefully prepared for and wisely observed, 2,319
scholars decided to accept Christ. What a marvelous revival
ina single day! Eternity alone can measure the results.
{tam reminded of a little experience that I had in raising
sweet peas. ‘Ihe seeds came up and were doing nicely, and I
placed before them a wire trellis upon which I wished the plants
to climb. I did all I could to care for them, but they kept fall-
ing back and away from the trellis. Some of them were
trampled on by passers-by and were injured or entirely de-
stroyed. Finally they began to take hold of the trellis, seem-
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ingly having determined to choose to climb in the direction in
which I wished them to go. Then I knew they were much safer
than they had been. In a measure this illustrates what is true
of our boys and girls. It matters not how good the environ-
ment they may have, or how careiul the teacher they may have,
there comes a time when they need to exercise their own wills
and definitely choose Jesus Christ.
A great building filled with people caught fire: and before
the alarm could be given, the elevators, stairways and other
avenues of escape were on fire. The only way of saving the
people was through windows. The firemen came, put up their
ladders, and helped them out one by one until they thought
every life had been saved. The ladders had been taken down,
and the people were being crowded back to places of safety;
when suddenly they saw the face of a little girl at a fourth-
story window. Some one cried: “My God, can’t some one save
that child!” It would be exceedingly difficult to imagine that
any one witnessing such a scene could say, Why be so concerned ?
the building has not fallen in yet, and the child is not burned
yet. No, no: it would be easily seen that the child was in peril,
and with one accord they would have desired to save her, not
merely from harm, but from her perilous position. The brave
firemen seized their ladders and soon ran them up against the
building; and one of the firemen started up to the rescue. As
he was passing the third-story window the great heat within
burst through and was so terrible that he faltered and began to
retreat, when some one in the crowd below cried, “Cheer him!”
and there arose from the multitude below a mighty cheer for the
brave fireman; and it seemed as though when the cheer reached
him he forgot his own peril: new courage filled his heart, and
he went up through the heat to the child, taking her in his
arms, bringing her safely to the ground. May God help us to
realize that all the boys and girls in our land who are away
from Christ are in a position of great peril, and that their only
safety is in being led to him as their Savior and acknowledging
him as their Master “In the days of their youth, while the evil
days come not.”
I am fully persuaded that if we could secure a general and
wise observance of Decision Day, the Church would have the
revival for which we have been praying. It is still true that “a
little child shall lead them.” When you put your hand upon
the life of a little child. you have touched the heart of the whole
world. Mrs. Ballington Booth tells of a man, arrested in New
York for a crime so bad that she could not even mention it in
public. The judge visited him and asked him if he would like
to have a lawyer, and he would not answer. He was brought
before the court and would not answer either yes or no when
asked if he were guilty of the crime for which he had been ar-
rested. The priest and a Protestant minister both visited him.
To neither of them would he open his heart, even enough to talk
about himself or his crime. Finally a kindly woman visited
him, and even to her he would only answer yes or no to her ques-
tions. All who saw him considered him a most hardened crim-
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inal, heedless of his future and unrepentant for his past. The
day before his execution arrived. This woman was sent to him
with the message, “If there is anything you would like to have
before you are put to death, let it be known.” He at once re-
plied, ‘Tell them to bring my little baby and let me put it to
sleep once more.” They brought the child to him and he took
it in his arms, put it on his shoulder, and paced back and forth,
cooing to the child a song which no one would have dreamed he
had ever heard. By and by the baby face was pillowed against
his cheek and it went to sleep. When he handed the baby back
to the lady his eyes were filled with tears, and all realized that
the baby had held the key which would unlock the door of this
hardened criminal’s heart. May God help us to learn, right
speedily, that the little children, if we will but let them, will
lead us into the mightiest revival that the Church of Jesus
Christ has ever experienced.
THE SECOND CALL FOR PLEDGES.
BY MARION LAWRANCE, GENERAL SECRETARY.
I am exceedingly sorry to take the time of this magnificent
session; but I am here under the instructions of the Executive
Committee, or I would not think of speaking.
This has been a record-making and a record-breaking Con-
vention. We have taken steps forward which no preceding Con-
vention has taken. The Executive Committee has had long and
busy sessions; and they have decided to do as much as can be
done with the money which you have placed in their hands. It
was already conceded that we should have a colored worker.
The Executive Committee has decided to put in two. We have
already decided, as I understand, to put in some extra labor in
the general field, and shall do this as soon as possible. It is
also decided that we shall have a more close relation with our
work in Japan; and a committee, with Mr. H. J. Heinz of Penn-
sylvania as chairman, is to look after that.
We are to branch out in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Bahamas
and Bermudas,—all the islands of the West Indies; and ar-
rangements have been made for a commission to make a trip,
with your General Secretary, through all these islands during
the coming winter. It has been decided to take up the work in
Hawaii and do what we can there.
You are all agreed that we want this work done vigorously,
and as rapidly as possible. You have pledged in this Conven-
tion more money than any Convention ever pledged before—
thirty-nine thousand dollars. It has been the experience in
former Triennial Conventions, that the money actually paid to
our Treasurer has been one-fourth more than the money pledged.
In order to carry out these wide schemes of work, it is figured
that we ought to have fifty thousand dollars. And in order that
we may reach that, it is not safe for us to stop with a cent less
than forty thousand dollars pledged.
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I have been asked to come here at this moment to secure that
other thousand dollars. Are you ready to give it? In the B. F.
Jacobs Fund, to be used without any specific direction, we have
$400 pledged; and I think I know where $100 more is coming
from. If we can secure $600 to complete that thousand, and
$400 more in general pledges, we shall have reached the high
water mark of forty thousand dollars pledged, with the moral
certainty of ten thousand dollars more. Many were absent
when the pledges were taken before. We have had printed five
hundred additional personal pledge-cards; and in ten minutes
we may have this other thousand if you shall see fit. The effort
is not to twist another thousand from you who have given so lib-
erally, but to see our way from the brow of the hill, so that we
may go forward.
[The entire amount called for, $1,000 a year, was raised ina
few minutes; and then Mr. Lawrance apologized for his “bad
arithmetic,’ and reminded the Convention that this meant
$42,000, and not $40,000, for three years. ]
THE CHILD FOR CHRIST.
BY THE REV. A. H. M’KINNEY, D.D., NEW YORK.
A short time before the convention of the New York State
Sunday-school Association, held in Binghamton during the
second week of June, 1901, a gentleman of New York city called
the attention of the chairman of the executive committee of the
state association to the fact that, according to the data fur-
nished for a series of years prior to 1900, about one-fifth of the
youth of the Protestant Sunday-schools of the Empire State
confessed Christ while members of those schools, and that about
another fifth of those who passed through the Sunday-schools
confess Christ before death. The appalling deduction was made
that about sixty per cent. of those who pass through the hands
of Christian parents, Bible-school teachers and pastors go down
to their graves without confessing Jesus Christ.
The narration of these facts brought the members of the ex-
ecutive committee of the New York State Sunday-school Asso-
ciation to their knees. At Binghamton much of the time ordi-
narily given by this committee to business and routine work
was devoted to prayer, and an answer was sought from the Lord
concerning the question: What is our duty as leaders of the
state Sunday-school work in reference to bringing the children
in the Sunday-schools of our state to Christ?
For some time previous this question had been discussed in
many places, and much work had been done for the children; su
that if the statistics presented at the Binghamton convention
are maintained for ten years, it will be forty per cent. instead
of twenty per cent. of the children and youth of our New York
state Sunday-schools who will confess Christ while members of
the schools.
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The influences that emanated from the convention of 1901
were not only mighty but also permanent. Workers returned
to their places of labor in all parts of the state fully determined
to do more to bring the children of their schools and localities
into vital relationship with Jesus Christ. During the year hun-
dreds of public meetings were held in various parts of the state,
the theme of which was, “The Child for Christ.” Careful,
prayerful, Biblical instruction on this theme was given with
the two-fold result that many who have been working for the
children have been encouraged and inspired to new zeal and
greater efforts, while others who had been causing the little ones
to stumble were shown how unscriptural and un-Christianlike
was their attitude. A few specimens of what has been done is
all that space will permit.
One county held a three days’ institute, with three sessions
on each day, the theme of all the meetings being, “The Children
for Christ.” The reports from that county are as surprising as
they are gratifying. For example, one village of less than two
thousand inhabitants reports one hundred and ten members of
the Bible-schools thereof confessing Christ during last year.
Another county held nine meetings in various parts in four
days, having for the theme of all the meetings, “The Children
for Christ.” ‘The result of these meetings was the holding of a
‘County Decision Day on the second Sunday of May.
In a Bible-school in the city of Buffalo, after three months of
prayer, planning and careful Biblical instruction of the chil-
dren and youth, a Decision Day service was held, during which
one hundred and eighty-one members of the school over ten years
of age accepted and confessed Christ as their Savior. This was
over nineteen per cent. of the enrolled membership of the school,
which has now for its motto, “The entire membership of this
school for Christ in six years.” When it is understood that this
is a mission school working among a shifting population, it will
be seen how much this determination means for the Kingdom.
As there has been much needless and profitless discussion of
terms, we purpose treating this subject under four headings,
which will perhaps include everything that ought to be postu-
lated under the theme, THE CHILD For Curist. For the sake
of having them clearly in mind, let us group the words as fol-
lows:
Child-Conyversion.
Child-Culture.
Child-Conseecration.
Child-Confession.
CHILD-CONVERSION.
We accept the term conversion in its simple, obvious meaning,
viz: turning to. Child-conversion, accordingly, is the turning
of the child to Christ. That childhood is the natural, proper
time for such turning is proved by the command of our Master,
who indignantly rebuked the disciples in these words: “Suffer
the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me; for
of such is the kingdom of heayen.” Until within quite recent
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years, the great mistake of large numbers of Christian workers.
lay in the failure to present Jesus Christ to children in such a
way that the latter could understand that Jesus wanted them
to accept him and live for him. In very many cases the little
enes were instructed in Seriptural truths; they were told about
Jesus; they were prayed for; but they were not led to Jesus.
Many lambs who might have been so led were allowed to grow
up with other influences surrounding them that turned them.
away from Christ, and made it most difficult for them to accept
him in later years.
The testimony of a New York state clergyman at this point is-
a specimen of the harm done in bygone days in failing to bring
the child to Christ. Alas! he does not stand alone in this re-
spect. He says:
“T am sorry that as an immortal soul I was not allowed to-
come to Jesus Christ when I was seven years old. I was then
ready and willing to come; but my father, a godly man, a
steward and a class-leader, thought I was too young to be a
Christian. I did not come to Christ then, when I was under
conviction and could have been led very easily. Before 1 was
sixteen I had devoured Tom Paine, and although my father
wrestled in prayer for me hour after hour, I did not want to be
a Christian. When at seventeen I was converted, it was very
hard for me to believe. But oh, how easy it would have been for
me to believe at seven!”
According to the charts which have been compiled by our
psychologists, the age of the greatest number of conversions
and religious awakenings is sixteen, the next largest number is
at eighteen, and the third largest number at twelve years of
age. I venture to affirm that if the spiritual work now being
done for children in New York state is continued there for a
- number of years, the psychologist of the next generation when.
making up his charts will show that the largest number of con-
versions in that state was about ten; that the next largest was
about eleven; and that the third largest was about twelve years
of age. The same story will be told of the children in other
states if the workers therein duplicate the efforts of the Empire
State in bringing the child to Christ.
CHILD-CULTURE.
There have been Christian parents who have tried to culture:
their children by leaving out Christ. Many of them have found
that their children grow up with much physical culture, with
much intellectual culture, but with little or no heart-culture
or spiritual culture. There can be no spiritual culture without
spiritual life. God alone is the source of spiritual life. Christ
is God’s appointed medium for conveying spiritual life. Hence,
if a boy or girl is to have this life from God, it must come
through Jesus Christ. That the child may be led to Christ so
early and so naturally that there are no wonderful phenomena
in connection with the coming, is well recognized in these days.
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That as soon as the child is able to love and to obey Christ, it
should be cultured for him, is becoming more and more an estab-
lished principle among Christian workers. Therefore, in con-
sidering the matter of child-culture, we plead for the recognition
and the adoption of the principle that everything possible
should be done for the spiritual culture of the newly-born babe
in Christ. This work of spiritual culture ought, of course, to
be begun very early in the home, and continued unremittingly
there and in the church.
A baby comes into your home, just born physically. You
wrap it in a piece of flannel and soliloquize concerning it thus:
Now, they say this child is born. If so, he will develop into a
strong boy, and by and by into a stalwart man. I will just
watch him; and when he becomes a man, then I will believe
that he is born; but until he gives proof of his strength I cannot
believe that he is a human being. Nay, nay, friend! If you did
that, the neighbors would have you arrested, or sent to an asy-
lum for the insane. What you do is to clothe, to warm, to feed,
to care for, to nurture, to cultivate that newly-born child in
every possible way. In due time, he develops into a boy, and
afterwards into a man; and you rejoice because you had the
privilege of working with God in reference to the physical life
and culture of your child.
So it should be, but has not always been, in reference to the
newly-born babe in Christ. There have been those who said:
“T will believe that that child is a Christian, when he gives evi-
dences of being born again;” and the evidences that they de-
manded were not those of birth, but of advanced development.
This was all wrong; and many little ones who might have been
child Christians and have developed into adult Christians
turned away from Christ because they were not able to be adult
Christians when they were children physically and intellect-
ually. I rejoice that I live in a day when such foolishness,
such short-sightedness, such wickedness on the part of those
who have to do with children is fast becoming a thing of the
dark ages of the past. I thank the Lord to-day that the average
church official is not represented as a man with a whip in his
hand, ready to chastise the lambs of the flock who go astray, but
as a shepherd with a crook in his hand, whose delight is to help
carry the lambs until they are able to walk over the rough
places themselves and in turn become helpers of others.
As in the family everyone tries to outdo the others in helpful
ministrations for the young child, so in the church the members
should be doing everything possible to nurture the Christian life
of the little ones who love Jesus Christ and are trying to obey
him. No one has any right to ask concerning a child convert:
“Will he hold out?” unless that one is doing everything in his
power to help the little one to hold out.
CHILD-CONSECRATION,
There are not a few who prefer the term sanctification. In
the sense in which they employ the word, however, sanctification
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is the work of the Holy Spirit. It confuses a child to have some
one talk about sanctification, and then to be told that God
sanctifies. Better impress upon the child the need of consecra-
tion. Moreover, the idea that will lead to action, rather than
any term, should be kept constantly before the child’s mind. “I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.” This was the apostle’s idea
of consecration; and his teaching in this reference is becoming
more and more woven into the thought and the life of the fol-
lowers of Him who literally—both in living and in dying—gave
himself for the world.
If the child is to consecrate his body to God in years to come,
he must be taught that it will be possible for him really to do so
only as he does it now. Moreover, he must be taught that he
cannot give his body as a whole to God except as he yields the
various parts thereof. For example, the tongue is a part of the
body. The child must be instructed that inasmuch as he has
given himself to Christ, that tongue must be employed in saying
things that are kind, honest, true, pure, and holy; that only as
this is the case is there any consecration. So he must be taught
to use ear, eye, hand, foot, brain and heart for God. On the
other hand, he must have impressed upon him the truth that if
he is using any part of his body in saying or doing things that
are unkind, mean, deceitful, dishonest, impure or unholy, any “
talk about consecration is worse than valueless; it is hypo-
critical.
When all this has been said, however, it must not be forgotten
that it is a child’s consecration and not that of an adult that the
Lord is looking for. The boy can just as really consecrate his
body to God by playing ball as a boy Christian should play, as
did William McKinley consecrate his body, when in the dark
times of the Spanish War he sat up night after night, cheerfully
performing his arduous tasks “for the sake of the Master.” A
parent should not expect a child believer to be an adult Chris-
tian. A grown person should not expect a little one to render
the same degree of service that he is offering to the Lord; but
it may be a very real kind of service nevertheless. Above all, an
adult Christian should never be so foolish or so wicked as to
expect a child to exhibit a higher degree of consecration than the
adult yields to the Master.
CHILD-CONFESSION.
“These children are too young to join the church,” is the
declaration that is frequently heard concerning child converts.
That may or may not be so; but it is not the real point in refer-
ence to confession. Is there not a sad mistake made by those
who seem to talk as if joining the church were the only way of
confessing Christ? Should not the children be very early taught
that they are to confess Christ in many ways and in many
places, by what they say or by what they refrain from saying, by
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what they do and what they refuse to do? When this is done,
there will be but little difficulty in the child confessing Christ
by uniting with the church of Christ.
In New York state a great change is coming over public senti-
ment in reference to the ages at which children may unite with
the church. Last month a gentleman told me that all of his
four children, the youngest of whom is but six years old, are
members of the church. Wishing to get this father’s view-point,
I said: “Do you think that your six-year-old boy is old enough
to be a member of the church?” Instantly came the rejoinder:
‘He is as good a Christian as there is in the lot.”
“How do you know that?” I inquired.
Then came descriptions of the little fellow’s actions, which
convinced me that he knows what it is to love and obey Christ,
and that he is living up to his privileges as a redeemed child of
God.
Having related this incident to a Methodist Episcopal clergy-
man, I was surprised to have him quietly remark: “Recently, I
admitted a six-year-old child into church membership on pro-
bation.”
Thus is sentiment changing. There is, however, yet much to
be done. The opposition to shepherding the lambs of the flock
often comes from the older members of the church.
Two boys nine and thirteen years of age respectively were
members of a pastor’s class. Just before communion this good
man visited the mother of the boys, and informed her that he
believed that the elder lad was a Christian, and that he would
be admitted into church membership; and that the younger boy
was a Christian also, but that if he were admitted into the
church, the pastor would be “‘criticised for admitting babies into
the church.” The mother accepted the situation. Some time
after this, leading in family worship, she read the eighteenth
chapter of Matthew. When she had finished reading the words,
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in
me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about
his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea;” the
boy who was too young for church membership broke in with:
“Mamma, that’s what ought to be done with Mr. ————,”
mentioning the pastor who was afraid of being criticized for
admitting ‘babies into the church.
CONCLUSION.
In the state of New York to-day, the pastors, the Bible-school
officers, and the Bible-school teachers, in the main, are awake to
the importance of bringing the child to Christ very early, and
to the necessity of bringing the young children into the chureh
for culture. Our next great effort is to be directed towards the
parents, many of whom have not yet awakened to the twofold
truth that the child needs the church, and that the chureh
needs the child.’
Said a pastor in the northern part of our state: “I had a
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young disciples’ class of twenty-one, boys and girls, every one
of whom gave reasonable evidences of being Christians, but
every one of whom, except one, was kept from uniting with the
chureh by either the indifference or the active opposition of
their parents.” How sad it is to contemplate the picture of a
parent so foolish or so wicked as not to be intensely interested
in, and actively seconding, the pastor’s efforts to shepherd the
lambs of the flock!
Our leaders in Bible-school work in many parts of the United
States and Canada are praying and working for the time when
there will be a general concentrated effort throughout the world
on the part of all Christians to fulfil the command of our Savior,
who said: “Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to
come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of of heaven.” What
are you doing to help the speedy advent of that blessed time?
What will you do?
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ELEVENTH SESSION, MONDAY EVENING.
THE WORLD’S ONLY HOPE.
BY THE REY. BISHOP HENRY W. WARREN, LL.D.
In Dante’s Inferno it says that the inscription over the gate of
Hell is: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” But for one
thing it might be written over the gate of Life, by which all men
come into this world. That one thing is not any of man’s philos-
ophies. Man by searching cannot find out God, by thinking can-
not secure life. Thought cannot bring hope. It may be black
and deadly with despair.
1. The Hindu philosophy is old. Millions have tried it for
two and a half millenniums. It has three distinct branches or
schools. It has sought to cover all the ground of thought. Mr.
Gladstone says: “The Hindu mind exhausted metaphysics two
thousand years ago.” Judge it by its product,—a people of
three hundred millions with no love of sin erau:cated, no love of
God implanted, with faces sadder than the beasts, men bowing
down in worship to the meanest beasts, no progress in a thou-
sand years, and easily conquered by a far-off alien people.
2. Greek philosophy was evolved by some of the brightest
minds this world ever saw. Plato discovered sin and sinners
most easily. But in a whole Pantheon of gods there was no
savior of men, nor of himself.
Modern times have been fertile in systems of thought.
3. Secularism says, 'Teach men the laws of nature, and they
will be happy. But men do not care to know these laws: if they
do know them, there is nothing to empower the will to keep
them. And besides, one of the most inexorable laws of nature is
death, and death without hope.
4. Utilitarianism and Epicureanism are closely allied. They
declare that use or pleasure is the chief good, and that advan-
tage is right. But every slave for the advantage of another,
every prodigal in his hunger, nakedness and disgrace, knows
that there is no hope in this.
5. Materialism resolves all into matter with energy in full
play. The soul innately rebels against this view, which
quenches all hope in annihilation.
6. Agnosticism, or Know-nothingism, refuses to believe any-
thing not made clear by the senses; and they are ofter deceptive
in their realm and utterly incompetent in the realm where man
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most desires to know with greatest certainty. On every flag of
hope men would fly in the sky, Agnosticism puts a huge inter-
rogation point of doubt.
The world by its wisdom in any age or nation knew not God.
No ray of hope penetrated the blackness of its sky.
That one thing that prevents our whole dome of sky from be-
ing inscribed “All hope abandon, ye who enter here,” is not any
of the great religions men have devised. They tell us there are
ten of them,—Br: ahmanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Egyptian,
Grecian, Roman, Mohammedan, Scandinavian, Zoroastrian.
Which one has saved their myriads of adherents in this world or
the next? The world is a graveyard of nations, where stalk the
ghosts of buried civilizations. The eentral idea of one was war,
of another was a hopeless fatalism of remorseless fate, of an-
other was funerals, of another was Nirvana or annihilation. A
much-worshipped idol in India is a human monstrosity with
twelve hands, each one bearing an instrument of torture. There
is no hope in human religions.
Neither is atheism the one thing that prevents a black de-
spair. This is an absence of both philosophy and religion.
There is no agreement, harmony, or consistency in its utter-
ances. The popular theory of yesterday is overturned to-day,
and will be the scorn of to-morrow. Its advocates seem like a
host of armed men suddenly sprung up from sown dragon’s
teeth. But some Cadmean stone falls among them, and they
speedily slay each other. “Without God” has the companion
phrase “without hope in the world” inexorably and undivorce-
ably married thereto.
Philosophy, religion and no-religion are all equally helpless
to bring one ray of hope. Through the dolorous and accursed
ages, in the rayless darkness of the world in regard to the
future,
“All the gods are dead but Doubt,
And Doubt is brother devil to Despair.”
But stay! A few watching eyes see a star in the East. Mill-
ions see nothing. But to some it is a star of hope. This word
hope in the earlier languages meant expectation of evil as well
as of good. It is so used by Lucian, Thucydides and Plato. But
in the New Testament it invariably means expectation of good,
of delight, of life. Literature is exalted as well as life. This
star of hope is herald of a dawn. Under that star of Bethlehem
a Babe is born. This hope is not brought in strange, abnormal,
difficult ways. It is not in the heavens, that no one can reach
to bring it down; nor in the depths, where no one can bring it
up. It is not in abstruse philosophy, nor in elaborate ritual, nor
costly sacrifices, the offering of hecatombs of bulls and rams,
rivers of blood nor treasures of gold, nor the giving of the fruit
of one’s body for the sins of the soul; but it is nigh to human ex-
perience and comprehension. It is provocative of human affec-
tion. It begins by waking a young mother’s love by a babe on
her bosom. It is the easiest and yet the most powerful thing in
the universe. Every mother in the whole human race finds it
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easy to catch the radiance of this hope every time she feels the
joy of her mother-love stir in her heart. From the first word of
promise of a Savior, every truly instructed and expectant
mother has felt that her child might be in some sense a savior to
her and the world. So comes the Hope of Israel into every heart
with ease, with cheer, and makes the trio of highest graces,
Faith, Hope and Charity. ;
Not only does this hope come with cheer ‘into the most easily
awakened and rapturous faculty of our nature, but it is satis-
factory to every faculty of our nature. It quickens and
broadens the intellect. The mind of man was bound in fetters
of more than iron before this hope was revealed. To work well,
the mind must be free. But it was bound with the most erip-
pling superstition. To work well, it must be free from fear. To
work well, it must be free from guilt. This Hope of Israel ban-
ished at once the whole empyreum of hostile gods; at once ban-
ished all that groveling fear Caliban had of Setebos, and lifted
man’s face toward a heaven of brooding love; at once took out of
the hand of malignant gods those signs of torture for the guilt
of sin, and stretched over every one who wished forgiveness,
hands that were wounded for his transgression. Christ revealed
a form chiefest among ten thousand, and the one altogether
lovely, that was bruised for our iniquity, and by whose stripes
we are healed.
Thus freed from superstition, fear and guilt, the human mind
leaped forward to grasp not only the great ideas brought to
light by this Hope of Israel, but the ideas that throbbed in every
part of Nature, which is a revelation of the wisdom of God.
Grasping these ideas, man comes into possession of the designed
dominion God has for him, and he wields the powers God put
into the world for him. Thus this God of all hope is satis-
factory to every need of our intellectual faculties. The very
province of the Blessed Spirit is to lead into all truth.
This God of all Hope is sufficient for the faculty of the will.
The Infinite Will, whose slightest edict bringeth out the host of
the stars; that “calleth them all by name; by the greatness of
his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lack-
ing,”—that Will works in us to will and to do of his good pleas-
ure. That will makes men like us so strong that armies of men,
nor lions’ dens, nor furnaces of fire, can make that will to
swerve. Its answer to the demand of every Nebuchadnezzar is,
“Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not bow down.”
We have already indicated what this God of all Hope does in
the affections.
This is the only philosophy or religion that ever proposed to
bring unto man a power of re-creation from without. Every
other system of thought or of salvation left man to toil on un-
aided, nay, to toil on hindered and thwarted. But this God of
all Hope says to them that believe that he gives power to be-
come sons of God; to be born again, not of corruptible seed but
of incorruptible, to become partakers of the Divine nature.
Thus this God of all Hope fits into every phase of human
nature. To the weary toiler he says: “Come unto me, and I will
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give you rest.” To the mourner he says: “I will comfort you,
even as a mother comforteth her child.” This is so really true
that the most afilicted man of the ages says, “Blessed be the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and
God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our affliction, that
we may be able to comfort them that are in any afiliction,
through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of
God.” To the one feeling that his nature is perverse and that
he does the things he would not. and those that he would do he
fails to do, it says: “I will put a new spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my ways with delight.”
The reality of these effects of the presence and power of the
God of all Hope is seen in all history. Everywhere the sighs and
groans of the dreary ages are turned into hope and song. Every-
where the intellect leaps forward with great bounds to read the
truth in the heavens above and the earth beneath. Everywhere.
instad of hate, rapine and murder. love and mutual help prevail.
For ages men waged war to make slaves. At length, in the full-
ness of time, there was developed a nation that could risk its
very existence, and pour out millions of dollars, and hundreds
of thousands of lives to free slaves. And this Convention is a
prophecy of the glad time when all Earth’s children shall be
taught in the Lord.
But all these things of comfort, of strength of will, breadth of
intellect, or re-created nature, of exaltation of love, might be.
and still the world be without hope, except for one thing. If
men went forward to the unrayed darkness of death, it would
still be a world without hope. These transient powers and joys
would count for naught if there were no future life. It is just
here that Christ is the God of all Hope.—nay, the full assurance
ci hope. He not only said in many a varying phrase, “If a man
believe in me, he shall never die;” but he illustrated life and
immortality himself. He had a kind of life that death could not
destroy. He went through the gates of Death with every ac-
companying horror that could be furnished. Then the world’s
Hope sank in dim eclipse. The sky was veiled_in darkness, and
the earth shuddered with earthquakes of despair. But suddenly
that Life emerged. It could not be holden of Death. Life was
victorious over Death. That which set as a star rose as a sun.
And that Sun of Righteousness has banished despair and
brought in one eternal day.
“Bright Sun of Righteousness, arise;
Thy radiant beams display;
Flame on our dark, bewildered world
One everlasting day!”
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REPORT OF THE ENROLLMENT COMMITTEE.
READ BY ARTHUR WHORTON, OKLAHOMA.
Mr. President, and Members of the Convention:
Your Committee on Enrollment presents its report with con-
fidence that all that hard work could accomplish under the cir-
cumstances has been done, and that the list of delegates by
states, territories and provinces herewith presented, and made
a part of this report, is substantially a correct enrollment of
accredited delegates to this Convention. The Committee has
been at particular pains to consult with the leaders of all dele-
gations, and in each and every case the list has been approved.
These lists are the basis of this
RECAPITULATION.
States, provinces, territories and countries entitled to rep-
TESentation 0. ca ccs ae alse owe ss ie > w pie ene eee
Represented 2.5... eee e beads oes = olele 6a 54
With full delegations... .. 2.5... ..% sce iaieeiaee ee 10
Denominations represented...-......: .. =e 25
Total number of accredited delegates...............-- 1,107
Delegates from outside the International field......... 2
VISIGOTS eis lee Pee ek oe we oe bere ol 284
Grand ‘total. ....:25.. 0. 5. es ale oo 0 oe 1,393
International officers and committeemen................ 57
State OICETS 2 i. oe occ ee elalele oe + es 6 lee 357
Superintendents of Sunday-schools.............../.... 281
Teachers. of Sunday-schools:............<\. . « <)sieeie een 399
Qther officers of Sunday-schools...........: os. cememee 107
Scholars’. ..cc.5 06 cc ek eels ese sd cele ts ele e er 72
PaAStOrs obs 2% eed els leis oot eiistston: ee PP Su So © 66
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK W. LANG, Chairman.
ADDRESS TO THE PAGES.
BY MARION LAWRANCE.
I stand as the representative of our Committee to-night to
say to you boys a few words. This great Convention has a head.
The head of this Convention is our worthy President, and the
Chairman of our Executive Committee, and the Executive Com-
mittee, and other committees. It is in the head that we plan
for all the work of the Convention. But this Convention has a
body, and this great company of people is the body of this Con-
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vention. But a body with a head on it cannot do very much
unless it has feet; and you boys are the feet of this Convention.
I am not going to take much time, for we have other addresses
to-night ; but I want to say to you boys and to your leader, this
man that is not ashamed to stand as your captain with you,
that you have rendered a very fine service for us, running where
we could not go, showing us where we did not know the way.
And I want to give you a motto as you go away from this Con-
vention. It will be a great experience for you to remember what
you have been permitted to do for this great Convention. When
you study your geography, you will remember that from nearly
every state and province in North America people have been
here, and you have done them good. This is the motto I would
like to give you: KEEP CLEAN. You want to keep your bodies
clean. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Keep your mouths
clean. They will not be as clean as they ought to be if you allow
anything that makes men drunk, or tobacco either, to go into
your mouths. Avoid the cigarette as you would avoid the devil.
[Applause. ]
You want to keep your hearts clean. You can keep your
bodies and your mouths clean yourselves. And while speaking
of your mouths I want to say that not only do foul words and
tobacco and drink make your mouths foul, but you want to avoid
every desire for these things. Only God can make your hearts
clean. If you have all the money in the world, or the finest
position in the world, if you do not love God and are not God’s
men, your life will not be a success. There is only one thing
that we can make a man out of, and that is a boy; and I am glad
that you are on the way to manhood. Every boy ought to have
three brushes, a hair-brush, a tooth-brush, and a clothes-brush,
and use every one of them every day.
Know and study the Word of God, and then all the other good
books you can possess. Here is a book for each of you,—all
alike. It is given you by Mr. Revell, of Chicago. I am going to
have it handed you by a big page boy. Thirty-three years ago
he was a page like you in a convention like this; and now he is
the secretary of the state of Ohio, une Rey. Mr. Joseph Clark, in
other words, Mr. “Timothy Standby.”
ADDRESSES AT SPECIAL SESSIONS.
REACHING THE CHILD WE TEACH.
RY MRS. MARY FOSTER BRYNER, ILLINOIS.
Friday Evening, Central Presbyterian Church.
All fish cannot be caught with the same bait. We are amazed
at the patient endurance and close application of the man who
sits all day, studying their habits and haunts, hoping in some
way to induce them to bite. _
It was from a band of earnest fishermen that our Savior chose
four of the twelve, who were to be specially trained to reach and
teach men. He had probably noticed their concentration of
attention and patience in business affairs. They were men who
sometimes labored all night and caught nothing, yet were will-
ing at his command to let down the net on the right side of the
ship and gather multitudes. He perceived that they already
had a partial training to make them successful in reaching men.
To them he gave the invitation: “Come ye after me, and I will
make you to become fishers of men.”
It is noticeable that two of these men were busy catching fish
when Jesus called them; two others were in a ship with Zebedee
their father, mending their nets. Like them, some of us, as
Sunday-school workers, have spent much thought and effort
securing our scholars: we need to give more attention to mend-
ing our nets, strengthening the weak places, that we do not lose
to our schools, by allowing them to slip away, those whom we so
easily reached in early years.
You cannotreach a child unless you can get near him: to do
this you must study how to approach him: this cannot be done
unless you understand him: which is impossible, unless you
really love him.
So frequently has the proverb been quoted: “Train up a
child in the way he should go,”’—usually with the emphasis on
the “way.” There should be no less of knowing the “way,” but
more of knowing the “child.” No two are just alike. God does
not repeat himself. Though he endows many of his beings with
similar characteristics, yet each has its own individuality. The
days of this springtime were not all alike; the seasons vary
from year to year. He did not make the trees all of one kind;
even the leaves on the same tree differ in size and contour. The
birds are unlike in plumage and song, the flowers in color and
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fragrance. Hach person of this audience has enough distin-
guishing features of his own to separate him from everybody
else; your very voices are different. Shall we not find as many
variations in the mental and spiritual characteristics as are so
plainly seen in the physical?
Eyen with horses must the treatment be varied to suit the
need. ‘There comes to mind a good old family horse belonging
to an elderly couple in Nneland. One morning he stood in front
of my uncle’s gate in Dover, ready to take a party to a country
home to spend the day. When all were seated in the cart, the
horse would not move, but turned his head and looked at his
load, till some one said: “Did he have his bread?” ‘To. our
surprise, from under the seat was produced a small basket con-
taining a few slices of bread. one of which was given to him;
and in a moment off he started at a comfortable trot, which
he continued all the way. When ready for the return trip in
the evening, the last admonition from the owner was: “Don’t
forget the bread.” By understanding the ways of that old horse,
he could be induced to render valuable service. Of course, he
was spoiled, and had his notions; but is not that true of each
one of us in some degree? We all have notions, and so do the
children.
We are inclined to think of childhood as restricted to our
primary departments. The broader conception ineludes all who
in legal affairs are considered as children. Not until twenty-
one does the law recognize manhood as sufliciently developed to
be entrusted with the right to hold property and vote. There-
fore child-study begins with birth and continues until the set-
tled habits of adult years.
In the cultivation of plant-life, the gardener considers the
nature and needs at different stages of growth, furnishing the
nourishment and care that will be most helpful just at that
time. So, too, in child-life we observe various stages of devel-
opment, whose nature and needs we must study that we may
properly provide for them. We cannot deal with our young
people as we do with little children; neither can we urge our
boys and girls to understand: problems belonging to mature
years. Certain characteristics are so prominent at different
stages, that we may regard them as common to all childhood,
dividing this period of twenty-one years into three shorter ones
of equal duration: from birth to seven, our little children; from
seven to fourteen, our boys and girls;from fourteen to twenty-
one, our young people; each period presenting its own partic-
wlar characteristics and problems. Let us consider each more
closely.
At one time the opinion prevailed that during the early period
physical growth should reecive closest attention, the second or
school period being devoted to mental development almost ex-
clusively, regardless of the effect upon the child’s physical na-
ture: while a proper conception of religious matters was sup-
posed to belong to later years. Children were discouraged from
manifesting undue interest in spiritual things before they
reached their teens. We now believe that the threefold develop-
ment is worthy of attention during all the years.
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Of the little ones, with their bright eyes, dimpled cheeks, curl-
ing hair and pretty clothes, dressed after mother’s own heart,—
such children as belong to our cradle rolls and beginners’
classes,—how often we hear the comments, “How cunning!”
“Aren’t they sweet?” “Those dear little things!” “How pretty
and cute!”
Seldom are such terms applied to the next period of sturdy,
vigorous growth,—curls cut off, front teeth missing, perhaps
freckles on the face and warts on the hands, bare feet, the old
cap and sweater, carelessness and freedom in dress far prefera-
ble to starched waists and other garments that interfere with
bodily comfort,—culminating in what is termed “that awkward,
homely age.” Can you recall the time when you would splash
through mud or snow rather than go in the path; when you
preferred jumping up and down on the projecting sleepers of the
sidewalk to walking on the boards; when your nerves were so
strong that it was delightful music to rattle a stick along a
picket-fence; when you thumped your ‘ball on the side of the
house, or ran through the rooms, slamming the doors, perfectly
unconscious of the noise others could not endure; when, because
you were boisterous, some said you were bad? Such boys and
girls, almost bursting with the overflow of abounding health and
activity, make up the membership of our main primary and
junior departments, always including that “worst class in the
Sunday-school.”
Presto, change! The same boy whose face-washing was lim-
ited to his mouth, whose wrists showed the rim of the “high
water mark,” who was satisfied with combing the front locks of
his hair, who could climb into bed and sleep peacefully with
unwashed hands and feet, if mother did not see him,—that same
lad at seyenteen may be criticised for spending so much time
before the glass adjusting his tie, plastering down his hair with
two brushes, creasing his trousers, and arranging every article
of apparel with precision and care. He begins to appreciate the
dignity of approaching manhood. Such are a few of the out-
ward physical manifestations of the inward changes that have
taken place during these few years.
How may we reach this little child, whose acquaintance
scarcely extends beyond the family circle. whose experience is
limited to home or kindergarten and Sunday-school? Parents,
to you God has entrusted the privilege of being the first worker
together with him, to begin the training of your child as you
would have him grow. From you he will receive his first im-
pressions, not only of home, with the food, shelter and care it
affords, but of the great world and its Maker; of life, death,
reverence and prayer; and God’s care over all. In later years
your child may come under the influence of many teachers; but
he will have only one mother and father. To you it is per-
mitted to answer his first questionings, so to protect and guard
and train his senses that only the most desirable may find en-
trance to his heart and mind.
Nearly all the child learns comes to him through conversa-
tion and story, both of which should be pure and ennobling.
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Some fail to appreciate this mighty opportunity. That little
mind, so wide-awake and open to all new impressions, has a
hunger for stories that can hardly be satisfied. How often, as
you finish one, he says, “Tell it again;” or, “Tell me another.”
Parents and teachers, do not neglect this God-given privilege,
lest it be left to some stranger to fill his mind with thoughts
that may frighten and distort his imagination for years. Now
is the time, when he pleads with you to answer his questions
and tell him stories. The parents who say, “Run away, dear,
and play; mamma’s busy,” or, “Papa wants to read the paper
now, and can’t talk to you,” may, a dozen years later, wonder
why their boys or girls are so indifferent to them, and so inter-
ested in other matters that they have no time nor inclination to
listen to them. Improve your opportunity while the child’s life
is limited to the home circle. Do not transfer even to his Sun-
day-school teacher the responsibility of first impressions in re-
ligious matters, but reserve to yourself the privilege of teaching
him concerning God’s name and day, his Book, his care, and the
worship in his house.
These years, so full of possibility, curiosity and questionings,
this period of formation of thoughts, feelings and desires, these
years when your children are so dependent, trusting and re-
ceptive, believing in all you say and do,—these are your speCial
opportunity. God grant that we may appreciate the great re-
sponsibility of these first seven years.
“Come, let us live with our children,
Earnestly, holily live,
Knowing ourselves the sweet lessons
That to the children we give;
Fresh from the kingdom of Heaven
Into this earth-life they come,
Not to abide; we must guide them
Back to the heavenly home.”
“What of our boys and girls?
While in some respects the second period is less interesting
and attractive, it is no less intense and important. These
rough, noisy. careless children need direction for their abound-
ing energy, which in a Jarge measure devolves upon teachers.
The home circle ceases to be the only source of information.
Many a mother recalls the pang that came over her heart, as for
the first time she led her child to school, knowing that her infiu-
ence must now be shared with that of the teacher. How often
now, during some discussion in the home, your child will re-
mark, “My teacher says so and so.” These are the years some-
times designated as the “smart” or “knowing” age, when it sur-
prises us that our children express their own views and sugges-
tions.
While the first period was one of formation of words, steps,
first ideas and impressions, the second is devoted to informa-
tion. The acquisition of knowledge is no longer limited to con-
versation and story, but embraces reading and study, to which
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of wholesome literature along lines of helpful growth. Curi-
osity grows into investigation. The questions “What?” “What
for?” give place to “Why?” and “How?” Example, which con-
stantly presented an ideal in the first early period, now blos-
soms into imitation. No father expects his boy of four to imi-
tate him in smoking: but at ten or eleven he is pretty sure to
do so. In the third period it becomes a habit. Your trusting
little child has become more critical and exacting. This trait
sometimes develops into a morbid conscientiousness, causing a
child to correct or even contradict, without meaning to be impu-
dent or saucy. '
A short time ago a father was relating some incidents of a
{rip to the South, four years before, and his little daughter of
nine said: “Papa, that was five years ago.” A mother made the
statement that her little girl had been poorly all winter, but
was a different child the minute she could play out of doors; and
her boy of eight said: ‘Why, mamma, you don’t mean that very
minute?”
Teachers in primary and junior classes, with such active, in-
telligent, eager, exacting, critical boys and girls before us every
Sunday, it behooves us to use diligent care to give them the
truth, in word and illustration, that our teaching may endure
their closest scrutiny and investigation. Beware of planting
any doubts; they may appear to a greater or less degree in the
next period. Concentrate every endeavor on showing them how
to become “doers of the word. and not hearers only.”
“Come, let us live with our children
Lives that are noble and true,
Letting the love of the Father
Shine forth in all that we do.
Sent, in His infinite wisdom,
*That we may teach them aright,—
Ours for to-day,— we must guide them
Up to the heavenly light.”
If difficulties present themselves in our work with the tiny,
wiggling children, increasing as we deal with our growing, rest-
Tess, mischievous boys and girls, the problems are even greater
as we approach our young people. Preceded by periods of for-
mation and information, we now discover wonderful transfor-
mations, first observed perhaps in regard to dress. The former
carelessness gives place to studious attention to style. Waists
and short pants are abandoned for the shirt and long trousers.
The changed voice, expression and walk, changed ideas regard-
ing many things, especially the girls, remind us that the boy
will soon become a man. Our girls blossom suddenly into tall
young ladies, donning long dresses, doing up hair, talking of
parties and the young men,—there are changes so many and
pronounced in two or three short years that we cannot enumer-
ate them. Such rapid transformation we find at no other period
of life.
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Do the nature and needs change in like manner? Most surely.
This is the period of subtle influences, requiring most careful
oversight. Just here our Sunday-schools record the greatest
suecesses and failures. The devoted scholar may develop into
an earnest Christian worker, or by some influence be turned
aside and lost to a religious life. Dear parents and teachers, if
it requires patience to work with the little ones. and more pa-
tience to correct and direct the overflowing energy of youth,
with our young people we need the utmost patience, to enable
us to hold on, and under no circumstances, however trying, to
Jet go, until this period of “storm and stress” and change is
safely passed. Be sparing of your admonitions; be constant in
prayer, asking for wisdom, guidance and enduring strength,
feeling that your sympathy and love may be matters of life or
death to an immortal soul.
While father, mother and teachers are still dear, we must
acknowledge just now that their advice and influence are shared
with opinions of companions and friends. Society is a strong
factor for good or ill. How often such arguments as, “All the
girls do this way;” “All the boys are going;” “None of the
young people think so:” “Nobody wears that style now,” make
parents realize that others are wielding a mighty influence over
those so long shielded by home.
God has placed through all childhood a strong, overpowering
impulse for recreation, which cannot be eradicated even if sub-
dued. With our little children we term it play: and we our-
selves are amused at the vivid imagination which transfers a
stick into a prancing horse, or a few bits of glass or stones into
a set of beautiful dishes. These quiet little plays of our chil-
dren cause us no anxiety. Rough and vigorous, with constant
liability to accident, seem many of the sports of our boys and
girls, making us shudder at their fearless daring, running,
jumping, climbing, swimming, pushing or wrestling; the wak-
ing hours of each new day being all too few for out-door exercise.
Often, in the house, they enjoy games that concentrate the
powers of attention and draw out the reasoning powers. With
our young people we dignify this impulse for recreation by the
name of amusements. While less boisterous. they present
graver problems. for now it is the hours of the evening that
seem all too few. Parents and teachers grow anxious lest these
young people shall become fascinated with those pleasures and
amusements, trifling and unwholesome, exciting and exhaust-
ing, wasting time and strength, encroaching on the night hours
intended for sleep. What can we do to provide opportunities
for wholesome, social gatherings without demoralizing influ-
ences? We must recognize this God-given instinct and inclina-
tion and have patience, remembering that “all work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy.” God meant it for good.
About this time in our Sunday-school work, class organiza-
tion has a strong influence in the right direction. if managed in
a careful way. Be sure a class is provided, adapted to the plane
of experience of these young people. Some schools have won-
derful success in reaching and holding young men and women;
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and if yours is lacking in this respect, don’t lay all the blame
upon the young people. In many schools, if a lad of seventeen
should present himself as a scholar, no suitable class could be
found to receive him. He would either be thrust into the adult
Bible-class with the young or old married people, or into a class
-of boys much younger than himself, where he would feel uncom-
fortable. As a last resort, some oflice may be created to make a
place for him. Even if your school is small, organize a class for
your young men, even if you begin with only one or two. Secure
a competent teacher who understands life, with its opportuni-
ties and temptations at just that period, one who has patience
and sympathy with young people. God bless that school which
provided a special class for its high-school boys, calling it the
Forward Class, from which they were transferred to the Young
Men’s Business Class when they left school and took a position
in office or store. Secure as teachers those who live what they
teach. Your influence can never lead a boy or girl to believe in
God, unless he first believes in you. As Paul wrote to Titus as
a teacher of young men: “Be a pattern of good works.”
At a recent convention, a young woman gave some reasons for
her success in reaching and teaching a class of over thirty
young men. One Sunday she asked each one to write on a slip
of paper Gne reason why he came to Sunday-school; and these
are some of the answers:
“You have faith in young men.”
“You are interested in us, and what we do.”
“We know you will be at Sunday-school.”
“You know us on the street.”
“We believe in your prayers.”
“You welcome us to your home.”
“You understand young men.”
“We know you are a Christian.”
“You always come prepared.”
“You don’t think we are all bad.”
“You live as you teach.”
In studying this period, we find many new features, often an
outgrowth of what has preceded. Parents must depend in a
large measure upon the influence of previous teaching to hold
and guide just now. The receptive, responsive child shows opin-
ions and judgments of his own, presenting reasons, doubts, argu-
ments which are surprising. The dependence of childhood and
the growing self-confidence of youth, are giving place to a feel-
ing of independence in young manhood and womanhood. Earlier
thoughts and feelings have developed into convictions. The
possibilities and probabilities have grown into positive choices.
This is the age of most frequent decisions along many lines.
Usually we expect a young man to express preference for some
special business career, before twenty-one; the choice of a life-
partner is often made just here. Accompanying the new phys-
ical awakening may be expected the spiritual awakening, and a
decision regarding the Christian life. O teachers of these
young people, tremble for each year that passes in the teens
without acceptance of Christ! Do not treat lightly any ex-
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pression of decision, however unexpected, but offer all the en-
couragement you can. Boys are sometimes misjudged because
less demonstrative than girls, while no less sincere.
A few weeks ago a mother was relating to me her experience
with her three children when in their earlier teens. There had
been special meetings at their church, attended by all the family.
The two girls, older than their brother, expressed decision for
Christ, and were exceedingly happy and talkative about it. One
evening, as the boy of thirteen was walking home with his
mother, he said: “Ma, may I join the church?” This was his
first expression showing any interest, though he had always been
a thoughtful boy. His mother said, “Why, dear, what makes
you ask that? who has been talking to you?” and he said, “No-
body.” Then she said, “Do you want to join, because other boys
have asked you?” and he answered, “No.” He had said so little
that she told him she thought it would be best for him to wait
at least a year; and he simply said, in a disappointed way, “All
right, if you think so.” A few weeks later the sisters joined the
church with quite a company of young people. The brother was
present, and looked on with interest. His mother felt she had
done the wise thing in discouraging his desire. He did not
allude to the matter, but was earnest and thoughtful in his
daily life. His request had almost slipped from the mother’s
mind, when one day her boy came to her and said: “Ma, may I
join the church now? it’s a year.” Reckoning back, she found
it was exactly a year, to the very day, since he made his first
request. The mother felt rebuked, and of course gave her con-
sent, and has never ceased to thank God that the desire in her
boy’s heart was strong enough to urge him to come the second
time for permission to unite with God’s people. ‘Take heed that
ye despise not” such a request, simply because the boy’s nature
is misunderstood.
May we sum up our duties during these three periods? With
our little ones, there should be frequent feeding along all lines
we are hoping to develop. With our boys and girls, we may ex-
pect gradual growth, which must be checked with loving care,
in some directions, and encouraged in others. During the third
period, the culmination comes in helpful decisions; and we
should anticipate much fruit at maturity. Help them, above
all, to “put on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
One teacher plants, another waters: God gives the increase.
“Wirst the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the
ear.” “The work is great; the time is short; the Master is
urgent; the reward is sure.” “They that be teachers shall shine
as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to
righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”
When our work is done, God grant that each one of us may be
able to say: ‘Lord, here am I, and the children whom thou
hast given me.” “Of them that thou gavest me have I lost none.”
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“Come, let us live with our children
Tenderly, watchful and near
To these young lives now unfolding,
Ready with counsel and cheer ;
Giving them strength for life’s battles,
Helping, when evil betides,
Building so well, that they shall be
Temples where He abides.”
SUMMARY OF COMPARISONS.
The three periods of growth.
Birth to seven vears.
Seven to fourteen. Fourteen to twenty-one.
Little children.
Boys and girls.
Young people.
Winsome. Careless. Particular.
Home. School. Society.
Parents. Teachers. Companions.
Protection. Correction, direction. Influence.
Conversation, story. Reading. Friendships.
Curiosity. Investigation. Opinion.
Formation. Information. Transformation.
What? What for? Why? How? Argument.
Impressions. Acquisition. Decision.
Possibilities. Probabilities. Positive choice.
Receptive. Responsive. Reasoning.
Trusting. Exacting. Doubting.
Dependent. Self-confident. Independent.
Play. Games. Amusements.
Example. Imitation. Habit.
Patience. More patience. Most patience.
Blade. Ear. Full corn.
Planting. Watering. Increase.
requent radual ueh fruit at
eeding. rowth. ( aturity.
THE PASTOR’S OPPORTUNITY IN THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
BY THE REV. RUFUS W. MILLER, D.D., PENNSYLVANIA.
Monday Evening, Central Presbyterian Church.
The modern Sunday-school opens a world of opportunity and
responsibility before the Christian ministry.
The Christian
Church, indeed, finds her greatest opportunity in the Bible-
school. The purpose and the work of the Sunday-school are
practical proofs of these propositions. In theory, the teaching
function of the Church is her most ancient and characteristic
one, lying at the very heart of her commission. The Sunday-
school of to-day is not an invention but a discovery. Under one
form or another the Sunday-school has always been an institu-
tion of the Christian Church.
tion. Its work is spiritual and divine.
It is a divinely ordained institu-
The Sunday-school is
pre-eminently the teaching institution of the Church.
The churehly and religious character of the true Sunday-
school needs present, emphatic and universal accentuation. It
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goes without saying that the pastor has large responsibilities
in relation to the work of the school as spiritual and divine and
as the teaching department of the Church’s activities. It is a
surprising and painful experience, in examining the best books
on the subject of the Sunday-school, to discover so little said on
the relation of the ministry to the school. It would seem as if
the subject were a forbidden one, or as if the ministry sustained
no specific duties to the Bible-school. And yet the facts of ex-
perience show the fearful results of pastoral failure. The
ehurch that negleets the Sunday-school will have a Sunday-
school that neglects the church. The Sunday-school becomes
the children’s church only when no other is provided for them,
by welcome and preparation. The history of the minister’s rela-
tion to the Sunday-school may be summed up in a half-dozen
words. He began to persecute, then to patronize, then to pass
over. Then he started to participate; and the wise minister
now pushes and prays for the Sunday-school.
Are we not all agreed that the pastor’s pre-eminent work is
in the Sunday-school? The Master’s commission, “Feed my
lambs,” is the first in place, if not also in importance, in the
pastor’s office, and the Christian Church must ever magnify this
service in her call to the ministry. The great command, “‘Disci-
ple (make scholars of) all nations,” emphasizes the same truth.
And let it be said that the pastor’s work in the Sunday-school
is not that of the superintendent or of the teacher. Whether or
not, owing to the condition of the field, the pastor must super-
intend or must act as a teacher, nevertheless he is always and
first of all the pastor of the school. He should carry a roving
commission for every class, but with special reference to the
young men’s Bible-class. Who can measure his influence upon
the school as an organization, upon the teachers, upon the
scholars, upon the families? His unconscious influence is more
potent than the direct influence of the superintendent or any
teacher. It can be stated as an axiom that the pastor’s influ-
ence for good or ill upon the work of the school is far greater
than he knows. He is to work as a gardener in his nursery, as a
shepherd in feeding the lambs and the sheep. In the school and
out of it, the pastor stands for the best and highest influence,
inspiration and instruction. Well may he ponder the apostolic
injunction, “Take heed to thyself and to thy teaching,” or as
St. Bernard expressed it, “Feed with the Word, feed with the
life.” His failure to work acts as a wet blanket, as a blight and
deadly mildew.
The fundamental work of building up churches to-day is
teaching; and the pastor must be the head master. The teach-
ing pastor must know how to organize a Sunday-school on sound
educational principles, how to choose courses of study adapted
to different classes, how to correlate these one with another,
how to assist the superintendent to select and assign teachers
to classes where they will do the best work, and how to stimulate
the interest of the pupils by examinations, promotions and gen-
eral exercises which maintain unity in the school. The pastor
must be the teacher of teachers. He is called and ordained to
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be a teacher. He is responsible for the doctrines taught in his
church. The Sunday-school teachers are his assistants. They
take their keynote from him. He must advise and supervise.
He must know how to train teachers. Walt Whitman’s saying,
“Produce great persons; the rest follows,” is an excellent motto
for pastors. Let the pastor be a schoolmaster who ean find the
right teachers and put them in the right places. The value of a
pastor to a school is to be ‘measured by his work in behalf of and
through his Sunday-school teachers. The pastor who spends
energy of instruction and inspiration upon his teachers can :
almost be excused from other responsibilities in the work of the
school. Let ministers publicly install the teachers into their
high office of responsibility. Let church legislative bodies,
church courts and theological seminaries come to understand
more and more that the churches will not be led to that enlarged
and earnest plan of thought and action in the Sunday-school
cause which its importance demands, unless the ministry of the
churches assume their place as leaders and do their utmost to
exalt the Sunday-school as a school and as the institution of
the Church for the ingathering and saving of souls.
To note the pastor’s opportunity as well as that of every
Christian, it is well to emphasize the two principles underlying
Sunday-school work as they stand related to the idea of educa-
tional religion, and to mark the two open doors of activity be-
tore every school.
The first great opportunity is the open heart of the child. The
example and foundation of the Christian faith is a child. God’s
normal plan is to begin with the child. In the Sunday-school
we are working on childhood and youth for the most part, and
there is no better material for results than that which sits be-
fore the Sunday-school teacher every Sunday. The open heart,
so responsive to the slightest influences, so impressible to teach-
ing, good or bad,—here is the ripest harvest-field in the Church.
The idea of educational religion which is coming to prevail more
and more, recognizes the strategic opportunity. From infancy
must the Church surround the child with religious influences;
for in the early years we can not only win most easily to Christ,
but we can also prevent much of evil growth away from Christ.
I shall never forget the impression made upon me in the great
art gallery at Dresden. The day of my visit the gallery is
thronged, the noises of a multitude are around you, as you look
at the masterpieces of Correggio, of Titian, of Rubens, and of
many more, the peers of these. But as we go to a small room
curtained from a larger gallery, we find, too, a crowd of people;
for here is the heart and paragon of the entire exhibition. But
you notice at once and are affected instantly by the profound
silence that reigns here. There is a hush upon all. Speech has
ceased ; every eye is reverently held by the one picture, Raphael’s
Sistine Madonna, perhaps the most marvellous picture ever put
on canvas. And what is the picture? . A background of cherub
faces upon which is portrayed the Virgin Mother and Child. "1
But as you stand there gazing, the homaging hush lays hold of
you. You can almost feel the sword which is to pierce her
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bosom, as love puts him upon the cross. Ah, you cannot help it.
You willingly put the sceptre into the Babe’s hands, and let
Him sway you. Notice; it is the picture of a Child that makes
you bend in adoration before Him. ‘That picture hallows child-
hood.
That is a significant and far-reaching truth to which a strong
thinker has given speech: “I find a child in no religion but in
the religion of Jesus. Mohammed seemed to know nothing about
a child. The heathen seemed to know nothing about children in
their mythology. Their gods were not born children. They
were never clothed with the sympathies of children. They never
threw themselves into the sociabilities of children. They were
gods of terror, gods of passion, gods of lust, gods of might; but
they were never gods of helplessness a span long. Oh, no! That
would not have been natural; that would not have been divine
in their conception. And hence they make no provision for chil-
dren. But the great elemental fact of Christianity is the Holy
Child Jesus, born of a woman, born under the law, in total help-
lessness physically, laid in a manger. Christianity is the only
religion in which a child is laid as the basis and foundation of
its faith.” Truly we can rejoice that this is an age of the recog-
nition of childhood. The Lord has declared of the foremost age
of all history: ‘A little child shall lead them.” In more senses
than one it is true that a little child to-day stirs a profounder
solicitude and awakens a wider effort than any other subject
under heaven; and it is also true that in proportion as we ad-
vance do we come back to the first principles: “Feed my lambs ;”
“Become as little children ;” “Of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
Let pastors in our churches seize their great opportunity, the
open heart of the child.
Into this open heart the Church in the Sunday-school can
plant the living seed of God’s Word. Here is the second prin-
ciple underlying Sunday-school work, and the second great op-
portunity. In the Sunday-school the Bible is an open book. The
Bible is practically a banished book in our public schools. It is
a shut book, alas, in too many homes. It is an unknown book
in hundreds of churchless families. In more than one family of
the Church it is a dust-covered book. In many institutions of
learning it is not given a place even as a study of literature.
Has not God given us the Sunday-school in which and through
which the Church can impart Bible knowledge and restore the
open book to her families? If you will think of it, the Sunday-
school is becoming the one supreme place where the Word of
God is publicly studied. Probably in a majority of Christian
iamilies home religious instruction revolves around the Sun-
day-school lessons. The time is rapidly approaching when the
home department of the Sunday-school will include all church
members who are not regularly at the public sessions of the
Bible-study service of the Church.
How important, then, that the Church seize this opportunity!
There must not be less reading, but more study, of the Bible.
There should be less telling and lecturing, and more teaching of
the lesson. Teacher-training is called for, and improved helps,
especially normal methods on how to teach and study the Bible.
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The Bible is the sword of the Spirit. It is the best weapon in
the armor of the soldier of Christ for attack and defence. There
is no more interesting book in the world to a boy or girl than
the Bible, because it is so largely pictorial. There is the picture
of Noah and the ark, with the beautiful rainbow spanning the
sky. There is the picture of Abraham walking out of his old
home and marching to Canaan. There is the picture of Samuel
lying asleep, and the voice of God speaking to him. The Bible is
full of pictures. It is able to make wise unto salvation. The
word of His grace builds up. The open Bible in the school is the
Church’s opportunity to make disciples and feed the flock of
God. The device of the First-day or Sunday-school Society of
Philadelphia, organized in 1791, is the open Bible, with the
motto, “It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath,”—a good motto
for the twentieth century, which ought to lead to the establish-
ment of the Bible-study service in place of the second preaching
service.
The third opportunity which the Sunday-school presents to
the Church is the open door for all. We recognize that the Sun-
day-school is no longer a school for children. It is the Bible-
school of the Church. It is the Church assembled, studying and
teaching the Word of God; and as the Church assembled, it
includes all, old as well as young, parents as well as children.
The Sunday-school makes no distinction as to sex, like the
Young Men’s Christian Association or the King’s Daughters.
It asks no question as to age, like the Young People’s Society of
Christian Endeavor. ‘These and other agencies have their legiti-
mate spheres of operation; but the Sunday-school includes both
sexes, all ages and classes. It starts with the cradle roll and
rounds up with the home department. From the cradle to the
grave the Sunday-school claims all the years of one’s life and all
who live. And is it not the duty of the pastor to see to it that
the proper gradation exists in the Sunday-school? From the
cradle roll to the beginners’ class; from the beginners’ class to
the primary department; from the primary department to the
junior; from the junior to the intermediate; from the interme-
diate to the senior; then the normal class, the Bible class and
the home department. Who better than the pastor can set in
motion the influences that will bring within the range of the
Bible-school the millions of adult church members who are not
yet connected with the schools of the church? To solve the boy
problem, to destroy the idea that any one is too big to go to
Sunday-school, we must build a wall of adults around every
Sunday-school. When all the church is in the Sunday-school, it
will be easier to have all the Sunday-school in the church; and
Christ, the Living Word, seen in the written Word, will be the
center for all. A good twentieth century motto is:
All the church in the Sunday-school.
All the Sunday-school in the church.
All for Christ.
With the open heart of the child, an open Book, and an open
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school can best enter, as they are commanded by their great
Head, the open field. What a field lies before us! Fifty per
cent. of the children of school age in this country are still out-
side of the Sunday-school ; and it is a safe estimate that seventy-
five per cent. of those who do not attend Sunday-sehool are from
homes where there is no religious training. Let us reach out
and gather in the neglected and neglecting, the waifs and the
perishing who are without the fold. Let us seek the children,
for “of such is the kingdom of heaven.” They are the “angels of
God in disguise.” Over the main entrance of the Children’s
Building at the World’s Fair [Chicago, 1893] were the words,
“The hope of the world is the children.” This is true; but is it
not more true to say, “The hope of the world is the children
trained in the truths of Christianity”?
Years ago there was a little boy whose father and mother had
died. The father had died first, and the mother was left with
her little boy. She had spiritually trained her child. She had
told him that Jesus would send some one to take care of him.
The mother died and was buried. The little boy had been taken
to the grave, and somehow they had forgotten him, and the poor
little fellow was left there alone. The little boy had lain down
on his mother’s grave and fallen asleep, after erying and worry-
ing about his mother. He slept there that night. In the morn-
ing a Christian gentleman was. passing through the graveyard
and saw the boy on his mother’s grave. He picked the boy up
. and asked him what he was doing there. The little fellow said:
“Father died; and mother said, when she died, Jesus would send
some one to come and take care of me; and nobody has come.”
The gentleman said: “I think the Lord Jesus has sent me to
take care of you.” The little boy looked up and said: “I am
glad you have come, but you have been long in coming.” Oh,
let us not wait until it is said, “I am glad you have come, but
you have been long in coming.”
As we go down from this mount of privilege to all parts of our
land, let us minister quickly to the boys and girls. Let the
Church as the great spiritual mother of God’s children awake
to save the youth of our country. Oh, that pastors and churches
could see the never-failing source of supply in securing an intel-
ligent piety in the children. Richard Baxter was right. There
should be no adult converts; for, in a country like England or
America, all the children should be brought to Christ when
they are young. Every family and every Sunday-school class
would then become a fountain, supplying year after year an
ever-flowing stream of richness and blessing to our land and to
the world.
APPENDIX.
I. PROGRAM AND ARRANGEMENTS.
THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM.*
PREPARATION SERVICE.
In the Central Presbyterian Church, Thursday, June 26, 1902,
8 to 4.30 P. M. Doors closed at 3.10, remaining closed except
for five minutes at each half-hour, 3.30 and 4.
W. N. Hartshorn, Boston, Mass., Presiding.
Conducted by A. C. Dixon, D.D., Boston, Mass.; Prof. E. O.
Excell, Chicago, Ill., Musical Director.
FIRST SESSION, THURSDAY EVENING.
In the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church.
Hon. Hoke Smith, Presiding.
Prof. E. O. Excell, Musical Director; assisted by W. A. Excell
and Prof. C. H. Gabriel.
7.30
8.00
8.05
8.10
Praise and Prayer Service.
Frost Craft, D.D., pastor of this church.
George R. Merrill, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn.
Welcome to Denver.
Hon. H. V. Johnson, Chairman of the Local Committee.
Welcome to Colorado.
S. H. Atwater, President State S. S. Association.
Greetings from the Churches.
B. B. Tyler, D.D., President of the Denver Ministerial
Alliance, and Member of the International Lesson
Committee.
Response.
Hon. Hoke Smith, Atlanta, Ga:, President of the Ninth
International Convention.
Appointment of Committees to Nominate President,
Executive Committee [and its Chairman] and Lesson
Committee.
* As adopted by the Convention. See page 3.
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8.55 Singing.
9.00 Address: “Why We Have Come to Denver.”
John Potts, D.D., Toronto, Chairman of International
Lesson Committee.
Singing and Benediction.
In the Central Presbyterian Church.
A. B. McCrillis, Vice-president, Providence, R. I., Presiding.
7.30 Praise and Prayer Service.
R. F. Coyle, D.D., pastor of this church.
Smith Baker, D.D., Portland, Maine.
Prof. H. O. Seagle, Musical Leader, Chattanooga, Tenn.
8.00 Address: “Teaching the Bible as Literature—Plus
What?”
A. F. Schauffler, D.D., New York City.
8.35 Singing.
8.45 Address: “The Master with His Disciples.”
A. E. Dunning, D.D., Boston, Mass. -
Singing and Benediction.
SECOND SESSION, FRIDAY MORNING.
8.30 Praise and Prayer Service.
D. N. Beach, D.D., Denver.
E. 8. Lewis, D.D., Columbus, Ohio.
9.00 Appointments:
(a) Committee on Resolutions.
(b) On Treasurer’s and Auditor’s Reports.
(ec) On Enrollment.
(d) Other Committees.
9.10 Executive Committee’s Report and Review of the Work.
B. F. Jacobs, Chairman, Chicago, Ill.
9.45 Report of the General Secretary.
Mr. Marion Lawrance, Toledo, Ohio.
10.15 Treasurer’s Report.
George W. Bailey, Wenonah, N. J.
10.25 Consideration of the Reports by the Convention.
Addresses are to be delivered from the platform and are limited to five
minutes.
11.00 Singing.
11.15 Work Among the Colored People in the South.
Rey. L. B. Maxwell, Secretary.
Secretary Maxwell died in California, March 15, 1902. He was ap-
pointed by the International Executive Committee to work among the col-
ored people of the South in the year 1895, and continued in this service until
the time of his death. His report will be made by Rey. Silas X. Floyd.
11.35 Report of the Home Department.
W. A. Duncan, Ph.D., President I. H. D. A., Syracuse,
NEY:
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Blection and Introduction of Officers: the President of
the Convention; the Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee.
Adjournment.
THIRD SESSION, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
Praise and Prayer Service.
Rev. William Schuhle, Franklin, Louisiana.
Rey. D. B. Price, Helena, Montana.
Question: “How Has the International Convention
Helped Your State and Province?”
Answered: in five eight-minute talks by
A. A. Morse, Portland, Oregon.
Dr. F. W. Kelley, Montreal, Quebec.
W. C. King, Springfield, Mass.
W. C. Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana.
N. B. Broughton, Raleigh, N. C.
Singing.
“Our Needs and How to Meet Them.”
George W. Bailey, Chairman of Finance Committee.
Mr. Marion Lawrance, General Secretary.
The work of the International Convention should be enlarged. The
amount needed is twenty-five thousand dollars per annum; this will require
larger contributions.
4.30
Response by states, provinces, and territories.
Address: “Denominational Co-operation”—Difiiculties
—How Obtained—Results.
Rev. B. W. Spilman, Nashville, Tenn.
Discussion and Questions.
Adjournment.
FOURTH SESSION, FRIDAY EVENING.
Praise and Prayer Service.
Rey. Bruce Brown, Denver.
Rev. W. J. Carpenter, Gainesville, Fla.
Address: “The Theological Seminaries and the Sunday-
schools.”
E. Y. Mullins, D.D., Louisville, Ky.
Singing.
Address: “The Bible—Our Text-book.”
H. M. Hamill, D.D., Nashville, Tenn.
Singing and Benediction.
In the Central Presbyterian Church; George W. Bes 2.
Omaha, Neb., presiding.
7.30
Praise and Prayer Service.
Thomas B. Neely, D.D., New York.
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Prof. H. O. Seagle, Musical Director.
8.00 Address: “Reaching the Child We Teach,”
Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner, Peoria, Ill.
8.30 Singing.
8.40 Address: “Christ, the World’s Greatest Teacher.”
George C. Lorimer, D.D., New York City.
Singing and Benediction.
FIFTH SESSION, SATURDAY MORNING.
8.30 Praise and Prayer Service.
Rey. John A. McKamy, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev: J. R. Miller, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.
8.45 The Report of the International Lesson Committee.
A. E. Dunning, D.D., Secretary, Boston, Mass.
9.15 Consideration of the Question: ‘How can the Interna-
tional Lesson System be Improved ?”
C. R. Blackall, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.
A. F. Schauffler, D.D., New York City.
M. C. Hazard, Ph.D., Boston, Mass.
Rey. R. Douglas Fraser, Toronto, Ont.
Rey. Frank Johnson, London, Eng.
H. M. Hamill, D.D., Nashville, Tenn.
Each speaker is allowed fifteen minutes cnly.
10.50 Singing and Prayer.
11.00 Further Consideration of the Topic by the Convention-
Each speaker is allowed five minutes only, and will speak from the
platform.
12.10 Review of the Consideration of the Question.
John Potts, D.D., Toronto, Ontario.
Adjournment.
SIXTH SESSION, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. PRIMARY AND
JUNIOR SESSION.
1.30 Opening Service.
Mrs. W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis, ‘ie President Inter-
national Primary Department, Presiding.
1.40 Organized Work. International Primary Department.
Summary of Resuits. Israel P. Black, Secretary,
Philadelphia, Pa.
1.55 Teacher Training. Needs and Attainments. Mrs. Mary
Barnes Mitchell, Des Moines, Iowa.
2.15 The Cradle Roll. Origin and Purpose. Mrs. Alonzo
Pettit, Elizabeth, N. J.
2.30 Little Beginners. Principles and Practice. Miss Finie
Murfree Burton, Louisville, Ky.
.50 The Primary Department. As it was—1832. As it is—
1902. Mrs. J. A. Walker, Denver, Col.
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3.15 The Junior Department. Crown and Culmination. Mrs.
M. G. Kennedy, Philadelphia, Pa.
3.45 The Outlook. Mrs. J. Woodbridge Barnes, Chairman
Primary Executive Committee, Philadelphia, Pa.
4.00 Closing.
PASTORS’ CONFERENCE.
In the First Baptist Church, Saturday, 3.00 to 4.30, led by
Dr. George C. Lorimer.
Topic: The Pastor’s Relation to the Sunday-school.
RECREATION AND FELLOWSHIP.
At 4.00 P. M. the delegates will take chartered cars at the
church and at the Brown Palace Hotel, for the purpose of “‘see-
ing Denver,” with guides, at a cost not to exceed 25 cents. The
trip covers nearly thirty miles, and each car will take sixty
people. Time required, one hour and a half.
SEVENTH SESSION, SATURDAY EVENING.
7.30 Praise and Prayer Service.
Rey. H. Martyn Hart, Denver, Col.
7.50 Address: “The Problems of Organized Sunday-school
Work on the Pacifie Coast.”
Rey. W. C. Merritt, Tacoma, Wash.
.10 Address: “How to Develop Scholars into Teachers.”
James A. Worden, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.
.30 Singing.
.40 Report of Committee on Obituaries.
The Eleventh International Convention. Where?
.00 Address.
Hon. F. F. Belsey, London, England.
Adjournment.
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SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 29.
After conference with the Denver Committee, and at their
suggestion, it is urged that the delegates and visiting friends
attend the different church services in Denver, on Sunday morn-
ing and evening—visit the Sunday-schools, and take part in the
services as opportunity offers, thus doing and receiving good.
The schools, for the most part, meet at the close of the morning
service. June 29 is Review Sunday.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
In the First Baptist Church:
3.00 Sunday-school Superintendents’ Conference. Led by Mr.
Marion Lawrance.
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In the Central Presbyterian Church:
3.00
Sunday-school Teachers’ Conference. Led by W. B.
Jacobs, Chicago, III.
EIGHTH SESSION, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
In the Trinity Methodist Church; W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis,
Mo., presiding.
Praise and Prayer Service.
Rev. H. E. Warner, Denver, Col.
George A. Reed, Alberta.
“World-wide Sunday-school Work.” Speakers to be an-
nounced.
Reports trom Other Lands.
J. E. Scott, D.D., India.
Hon. F. F. Belsey, London, England.
Is Jerusalem the Place for the World’s Fourth Con-
vention?
E. K. Warren, Three Oaks, Mich.
NINTH SESSION, MONDAY MORNING.
Praise and Prayer Service.
Rev. F. G. Clarke, Plymouth, N. H.
Rey. F. J. Bailey, Jackson, Miss.
Address: “Missions—Promoting Intelligence and the
Spirit of Giving.”
C. H. Daniels, D.D., Boston, Mass.
Questions.
Singing.
Address: “To what Extent are Public School Methods
Applicable to Sunday-school Teaching?”
Prof. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Philadelphia, Pa.
Consideration of Topic.
Opened by Principal E. I. Rexford, Montreal.
A. L. Phillips, D.D., Richmond, Va.
Further Consideration by the Delegates.
Singing.
Report of Committee on Resolutions.
Report on the Lesson Committee’s Report, and Election
of Lesson Committee.
The World’s Fourth Convention—Shall we recommend
Jerusalem, 1904?
Adjournment.
TENTH SESSION, MONDAY AFTERNOON. FIELD WORKERS’ SESSION.
President Alfred Day, Detroit, Mich, presiding.
1.30
Praise and Prayer Service.
Rey. John Orchard, Fargo, N. D.
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Lewis Collins, Dallas, Texas.
Field Workers’ Report. President Day.
Consideration of Practical Methods. ¥
Addresses limited to fifteen minutes, followed by ten-minute discussion
and questions.
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House to House Visitation.
Hugh Cork, Philadelphia, Pa.
Home Department.
Mrs. Flora V. Stebbins, Boston, Mass.
Singing.
The Graded Sunday-school.
Rey. E. M. Fergusson, Trenton, N. J._
Teacher Training.
Sunday-school Week and Decision Day.
W. C. Pearce, Chicago, Ill.
Singing.
Address: “The Child for Christ.”
Rey. A. H. McKinney, Ph.D., New York.
Discussion and Questions.
Adjournment.
ELEVENTH AND CLOSING SESSION, MONDAY EVENING,
JUNE 30, 1902.
Praise and Prayer Service.
I. J. Van Ness, Nashville, Tenn.
Rey. Ernest Bourner Allen, Toledo, Ohio.
Unfinished Business.
Address to the Pages.
Address: ‘The World’s Only Hope.”
Bishop H. W. Warren, Denver, Col.
Singing.
Address: “The Message of the Cross.”
George C. Lorimer, D.D., New York City.
Singing: “God Be with You till We Meet Again.”
Benediction. i
In the Central Presbyterian Church; W. H. McClain, St.
Louis, Mo., presiding.
7.30 Praise and Prayer Service.
Rey. F. T. Bayley, Denver, Col.
Rev. George H. Clarke, Lowell, Mass.
H. O. Seagle, Musical Leader.
Resolutions.
Address: “The Pastor’s Opportunity in the Sunday-
school.”
Rev. Rufus W. Miller, D.D., Reading, Pa.
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8.30 Address: “Our Aims: Conversion, Training, Service.”
A. C. Dixon, Boston. adh
Singing: “God Be with You till We Meet Again.”
Benediction.
THE CONVENTION ORGANIZATION.
THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE,
Of the International Executive Committee.
William N. Hartshorn, Massachusetts, Chairman.
Marion Lawrance, Ohio, Secretary.
S. H. Atwater, Colorado.
E. R. Machum, New Brunswick.
B. F. Jacobs, Illinois.
Rev. George R. Merrill, D.D., Minnesota.
Howard W. Hunter, Kentucky.
THE LOCAL COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS,
Of the Arapahoe County, Colorado, Sunday-school Association.
Henry V. Johnson, Chairman.
Frank McDonough, Secretary.
Frank B. Spalding, Treasurer.
Chairmen of Committees:
Rey. J. G. Kennedy, Appliances and Display.
W. E. Knapp, Halls and Decorations.
W. B. Overton, Pages.
C. G. Mantz, Information.
H. P. Spencer, Music.
Charles F. Potter, Ushers (resigned).
William E. Sweet, Finance.
William M. Danner, Entertainment.
F. P. Woolston, Reception.
H. B. Smith, Press and Publicity.
R. B. Quay, Transportation.
EBz-officiis :
S. H. Atwater, President Colorado State Sunday-school Asso-
ciation.
T. Webster Hoyt, President Arapahoe County Sunday-school
Association, and Chairman of the Committee on Ushers.
J. H. Beggs, President of the Denver Superintendents’ Union.
Note.—The Local Committee has issued a printed final report, from
which it appears that, after completing its work and paying all bills, there
remained a balance of $640.39, which was turned over to the Arapahoe
County Association. The Entertainment Committee arranged to entertain
all speakers and all members of the International Executive Committee at
the Brown Palace Hotel, and in addition had ready 1,235 homes for dele-
gates, not all of which were called for. The Chairman, at the closing
PROGRAM AND ARRANGEMENTS. 351
session of the Committee, September 4, 1902, ‘‘expressed the consensus of
the yiews of the members of the Committee that it had been a joy and
pleasure to baye been associated together in the performance of the tasks
allotted;’’ and the Rey. J. G. Kennedy was culled upon ‘‘to express thanks
to our Heavenly Father for our having been permitted to do the work which
had been committed to our care by the [county] association.’? The Com-
mittee recommended that, of the balance turned over, $150 be paid to the
state association to be used in paying Colorado’s pledge of $50 a year for
the next three years for International work; that $300 be paid the state
association as the county’s subscription for the year; and that the remainder
be used in the county work.—The delegates, who have good cause to remem-
ber the Committee’s able, courteous and eminently satisfactory arrange-
ments, will rejoice to learn that their labors are thus auspiciously ended.
THE PAGES.
Louis Rule. Harry Frey.
Leon Banks. : Harvey Frey.
Bencent Hunt. William Spangler.
Donald Merthew. Henry Spangler.
Neal Ahern.
APPOINTEES OF THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.
Committee on Obituaries:
Rey. Alexander Henry, D.D., Pennsylvania.
J.J. Maclaren, LL.D., Ontario.
H. M. Patterson, Montana.
W. E. Pelham, South Carolina.
L. W. Hawley, Vermont.
Editorial Secretary:
Rey. Warren P. Landers, Sutton, Massachusetts.
Stenographer :
Rey. A. H. Herrick, Hudson, Massachusetts.
THE CONVENTION SONG BOOK.
Professor E. O. Excell’s new song book, entitled “IntrRNA-
TIONAL PRAISE,” was used for the first time at this Convention.
The author and publisher, with his characteristic generosity,
presented to each delegate a souvenir copy of the book, beauti-
fully bound in red cloth and stamped in gold with an appro-
priate design. The extent of this splendid gift will be realized,
when it is remembered that nearly 1,400 copies of the book were
required for this purpose. The Convention and delegates gener-
ally were more than delighted with the book itself, and highly
appreciated the generosity of Professor Excell.
Il. THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
THE WESTERN SCHOOL OF METHODS.
BY ISRAEL P. BLACK, PENNSYLVANIA.
THE WESTERN ScHoon oF METHODS FOR PRIMARY AND JUNIOR
TEACHERS was conducted by the Primary Department of the
International Sunday-school Convention, upon the invitation
of the Arapahoe County Sunday-school Association, and with
the approval of the Executive Committee of the International
Sunday-school Convention. The School was held in the Central
Christian Church, Denver, Colorado, from Tuesday morning to
Thursday noon, June 24-26, 1902.
As this School preceded the International Convention, it was
possible to secure a large number of expert instructors, and a
very large registration of students.
After a very cordial welcome from T. Webster Hoyt, president
of the Arapahoe County Sunday-school Association, and Mrs.
J. A. Walker, president of the Denver Primary Union, the work
of the School was outlined by Mrs. W. J. Semelroth, President
of the Primary Department, and the instructors were introduced
to the students. Mrs. J. W. Barnes, Chairman of the Executive
Committee, spoke upon “Grading the Sunday-school.” The first
morning session was closed by a devotional service conducted
by Mr. W. N. Hartshorn, Chairman of the International Pro-
gram Committee. After this the School divided into sections,
which held four sessions.
The Beginners’ Section had the following instructors: Mrs.
Hattie E. Foster, Miss Finie Murfree Burton, Mrs. W. J. Semel-
roth, Miss E. D. Paxton, Mrs. R. B. Preuszner. The attendance
in this section averaged 84.
The Primary Section had, for instructors, Mrs. Mary Foster
Bryner, Miss Josephine L. Baldwin, Mrs. Annie B. Wheelan,
Israel P. Black, Mrs. Alonzo Pettit and Mrs. H. L. Hill. The
attendance averaged 72.
The Junior Section had but one instructor, Mrs. M. G. Ken-
nedy, and averaged 75 in attendance.
The Blackboard Class held six sessions, with Miss Florence
H. Darnell as instructor. The average attendance was 146.
Mrs. J. W. Barnes gave four lectures on “Lesson Construc-
tion,” which were largely attended.
352
THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT. 353
Miss Josephine L. Baldwin gave four lectures on “Music in
the Primary Class,” which drew large audiences.
Miss Finie Murfree Burton gave two lectures on “Child
Study,” which were very profitable.
A specimen session 9f a primary union was held on Tuesday
evening, in which the lesson was taught as to the beginners’,
primary and junior grades, by Miss Nannie Lee Frayser, Mrs.
W. J. Semelroth and Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner, respectively.
A Training Course lesson on the fourth section of Course Num-
ber One was taught by Mrs. Mary Barnes Mitchell. A Question
Box on Primary Union Work was answered by Israel P. Black.
Wednesday evening was devoted to Organized Work, and the
following topics were presented: The Value of the State Pri-
mary Department to Association Work, Mrs. M. S. Lamoreaux;
County and Township Superintendents, Mrs. A. G. Crouse; Or-
ganized Work in a City, Miss Alice B. Hamlin; Effecting an
Organization, Mrs. H. M. Hamill; Difficulties Surmounted, Mrs.
S. P. Johnson. The evening closed with an Oriental Illustra-
tion of the Twenty-third Psalm, by Madam Lydia M. von Finkel-
stein Mountford of Jerusalem, Palestine.
An hour’s conference was given to a discussion of the Begin-
ners’ Course, which resulted in the endorsement of a two-years’
Beginners’ Course for children under six years of age.
The School was closed by a devotionat service conducted by
General Secretary Marion Lawrance.
Five hundred students registered at this School, representing
thirty-three states and four provinces, as follows:
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Teachers of Beginners......... 6 WiISITORST cietachatatalere ie uct ore muanehersiaee li
Superintendents of Primary State primary superintendents... 18
EOE Gao Uric. Onno ogo Fsbo 106 County primary superintendents 235
Teachers in Primary grade..... 65 Members of unions...........-- 7
354 APPENDIX.
From the above statisties it will be seen how far-r ¥
this Schooi in the number of states and provinces, an in tha?
grade of workers reached.*
The expense was about sixty dollars, which was met by the
free-will offerings at the two evening sessions. The instructors
gave time, traveling expenses and instruction without any com-
pensation.
The Denver Primary Teachers’ Union contributed
liberally in time, labor and expense, and gave the students a
lunch and reception at the close of the School.
LIST OF REGISTERED STUDENTS
ATTENDING THE WESTERN SCHOOL OF METHODS.
Furnished by Israel P. Black,
Secretary of the International
Primary Department.
ALABAMA:
Mr. B. Davies, Clayton.
Mrs. B. Davies, Clayton.
Miss Mary A. Hale, Birmingham.
ARKANSAS:
Riss). As
Springs.
Miss Lucy Moore, Cane Hill.
Henderson, Sylvan
CALIFORNIA:
Mrs. Emma L. Barth, Fairfield.
Mrs. C. A. Baskerville, Los
Angeles.
Earl S. Bingham, Oakland.
Stella Blanchard.
L. J. MacDonald, San Dimas.
Miss Sadie Eastwood, San José.
Miss Mabel Thayer Gray, Oakland.
Mrs. Stella B. Irvine, Riverside.
Miss Laura N. Richards, Saratoga.
David P. Ward, Pasadena.
Mrs. Annie B. Wheelan, Los
Angeles.
COLORADO:
Florence R. Ady, Denver.
Edith Alexander.
S. H. Atwater, Canon City.
0. H. Baird, Littleton.
F. T. Bauserman, Denver.
Dorothea K. Beggs, Fort Collins.
Priscella T. Bell, Denver.
Mrs. Nita B. Bennett, Boulder.
Mrs. Barre M. Benoit, Denver.
Mabel Blackwell, Denver.
P. O. Bonebrake, Denver.
Mrs. P. O. Bonebrake, Denver.
Mrs. Paul E. Brooks, Colorado
Springs.
Grace A. Brooks, Denver.
Mrs. L. S. Brown.
Rey. Bruce Brown, Denver.
H. M. Brown, Denver.
Josephine H. Bruckman, Denver.
Miss Eve Butler, Denver.
F. N. Calvin, Colorado Springs.
Mrs. F. N. Calvin.
Mrs. Hattie Corniolly, Denver.
Maude Campbell, Canon City.
Bertha Chandler, Denver.
Frank W. Childs, Cedar Edge.
Mary Cleaves.
Mrs. W. E. Collins, Pueblo.
Mabel G. Cony, Tennyson.
Mrs. E. M. Craise.
Mrs. M. Crawford, Denver.
Miss Lizzie Crawford, Denver.
Alice VY. Currier, Denver.
E. H. Currier, Denver.
Ethel Curry.
Miss Kathrene Cutler, Denver.
Paul R. Danner, Denver.
Mrs. W. M. Danner, Denver.
Anna E. Darling, Denver.
Annie Davis, Denver.
Mrs. 1. IF. Dawson, Canon City.
Melva Day, Denver.
Gertrude Decker, Colorado Springs.
Emma Dieter, Edgewater.
Cora E. Dodge, Denver.
Mrs. A. M. Donaldson, Denver.
Mrs. Ruth Dungan, Boulder.
I’. E. Dunlavy, Trinidad.
Mrs. I’. E. Dunlavy, Trinidad.
Miss Almeda Dwyer, Boulder.
Miss Bertha Early, Fort Collins.
Mrs. Helen A. Edwards, Florence.
Elva A. Elston, Denver.
Violet Evans, Denver.
Mrs. Belle Euring, Denver.
* The actual number of students in attendance was considerably over
five hundred, but registration was discontinued after that number had been
reached.
Mrs. H. S. Fairchild, Colorado
Springs.
Bertha Feldwisch, Denver.
Mrs. L. H. Felt, Denver.
Mrs. F. Ferris, Colorado City.
Estella LeFevre, Boulder.
Mrs. S. H. Fike, Denver.
Mrs. W. H. Fishburn, Denver.
Amanda Fiske.
Miss Bessie Flynt, Denver.
Mrs. Laura Foster, Denver.
Mrs. J. S. Foulke, Denver.
Charlotte E. French, Denver.
Mrs. J. EE. Fuller, Colorado
Springs.
Mrs. E. J. Gregory, Fort Collins.
Amy VY. Garver, Denver.
J. K. Garver, Denver.
Mrs. C. R. Gerity, Denver.
Miss Anna M. Glassey.
A. N. Glover, Colorado City.
Adeline Goodnow, Denver.
Cc. A. Glower. .
Elva A. Green.
Emma J. Harris, Denver.
Mrs. H. Z. Hall.
Miss Florence Hancock.
Grace Hand, Denver.
Alma Happy, Denver.
Mrs. W. W. Happy, Denver.
L. Harrison. r
Mrs. W./H. Harbison.
Mrs. J. M. Hawkins, Colorado
Springs.
Bettie G. Heiskell, Fort Morgan.
Mrs. J. B. Henshe.
Mrs. Bertie L. Herrell, Denver.
Dr. Willard W. Hills, Colorado
Springs.
Hannah Hitchner, Denver.
Margaret Hockaday, Denver.
Wm. H. Hoerner, Central City.
Mary S. Hollister, Denver.
Miss C. I. Hollister, Denver.
Caroline D. Hopkins.
T. Webster Hoyt, Denver.
Louisa Ibbson, Edgewater.
F. W. Ireland, Denver.
Mrs. A. C. Jensen, Canon City.
Mrs. C. A. Johnson, Denver.
Lula Johnson, Denver.
Mrs. Rosalie W. Jones, Superior.
Mrs. Carrie E. Kaye, Canon City.
J. E. Kaye, Canon City.
Mrs. J. F. Kaye, Canon City.
Anna H. Kelly, Denver.
Georgia H. Kelly.
James Kemp, Conifer.
Zella A. Kendall, Denver.
Miss Queenie Kendall, Denver.
Mrs. C. Kendall, Denver.
Mary Killgue, Denver.
Mrs. R. W. W. Kingston, Denver.
Mary J. Kingston, Denver.
Warren E: Knapp, Denver.
Mrs. T. F. LaDue.
Olive M. Lamb.
Rachel Lambert, Denver.
Elizabeth LaRouelte.
Rey. N. H. Lee, Denver.
Mrs. N. H. Lee, Denver.
THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT. 355
Luey E. Lester, Walsenburg.
Alta Levis, Denver.
George M. Link, Denver.
Mrs. Mae Lucas, Roswell.
Miss Mary Mackenzie, Denver.
Chester B. Manning.
Mrs. Mary Mann, Denver.
Miss Elizabeth Marden, Pueblo.
Nellie Martin, Denver.
Mrs. Anna Masam, Denver.
Anna M. Mehurst, Denver.
Mrs. Chas. T. Menzel, Florence.
L. B. Merrell, Denver.
H. C. Miller.
Mrs. H. C. Miller, Denver.
Mabel H. Milligan, Florence.
Mrs. E. L. Milner, Denyer.
Mrs. T. C. Mills, Denver.
Clarence R. Minard, Denver.
Mrs. H. Etta Minier, Denver.
Julia M. Mitchell, Denver.
Elizabeth Morgan.
Mrs. Mary E. Morris, Denver.
Mrs. Jas. L. McCain, LaSalle.
Mrs. Minnie C. McClary, Denver.
Sadie McKee, Denver.
Zella M. McCollum, Telluride.
Mrs. T. McCornack, Denver.
Rachel O. North, Denver.
Mrs. G. W. Oborn.
Frank G. Pabre, Denver.
Pansie Pebre, Denver.
Mrs. L. H. Parsons, Denver.
Sheldon Parsons, Denver.
Mrs. B. J. Parkes, Pueblo.
Charles L. Payne, Marshall.
Mrs. H. E. Peck, Denver.
Henry W. Pinkham, Denver.
Henry T. Plant, Denver.
Elinor M. Porter, Denver.
Mary C. Porter, Denver.
Maude Post, Denver.
C. K. Powell, Colorado Springs.
F. M. Priestley, Denver.
R. B. Quay, Denver.
Amelia Raaf, Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Fitz Randolph, Boulder.
Miss Esther Reeks, Boulder.
Mrs. A. T. Rexroad, Boulder.
Miss Annie Richardson, Denver.
Emma Rigg, Denver.
G. H. Roberts, Denver.
Mrs. R. T. Roe, Denver.
Mrs. John W. Rogers, Canon City.
Ethlyn Rogers, Berkeley.
Fannie Rowley, Denver.
Lily Salberg, Boulder.
Laura Salberg, Boulder.
Mrs. Harriet A. Sanderson, Den-
ver.
Susie E. Sayne, Colorado Springs.
Leslie Scofield.
Emma Seltman, Denver.
Mrs. C. E. Sharpe, Denver.
Etta Simpson, Denver.
Jennie B. Sligo, Denver.
Rey. Eugene H. Smith, Monte
Vista.
Mrs. Henry E. Smith, Canon City.
Kathleen Smith, Denver.
Alma Somersly, Denver.
356 APPENDIX.
Eleanor Somersly, Denver.
Alberta Soetje, Denver.
Florence Belle Spencer.
Mrs. Spicer, Denver.
Gertrude Springsteen, Denver.
Mrs. Libbie Stanton, Denver.
Mrs. T. Stephenson, Pueblo.
William Stephenson, Pueblo.
Lillian Stiles, Denver.
Mrs. M, A. Stone, LaPorter.
Ida C. Strickler, Denver.
Miss M. Strickler, Denver.
Punice Strickler, Denver.
Mrs. W. 8S. Sutherland, Denver.
Miss L. Sweetland.
Daisy L. Thorn, Denver.
Laura B. Thompson, Loveland.
T. T. Thompson, Denver.
Leonard G. Thompson, Denver.
Ilda B. Thompson, Denver.
Mrs. J. S. Turner, Denver.
A. N. Vinack, Loveland.
Mrs. W. O. Vinacke, Denver.
Mary Van Desen, Denyer.
Mrs. J. A. Walker, Denver.
L. Ethel Waters, Denver.
Mrs. L. B. Ward, Canon City.
Mrs. J. W. Watkins.
Mrs. Jean F. Webb, Denver.
A. A. Weir. °
Mrs. F. W. Whipple, Denver.
H. F. Wilkinson, Denver.
Elsie Wilson.
R. A. N. Wilson, Pueblo.
Winnie Wilson, Pueblo.
Edward T. Whitock, Pueblo.
May C. Worden, Denver.
Mary B. Worthington, Denver.
Miss Nellie Wright, Denver.
Jennie M. Wrisley, Denver.
Mrs. J. S. Yakey, Trinidad.
Jessie Yard, Canon City.
Nellie T. Yaple.
CONNECTICUT:
Mary Page Wright, New Haven.
DELAWARE:
Dr. Frank W. Lang, Wilmington.
ILLINOIS:
Josiah B. Bartle, Milan.
Mrs. Josiah B. Bartle, Milan.
Bertha A. Beer, London Mills.
Emma L. Bigelow, Greenview.
Mary Hunt Brimson, Chicago.
Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner, Peoria.
Mrs. J. A. Burhans, Evanston.
David Carl Cook, Elgin.
W. H. Dietz, Chicago.
Mrs. W. H. Dietz, Chicago.
Francis D. Everett, Highland
Park.
Mrs. F. D. Everett, Highland
Park.
Miss Louise Frackelton, Peters-
burg.
Mrs. W. A. Haynes, Chicago.
Edna J. Hill, Macomb.
Mrs. Herbert L. Hill, Chicago.
Mrs. Antoinette Lamoreaux, Chi-
cago.
H. H. Lewis, Bloomington.
Henry Moser, Sheridan.
Mrs. Wm. Reynolds, Peoria.
Carrie A. Rigg, Edinburg.
Mrs. W. F. Tew, Cordova.
W. F. Tew, Cordova.
Charlotte V. Thearle, Chicago.
Miss Belle K. Thomas, Belleville.
Mabel A. Torrey, Taylorville.
Mrs. H. White, Pawnee. -
Mary Alice Woodson, Cairo.
IDAHO:
Eva M. Neem, Boisé:
Miss Ivy M. Wilson, Boisé.
INDIANA:
Anna R. Black, Terre Haute.
Mrs. John Gorther.
Martha R. Speicher, Urbana.
Joseph B. Speicher, Urbana.
a 4 Luella C. Miller, Indianap-
olis.
IOWA:
Mrs. Blanche Brink, Doon.
Rev. W. G. Hohaushelt, Red Oak-
B. C. Hohaushelt, Red Oak.-
Nina Hohaushelt, Red Oak.
Miss Nettie Israel, Bonapart.
F. D. Jones, Villisea.
Mrs. Senah Baylor-Keenan, Des
Moines.
W. C. Kennedy, Ralfe.
Julia R. MeQuilkin, Waterloo.
B. F. Mitchell, Des Moines.
Mrs. B. F. Mitchell, Des Moines.
Vera Moorhead, Keokuk.
Mrs. Fannie R. Morrison, Grinnell.
William Murchie, Allerton.
Mrs. Anna R. Paddock, Keokuk.
Celia Patts, Hawarden.
Miss Effie Roberts, Afton.
Mrs. H. J. Slifer, Boone.
Marjory Slifer, Boone.
Mary Slifer, Boone.
Mrs. C. C. Wallace, Des Moines.
Miss Alice Warren, Knoxville.
Grace Wood, Traer.
Mrs. E. J. Woodrow, Glenwood.
KANSAS:
James Allison, Wichita.
John F. Barnhill, Paola.
0. A. Boyle, Wichita.
Meme Brockway, Wellsville.
Mrs. Cafe Burger, Wellington.
Margaret Cellars, Bartlett.
J. J. Chambers, New Cambria.
John T. Copley, Manhattan,
J. B. Corbett, Russell.
G. A. Crise, Manhattan.
Mrs. M. A. Dalzell, Hill City.
J. H. Engle, Abilene.
T. J. Garnett, Hill City.
Mrs. T. Garnett, Hill City.
Nina Handson, Wellington.
J. E. Ingham, Topeka.
Mrs. Luther H. Kriegh, Edwin.
THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
Miss Addie Mains, Oskaloosa.
Miss Maude McCracken. Wichita.
Mrs. Roxana Beecher Preuszner,
Lawrence.
Miss Grace Saxe, Fort Scott.
J. B. Saxe, Fort Scott.
Mr. Fayette A. Smith, Abilene.
J. D. Springston, Ottawa.
Ida E. Stauffer, Buffalo.
Miss Etta Swartz, Colusa.
Mrs. R. Taylor, Hutchinson.
Annabel Tice, Topeka.
Mrs. H. A. Tice, Topeka.
Mrs. L. L. Uhls, Osawatomie.
D. E. Vance, Niles.
J. H. Waterman, Lakin.
Mrs. J. H. Waterman, Lakin.
Mrs. John A. Werner, Alden.
J. A. Werner, Alden.
Mrs. C. Wood, Hutchinson.
Lizzie O. Zellers, Cimarron.
KENTUCKY:
Miss Finie Maurfree Burton, Louis-
ville.
Nannie Lee Frayser, Louisville.
LOUISIANA:
Mrs. Alice B. Dufree,
Rouge.
Miss Estie A. Dufree.
MASSACHUSETTS:
W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
Mrs. W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
Rey. Warren P. Landers, Boston.
Baton
MANITOBA:
W. H. Irwin, Brandon.
MINNESOTA:
Mrs. Jean E. Hobart, Minneapolis.
Miss Grace Longfellow, Minne-
apolis.
Guy M. Morse, Minneapolis.
Mrs. H. C. Morse, Minneapolis.
MISSOURI:
Mabel Bailey, Rich Hill.
Mary E. Boyd, Neosho.
Mrs. J. W. Carnagy, Parnell.
Mrs. Millie M. Lewis, Clarksville.
Belle Nichols, Lees Summit.
Sara F. Marston, St. Louis.
Mrs. W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis.
Mary A. Wray, Maryville.
Sylva D. Wray, Maryville.
MICHIGAN:
E. Chase Knapp, Ann Arbor.
NEBRASKA:
L. P. Albright, Red Cloud.
Mrs. I. W. Alter, Wayne.
I. W. Alter, Wayne.
Mrs. William Dobson, Ulysses.
Effie Echels, Hastings.
Lucy A. Eleock. Omaha.
C. D. Emerson, Norman.
Mrs. G. D. Follmer, Lincoln.
EB. M. Furman, Tobias.
357
Mrs. W. J. Harter, Stockham.
Y. C. Holman, Tobias.
Mrs. W. E. Nichols, Minden.
U. E. Nichols, Minden.
A. L. Nordin, Crete.
G. D. Robinson, Bellwood.
Lena Spear, Central City.
T. F. Sturgess, Omaha.
Miss Minnie E. Sturgess, Omaha.
D. L. Thomas, Beatrice.
Mrs. C. J. Tracy, Loup City.
Mrs. G. G. Wallace, Omaha.
Amos Weaver, Tobias.
Mrs. C. Scott Willard, Lincoln.
NEW JERSEY:
Josephine L. Baldwin, Newark.
Elizabeth D. Paxton, Princeton.
Mrs. Alonzo Pettit, Elizabeth.
Sarah A. Callender, Atlantic City.
NEW YORE:
Mrs. H. A. Clark, Owego.
Mrs. H. Elizabeth Foster,
York City.
Anna L. Greenman, Utica.
Mrs. William H. Owen, Utica.
Miss Mary W. Ross, Syracuse.
NEW MEXICO:
Mrs. M. E. Berger, Santa Fé.
Miss E. M. Berger, Santa Fé.
Miss L. C. Galbraith, Arroyo
Hondo.
Mrs. W. V. Long, East Los Vegas.
NORTH DAKOTA:
Miss Marie Aslakson.
Mrs. S. P. Johnson, Grand Forks.
Mrs. Isabel E. Kemp, Galesburg.
Mrs. D. W. Luke, Grand Forks.
NOVA SCOTIA:
Dr. F. Woodbury, Halifax.
Mrs. F. Woodbury, Halifax.
OHIO:
Mrs. F. H. Briney, Woodstock.
Miss Ethel Cartwright, Gilboa.
Mrs. A. G. Crouse, Westerville.
Harry Dietz, Cup.
Edward D. Goller, Defiance.
Miss Sybil Johnson, Toledo.
Mrs. Wm. Marshall, Columbus.
Mrs. R. J. Smith, Wooster.
J. J. Snook, Vanlue.
Mrs. B. P. Stratton,
Green.
OKLAHOMA:
W. M. Andrews, Oklahoma City.
Dr. L. H. Buxton, Oklahoma City.
Mrs. L. H. Buxton, Oklahoma
City.
Mrs. J. H. Chinn, Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Hettie Couchman, Oklahoma
City.
Cc. G. Murphy, Oklahoma City.
Miss Myrta Robinson, Oklahoma
City.
Lena Robinson, Oklahoma City.
Mrs. J. L. Rupard, Guthrie.
J. L. Rupard, Guthrie.
New
Bowling
358 APPENDIX.
OREGON:
Bertha L. Crounse, Portland.
Mrs. C. M. Kiggins, Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA:
Mrs. J. W. Barnes, Philadelphia.
Israel P. Black, Philade)phia.
Miss Pliza Curtis, Philadelphia.
Miss Florence H. Darnell, Phila-
delphia.
Miss Alice B. Hamlin, Pittsburg.
Mrs. M. G. Kennedy, Philadel-
phia.
Miss Carrie B. Leonard, Mauch
Chunk.
Miss M. J. Reger, Philadelphia.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND:
Rey. G. P. Raymond, Charlotte-
town.
QUEBEC:
E. Wesley Halpenny, Montreal.
TEXAS:
J. J. C. Armstrong, El Paso.
Mrs. S. BE. Chandler, Corpus
Christi.
Lewis Collins, Dallas.
Mrs. R. O. Cook, Corpus Christi.
J. M. Craig, Amaretto.
Mrs. J. M. Craig, Amaretto.
Miss Lelia B. Daimwood, Corpus
Christi.
Miss Margaret Daimwood, Corpus
Christi.
W. McDaniel, Port Arthur.
Mrs. P. G. Dismukes, Austin.
Miss Kate Fullinwider, Palestine.
Mrs. H. H. Godber, Waco.
H. H. Godber, Waco.
Miss Fanny J. Gorch, Palestine.
Miss Blanche Knox, Giddings.
R. R. Leawther, Jr., Dallas.
E. H. Moseley, Amarillo.
Miss Adele Phillips, San Antonio.
J. M. Sigmer, Waco.
E. Springale, San Antonio.
Miss Beulah Wiggins, Rusk.
W. N. Wiggins.
Mrs. W. N. Wiggins, San Antonio.
Miss Jessie F. Wood, Palestine.
Miss Edna Wright, Palestine. fe
Miss Elizabeth W. Wright, Pales- :
tine. ;
Mrs. Atlie G. Wright, Palestine.
TENNESSEE: |
Nellie Behm, Chattanooga.
Miss Emily Caruthers, Memphis,
Francis J. Griscom, Chattanooga.
Mrs. H. M. Hamill, Nashville.
Rey. John A. MeKamy, Nashville.
Mrs. John A. MecKamy, Nashville.
Mrs. Isaac J. VanNess, Nashville.
Miss Caroline C. White, Memphis.
UTAH:
Miss Anna Baker, Salt Lake City.
Miss Frieda A. Dressel, Provo.
Mrs. Nelle B. Foulks, Salt Lake ;
City.
Miss Bertha F. Moore, Salt Lake
City.
Miss Lillian M. Plimpton, Spring-
vilie.
Sarah L. Reed, Springville.
Mrs. E. E. Shephard, Springville.
PALESTINE, TURKEY:
Mme. M. von Finkelstein Mount-
ford, Jerusglem, Holy Land.
Naif J. Selfm, Nazareth, Holy
Land.
WASHINGTON:
Rey. Samuel Greene, Seattle.
Mrs. N. N. Hinsdale, Whatcom.
Mrs. C. S. Hyatt.
Mrs. W. C. Merritt, Tacoma.
Mrs. E. S. Prentin, Tacoma.
Rey. J. A. Rodgers, Davenport.
Mrs. W. A. Spalding, Seattle. _
Mrs. Thomas C. Wiswell, Seattle.
Mrs. Clarence L. White, Seattle.
WISCONSIN:
Mrs. Chauncey P. Jaeger, Portage.
Miss Isabel C. Loomis, Portage.
WYOMING:
Mrs. Flora P. Hogdin, Laramie.
Mrs. M. T. Ulen, Laramie.
MINUTES OF THE TRIENNIAL MEETING.
The Triennial Meeting of the Primary Department of the
International Sunday-school Convention was held in the Cen-
tral Christian Church, Denver, Colorado, at two o’clock p. m.
on Friday, June 27, 1902. The president, Mrs. W. J. Semelroth,
presided. e.
The minutes of the Atlanta meeting in 1899 were read by the
Secretary, Israel P. Black, and approved. ‘
The Secretary then read his report, from which it was learned
that there are now twenty-three state and provincial primary
TIE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT. 339
departments, a gain of five since the Atlanta Convention; forty-
three state and provincial primary secretaries, a gain of thirty;
and 430 primary unions, a gain of 130.
The Executive Committee, which consists of one member from
each state, territory and province, is very nearly complete.
The most important work inaugurated during the past three
years has been that of the Training Course. About one thousand
students are now studying this Course, either individually, or
in classes in primary unions. or in classes independent of pri-
mary unions. Many of the latter have grown in size and
interest.
The work of the junior grade is so closely allied to the pri-
mary that many unions have changed their title to “primary
and junior union,” and have included not only the junior teacher
but the beginners’ grade.
The sum of $2,070.00 for three years was pledged at Atlanta
by unions, individuals and state primary departments. In addi-
tion to this, the Executive Committee pledged $1,500.00 for the
three years. During the three years ending December 31, 1901,
the unions and state departments gave $1,721.20, individuals
$218.28, making a total of $1,939.48, to which add $1,250.00
given by the International Executive Committee for two and
one-half years, making a total of $3,189.48. The books were
closed December 31, 1901, with a balance on hand of $5.78.
A committee was appointed to confer with the Field Workers’
Department on uniformity in state blanks and primary blanks.
This committee suggested the addition of the following to state
blanks:
a. Have you a separate room for the primary class; if not,
have you a screened corner?
b. Have you a cradle roll?
ce. Have you studied (a) any part of the International Train-
ing Course: or (b) the state normal course?
A committee was appointed to confer with the Editorial As-
sociation regarding the Beginners’ Course.
The fiscal year of the Department was changed to correspond
with that of the International Executive Committee, namely,
July 1.
The following officers were elected for the ensuing three years:
President, Mrs. J. A. Walker, Denver, Colorado.
Vice-president, Mrs. E. Wesley Halpenny, Montreal, Quebec.
Secretary and Treasurer, Israel P. Black, Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania.
The following were elected to serve on the Central Committee
for the next three years: Mrs. J. W. Barnes, Mrs. J. A. Walker,
Mr. Israel P. Black, Mrs. E. Wesley Halpenny, Mrs. Mary
Barnes Mitchell, Mrs. W. J. Semelroth, Mrs. Alonzo Pettit, Mrs.
A. G. Crouse, Mrs. H. M. Hamill.
Pledges for carrying on the work for the next three years were
taken, and amounted to $881.00 per year from state primary
departments, and $91.00 per year from individuals—a total of
$972.00.*
* See revised figures, with pledges in detail, on page 126.
After a conference with the Int
mittee, Mrs. J. W. Barnes raporees
mittee would receive the Primary D '
vide for the expenses during the next
of money needed and the aeais of
decided upon in future conferences.
Ad saci to meet in Toronto in 1905.
ISRAEL P.
Ii]. THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPART-
MENT.
MINUTES.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The fourth Regular Meeting and Tenth Annual Conference
of the Field Workers’ Department of the International Sunday-
school Convention assembled in the First Baptist Church, Den-
ver, Colorado, on Wednesday morning, June 25, 1902, and was
ealled to order at nine o’clock by Mr. W. J. Semelroth, Chair-
man of the Program Committee.
Mr. Charles D. Meigs of Indiana was chosen by acclamation
to preside until the President or Vice-president should arrive.
Mr. Lewis Collins of Texas was chosen Secretary pro tem.
Mr. Meigs conducted the opening worship and gave “a model
Bible lesson,” based on 1 Cor. 3:9.
, On motion, it was ordered that our proceedings be written for
the Daily Evangel; and Dr. G. A. Crise of Kansas, Mr. Charles
F. Stumpf of Missouri and Mr. Collins were appointed a com-
mittee to attend to it.
A paper on “Conferences of Department Superintendents”
was read by Mr. Earl S. Bingham of California, North, and was
followed by discussion.
A paper on “Meeting Difficulties in a New County” was
read by the Rev. John Orchard of North Dakota, and was fol-
lowed by discussion.
A paper on “The Executive Chairman” was read by Mr.
George G. Wallace of Nebraska, and was discussed after the dis-
cussion upon the next paper.
In place of a paper by the Rey. A. Lucas of New Brunswick, a
paper on “Making a Convention Program” was read by Mr.
Henry T. Plant of Colorado, and was followed by discussion.
A paper on “Sunday-school Statistics” was read by the Rev.
KE. Morris Fergusson of New Jersey.
On motion, it was ordered that a Committee on Uniform Sta-
tistics be appointed, to report to the Conference. The Chair
appointed, as such committee:
J. H. Engle, Kansas.
B. F. Mitchell, Iowa.
The Rev. W. C. Merritt, Washington.
W. H. Irwin, Manitoba.
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362 APPENDIX.
The Rey. E. Morris Fergusson, New Jersey. al
After prayer, the Conference took a recess until 14
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
The Conference reassembled at 1.45 o’clock, the Rev. E. Morris
Fergusson of New Jersey, Vice-president, presiding. :
The devotional services were led by Mr. S. H. Atwater of ce
orado, Mr. Mitchell and the Rev. Messrs. Merritt and Halpenny —
also taking part.
A paper on “What the Associations have done for the Sunday-
schools,” intended as a model address for field secretaries, was
read by the Rey. Frank F. Lewis of Nebraska, and was followed
by discussion.
A paper on “State Representation in Counties” was read by
Mr. J. H. Engle of Kansas, and was followed by discussion.
A paper on “The Sunday-school Field Worker” was read by
Mr. W. J. Semelroth of Missouri.
The Chairman reported that he had arranged for a supply of
sample sets of field literature for distribution to the secretaries:
at this Conference; and on motion his action was approved, and _
he was authorized to appoint a Committee on Literature to ar-
range and distribute the said sets. The Chairman thereupon ig
appointed the following Committee on Literature:
The Rey. E. W. Halpenny, Quebec, Chairman.
The Rev. C. K. Powell, Colorado.
The Rey. John Orchard, North Dakota.
Mrs. Jean E. Hobart, Minnesota. “
George E. Hall, New Jersey. 7
A paper on “The Tour Plan in States and Provinces,” pre-
pared by Mr. E. A. Fox of Kentucky, was read by Mr. Fergus-
son, and was br iefly discussed.
A paper on “Sparsely Settled Territory” was read by the Rev.
W. C. Merritt of Washington, and was followed by discussion. .
At the Chairman’s request, Mr. A. B. McCrillis of Rhode —
Island, International Vice-president, led the Conference in —
prayer, especially for a blessing upon the work in the sparsely —
settled states and districts.
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THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 379
I cannot stop to define particularly the term “work” used
above. You all understand what is meant. In general it means
the arranging for institutes, conferences and conventions, the
raising of funds, keeping the interest aroused and the general
condition of Sabbath-schools improving.
Some one will say: “Do you really think an executive chair-
man ean be found who will give the time and talent to the work
as you have outlined it?” There are chairmen who do it. Their
numbers may be few, but their tribe is increasing, the Lord be
praised! It is the purpose of conferences like this, and the
magnificent International Convention to follow, these being
mirrored later on in state, county and township conventions,—
it is the purpose, I say, of these gatherings to stimulate such
enthusiasm in our workers, and inspire to such lofty purpose,
that they will go back to their various fields of labor resolved
to give thought, and prayer, and money and time—the scarcest
commodity with many of us—to this great work. The days are
coming, my brothers, when Christian men will see, as they have
not seen before, that the position of an executive officer in a
Sunday-school association presents more opportunities for
broadening and deepening one’s better self, and for making life
count for God and Home and Church and State, than can be
offered by club or lodge or politics, or any other interest that
calls for money and time and strength.
DISCUSSION.
As to the president being chairman of the executive commit-
tee, six states have it so. Illinois, Kentucky and Texas, and the
International Convention, elect a special chairman, and pass
the honor of the presidency around to the denominations.
MAKING A CONVENTION PROGRAM.
BY HENRY T. PLANT, COLORADO.
In the first place, a convention program should have a specific
purpose. ‘This is the one thing which seems to be lacking in a
very large number of our county programs. We may aim at an
object and miss it; but if we aim at nothing we will be pretty
certain to hit it.
The purpose should be something higher than to provide a
place en the program for each minister in the county, or for each
denomination, or even each town or section. These are well
enough in their way as incidentals, if they are not permitted in
the least to interfere with the effectiveness of the program. We
should aim at something higher than mere entertainment, and
NOTHING should be introduced which does not serve a definite
purpose.
What then, shall our purpose be? Answer: What “Timothy
Standby” asks for, when he demands “visible results.”
380 APPENDIX.
The best duck gun I ever had was an old muzzle-loader. I
put in a large charge of shot and rammed it down hard, so that
it would scatter, and then fired into a flock of swimming ducks
and got a whole lot. This was ali well enough for that sort of
‘hunting, but it is not the way to get large game. It is not the
way to succeed in a Sunday-school convention. Among the
many objects of convention aim, I will limit this paper to the
discussion of two which I regard as of the greatest importance:
first, definite work along some special line, with a view to re-
sults; secondly, development of the Sunday-school workers.
First, then, let us look over the county to see where it is
weakest, and thus have a purpose in the selection of a theme
for the convention. Perhaps the county has done very little in
the way of systematic work of any kind; or possibly the con-
vention of a year ago resulted in starting up some particular
line, as, for instance, the home department, and many of the
schools may have home departments as the result; but there is
not much activity along primary lines, maybe not a primary
union in the county, and little or nothing is known about the
normal work. : é
Strike out this year, then, we will say, to do strong primary
work. Have enough on the home department to encourage them
and give them some new ideas and to let them benefit by one
another’s experience ; enough on the normal work to set them to
thinking about it; but make the whole convention from first to
last ring with primary work,—its importance, effective methods,
the benefit and the necessity of primary unions, and how to work
them. Make every primary worker feel that she cannot live
another week without a primary union. Let primary unions
spring up like grass after an April shower, as the result of that
convention. ‘Then let the field secretary and the county officers
determine that next year they will strike a blow for the normal
work.
Begin a long time before the convention to do it; better begin
right now, before the interest from this convention cools, while
some are saying, “I'll tell you. I wish we could have another
convention next week.”
Remember that the most profitable conventions are not those
where a large amount of assistance has been imported, to pour
out information upon ground which cannot hold it, and from
which it runs away in rivers which can hardly earry it off fast
enough. It is not the flood which benefits the farmer, but the ~
“quiet drizzle-drazzle” which the good old New England deacon
prayed for.
The most profitable convention is the one which draws out
from hiding its own county workers, gives them a place and a
part, and develops and exercises them. How often we hear the
testimony: “I began to get the benefit from this convention
before I came, while I was working up my subject; and now that
i am here J am just full to running over.” Let our second pur-
pose, then, be the development of our local Sunday-school talent.
Get speakers of experience in the line of their subject, as far as
possible; but select some one who in order better to equip him-
TUE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 38t
self will attend the convention of a neighboring county, or the
state, or perchance the International Convention, to hear what
others have to say on his topic. Get speakers who never heard
their own voices in public before, whose blood will mount to
their foreheads and whose hands will tremble as they speak.
Never mind if they have not quite reached the age of twenty yet;
in a few conventions they will be our strongest workers.
Don’t have the ministers to do all the talking. I have nothing
against ministers. but they are already trained, and they have
sufficient opportunity for practice. Our conventions are espe-
cially for us lay workers; they are our opportunity for devel-
opment. We want to hear from those who have difficulties
which they cannot solve, and from those who by struggle are
solving them. Let us not depart so far from our purpose, as to
prefer to the young or timid or hesitating Sunday-school worker
a speaker who can hold us spell-bound by eloquence. Let us not
prefer a crowded house and a popular audience to a company of
practical Sunday-school toilers, with needs which they hope to
have supplied, discouragements which they hope to receive help
to overcome, and weakness of inexperience which they hope to
have strengthened by the wider experience of others. The
largest conventions are not always the best.
Especially should the evening sessions be guarded in this
respect, in the character which is given them by the program.
Let us remember that discussions and conversational forms of
participation are always exceedingly profitable and productive
of results.
Next to having a purpose, I would emphasize the importance
of attention to details of the convention. Very careful attention
should be given to the oft-neglected matter of music. No stone
should be left unturned to secure that which shall be a real
inspiration.
We should open with good, congregational singing, full of life
and under a good leader. This is much to be preferred, in the
usual county convention to singing led by a choir, which is apt
to be heavy: and I hope it is unnecessary to add that it is far
and away ahead of anthems and solos. Songs by children, pre-
pared to be given from the platform, take time and serve no
definite purpose.
A good beginning almost insures a good convention, and many
a convention has been killed by indifferent music. Intersperse
a song in which all can join, here and there throughout the con-
vention. Have everybody rise; in sessions of from two to four
hours’ length this is a great rest. Nerver close a session, cold-
blooded, with the words, “The session is adjourned,” or even
with a benediction or prayer only. Have a song, and then your
benediction.
Too little attention is paid to the devotional portions. The
leaders selected for these exercises should be full of the spirit of
devotion, those who can pray, and who can influence others to
pray; under whose guidance the convention will melt and be
truly with one accord in prayer. In these exercises there should
be one practical thought prevailing, practical to Sunday-school
382 APPENDIX.
workers; such, for instance, as the responsibility befor! God of
the Sunday- school teacher. This may be so brought out as never
to be forgotten. If the right man to lead the devotions is not in
the county, it is far better to send abroad for one who has power
in prayer, than to send for an expert on methods, and fail in the
matter of devotion. He who is to act as chairman should be
chosen with special reference to his qualifications in arranging
these matters and his promptness in bringing everything to time
in the conduct of the convention.
Care should be taken that the program shall not be too full.
The danger is on this side and not on the side of deficiency. It is
a good plan to have the last session intentionally short, shorter
than would perhaps appear by the program. Follow it with
what seems to be an impromptu devotional service; a number
of short, pointed prayers for God’s blessing upon the special
work which bas been proposed as the result of the convention,
and upon the workers who have been chosen as the leaders
therein. If, when Barnabas and Paul were designated by the
Holy Spirit for the work whereunto he had called them, they
were sent out by the brethren, who prayed and laid their hands
upon them, why should not each of our county workers be sent
out with the preparation of the prayers of a whole convention
for him personally and by name ringing in his ears, and with
each member of the convention feeling that he has not only an
inspiration but a benediction?
Now, brethren, this is our idea of what a convention ought to
be: the difficulty is to secure it. The field secretary cannot
appear to be dictatorial; he does not understand the peculiar
local conditions anyway, you know. The fact that some of us,
Brother Engle, for instance, have had experience in 102 con-
ventions in a single year, under all sorts of conditions and with
all kinds of people, in a territory hundreds of miles in extent,
cuts no figure at all with a county president who may perhaps
have attended two conventions in his whole lite, and whose ex-
perience has been limited to his own township. ‘The seeretary’s
suggestions, made after looking over the entire field and com-
paring this county with a hundred others in respect to its work
and its needs, are turned down; and, in spite of all he can do,
some county president will bungle the whole thing, and arrange
every detail, seemingly, with the express purpose of causing the
convention to flatten out.
Then is the field secretary’s opportunity to get in some of his
fine work. He must pour on the oil of enthusiasm, until that
dead convention is all aglow. But I read of a maid who, a few
days ago, did just this with her dying kitchen fire. She had a
whole can-full of kerosene oil; the fire responded instantly and
burned like fury; so did the whole can of oil; and so, alas, did
the maid. She made a great mistake. She should have used
only a little oil at a time, poured out first into a cup, and ap-
plied judiciously.
So with the field worker. He must use only a little of his oil
-of enthusiasm at a time, and in just the right place; or, so far
as that county is concerned, he too will go up in the smoke of
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 383
his own enthusiasm. We cannot yet improve on the precaution-
ary instructions given to our first field workers: “Behold, I[
send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore
wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
DISCUSSION.
Mr. WALLAcE said that programs are often too long. He
liked one thought as a key-note, to be made much of, even work-
ing it into the decorations, as, “What can I do?” Conferences
or free parliaments should have at least one-third of the time.
Mr. FerGusson preferred to meet with the county executive
committee in preparing the program and other work, rather
than attend the convention, if he could not do both.
Mr. Davin P. Warp. California, South, regretted the small
space allowed for Bible study, and thought one hour should be
set apart for something for the boys and girls.
Mr. R. H. Pottocx, Nebraska, has county programs sent to
him, and sends them out as samples to other counties. So with
others.
THE Rey. E. W. HaLpenny, Quebec: Our provincial execu-
tive prepares a model program for use in smaller divisions. He
had trouble finding the right time for the devotional, but had
learned here to put it at the close of the session, and would
try it.
Mr. Metres: Much depends on the quality and appearance of
the program. The cheapest paper and printing are not the best.
SUNDAY-SCHOOL STATISTICS.
BY THE REY. E. MORRIS FERGUSSON, NEW JERSEY.
The International Sunday-school Convention undertakes to
gather and publish, every three years, the statistics of its field.
The International Secretary lays before the Convention a
printed statistical report showing the condition of Protestant
evangelical Sunday-school work in each state, territory, proy-
ince and country of North America.
This report is of great interest to the Convention and its Ex-
ecutive Committee, as it reveals the condition of the field, the
progress already made, and the work waiting to be done. It fur-
nishes the basis upon which the International officers plan their
campaign.
These statistics are also of use to speakers, writers and work-
ers all over the world. They are reprinted in year-books and
works of reference, quoted in government reports on education,
_ Teligion and sociology, and discussed in books and magazine
articles. They cheer the friends of the cause and confound its
enemies. We could not do without them; in fact, we need this
information every year, rather than every three years only.
384 ; APPENDIX.
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The International statistical report is made up m the
reports of the several state, provincial, territorial and national
Sunday-school associations covering the International field.
Wherever these organizations fail to gather and forward statis-
tics in shape as requested, the International Secretary must
have recourse to old figures, estimates and other makeshifts ;
and his report becomes to that extent untrustworthy and mis-
leading. :
These sixty-odd state, provincial, territorial and national
Sunday-school associations (called hereinafter for brevity
“states”) need each its own report. elaborated to suit local con-
ditions, and published annually to its own field. Some counties
and cities are strong, others are weak. Some are discouraged,
others are self-satisfied. Time is wasted at conventions, and
delegates are misled, by loose talking and guessing as to Sunday-
school facts, where a few reliable statistics would set the ques-
tion at rest. Properly prepared and published, the state sta-
tistical report clears the air, furnishes a text for hundreds of
helpful sermons and appeals, stirs the hearts of the workers.
calls forth prayers and renewed efforts for the unreached, and
frequently arouses large communities to concerted work in
house-visitation and soul-saving.
Equally valuable is the statistical report in the county asso-
ciation. It is seldom as complete, as well-arranged, as effect-
ively presented, or as thoroughly distributed and advertised as
it should be; but those who have witnessed a good report well
presented to a county convention, and properly followed up.
need no argument as to its practical value in stirring the work-
ers and guiding the work. For all forms of organized local
Sunday-school effort, the county statistical report is the indis-
pensable basis of action.
The individual Sunday-school is a field for statistical work.
The Sunday-school needs good statistics as much as do the
county, the state, the continent and the world, and for much the
same reasons. What the counties and cities are to the state,
the classes and departments are to the school. The good super-
intendent knows the practical value of his secretary’s report;
and he sees that such a report is presented every week and pub-
lished every vear.
Here, then, is a statistical chain. Each of these fields of Sun-
day-school work needs its own report. Each report is needed as
part of a larger report. And in ways that are numerous and
real, even though we can seldom accurately trace them, the mak-
ing of each of these reports results in benefits and blessings that
flow down from this great Convention to water in greater or less
degree every one of the hundred thousand Sunday-schools whose
drop of information has gone to swell the stream.
The value of good Sunday-school statistics is great; but even
if these, the direct results, were of no value, the work that must
be done in order to secure the results is a work so full of blessing
to the schools and the workers that engage in it, and the indi-
rect results are so necessary to the life of the organization, that
we ought to do the work, though we had no use for a single
figure.
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 385
The county statistical canvass helps the Sunday-schools.
Wherever the school consents to furnish its report and to hear
or read the secretary’s tabulation, an interest is aroused in the
school concerning its relative position among its neighbors; and
this interest is helpful in many ways. » The smaller schools
greatly appreciate and are helped by the visit of the township
secretary.
The canvass also helps the canvasser. To gather and compile
the annual report of a great state requires the services of hun-
dreds, sometimes thousands, of voluntary workers, each of whom
is made responsible for the complete report of a certain town-
ship, district or county. No man goes forth from his own school
upon this quest without gaining far more than he gives, even
when he leaves behind work that can ill spare his presence; and
those interested in the progress of Christian unity and Christian
character, even apart from Sunday-school considerations, might
well wish that this great school of practical Christian fraternity
had room for more pupils, and sent them on wider rounds.
And if the canvass is a help to the Sunday-school and to the
secretary, to the organization it is indispensable. The county
secretary’s detailed returns constitute the membership roll of
his association. The list of Sunday-schools shows the theoret-
ical and potential membership. The annexed figures show which
of these members are reporting and contributing members, and
the size and condition of each. Without this exact information,
renewed yearly, the county association may be called an effort,
but it cannot be called a work. Some county conventions do
live without a thorough annual canvass; but such a convention
always fails to include many of the leading schools and workers,
and is likely to be found, like some not very useful plants, living
on air.
The residual or by-products of statistical activity, like those
of some industries, are even more profitable to the state organ-
ization than the direct and avowed objects of the work. Four
of these by-products may be mentioned, each of which is indis-
pensable to effective organization, and can be secured in no
other way. These are: (1) the address-list of Sunday-school
superintendents; (2) personal and purposeful contact with
every school in the territory; (3) an incentive to complete and
working organization; and (4) regular annual contributions
from the Sunday-schools.
1. Address-lists.—It is not easy to exaggerate the value of
full and fresh address-lists of Sunday-school superintendents.
To the standard Sunday-school advertiser, such a list is usually
worth one cent a name; and the judiciously restricted sale of
such a list is a legitimate source of association revenue. To the
county secretary and other workers the list is the gateway to
the field, being both the means of communication for this year’s
work and the basis of the canvass of next year. To ascertain
the exact value of freshness in such a list, | made a study not
long ago of the returns from fourteen hundred New Jersey Sun-
day-schools for six years: and I found that an average of 24 per
cent. of the schools each year changed their superintendent: or,
25
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conversely, that the average term of service of a superintendent
is four years and three months. If therefore the county secre-
tary, in sending out the programs of the coming convention,
uses last year’s list, he may expect that nearly one in four of
his envelopes will go astray, or reach the school only by chance
and courtesy.
2. Contact with the Schools.—Even with such lists, however,
the experienced secretary knows that he is far from sure of
winning the attention and interest of his Sunday-schools and
their leaders. In the city, the mails are congested with appeals
and notices from praiseworthy causes; in the country, the
farmer superintendent would rather plow a ten-acre lot than
write one letter; and in either case the stamped self-addressed
envelope is but a bruised reed to lean on. A personal, face-to-
face explanation and appeal alone will win the day. Recogniz-
ing this truism, our conventions urge the county and township
officers to visit their Sunday-schools; and some do. But of all
Christian and social duties, as you and I well know, the visit is
easiest to promise and easiest to forget; and no general plan of
visitation has the slightest hope of success that does not furnish
the visitor with a simple and definite errand, the results of
which are to be returned in writing. The success of the home
department movement is one illustration of the truth of this
principle; the relative vigor of the statistic-furnishing organ-
izations is another.
3. Improvement to the organization.—This second by-product
suggests the third: the annual call for statisties acts as an in-
centive to the building up of a complete and working organiza-
tion. That such an incentive is needed, and that it is not fully
supplied by the holding of conventions, every field worker knows.
Organization means co-operation, helpfulness, progress. We
must touch the schools, or we cannot help them. It is too easy
to hold a big overgrown meeting, elect a lot of officers, lapse into
a twelve-months’ desuetude, and then brag at the state conyen-
tion of our well-organized county. Let us see, from the tabu-
lated report of the state secretary. how: many Sunday-schools
there are in your county, and from how many of these you
secured reports last year; and we shall then know what to think
of your organization. Let your delegates and your constituents
at home read these figures, and compare them with those of their
neighbor counties; and earnest hearts will burn with resolve to
do worthier service and win a brighter and a more truthful
record next year. There are other tests and other incentives,
but none so simple, so easy to institute, so exact and dependable
in operation, as the annual call for uniform statistics from the
field.
4, A regular revenue.—Organizations need money. The asso-
ciated Sunday-school movement needs less money, in proportion
to its helpfulness, than any other religious or philanthropic
work on this continent. But some income it must have; and this
ought logically to come in the shape of an annual contribution
from each co-operating Sunday-school.
Of ways for trying to get this income there are many; but of
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 387
ways to get it I know but one.—to send a canvasser after the
Sunday-school’s statistics, and to make the amount of the
school’s contribution a part of those statistics. The canvasser,
as a rule, will not go for the money alone unless he is paid; and
if the school knows he is paid, they will be reluctant to give him
the money. The annual call for statistics first secures the can-
vasser, by compelling the county association to complete and
extend its organization; and then it utilizes this officer in the
collection of its revenue. The revenue, being county funds, pays
all local expenses and stimulates the county officers to effective
supervision of the canvass. The annual convention gives the
opportunity to renew and perfect the organization; and the call
for reports, verbal and written, incites the township secretary
to pursue his toilsome and elusive task to completion. The sur-
plus meome, appropriated to the state treasury, pays the cost of
the necessary state supervision of the system, and guarantees
the continuance of the work in every county. Whatever of en-
ergy and income remains after insuring this annual orderly
rotation—and there ought to be a good deal—is expended in
general and special work for the Sunday-schools, and thus, en-
gendering gratitude and overcoming prejudice, makes the work
of the collectors easier and more fruitful next year. Such, in
brief, is the theory of the state Sunday-school association, as
now exemplified on many of our fields; and of that theory the
annual call for statistics is the controlling factor.
Ti gains like these await the organization that undertakes
each year to gather its Sunday-school statistics with intelligence
and zeal, it would seem to be the plain duty of each of our con-
stituencies not only to provide in its work for a department of
statistics, but to make that department the first and basal func-
tion of its whole activity. And it would further seem that our
International Executive Committee could serve its field in no
more helpful and substantially profitable way than to provide
for a vigorous prosecution of the International statistical call,
not triennial but annual, followed up by such wise, liberal and
continuous administrative attention as shall result in the de
velopment, in each of our fields, of a statistical machine ade-
quate to the production of a uniform and satisfactory response
to the call.
WHAT THE ASSOCIATIONS HAVE DONE FOR THE
SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.
BY THE REV. FRANK F. LEWIS, NEBRASKA.
Tt would seem unnecessary to speak on this subject to those
who by their presence in an interdenominational gathering tes-
tify to a sense of its value. But we are admonished to be ready
always to give a reason for the hope that is in us. Moreover,
as we review these reasons, our own faith shall be strengthened,
and we shall be able to win others to walk with us.
Merely to name the various expressions of its activity gives a
388 APPENDIX.
new sense of the value of the Interdenominational Organization.
The first convention of Sunday-school workers in this country
was held in New York in 1832. Other conventions were held in
1833, 1859, 1869, 1872. Since that time, the Conventions, now
International in scope, have been held every three years, includ-
ing Denver, 1902. Three World’s Conventions have been held.
Annual state conventions are held throughout the country, an-
nual county conventions in most states, annual town or district
conventions in many states.
As cause and effect of this movement, we have a long list of
workers, headed by such men as Jacobs, Vincent, Reynolds, Law-
rance, Hamill, who are specialists in their departments and
who could not have done their grand work if the Sunday-schoo
movement had not been an Interdenominational one. ;
In nearly all the states are field secretaries, noble men, who
are giving all their time to heightening the efficiency of our Sun-
day-schools. In every county and district are found other grand
men and women, little known to the world, but each a part of
the great movement which is lifting the earth skyward. ;
The home department of the Sunday-school was begun in 1881.
Systematic house-to-house visitation soon became a general
feature. Normal classes for the training of teachers, with a
definite course of study, are found in every state. The Chautau-
qua Sunday-school Assembly and all its numerous progeny came
as an outgrowth of the Sunday-school movement. The great
teachers’ meetings of Boston, Brooklyn, and other cities have
stimulated thousands of teachers to better work. The Field
Workers’ Conference, organized in 1893, aids to better organiza-
tion. The publishers of lesson-helps have joined together in the
interests of economy and efficiency. The lesson writers have
organized for mutual improvement and helpfulness. The pri-
mary unions have served to place in its true light the impor-
tance of teaching the children. The International Bible Reading
Association has enlisted thousands in Bible-study.
I have reserved for especial mention that feature of Interde-
nominational Organization which is most apparent and whose
importance is yet too little recognized, the Uniform Lesson Sys-
tem. Beginning in 1872, we are now for the fifth time studying
through the Bible together. The Association has brought about
an enthusiasm for Bible-study and a thoroughness in it never
before seen. The Uniform Lesson makes it possible for mem-
bers of the Sunday-school when on a journey or moving from
one part of the country to another to find their places in the
Bible-school without loss of time or interest. It is possible to
produce the lesson-helps in such quantities as to bring the price
within the reach of all. The work of the brightest and best
minds in all denominations is brought to the help of every stu-
dent. The great interdenominational publications, like The
Sunday School Times and The International Evangel, with their
wealth of talent, are made possible. If for no other reason than
the continuation of the Uniform Lessons. the local Sunday-
school association, which is a part of the International Associa-
tion, deserves the hearty support of every Sunday-school.
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The value of the Interdenominational Sunday-school Associa-
tion may be summed up under three heads: Information, Stim-
ulation, Fraternization. .. .
{Under the second of these heads, Mr. Lewis gave the follow-
ing suggestive argument in favor of district or township con-
ventions: ]
Oi all conventions, I believe that the district convention is
most important and practical for us just now. Let me give you
some results of district conventions as I have known them.
1. The number of people reached. The ordinary attendance
at a county convention may be reckoned at two or three hun-
dred people. The greater part of these come from the village in
which the meeting is held: so that the direct influence of a
county convention reaches but a few people through the county.
But the total attendance at district meetings in the county was
over 2.000. This means that members of the schools in every
part of the county met together to enjoy a program very little
if any inferior to a county program. They had an opportunity
to meet state and county officers face to face and to discuss the
difficulties and successes of individual schools in a way for which
there is no time at state and county meetings. The workers of
every school have had opportunity to meet one another and learn
various methods of work.
2. Information at first hand. Every state or county officer
who sits down and tries to get reports from people at a distance
knows the worth of this point. In the district meeting, each
school has time to report as fully as there is need. There is op-
portunity to explain or correct this report. Questions by the
leader bring out important information which the reporter
would otherwise pass over unnoticed. We cannot do the best
work in our state without complete and accurate information.
As these meetings are held from year to year, reports given and
discussions held, a third result becomes apparent, namely:
3. A quickened zeal for work. At the district meeting in
D—.,, some years ago, the delegate from W- reported in @
Protestant population of seven hundred, two schools with a pos-
sible combined membership of seventy. At the close of the meet-
ing, the delegate went home resolved that W. should make
a better showing at the next meeting. As a result of the work
done, W- reported at the next annual district meeting two
schools with a membership of 122. and home departments in
each school numbering 56 more. In another part of the state,
there was a county which had persistently refused to organize.
After a district meeting had been held in the county, the schools
came together and organized the county association.
4. Uniform reports. The need of uniform reports having be-
come apparent, in our district meetings, the county convention
passed a resolution, requesting the state association to adopt
some system of uniform reports. The state association at its
annual meeting agreed to this.
5. Finances were never in better condition. The collections
taken at the district meetings and forwarded to the county
secretary have paid all expenses of district and county conven-
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tions and left enough money in the treasury to pay the balance
of the county pledge to the state association.
6. Increased attendance at the county convention. Of the 52
schools in the county, forty sent written reports on blanks fur-
nished by the secretary, and nearly every school was repre-
sented by delegates.
DISCUSSION,
Mr. A. W. Rosecrans, Illinois: There are so many convyen-
tions these days that our towns often object to entertaining a
Sunday-school convention; what is the solution?
Mr. E. N. Hartry, Oklahoma: We are invited to come and
bring our baskets.
Mr. PLant: ‘The people feel the benefit of organized work.
Mr. ArtHurR WuHortoN, Oklahoma: We have been using the
International leaflet freely to advise our people of the benefits
of the work.
Mr. B. F. MitcHetr, Iowa: We issue a leaflet showing the
four links in the organized work. We also print testimonials
of denominational workers regarding the same.
Kansas, Missouri and Texas were also reported as haying
leaflets on this subject.
STATE REPRESENTATION IN COUNTIES.
BY J. H. ENGLE, KANSAS.
The smailer the number of paid field-workers employed in any
given state, the greater the need of providing substitutes. Like
other people, the field-worker has physical limitations. He most
needs physical rest and mental relaxation, but gets it least. His
work is a nerve-exhausting ordeal. To enter a convention, make
a number of addresses on his own account, substitute for ab-
sentees, showing due animation, feeling bright and looking
brighter, meeting the expectations of the county officers, in-
structing and inspiring the listless, maintaining a uniformly
high standard of merit,—this is in itself enough. But add to
this that degree of concern (I do not say worry) essential to
maintain an aggressive local officiary, to secure important data
and complete reports, to harmonize factions, to confer with
committees, to instruct officers without seeming to wish to do so,
and to employ due diplomacy in all his official and personal rela-
tions, and to do this week in and week out, month in and month
out, contemplates a measure of nervous energy. and physical
endurance not commonly found in one man.
Again, it is necessary that state officers and committeemen be
personally cognizant of the actual conditions in counties other
than their own. They can neither advise their field-workers nor
counsel together intelligently without the knowledge that comes
from actual contact and from inspection of the field. The faults
and merits of the field-worker can thus be best ascertained.
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Local workers also are less likely to suspect that the state work
is one man’s affair. The sense of unity and solidarity is
strengthened. In the Gospel ministry a pastoral visit is not
infrequently shorn of its real value from the simple fact that the
pastor makes it. It is assumed to be part of his business. His
gracious words and prayers go unheeded. Similarly, an aspect
of professionalism attaches to the field-worker’s ministrations.
Words spoken with the simple freshness characteristic of the
busy but successful lay worker command a sympathetic hearing.
Let him speak on the basis of his actual experience, and, if it be
not a state experience, something will come of it. If the field-
worker has too many engagements it prevents his actual official
connection with some Sunday-school. He thus becomes ethereal
and unpractical. He needs to have his Sunday-school nose in
contact with the every-day Sunday-school dust in order to re-
main practical. So much that looks or sounds well never works
out in practice.
Tt is well to secure the personal consent of officers, committee-
men and other capable workers to appear at county conventions
a given number of times during the year for expenses only, these
expenses to be borne by the county served when the field-worker
is also-in attendance, otherwise by the state. We have prepared
and published in the [Kansas State Sunday-school] Journal the
names of a list of such workers, with the topics which they are
deemed most capable of discussing. County officers are availing
themselves of these lists. By relieving the field-worker to an
extent of his platform work, these people become substitutes,
even when he is present in a convention. From considerations
of economy it is well to engage a given set of workers for a series
of conventions covering, say, a week or ten days. By adjusting
the calendar with reference to economy, and the program with
reference to the railway schedule and the convenience of the
traveling speakers, much creditable work can be done acceptably
on a small financial basis.
In my own state, plans were instituted last December looking
to a somewhat elaborate convention scheme into which this ele-
ment of substitution has entered largely. The highest hopes
have been realized. From June 16 to 22 inclusive four groups
of counties, twenty-two in all, comprising one-fifth of our area
but containing less than one-fifteenth of our population, held
their annual county conventions and were served chiefly by sub-
stitutes. There were sixteen of them, including five primary
workers with successful experience both upon the platform and
in their own schools, three members of the state committee, five
officers of the state association, three successful Sunday-school
pastors. three denominational state superintendents of Sunday-
school work and two Sunday-school missionaries. Fourteen of
these were on their wav to the Tentb International, and nearly
all of them are present in this session. Financially the state
has sustained no loss. All of the counties but one renewed their
pledges by formal vote of the convention, the aggregate of new
pledges being slightly above the aggregate for the preceding
year. The campaign was well advertised by special illustrated
392 APPENDIX.
county editions of the state paper; and, barring the assaults of
a rainstorm period in several counties, the conventions suffered
no appreciable decrease in attendance from the previous year,
the attendance having increased over that of last year in at least
eleven of the counties. ‘The statistical reports were perhaps
more incomplete than a year ago, but a little additional work
at the home office will recover this loss. In the prompt collec-
tion of pledges now due there was also some loss, due either to
the inexperience of the state substitutes or to their failure to
appreciate the importance of collecting on the spot. For it is
immensely easier to collect ten dollars at convention time than
to collect half that amount with the most specious subsequent
appeals made by correspondence, even when the amounts have
been pledged. The advantage of new blood, virile with the red
corpuscles of successful home experience, cannot be fully esti-
mated. At any rate, it seems evident that upon the whole the
work has sustained no loss but a distinct gain by the employ-
ment of substitutes for the field-worker. To be sure, this was
"an exceptional opportunity; but what are opportunities for, if
not to be seized upon with avidity?
The disereet use of substitutes instead of the regular field-
worker at county conventions will extend the opportunities of
the latter {o accept invitations to address denominational bodies
in the interest of the organized work. This is of more than pass-
ing importance; and no such opportunity should be passed by.
It also provides an opportunity for institute work, and for meet-
ing the extraordinary emergencies of city organization, and to
aid delinquent counties. In all cases, however, where such sub-
stitution occurs, the field-workers should provide the substitute
with full instructions embodying data regarding finances, sta-
tistics, and officers. The stranger must be apprised of peculiar
conditions to be met. He should be advised concerning the
usual or special announcements to be made. Even though he be
aware of all these things, detailed written suggestions from the
general office will serve to protect against inadvertent but im-
portant omissions in routine matters. The substitute, while
liable to the charge of officiousness must tactfully gain audience
with the convention committees and should be advised specific-
ally as to what work ought to be compassed by the several com-
mittees.
Both as a means of cultivating inter-county fraternity and of
providing needed convention help, the mutual visitation of con-
ventions in adjacent counties by county officers is important. It
is only in comparatively rare instances that county officers are
able to substitute acceptably for the state representative. Com-
ing as a state officer or state committeeman, one inspires a de-
gree of confidence which his coming as a county officer cannot
do, even though the work done by the latter is superior. A num-
ber of our counties wisely provide that their officers visit one or
more adjoining conventions at the county expense each year.
The field-worker can do much to stimulate and facilitate these
visits, anticipating the published program with hints as to the
visitors’ special capabilities. Competent officers from well-
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organized counties are needed in the weaker counties, the strong
thus helping to bear the infirmities of the weak. And since we
learn much by contact, and since we see our own faults best
when they stand out in bold relief in others, it may prove a good
investment thus to send the strong to visit the weak, not to men-
tion the direct good thus coming to the weak.
Denominational state superintendents, and in many instances
their subordinates, are men of creditable abilities, and, in our
own state at least, we find them to be in intelligent sympathy
with the aims and methods of the association. Where they dis-
eriminate properly between their own sphere and that of the
association field-worker they can represent the state to good
advantage. In all such cases it must be borne in mind that for
the time being they represent the interdenominational work.
DISCUSSION.
Mr. E. D. Gotter, Ohio, spoke of their lyceum list of workers
ready to aid upon payment of their expenses only; others upon
a per diem.
Mr. Puant: Can any one other than a state secretary organ-
ize a county?
Mr. Merritt: If the right man can be found for that work,
he certainly could be used.
Mr. OrcHARD: We seek to train the vice-presidents to do
that, by having them go with the field-worker once or twice.
Mr. G. A. Henprerson, Arkansas, thought a good plan would
be, to have a county elect one to bear its greetings to a neigh-
boring county, and assist in their convention.
Mr. Wuorton: We have no field-worker, and all counties are
organized. The work was divided among the members of the
executive committee.
Mr. Pottock: We have trustees over six or eight counties
each, to attend to this.
Mr. T. M. MarsHatr, West Virginia: So in our state; but
the work is not accomplished.
THE TOUR PLAN IN STATES AND PROVINCES.
BY E. A. FOX, KENTUCKY.
In January of 1901, when I was planning my work for the
summer, and while plans were forming for the great Transconti-
nental Tour, the thought came to me: If these International
tours are of such great value, why can they not be adapted to
state work? But many difficulties presented themselves. In the
first place, our state association at that time was still in debt.
I was the only paid worker. Could we depend on volunteer help
entirely? Could we risk the extra expense? Should we assume
this, or ask the counties to do it? Again, our county officers
394 APPENDIX.
were in the habit of fixing the date of their conventions to suit
their own convenience, and the tour plan could not possibly ve
worked unless this were left to us. But would they not be will-
ing to do this if we would send them two or three of our best
workers?
These were the difficulties that presented themselves; but
plans to overcome them were carefully thought out and pre-
sented to our executive committee. It was decided to undertake
it and to assume the extra expense ourselves if the counties
would yield to us the right to fix the date of their conventions.
We believed that the character and number of delegates drawn
to the conventions would more than repay the extra expense
when the offerings came to be taken: and this proved to be true.
The following letter was sent to our county officers:
“Our state committee has planned a work for the summer that
they believe to be the best ever undertaken in the state. Ii
properly carried out, it will arouse more enthusiasm, reach a
greater number of Sunday-schools and Sunday-sehool workers,
and result in more good to the Sunday-school interests of the
state than anything undertaken in recent years. In brief, the
plan is this: to secure the services of the best Sunday-school
workers of the state and a few in surrounding states and ar-
range a series of tours, each to be made by a party of three.
Each worker wiil be an expert in his or her respective line, and
they will be grouped so as to secure the greatest variety of talent
in each party of three.
“In order to make the plan a success, our county officers must -
co-operate heartily, fix the date of their conventions to suit the
plan, and do all in their power to secure a representative con-
vention. ‘The tours will begin about May first and continue to
the state convention, but we must begin Now to plan for them.
We will try to arrange our plans so as to hold three sessions at
each convention, forenoon and afternoon and evening, and have
each of the three speak twice, and some of them three times. It
can readily be seen that we cannot undertake to include counties
in these tours unless they agree to do all they can to make the
plan a success. We therefore ask that they comply with the fol-
lowing conditions:
“1. The date of the county convention must be left almost en- ~
tirely to the state committee.
“2. The convention must be held on, or very near, the railroad,
preferably at the county seat.
“3. The county officers must agree to edvertise the convention
thoroughly: (1) by getting the name and address of every Sun-
day-school superintendent and pastor in the county; (2) by
keeping right after each school till it has appointed its dele-
gates; (3) by printing programs and sending to all schools in
the county at least two or three weeks before the convention;
(4) by inserting at least three notices at different times in the
local papers; (5) by such other means as they may desire or the
state committee may suggest.
“4, The state committee will co-operate with the county offi-
cers in all plans necessary to make these tours the greatest
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means of help to all counties, and will offer suggestions from
time to time to bring about this result.
“5. The date of the conventions will be fixed from two to six
months in advance, and county officers will, so far as they can,
prevent any other meeting at the same time.
“6. An offering will be taken at each session of the convention
to defray expenses.
“Will you co-operate with us in this plan?”
We were greatly gratified at the promptness and heartiness
with which our officers received the proposed plan; and we car-
ried it out almost exactly as outlined in this letter. By the
first of May, the opening of our convention season, we had more
convention dates set than we had held conventions all of the
year before. The officers went to work under our instruction
more earnestly than ever before. We asked that the picnic idea
be ruled out, and that a strong effort be made to have every
Sunday-school in the county represented ; as we were not coming
to make big speeches, but to do practical Sunday-school work.
A suggestive program was sent to each county. This was a
great help both to them and to us, as it enabled us to plan the
whole of the work to be done. We also found that our volunteer
workers were willing to give their services when the work was
explained. Our experience is that two workers are better than
three or more.
- The evident results were: :
1. It put the state and county associations in closer touch
with each other.
2. By arranging conventions consecutively, many more could
be attended in the same time, and at much less expense. I at-
tended 45 from May first to August tenth.
3. It enabled us to use our volunteer service to much better
advantage.
4. County conventions were better attended and were more
representative. From 50 to 90 per cent. of the schools in the
county were usually represented.
5. Better work was done, and as a result contributions were
more liberal.
6. The state secretary suggested a program, which with slight
modifications was adapted to all counties, suggested plans for
making the convention a success, and was enabled to help the
county officers in many ways not heretofore possible.
7. It gave us the best state convention we had had for years.
8. The strength that comes from a united effort.
9. Our state association was able to pay off its debt before the
convention met.
10. So great was the interest and enthusiasm engendered, that
the state convention voted unanimously to continue the plan.
DISCUSSION.
Mr. MiTcHELL reported the plan in use in Iowa to reach 63
counties.
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Mr. D. 8. Jounsron, Washington, said the plan was used in
that state to some extent; personally he preferred that the local
authorities should prepare the program.
SPARSELY-SETTLED TERRITORY.
BY THE REV. W. C. MERRITT, WASHINGTON.
The city and the sparsely-settled counties are the antipodes
of Sunday-school field work. Isolation produces its effects in
character as certainly as does the crowd. These effects may not
be so objectionable, but they are no less difficult to handle. Shy-
ness, suspicion, the desire to be let alone, are elements of char-
acter requiring tact wisely to overcome; and they sometimes
almost bafile you. The elements necessary to meet successfully
these traits are, in part at least, their very opposites,—openness,
confidence, the desire to reach helpfully these very people.
One of the most valuable factors I have found in reaching all
sections of my state has been, apparently, a remote one. I am
persuaded that some of the best work I do is meeting with the
general or denominational gatherings of the pastors and
churches. The annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, where kindly recognition by the presiding bishop is
given, and a few minutes are granted me, when introduced to the
conference, in which I may briefly speak of my work, are very,
very valuable. These opportunities give me standing and ac-
quaintance with all the pastors and workers present. The same
is true of the annual meeting of the synod, the meetings of the
presbytery, the Baptist conventions and associations, the con-
ventions of the Disciples of Christ, and of all the denominations.
I always welcome an opportunity to address these bodies. Very
largely the pastors hold the key to the situation. I made special
effort to secure the subscriptions—not personal, but paid by in-
terested friends—of all the pastors of all the denominations for
our state paper, that they may have the opportunity of seeing
month by month what we are both doing and trying to do; and 1
find that many are interested readers. All this is most valuable
as giving me a desirable introduction and standing when I am
able to visit them.
Another factor in our approach is, that we go into these
sparsely-settled counties to give and not to get. While every
county is apportioned an equitable share of the state expense,
this apportionment is not pressed upon these weak and difficult
fields. Co-operation from them is desired, but not insisted upon.
Finally, the tour of the county by the field-worker is a most
desirable thing. In such a tour, meet every Sunday-school
worker you can. With us this is often a large and difficult con-
‘tract. Let me instance one of our counties; nor is it our largest,
though one of the most difficult. Okanogan County has 5,318
square miles of territory, with 4,689 people living in it aceord-
ing to the census of 1900, or more than a square mile to every
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 397
man, woman and child in the county. Last August I made the
tour of the county for the first time. There is not a railroad in
the county. A steamboat line traverses the Columbia River, its
southern boundary. The only way I could navigate the county
was on the hurricane deck of a cayuse. It took two weeks of
time, 250 miles of travel, riding 12, 15, 25, 40, 42 miles a day,
and speaking every night. I held the first religious service ever
held in one community.
Revisiting the county a few weeks ago, I found that three
Sunday-schools had been organized or reorganized since my first
visit, although I did not organize a single school myself. Last
month I visited the county in the interest of organization. The
representatives of four schools met; more schools would have
been represented if the proper work had been done by friends on
the field. We organized the Methow Valley Sunday-school As-
sociation. It is the beginning of organized work for that county.
Tt will not, however, run itself. It must be nurtured and helped.
But it will grow if cared for; and out of it will come the only
fellowship of religious workers in the county. New standards,
spiritual and intellectual, will be established for Sunday-school
work; fresh methods and ways and means of working will be
introduced. But in a state larger than all New England, which
had a population in 1900 only 90,000 larger than that of little
Rhode Island, and where townships are unknown except as fac-
tors in describing government land surveys, one must neither
expect to do, nor can he do, the work you brethren are doing so
grandly in the older states, where for thirty or forty years you
have been constructing your present effective organizations.
And yet, when I attend such a convention as was held June 6,
7 and 8 in the little village of Hartline, a place of less than 250
resident population; when I meet in four successive week-day
sessions, one on Friday evening and three on Saturday, audi-
ences averaging over a hundred, followed by three Sunday ses-
sions averaging over 350 (and the only reason they did not
average 500 was the inability of the largest hall in the place to
hold more), I take hope and feel encouraged. Where did these
people come from? I asked that question myself that Sunday
morning, as I faced that crowded hall. They came from a
sparsely-settled district, as scores of carriages and wagons testi-
fied, driving 10, 15, 20, 25 and 35 miles to that convention. And
when I saw nearly four hundred of them sit through a three-
hours’ session on that hot afternoon, while clouds of dust drove
by and through the hall, I said in my heart, There is hope for
Washington.
How reach the schools? By the familiar prescription given
for getting the boys,—go for them! At that convention they
elected four royal Christian young men as executive officers, and
they stood before that convention and promised to visit, during
the year, every Sunday-school in that convention district, made
up of parts of two counties.
Brethren, foundation laying is always hard, difficult, rough
work. But it is among the most important kinds of work. The
superstructure is to rest upon it; and that will be no safer than
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the foundation. We are laying the foundation of the moral and
religious life of that great West that is to be. We are endeavor-
ing to lay it in Christ Jesus, “for other foundation can no man
lay” who would build thereupon work which shall “abide.” To
lay such foundations is a blessed privilege. The associations of
Oregon and Washington and Idaho and California are doing
such work. We crave your interest, your sympathy, your
prayers, your co-operation.
DISCUSSION.
In illustration of the trials in his field, Mr. Orchard told most
graphically of beginning the work in one county which had de-
fied all efforts for five years, being dominated by cowboys. On
reaching the leading town of the county he was greeted as the
“tenderfoot” often is, by a fusilade of pistol-shots, and that at
such close range as to allow the flash to be felt. Taking this in
good part, he “thanked them for their warm welcome, and in-
quired what they were shooting at, adding that he was going to
shoot, and try to hit every time, over in the schoolhouse that
night ;—would they come?
They were present and attentive, as were all. At the close,
one of them reminded the speaker that he had forgotten the col-
lection, and insisted that it be taken, going at it himself in a
way that compelled his associates to give. The proceeds were
almost wholly red, white and blue pieces, of unknown value to
the speaker, and not cashable at an ordinary bank. But the
willing cowboy carried them across to the saloon, and returned
presently with $17.00.
THE COUNTY CONVENTION.
BY b. F. MITCHELL, IOWA.
The purpose of the county convention being to give inspira-
tion and needed information concerning the condition of the
Sunday-school work of the county, and instruction to county and
township officers and workers in the individual schools. it is
essential that every county association hold its convention an-
nually.
In newly organized counties, and those where the association
work is at a very low ebb, we have found it helpful to hold a
semi-annual convention for one or two years, in order to get the
-workers in touch with each other, and that the county officers
may become more intelligent workers. Where there is little
knowledge of the association work, people will not go far to
attend the convention, and the officers need this added conven-
tion to give them association exercise. The annual convention,
however, is preferable. If held too frequently, the attendance
is smaller, and time is spent by the county officers in prepara-
tion for this second convention that would bring larger returns
if given to the township work. A few years ago I worked up a
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county Sunday-school rally that was a marked success in at-
tendance and enthusiasm. Soon after, several requested that
another be held; but the reply given was that I had not the time
1o give to it, and furthermore, that we must have fewer gather-
ings and keep them at a high standard. The people whom we
want for officers of our associations, and those whom we desire
to attend, are busy people. Their time is valuable, and the an-
nual convention usually presents the strongest program.
Location—The county convention should not be located in
sections that are practically impossible to reach by the larger
number of the workers. These points can be reached by the
township or district conventions. Yet further, it has never
proved a success in Iowa to hold the convention year after year
in the same town. This has been tried in three or four of our
counties, the point being made that the people like to go to the
county-seat, or to a railroad center; but for some reason we
have found that when the convention gets there, the people are
not there; the local workers look upon it as a yearly event, and
the county association ekes out a miserable existence because it
cannot draw one full breath a year.
One point that must be borne in mind is that the convention
is to benefit all the Sunday-school workers of the county. They
will not attend unless interested; and if they are to become
interested the convention must be taken to them. The commit-
tee on place of meeting should consider the conditions of the
various sections; and the convention should be located where
the needed returns can be had. Taking towns in line is not
always found the most advantageous, because there may be
times when they feel the convention forced upon them and the
extending of invitations for place of meeting adds enthusiasm
to the convention.
Advertising—At the close of one convention, preparations
should be begun for the following one. The reports should call
attention to the place of next meeting. It should be announced
on the county association letter-heads. The program committee
should meet at least two months prior to the convention, pre-
pare the program, and have announcements made in all papers
of the county. Personal notices should be sent to interested
workers. Have it well announced by some live worker at every
township convertion held during the year.
Five weeks prior to the convention, furnish each newspaper
with “hook copy” that will provide him a paragraph or more for
each of the four weeks preceding the convention.
Have a large quantity of programs printed and freely distrib-
uted. One of our counties prints five thousand each year. Use
attractive posters. Have notices read by the pastors and super-
intendents. Be sure it is well advertised in the local town. At
one or two of our conventions, I have noticed written on the
sidewalk here and there, ‘““Sunday-school convention now in ses-
sion ;” “Don’t miss the Sunday-school convention.” Small hand-
bills can be given to the grocerymen, asking them to enclose
them with orders sent out a few days previous to the convention.
Hold township presidents responsible for its being well adver-
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tised in their townships. Let them understand that one of their
duties is to be present at the convention with a large delegation
from their township.
Reporting.—All workers will not and cannot attend the con-
vention. We want as large a number as possible to be benefited.
Many will read the newspaper reports. Have a press committee
appointed at the opening session of the convention, whose duty
it is to furnish a report to each of the papers in the county. If
any dailies are published, the report should be furnished them
at the close of each session. Some of the larger counties find it
advantageous to have a stenographic report. It is helpful for
the delegates to report the convention in their own schools, and
further, that it be reported at the township conventions.
To secure results——There must be a good presiding officer;
business methods must be adopted; and definite plans must be
laid for the ensuing year’s work. The president and secretary
should carefully plan the appointment of committees; and then
it is better that such committees should largely plan the work.
The convention should have the following committees: on nomi-
nations; on place of next meeting; on plan of work; on resolu-
tions; and on finance. The duties of the last-named committee
are to audit the treasurer’s books and to prepare the budget of
expense, presenting the same to the convention for its action.
Local arrangements.—A county officer must visit the town, or
ascertain definitely through correspondence the work that is
being done.
The surroundings add much to the life of a convention; hence
the desirability of a decorating committee. The music should
be in the hands of a good committee that should provide a
leader of song, an organist, and suitable music. The convention
town needs to make every delegate feel a Christianlike welcome.
A reception committee to meet all trains, an entertainment
committee to make prompt assignments, and pages to show dele-
gates to the homes and run errands, contribute no small part to
the success of the convention.
The state association’s part.—Here is the opportunity for the
state association to accomplish a large work. Notwithstanding
its helpfulness during the year, a great mass of the Sunday-
school workers look upon this as the time for the making of the
connection from the International to the county work. The
state can aid by (1) furnishing a date when a state worker can
be present; (2) studying the former programs and needs of the
field, then suggesting needed topics for discussion; (3) haying
on file in the state office clippings on varied phases of Sunday-
school management that can be mailed to local speakers on the
program, that their presentation may be up to date; these to be
returned and used again; (4) furnishing a state worker who can
give information concerning association work and modern Sun-
day-school] methods, and needed help to officers and committees,
and take charge of the installation service of the newly elected
officers.
In this installation service, the field-worker should lead those
present, especially the officers, to see the greatness of the work
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and to feel the need of a closer walk with God in order to bear
much fruit.
DISCUSSION.
Mr. Jounston: Programs are sent out three weeks ahead of
the time of meeting,—a four-page leaflet, of which one page is a
letter to superintendents telling of the advantages of the con-
vention, asking for reports, etc.
Mr. F. F. Jones, Iowa: In our county we send the programs
by a messenger, who also delivers an oral message. We use the
telephone a good deal.
RAISING MONEY.
BY THE REY. A. P. GEORGE, D.D., MISSOURI.
Raising Money,—systematic plans; what plea to make; in
what kind of meetings; personal solicitation; printed matter;
results.
This subject is certainly not one of my own choosing, nor was
I consulted in regard to it; and | certainly should never have
selected it, as raising money is very far from my forte.
Systematic plans.—The outline given me contemplates more
than one plan, for the word is in the plural number. This is
right, for there is no end to the variety of methods for raising
money; in fact, the success ofttimes depends on the variety.
This is a restless age, and people become tired of the one way of
doing things in the clamor for something new. But the em-
phatie word’ in this sub-head is “systematic.” ‘Let all things
be done decently and in order,” is as applicable to raising money
as to any other part of the Lord’s work. A minister systemat-
ically plans his sermon, and a normal instructor his outline,
and yet no two sermons are exactly alike, and no two normal
lessons present just the same phase. It may be.that “well ma-
tured” is a better word to use than “systematic;” for one who
raises money must do a large amount of head-work and heart-
work before he takes the collection. No iron-clad rule can be
made. People must be studied. The situation must be taken
into account and some plan matured and then patiently and
sweetly but persistently executed.
The plan should reach each one. One dollar from each of ten
men is better than ten dollars from one. It is, after all, an
individual matter. It is like the Gospel. The Gospel is for all
men; but men are reached as we get the man. It is like love.
Love is always in the singular number, and is always to the
individual and not to the multitude. As the way we reach the
masses is one at a time, so the way to get money is from the
individual, and not from the great congregation, though it may
be received from the individual in the congregation.
Keep in mind always that the giver is greater than the gift;
hence do not dwell on a specific amount. It may be well to men-
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tion it, it may not. The plan should be to reach, not the con-
gregation, but each in the congregation. A subscription taken
in the meeting when the cause is presented, a pledge to do cer-
tain work and make an honest effort, an envelope as a reminder,
an empty pocketbook to be filled, an illustration of the use of
the contribution, and, above all, information on the subject in
hand for which the contribution is taken, are all suggestive. ~~
Whatever the plan used, let it be preceded or accompanied by
INFORMATION. Men to be benevolent must be intelligent con-
tributors. An illustration: A young minister preached a ser-
mon an hour long on future punishment, and at the conclusion
said: “Brethren, let’s take up the missionary collection this
morning; and I hope you will contribute liberally.” The col-
lection was taken. It amounted to but a few cents. The
preacher accused the congregation of being stingy; but not so.
It was not the fault of the congregation that the collection was
not larger. His successor came. He preached a missionary ser-
mon. He covered the enc of the church with charts and dia-
grams. He showed how much the church had put into the plant,
of men and women and money. He showed the result of the
operations thus far; the number saved and gathered into the
chureh; the numbers in the Sunday-schools and in the day
schools: the number of native preachers who had gone out from
this field; the work the women were doing. He closed his ser-
mon by drawing aside the curtain and letting the people see the
millions without the gospel, and his voice was the trumpet-
sound of the man of Macedonia crying “Come over and help us.”
The people could scarcely wait for the collection. They were
glad to give; nay more, they were anxious to give; and they
gave and gave largely. Why the difference in these two collec-
tions? The latter was accompanied by information; the former
was a simple request. We must show to God’s children what
we are doing, and unfold to them that we want to do, in order
to receive a contribution from them.
What plea to make.—There are three general pleas which are
always in order,
1. The people cannot be asked too often to give God his tenth.
It is his, and is not a part of man’s benevolence: it is simply
debt-paying. While there are so many men, good men too, in so
many of our churches, who come so far short of God’s tenth, it
is well to plead for it. We should ask men to set aside a definite
percentage of their income to charitable uses, as it promotes a
sense of personal dependence on God; because such proportion-
ate giving excites gratitude for providential favors.
Again, such proportionate giving carries God into the work-
shop and the counting room, sanctifies toil and traffic, and
makes Jesus Christ a silent but effective partner in every busi-
ness of life. To devote a fair percentage of one’s income to
charity brings us into fellowship with Jesus Christ in the work
of the world’s salvation. “Public benefactors,” says Archbishop
Fenelon, “live their lives twice over.” Indeed, it may be said of
those who are accustomed to give a just percentage of their
income to charity, that they live their lives many times over.
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Their Christian works multiply. They see the remote as well
as the immediate good which is accomplished. The quick invest-
ment gives quick profit and adds accumulating capital.
“The good begun by them shall onward flow,
In many a branching stream, and wider grow.”
2. A part of God’s tenth. To the man who religiously tithes,
the plea for the tenth is unnecessary. He has learned that les-
son and gained that victory. He recognizes the fact that he is
God’s steward, and has trust funds in his hands. To this man
you must show that the cause which you represent is a good
place for him to invest a part of these funds. With him it is
not a question of how much to give, but a question of where to
invest. Seldom appeal to the emotional. That giving by im-
pulse and from excited religious feeling may sometimes bring
large sums into the Lord’s treasury, is not to be denied; but for
a constant reliable revenue, dependence can be placed only on
systematic offerings. God’s plan is that of limited but constant
supplies. Our beneficence should be as the grass grows, as the
streams gather fulness, as the harvest comes to its maturity,
little by little. day by day, reaching the grand results by gentle
and almost inappreciable advances.
3. The Cause. As long as there are so many who do not
tithe, who have not adopted God’s plan, we must sometimes ap-
peal to the emotional nature and magnify to the would-be giver
the cause which we represent; showing its needs, its great op-
portunities, its absolute necessity, and the amount of good that
can be accomplished by a liberal contribution. Such giving—
rather, such getting—may help our immediate needs, but in the
long run, it is doubtful if the increase will be manifest. Men
give, and when the reaction comes feel hurt, think they have
been imposed on, and this contribution must suffice for many
future appeals.
In what kinds of meetings.—There are very few meetings in
which collections are not in order and a plea for money is not
appropriate. More churches and benevolent and philanthropic
organizations have been allowed to dwindle and die for want of
collections, than have ever been harmed by overdoing the mat-
ter. At almost any meeting in which it is appropriate to offer
an audible prayer, it is also appropriate to give people an oppor-
tunity to contribute. In our timidity we ofttimes hold back.
Just as it is true that “it is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive,” just so faithful must we be who are managing a meeting,
in taking collections, that everyone can get a blessing.
A little personal experience: In early days I was in old “No
Man’s Land,” now a part of Oklahoma. I had preached to the
people for nearly three hours, standing in the blazing sun in my
open buggy. Not a tree or shelter of any kind was in sight.
Forty-six people were in the congregation; none who had heard
a sermon for a year, and two who had not heard one for seven
years. I was trying to make up for lost time. After my pro-
tracted sermon was finished, I pronounced the benediction and
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sent them away. An earnest lover of the Lord came to me and
said: “Can’t we have the communion? The elder always ad-
ministered it when he came round in Ohio.” I ealled the com-
pany back, and procuring the necessary emblems, which I ecar-
ried with me, administered the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
to one-half that audience, as they knelt in the sand, on the open
prairie beneath the blue canopy of heaven. It was a most solemn
and beautiful meeting with the Lord. Again I pronounced the
benediction, and sent the people away. This same person ap-
proached me the second time, and with a deep earnestness asked:
“Are you not going to take up a collection? The elder always
took up one in Ohio.” I was sur prised, and for a moment
scarcely knew what to say, but answered, “Oh, no; I guess I
can get along without it.” I shall never forget the look of re-
proof that came from this mother in Israel, as with all the ear-
nestness of her consecrated being she replied, “Well, maybe you
can get along without it, but can the people?” I had never
thought of it in this light. .I called them back, and presented
the Master’s cause, and asked for a collection. It came liberally
and largely. Wrapped up in a piece of brown paper was $7.91.
This was the contribution of this poor widow. I jwent to her
dugout and saw her in her poverty. Her only support was that
of a crippled son, who gathered buffalo bones for a living. I
asked about her contribution. She said, “It is not mine, it is the
Lord’s;” and then she told me how, in all the years of her con-
secrated life, she had never robbed God by using any of his
tenth for her personal needs; how -that for years from every
dollar she put aside a dime, and from every dime a penny; that
I was the first minister she had seen in her western home, and
she was so glad that at last one of his servants had come, that
she might turn this money into some avenue of usefulness. The
meeting which I have described above was one in which few
would have thought of a collection; but how unkind it would
have been not to have given this good woman an opportunity of
contributing.
A young man once wrote to a friend and said: “Our denomi-
nation is not represented where I am now living; shall I leave
my membership in the old church, carry my letter about with
me, or put it in one of the denominations here represented? and
if I deposit here, which church had I better join?” The friend,
a sensible man, said: “Visit the churches in your new home;
and if you deposit your letter in the one that takes the most
collections, you w ill be surrounded by the largest amount of Te-
ligious enthusiasm and Christian philanthropy.”
“In what meetings ?—I would answer the question briefly, first,
at meetings called for the purpose. I believe it pays to be frank
in announcing a meeting; to tell the people a collection will be
taken. No one can object to a collection when the announce-
ment has been fully made. They come to the meeting with a
distinct understanding. How disappointed some people would
be at a church dedication, not to have a collection! If by good
management the trustees have no indebtedness to provide for,
then a thank-offering is eminently proper. Second, at other
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meetings. I did not say at all other meetings. As a rule a col-
lection is as much in order as a prayer. I have held meetings,
even Sunday-school meetings, in which I offered no audible
prayer; and once I preached at a revival meeting in which no
prayer was heard by the congregation.
God seems to be more interested in our offerings than in our
prayers, for there is more said in the Bible about paying than
about praying. Let us worship God by giving. Paying is Chris-
tian activity. It is answering prayer. Sometimes it underlies
prayer. Paul in his letter to Philemon said: “But withal pre-
pare me also a lodging; for I trust that through your prayers 1
shall be given unto you.” Here was paying and praying. Paul
does not separate them. He wanted two things. First, a ma-
terial offering; second, prayers. All prayers and no offering
would have been Pharisaic. All offerings and no prayers would
have been, if I am allowed to coin a word, fraternic.
* In one of the best pastorates I ever had, a collection was taken
in every service, even prayer-meeting. Spurgeon is reported as
having said: “I take a collection in every religious meeting I
hold. except family prayers.” I have gone beyond Spurgeon,
and in my own home the mite-box has been passed around the
family worship. It was a blessed part of the service, and gave
a direction, pointedness and earnestness to the prayers at that
altar that otherwise they would not have had. .
Personal solicitation—Hand-picked fruit is the best. There
is power in personal magnetism. It is better many times to
awaken the individual to a consciousness of duty than to arouse
the activities of the multitudes through their emotional natures.
In a work like that represented by this Conference, the pledge
is essential, ofttimes more important than the money itself. I
once heard Governor Stanard of Missouri say to a class of young
men: “Promise something, and then work hard to meet your
promise.” There is much init. It awakens and sets in motion
some systematic method, which otherwise would not be devel
oped. If every person, school, township, county, state or prov-
ince, could be induced to make a pledge, not only would the labor
of the finance committee be relieved, but the harvest would be
manifest in the increased interest, and in an awakening which
would continue this increase. It is not a question of aggregate
but of individual offerings. Some one has said that God never
counts the collection, but knows how much each individual gives.
Go to the man with your heart full; feel the burden of the
cause; show him the opportunity. He will catch your enthusi-
asm. It will become his cause and his opportunity. He not
only will help; but now, filled it may be beyond yourself, he
must carry the good news to others, and be becomes your co-
worker in this field of the Master’s. Get first his heart: then
you have his treasure. Go and tell him many times, if need be,
of the work. Impress upon him the work, not the fact that you
are after his money. Tell him, and say nothing about money.
Awaken him. It is the seed-sowing. The harvest will come.
Printed matter—TI have very little use for most printed mat-
ter used in raising money. Sometimes a simple pledge-card,
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simply to have as a memorandum, sometimes a brief statement
of the cause for which help is sought, is helpful; but only help-
ful as it is supplemented by a personal appeal. If nine-tenths
of all the printed matter used in the United States could be
dispensed with, and the money and energy put into personal
solicitation, the results would be many-fold better than now.
Results.—Results of raising money are threefold. I name
them in their logical order, mentioning the least first.
1. The cause in which we are interested is helped. Sometimes
we act as if this was the all-in-all; but it is only a means to
an end.
2. A second and great result is the blessing that comes to the
giver.
3. The crowning consummation of the collection taken in the
Master’s name is, that he is honored and glorified. Heaven will
be a glad and glorious reunion of cheerful givers.
DISCUSSION.
Mr. G. E. Hatt, New Jersey: ‘The financial results depend
upon the man, and the way the matter is presented.
Mr. JonNsTOoN: My county always pays its apportionment.
We study the total school enrollment and the lack of Sunday-
school facilities, and we present these to the citizens regardless
of their being Christians. We appeal to a man’s patriotism.
We say: “What will be our future citizenship if these children
are neglected? We want $20 from you or from your firm.” A
true parent or patriot will respond.
Mr. MitcHeLrt: Our revenue is from three sourees: (1)
from every Sunday-school,—we keep steadily after them; (2)
offerings in township conventions,—explain, and ask for offer-
ings; (3) from individuals.
Mr. HALPeNNyY said they relied on schools and individuals
and had developed a very satisfactory system, whereby they get
a thousand dollars annually from the citizens of Montreal, at
a cost of fifty dollars for postage. He offered to send samples
of their literature used for this purpose, and a number asked
for the same.
Mr. WHEATON, Ohio: Nothing takes the place of personal
work. Ifa man will try raising ‘money for this cause, he will
not have cause to regret it.
Mr. Fercusson: We succeed in getting annual offerings from
more than sixty per cent. of our Sunday-schools.
THE Rev. U. A. WuitTeE, Colorado, told of the plan used by him
in a Pennsylvania county several years back. One person was
appointed in every school as county secretary of finance, whose
sole duty as a deputy county officer was to get the offering of
that school. As a result, 80 out of 82 schools in the county
contributed.
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THE FUTURE OF OUR FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT.
BY THE REY. W. C. MERRITT, WASHINGTON.
This Department should be the training-school of the Inter-
national Convention for effective field work. Accessibility and
practicability will be the touchstones of its real serviceableness
as a school.
So far as the Pacific and Mountain states are concerned, it
has been inaccessible up to this session. Our field work in those
states has been conducted by those who have had no opportunity
to touch the work done in this Department except through its
printed reports.
If this Department is to become the efficient factor in the
International work it may and should become, then its meetings
must be arranged within the reach of all the field workers. I
have been in this work and a member of this Department for five
years.. The annual meeting during that period that came near-
est to the state of Washington was the one held at Toledo, Ohio:
and the cost in time and money to attend that was prohibitory.
The Far East and the Far West cannot be successfully brought
together in a common annual meeting. Two plans to meet this
difficulty offer themselves, but only one seems. to be really
effective and practical. One is, to divide the whole field into
districts, and have an organization and an annual meeting in
each. The objection lies in the fact that the strong states lie
contiguous and would be naturally grouped together; the weak
states, lying also contiguous, would be grouped together. This
would be fatal to the very states most needing help. The other
plan is to maintain the unity of the organization, hold its an-
nual meetings in widely distributed places, and in addition to
the annual meeting of the Department organize and operate a
corps oi four or five thoroughly equipped and specially qualified
instructors, and send this company of genuine experts in Sun-
day-school work into such places as may be selected from year
to year to hold five-day institutes or training schools for state
and county officers and workers. These places may be so selected
that for an expense of from ten to twenty dollars these field
workers’ training schools may be accessible, at least biennially,
to the officers of every county in every state and province of the
entire International field. Such a body of instructors should be
employed not less than ten weeks or three months annually,
holding each year ten or twelve institutes, thus covering the
field. and bringing practical and vital help into every part.
But how may such a plan be financed? The better way, as it
seems to me, is a twofold method. Primarily, let the expenses
be borne by the treasury of the International Convention. A
wheel within a wheel is not most successfully or economically
operated by a separate motor. Retain the membership fee and
enlarge the membership, turning the receipts over to the Inter-
national Treasurer. At every institute let a frank, straight-
forward statement be made, setting forth the character and rela-
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iion of the work to the International Convention, and let one or
more freewill offerings be taken for the “Field Workers’ Depart-
ment Fund ;” and the expenses will, in my judgment, be fully
met from these sources. If, in the estimate of the Sunday-school
workers, the help given is of the kind and quality needed, the
Christian men and women of Greater America will gladly and
adequately support the work. If it is administered in the inter-
ests of the entire field, there will be no question at all as to its
cordial and hearty support.
One suggestion more. ‘The Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee, the General Secretary, and the Treasurer of the Interna-
tional Convention should be members of the Executive Commit-
tee of this Department, not as individuals but because of their
ex-officio relation to all the work. Such a nexus will be vital to
the best interests and relations of the whole. But in case of
disagreement or friction, let the final authority rest in the In-
ternational Executive Committee, that the unity of the work
may be conserved.
It is no idle boast or vain conceit that this cause in which we
are engaged is second to none for the future of the Kingdom of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and the good of the countries
interested; and this Department has a very large responsibility
in promoting the effectiveness of the entire work. —
BY W. C. SHAFER, WEST VIRGINIA.
The future of this Department means much to the South, for
our possibilities and needs go hand in hand.
The object of the Field Workers’ Department, as stated in
their “basis of organization,” is, in a word, to be helpful to its
members. Two special ways are mentioned: (1) by “bringing its
members together ;” (2) by “the circulation of literature.”
Both points are strong. What is stronger than the personal
touch? What influences are more widely felt wan the press?
So, I would say, we will be helped most, in the South, by a fulfil-
ment of the object for which we are organized.
1. Bring us together—Seemingly, there has been but one
regret; and that is, the mass of members did not “meet to-
gether.” It is not simply a matter of indifference, but an obsta-
cle of miles and money that has prevented a general gathering.
At Baltimore we had about twenty-five per cent. present; but
only two of the forty-eight came from states west of Ilimnois.
The miles will never grow less, and the money may never be
so abundant as to overcome this disadvantage. As it is, those
most interested and best equipped for the work, and most able
to come, are the ones who meet together, and the needy ones, to
whom the “helpful relations” mean most, are absent each year.
May I be permitted this suggestion?
Divide the work into sectional conferences, not independent
but auxiliary to the Field Workers’ Department, with a Vice-
secretary for our southern section. For instance, the eleven
states south of Ohio and east of the Mississippi could be desig-
oo
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 409
nated as a section, and this again subdivided into three parts,
so that three or four states may constitute a division; the main
purpose being to draw the workers of these divisions together,
because of the shortened distances. The conferences would thus
get into convenient reach of all within three years. These meet-
ings, of course, would be in addition to the triennial meeting.
A uniform program could be prepared, as usual, and reports
printed in state papers or by the secretary. Particularly would
this plan offer privileges to the voluntary worker, if at least one
day’s session were on the order of an institute for training dis-
trict and county workers. :
There would be an advantage in having such meetings imme-
diately preceding or following the annual state convention. At
least four good reasons may be suggested in favor of this
change: (1) it would bring together neighboring secretaries,
who are most fitted to help one another; (2) it would furnish
good help without expense to the state holding the convention ;
each state in its turn sharing these benefits; (3) in three years,
such conventions could he held in nine of our eleven states; (4)
our workers would receive training.
This plan is all the more possible because of the success of the
splendid “Tours” that have been made during the last year
under the direction of Brother Marion Lawrance. It would be
an casy matter to have these conferences fall into line with the
“Tours” of the year, and in this manner receive the presence and
help of this “Tour Party.” The workers of three or four states
and an International “Tour Party” could hold a conference that
would be helpful beyond measure; and they in turn be brought
into broader touch with the workers of the field, which thing is
their great desire. It seems possible to accomplish this without
the use of more machinery than already existsy save the Sec-
tional Secretary.
Until some one is able to invent an influence more powerful
than the “personal touch,” you will find no substitute for a con-
ference of workers.
2. Circulate literature—-As one of the newest secretaries I
naturally looked around for aids and printed information. Not
only did I look, but I wrote to my friends and the international
officials, and was told that, aside from the standard books and
the reports, there was nothing to be had.
The matters of organization, interesting and helping workers,
planning tours, the danger-points and how to avoid them, are
topics confronting every new worker; and your experience is
most valuable and might save many a blunder and much time.
Every new man loses time by doing the wrong thing first, or the
right thing in the wrong way.
The matter of statistics is important. So far, every state
prints and uses its own forms. It takes years of experience to
know what is best, and often a plan has to be tried before the
weak points can be seen. Therefore the “tried plans” are the
best.
Again, they did not all furnish the information that Brother
Lawrance desired for this Convention; and without change they
410 APPENDIX.
may be deficient for the next Convention in Jerusalem. It
means a good deal for each state to get up a full series of in- —
structions and printed information for their many workers,
especially when they do not know just what to “get up,” or are
not fortunate enough to be provided with liberal allowances.
The average worker will not read a book; but a pamphlet of
six or a dozen pages, if properly prepared, will be of great value.
He will not undertake a number of things at one time. It looks
too hard, and he is not prepared to manage them all. So, it
seems to me, if the work could be divided into progressive steps,
so that you could show him how to do one thing at a time, by
planning the instructions in a concise and businesslike form, he
would be helped.
When I go to a business man and ask him to organize a county
for me, he says, “I have not time.” He at once sees that it will
take more of his time to plan the work than to work the plan.
But when I go to him and ask for a definite thing and hand him
businesslike instructions for doing it, he will usually consent.
They are not only to organize, but to take part on convention
programs, and need to know a few facts well enough to impress
the delegates with their worth. Take for instance, the popular
“round table” on County Organization, or on Sunday-school
Management. A pamphlet with the questions and also the
printed answers, collected from the best of sources, will help
many a person over a hard place and elevate the character of
the work.
These will possibly be only stepping-stones to something bet-
ter; for as a person begins to grow in the work, he feels the need.
of more and better information, and will, after a while, be will-
ing to read books (by the time the books are published), and
then study the problems of better work.
BY LEWIS COLLINS, TEXAS.
In opening the sessions of the Fifth Annual Conference of the
Field Workers, held in Louisville, January, 1897, President
Alfred Day suggested three ways in which the Department
might be helpful to state and provincial: workers: (1) By inter-
change of service at state conventions.and other meetings; (2)
by dissemination of literature; (3) by securing best transporta-
tion facilities.
The first plan has been in use for some years among the
Northern states, and more recently between Kentucky, Ten-
nessee and Alabama. Its continued use this year shows the
favor in which it is held. The second seems to have been used
for one year at least, perhaps longer, and then to have settled
down into an exchange of periodicals only. Of the third I can
only find that, in discussion, the Loud Bill was considered to
interfere, and the matter was referred to the International Ex-
ecutive Committee, with whom it slumbers.
Following President Day’s line of thought, I plead: |
1. For an enlargement of the interchange idea, among groups
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 41L
of adjoining states. Thus, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Texas may be treated as one group. . Texas and Arkansas have
salaried field workers; but the other states—Oklahoma ought to
be a state, and will be counted as one—have capable convention
workers, known to the International General Secretary, or to
the chairman of each state executive committee. My wish is
that these workers be called to meet together and with the
International General Secretary and Field Workers, once each
year, about six months before the series of state conventions, in
a conference of three days. The workers of the colored Sunday-
school associations might meet at the same time and place.
From the acquaintances formed in these conferences, and a view
of the work each can do, the executive committee of each state
would be enabled intelligently to invite workers to participate
in their convention, and tender a return of the favor, traveling
expenses only to be paid. The four state conventions should
succeed each other for the benefit of the International workers.
This plan will give every section of our land an annual con-
ference of field workers, and every state convention the help of
several experts with the lowest expense. My own visit to the
Louisiana state convention in April of this year emphasized the
feasibility and value of such a plan, at least as far as my profit
was concerned.
2. For a continuation of the exchange of all publications. I
have been greatly helped in beginning my work in Texas by the
leaflets issued by Manitoba, and by the primary workers of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As soon as any publication
issues, either leaflet, card, circular, etc., enough copies should
be at once sent to the Secretary of this Department to give one
to each salaried state and International worker, and one to the
chairman of the state executive committee of states having no
field-worker. Once a month the Secretary should make distri-
bution.
3. As to transportation. The situation in Texas suits me
well enough. But in the interest of all, I suggest that a com-
mittee of two be appointed to wait upon the most friendly offi-
cials of some inter-state road, and to suggest the idea of appoint-
ing each state and International field-worker, who is devoting
all of his or her time to the work, a traveling passenger agent,
with nominal salary, and entitled to an annual pass over all
roads within his proper field, and trip passes elsewhere; thus
making us railway officials. I think this will settle the diffi-
culty raised by the Loud Bill. In a measure we truly are rail-
way officials: for our work certainly does lead to very much
railway travel which would fall off if our work was stopped.*
* Necessary limitations of space have compelled the Editor to omit por-
tions of all the papers read at this Conference and here printed; and he re-
grets that several other valuable papers, prepared for the Conference and
requested for publication (see p. 366), but not read, must be altogether
omitted for the same reason.
¢
412 APPENDIX.
REPORT OF THE MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY.
To the Officers and Members: Greeting.
It will be remembered by those of you who were at the Balti-
more Conference that at that time Rev. E. Morris Fergusson
was the Membership Secretary and Treasurer, and that I was
the Vice-president. ‘The position of Secretary and Treasurer
had been in the Fergusson family ever since the organization of
the Department. True, Miss Mamie F. Huber had had the posi-
tion for several years before she assumed the name of Fergus-
son; but all who know that worthy couple, and who believe in
the doctrine that “‘matches are made in heaven,” know that Miss
Huber was a member of the Fergusson family, by predestina-
tion, long before either of them knew it. Well, the work had
grown so arduous under their successful management that
Brother Fergusson felt compelled to resign, and some things
were said that made me feel impelled to do likewise. This spirit
of resignation prevailed, and the weight of official responsibility
rolled off of both of us for a season. But it proved to be a very
short season; for in less time than it takes to tell it a vote was
taken and Brother Fergusson found himself “out of the frying-
pan into the” pie-pan! with nothing left to do but to rest on his
laurels, eat pie, and look ornamental; while J was put into the
frying-pan, and into the soup as well. And that is how it hap-
pens that I stand before you to-day, to make this report in his
stead.
Since my election I have been away from my home more than
half the time, sometimes for five or six weeks at a stretch.
Without help it would have been literally impossible for me to
have attended to the correspondence and to have kept the books.
But, fortunately, I am blessed with a wife who can do some
things that Mrs. Fergusson did so well for so many years; and it
is Mrs. Meigs who has really done the work, as her handwriting
on nearly every page of the records will show.
I submit herewith a complete list of the membership for the
current year, arranged by states and provinces. The total num-
ber is 264. I have an additional list of workers, members last
year, but whose renewals have not yét been received; this list
is also submitted.
I find that some real difficulty in keeping the records straight
is occasioned by the fact that our fiscal year closes on the first
of September. Since our Conferences are never held in the
month of September, but usually in January, I urgently recom-
mend that our fiscal year be changed so as to correspond with
the regular calendar year. To do this, it will probably be neces-
_ sary to vote that all members who have paid up to September
1, 1902, shall be considered paid to December 31, 1902.
If this is done, I suggest that the new Membership Secretary
be instructed so to notify all members, and to say to them that
if they want to keep their files of association papers unbroken,
they will please send thirty cents to pay for the remaining four
months; after which subscriptions shall run for the calendar
year. é
THE FIELD WORKEES’ DEPARTMENT. 413
I also recommend that in this event no subscriptions be re-
ceived after July of each year, as no member ought to be asked
to pay a full year’s subscription for six months.
CHAS. D. MEIGS, Membership Secretary.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER.
CASH RECEIVED.
SEORMMEONE IASG YORE 2.2.3. «2 Se ea 362 40
Membership fees: renewals........ $186 00
oi ERS See eRe ee eee 79 00
ICT ey oot: cee = = = Se 1 00
$266 00
Subscriptions for association papers.......-. 176 00
Sale of Baltimore Report... 2. ..2 2002 225. 10
Received for exchange on checks............ 30
PLULL DELS Bite As et ee etek rene’ Seg Rates te $442 40
June 25, 1902. Net proceeds of sales of Baltimore Re-
port, from Joseph Clark, Secretary..............- 25 85
$530 65
CASH PAID OUT.
Prieta aH SEAGIONELY 60/522 Sh. S82 ethic oe es $23 25
(RPL RS +S a ee es enn 22 95
Raprepereren afree sos se SM ot eee Wee 80
TURTLE QT TSE S ORS ce Se a es (a 11 85
AEEE PUTTS ee BL Be ee ES ee 80
Executive Committee, for traveling expenses.......-.. 25 00
Baltimore Conference, reporter........-......------ 25 00
Baltimore Conference Report, printer’s bill.......... 232 75
Subscriptions to papers, 1901-2, prorated............ 176 00
Pane bernew TeCAsurer .(3...2'. ~ 1 sec oc +2 ROEM ee 12 25
$530 65
SECRETARY'S FINANCIAL REPORT. 1901-02.
Furnished by Joseph Clark, Secretary.
Receipts from sales of Baltimore Reports:
W. C. Shafer, W. Va...$2 95 W.C. Pearce, Ill.. $3 10
E. M. Fergusson, N. J.. 6 00 Joseph Clark, O.. 15 00
G. S. Deming, Conn... 6 20 Miscellaneous .... 4 90
H.S. Conant, Mass.... 6 00 ——$44 15
* The balance reported by the Treasurer, January 23, 1901, was $229.46;
see report of Baltimore Conference, p. 16. After closing this account, how-
ever, the former Treasurer distributed to the Association papers the
amounts due them, and made other payments, reducing the balance to the
amount here stated. The accounts and vouchers for these payments were
duly audited at Denver.
414 APPENDIX.
Disbursements:
Envelopes for mailing Reports.......
Expressage on lots paid in advance
Expressage on Secretary’s books, ete., from
PEPOMEON «5 isin alanis» olsls. 2s a cis © ss - a's eee
PORUALE \ |: Je. Liisa eS + o's ee ely Se 6 45
“Telephone to Marion Lawrance..... ‘eee ~ 2 head aes
Balance paid C. D. Meigs, Treasurer............ 25 85
—$44 15
STATEMENT.
Accounts receivable:
Baltimore Report, on sales of 838 copies...... ..+.-.--$51 00
Do., on advertising: . ts o's. oss tAvtctees . 20 00
$71 00
Accounts payable:
Due Joseph Clark, postage on 288 copies Baltimore Re-
port to members, omitted from his account by mistake, $8 64
CHAS. D. MEIGS, Treasurer.
Audited and found correct:
J. A. BURHANS,
T. M. MarsHAtt,
Huer Cork,
Auditors.
ROLL OF MEMBERS, 1901-02.
Furnished by Charles D. Meigs, Membership Secretary.
ARIZONA:
Frank C. Reid, Flagstaff.
ARKANSAS:
B. S. Beach, Osage Mills.
T. J. Conner, Fayetteville.
BRITISH COLUMBIA:
William Gregson, Victoria.
Noah Shakespeare, Victoria.
CALIFORNIA:
Earl S. Bingham, San José.
Charles M. Campbell, Sacramento.
J. F. Drake, San Diego.
I. N. Halliday, Oakland.
Rey. W. C. Sherman, Sacramento.
Rey, J. E. Squires, Colusa.
Rey. L. M. Walters, Fresno.
Bion B. Williams, Santa Barbara.
~ COLORADO:
S. H. Atwater, Canon City.
Henry T. Plant, Denver.
Dr. Robert M. Pollock, Rocky
Ford.
Rey. C. K. Powell,
Springs.
L. H. Smith, Aspen.
Colorado
William E. Sweet, Denver.
Mrs. J. A. Walker, Denver.
Mrs. Jean F. Webb, Denver.
CONNECTICUT:
Joshua Belden, Newington.
Capt. J. K. Bucklyn, Mystic.
George S. Deming, New Haven.
C. R. Fisher, Hartford.
Miss Harriet E. Walden, New
Haven.
DELAWARE:
Mrs. Lottie T. Brockson, Town-
send.
Dr. Frank W. Lang, Wilmington.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:
James L. Irwin, Washington.
Jerome F. Johnson, Washington.
IDAHO:
Rey. H. A. Lee, Weiser. -
Horace E. Neal, Boisé.
ILLINOIS:
Miss Mary I. Bragg, Chicago.
Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner, Chicago.
J. A. Burhans, Chicago.
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT.
Mrs. J. A. Burhans, Chicago.
Dr. W. E. Buxton, Samsville.
D. Cameron, Chicago.
John Farson, Chicago.
W. B. Jacobs, Chicago.
George W. Miller, Paris.
Rey. Henry Moser, Sheridan.
E. W. Nichols, Chicago.
W. C. Pearce, Chicago.
Lyman B. Vose, Macomb.
INDIANA:
Mrs. Anna R. Black, Terre Haute.
W. P. Bottorff, Utica.
Rey. John C. Carman, Indianap-
olis.
Rey. T. C. Gebauer, Madison.
William C. Hall, Indianapolis.
Charles D. Meigs, Indianapolis.
Josiah Morris, Coloma.
J. F. Nusbaum, Middlebury.
R. S. Ogle, Tipton.
Joseph B. Speicher, Urbana.
IOWA:
Hon. S. W. Cole, Cedar Rapids.
J. FE. Hardin, Eldora.
N. H. Hart, Kalo.
F. F. Jones, Villisca.
W. C. Kirchheck, Colesburg.
B. F. Mitchell, Des Moines.
Mrs. Mary B. Mitchell, Des
Moines.
Rey. William Murchie, Allerton.
D. A. Porterfield, Traer.
Miss Effie Roberts, Creston.
0. M. Sanford, Hampton.
Mrs. T. B. Short, Fairfield.
E. B. Stevenson, Cedar Rapids.
‘KANSAS:
Lincoln J. Allen, Norton.
Rey. J. C. Copley, Manhattan.
Dr. G. A. Crise, Manhattan.
A. C. Dow, La Crosse.
J. H. Engle, Abilene.
J. H. Little, La Crosse.
KENTUCKY:
W. H. Bartholomew, Louisville.
E. A. Fox, Louisville.
Rey. E. B. Kuntz, Russellville.
F. F. Meyer, Louisville.
Prof. J. R. Sampey, Louisville.
Miss M. F. Shaw, Anchorage.
John Stites, Louisville.
W. J. Thomas, Shelbyville.
George W. Weedon, Louisville.
E. N. Woodruff, Louisville.
LOUISIANA:
E. P. Mackie, New Orleans.
A. M. Mayo, Lake Charles.
Rey. Smith Baker, D.D., Portland.
L. R. Cook, Yarmouthville.
Mrs. E. A. DeGarmo, Portland.
Edward A. Mason, Oakland.
MANITOBA:
F. W. Adams, Brandon.
W. H. Irwin, Winnipeg.
J. M. Johnston, Winnipeg.
W. W. Miller, Portage la Prairie.
T. H. Patrick, Souris.
MARYLAND:
Rey. George H. Nock, Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS:
Charles S. Bates, Boston.
Mrs. Bertha Vella Borden, Lynn.
Harry P. Bosson, Reading.
Earnest S. Butler, Malden.
Hamilton S. Conant, Boston.
J. N. Dummer, Rowley.
Frank W. Farr, Lawrence.
W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
Miss Ada R. Kinsman,
bridgeport.
George W. Pease, Springfield.
Cc. V. S. Remington, Fall River.
Mrs. Flora V. Stebbins, Boston.
Miss Lucy G. Stock, Springfield.
Appleton P. Williams, West Up-
ton.
MICHIGAN:
J. E. Bolles, Detroit.
E. E. Calkins, Ann Harbor.
Alfred Day, Detroit.
Prof. F. S. Goodrich, Albion.
Prof. C. H. Gurney, Hillsdale.
George C. Higbee, Marquette.
E. A. Hough, Jackson.
D. W. Kean, Buchanan.
J. W. Milliken.
W. L. C. Reid, Jackson.
C. A. Stringer, Detroit.
E. K. Warren, Three Oaks.
MINNESOTA:
Ernest Fagenstrom, Minneapolis.
Mrs. Jean E. Hobart, Minneapolis.
Jeff H. Irish, Detroit.
Prof. A. M. Locker, Wabasha.
Cam-
MISSISSIPPI:
John T. Buck, Jackson.
L. A. Duncan, Meridian.
MISSOURI:
L. L. Allen, Pierce City.
Mrs. L. L. Allen, Pierce City.
Rey. A. -P. George, D.D., St.
Louis.
R. L. Gurney, St. Louis.
W. H. McClain, St. Louis.
W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis.
Mrs. W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis.
MONTANA:
Rev. W. S. Bell, Helena.
D. B. Price, Helena.
NEBRASKA:
L. P. Albright, Red Cloud.
Miss Addie E. Harris, Lincoln.
W. E. Nichol, Minden.
Miss E. Lena Spear, Central City.
416
George G. Wallace, Omaha.
E. J. Wightman, York.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
‘Herbert W. Denio, Concord.
W. F. French, Milford.
J. G. Robinson, Dover.
NEW JERSEY:
Miss J. L. Baldwin, Newark.
Edward W. Barnes, Perth Amboy.
Mrs. J. W. Barnes, Newark.
Miss N. J. Beeching, Watchung.
Mrs. S. M. Clark, Newark.
Daniel Edwards, Long Branch.
Rey. HB. M. Fergusson, Trenton.
James L. Griggs, Somerville.
G. E. Hall, Plainfield.
C. B. Parsons, Red Bank.
Mrs. Alonzo Pettit, Dlizabeth.
H. G. Shaw, Newark.
Rev. Alex. S. VanDyck,
Brunswick. ,
Rey. James S. Young, Garfield.
NEW YORK:
E. P. Bancroft, New York.
Dr. W. A. Duncan, Syracuse.
Rey. S. S. Eddy, Syracuse.
Mrs. H. Elizabeth Foster,
York.
J. W. Manier, Binghamton.
Rey. A. H. McKinney, D.D., New
York.
Geo. J. Michelbach, Binghamton.
Rey. A. F. Schauffler, D.D., New
York.
J. L. Slater, Buffalo.
Rey. George B. Stewart,
Auburn.
Rey. BH. P. St. John, Prattsburg.
Mrs. C. H. Woodworth, Buffalo.
NEW BRUNSWICK:
Rev. Aquila Lucas, Sussex.
E. R. Machum, St. John.
Alexander Murray, St. Stephen.
NORTH CAROLINA:
George H. Crowell, High Point.
George W. Watts, Durham.
New
New
D.D.,
NORTH DAKOTA:
J. E. Clifford, Grand Forks.
R. B. Griffiths, Grand Forks.
Mrs. S. P. Johnson, Grand Forks.
William J. Lane, Fargo.
Rey. John Orchard, Fargo.
NOVA SCOTIA:
Miss Minnie M. Bell, ‘Halifax.
Charles: H. Longard, Halifax.
Burgess McMahon, Waterville.
Dr. Frank Woodbury, Halifax.
OKLAHOMA:
George N. Hartley, Tecumseh.
ONTARIO:
BE. E. Craig, B.A., Belleville.
Dr. William Hamilton, Toronto.
Rey. W. E. Hazzard,
J. A. Jackson, Toronto. — is
Rey. W. W. Peck, Napanee. —
Rev. J. J. Redditt, Barrie. —
J. J. Woodhouse, Toronto. |
OHIO:
BE. L. Barrett, Springfield.
ses Josepl Clark, D.D., Colum-
us.
Col. Robert Cowden, Dayton.
Prof. M. H. Davis, Toledo.
Rey. H. A. Dowling, Columbus.
W. A. Eudaly, Cincinnati.
Dr. J. C. M. Floyd, Steubenville.
Edward D. Goller, Defiance.
Rey. S. E. Greenawalt, Findlay.
G. P. Hunsicker, Williamsport.
Marion Lawrance, Toledo.
Samuel Llewellyn, Coalton.
J. C. Myers, Miamisburg.
Geo. M. Pavey, Washington C. H.
Waldo D. Webster, Warren.
A. F. Wendeln, St. Marys.
OREGON:
James Edmunds, Portland.
J. G. Malone, Portland.
A. A. Morse, Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA:
De. Cee W. Bailey, Philadel-
phia.
Israel P. Black, Philadelphia.
Rey. C. R. Blackall, D.D., Phila-
delphia.
ah, A. Bomberger, Philadel-
phia.
Hugh Cork, Philadelphia.
Miss Alice B. Hamlin, Wilkins-
burg.
H. J. ‘Heinz, Pittsburg.
Rey. Alex. Henry, D.D., Philadel-
phia.
Hadley W. Holmes, Allegheny.
Philip E. Howard, Philadelphia.
A. D. Keister, Carnegie.
William C. Lilly, Pittsburg.
J. G. Macky, Media. -
Rey. Charles A. Oliver, York.
Rey. Charles Roads, D.D., Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Mary B. Lewis Russell,
Media.
Rey. E. B. Walts, Williamsport.
QUEBEC:
George H. Archibald, Montreal.
Rey. E. W. Halpenny, Montreal.
RHODE ISLAND:
Edward Metcalf, Providence.
Willard B. Wilson, a
TENNESSEE:
Rey. George O. Bachman, D.D.,
Nashville.
Prof. H. M. Hamill, Nashville.
Alfred D. Mason, Memphis.
Rey. B. W. Spilman, Nashville.
THE FIELD WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT. 417
TEXAS:
Lewis Collins, Dallas.
John H. Cullom, Garland.
H. H. Godber, Waco.
Rey. Charles Manton, Paris.
W. N. Wiggins, San Antonio.
Mrs. Alex. Woldert, Tyler.
VIRGINIA:
B. F. Johnson, Richmond.
W. R. Jones, Richmond.
J. A. Sprenkel, Richmond.
A. Lee Knowles, Staunton.
E. F. Sheffey, Lynchburg.
WASHINGTON:
Mrs. Helen Bunnell, Seattle.
D. S. Johnston, Tacoma.
Rey. W. C. Merritt, Tacoma.
Rey. Joseph Monford, Tacoma.
Adolph Nelson, Spokane.
W. D. Wood, Seattle.
WEST VIRGINIA:
J. C. Bardall, Moundsville.
TT. N. Boss, Belmont.
T. M. Marshall, Stouts Mills.
Rev. L. E. Peters, Clarksburg.
Dr. M. M. Reppard, Middlebourne.
W. C. Shafer, Fairmont.
A. L. Young, Huntingdon.
WISCONSIN:
Rey. H. A. Potter, Mukwanago.
Charles W. Treat, Appleton.
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE.
Furnished by Lewis Collins, Secretary pro tem.
Atwater S. H., Canon City, Col.
Bachman, Rev. George O., D.D.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Baldwin, Miss J. L., Newark, N. J.
Barnes, Mrs. J. W., Newark, N. J.
Bingham, Earl S., Oakland, Cal.
Black, Israel P., Philadelphia, Penn.
Carman, Rey. J. C., Indianapolis,
Ind.
Collins, Lewis, Dallas, Texas.
Crise, Dr. G. A., Manhattan, Kas.
Crouse, Mrs. A. G., Westerville,
Ohio.
Day, Alfred, Detroit, Mich.
Engle, J. H., Abilene, Kas.
Fergusson, Rev. H. M., Trenton,
N. J
George, A. P., St. Louis, Mo.
Godber, H. H., Waco, Texas.
Hall, G. H., Plainfield, N. J.
Halpenny, Rev. E. W., Montreal,
Que.
Harris, Miss Addie E., Lincoln,
Neb.
Hartley, G. N., Tecumseh, Okla.
Henderson, Rev. G. A., Siloam
Springs, Ark.
Hobart, Mrs. Jean E., Minneapolis,
Minn.
Humble,
W. Va.
Irwin, W. H., Brandon, Man.
Johnston, D. S., Tacoma, Wash.
Rey. C., Parkersburg,
Johnson, Mrs. S. P., Grand Forks,
ND:
Jones, F. I’., Villisea, Iowa.
Kennedy, Mrs. M. G., Philadelphia,
Penn.
Lang, Dr. Frank W., Wilmington,
Del.
Lewis,
Neb. A
Long, W. V., HB. Las Vegas, N. M.
Meigs, Charles D., Indianapolis, Ind.
Merritt, Rey. W. C., Tacoma, Wash.
Mitchell, B. F., Des Moines, Iowa.
Mitchell, Mrs. Mary Barnes, Des
Moines, Iowa.
Moser, Rey. Henry, Sheridan, IIl.
Orchard, Rey. John, Fargo, N. D.
Plant, Henry T., Denver, Col.
Pollock, R. H., Lincoln, Neb.
Powell, Rev. Crayton K., Colorado
Springs, Col.
Raymond, Rey.
town, P. E. I.
Shafer, W. C., Fairmont, W. Va.
Smith, Fayette A., Abilene, Kas.
Spear, Miss Lena, Central City, Neb.
Stumpf, L. C., St. Louis, Mo. a
Wallace, George G., Omaha, Neb.
Walker, Mrs. J. A., Denver, Col.
Webb, Mrs. Jean F'., Denver, Col.
Wiggins, W. N.,San Antonio, Texas.
Whorton, Arthur, Perry, Okla.
Woodbury, Dr. Frank, Halifax, N.S.
Rey. Frank F., Syracuse,
G. P., Charlotte-
Total number of members registered, 50.
In addition, Mr. Collins reports the names of 34 others registered as
visitors, some of whom, being eligible to membership, may have paid their
dues and so should be listed here, though not reported as members by the
Membership Secretary.
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IV. REPORTS FROM STATES, PROVINCES
AND TERRITORIES.*
ALABAMA,
International Committeeman, W. T. Atkins, Selma.
International Vice-president, J. B. Greene, Opelika.
President, B. Davie, Clayton.
Chairman State Committee, G.'G. Miles, Montgomery.
General Secretary, Joseph Carthel, Montgomery.
Primary Superintendent, Miss Minnie Allen, Anniston.
Last convention held April, 1902.
Alabama has sixty-six counties. All have been organized; but in four-
teen the organizations have been nominal, and we only report fifty-two
county associations. There are now fifteen banner counties, and eight
others are nearly up to that standard. Twenty-four counties made sub-
stantial progress in their work during the past twelve months. We are
planning to hold conventions this summer in all of the counties that haye
nominal organizations.
The conventions and institutes held by the state, county and beat asso-
ciations create public sentiment in favor of Sunday-schools. As the direct
result of this public sentiment, new Sunday-schools are organized where
needed, and existing schools are improved. In the town of Opelika, eighty
per cent. of the white population is enrolled in the Sunday-schools; this
includes the home department and cradle rolls. Other towns have from
twenty to fifty per cent. of the population reached.
In 1899 we reported fifteen primary unions. This year we report thirty-
seven. During the triennium we have had fifty-seven unions. Some of these
have been temporarily suspended. We report those Sunday-schools that are
kept open a few months in the summer, and distinguish them from the
“‘evergreen’’ schools. If we adopt that principle fully, we would report
fifty-seven primary unions.
During the triennium a number of our cities and larger towns have made
a house-to-house canvass. Since January 1, 1902, the cities of Montgomery
and Birmingham have been canvassed, with good results. The home de-
partment work is being better understood and is more widely appreciated.
Incomplete reports give us ten normal classes. We think that there is
a larger number in the state. Considerable attention is being given to
teacher-training. The importance of better training is being felt by our
workers, and the standard of teaching is. being raised.
JOSEPH CARTHEL, General Secretary.
ALASKA,
International Committeeman, Rey. Sheldon Jackson, Washington, D. C.
Not organized.
* These reports were made to the General Secretary, some before and
some after the Convention, and were by him edited and forwarded to the
Editor of this Report. The estimated size of the Report having been already
exceeded, it has been found necessary to condense most of the reports; but
the Editor trusts that enough has been retained to give a correct and pro-
portionate view of the state of organization in each of the fields reported.
418
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REPORTS FROM STATES, PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES. 419
ALBERTA.
International Committeeman, A. W. Ward, Calgary.
President, A. W. Ward, Calgary.
International Vice-president, George A. Reid, Edmonton.
Secretary-treasurer, E. H. Crandall, Calgary.
The provincial Sunday-school association was formed in June of this year,
jargely by the effort of Mr. W. H. Irwin, superintendent of the Manitoba
association. As yet we are organized in name only, and have not been able
to do very definite work. Our aim at present is to have district associations
formed, and to meet with them in their conventions. Then we hope to have
our first annual provincial convention in November of this year.
Our Secretary, Mr. E. H. Crandall, is the only ‘‘seasoned’’ worker, the
rest of us being new at it; but we hope to make a little headway and at
least keep our organization alive.
About the state of our Sunday-schools in Alberta, I am not able to speak
at all definitely as yet. I trust I shall be able to give a more extended ac-
eount of things later.
A. W. WARD, President.
ARIZONA.
International Committeeman, M. W. Messinger, Phoenix.
International Vice-president, Walter Hill, Phoenix.
President, Walter Hill, Phoenix.
Secretary, M. W. Messinger, Phoenix.
Treasurer, A. P. Walbridge, Phoenix.
Last convention held April, 1901.
We are glad to notice that a step in advance has been taken all over
Arizona. There is more lively interest manifested in each convention of
workers, and many are now looking forward to the next annual gathering,
to be held in Phoenix, November 22 and 23, 1902. Thus the work grows,
and the power and influence of the Sunday-school widens year by year. The
influence of the last convention, when we had the International workers
with us, still rests upon us like a mantle, blessing and urging us on to bet-
ter work. The one great need of Arizona to-day in the Sabbath-school work
is a field worker, that we may be in closer touch with each and every school.
‘We hope for the time and the man to start this work.
M. W. MESSINGER, Secretary.
7 ARKANSAS.
Internaticnal Committeeman, B. W. Green, Little Rock.
International Vice-president, Robert E. Wait, Little Rock.
President, Clifford P. Boles, Fayetteville.
Chairman State Committee, B. W. Green, Little Rock.
Secretary, C. A. Ford, Siloam Springs.
Treasurer, J. B. Dickinson, Little Rock.
Field Secretary, Rev. G. A. Henderson, Siloam Springs.
Primary Secretary, Miss Lucy Moore, Cane Hill.
Last convention held April, 1902.
The first effort to establish organized Sunday-school work in Arkansas
that we have any record of was at Little Rock in April, 1889. About fifty
delegates were present at this meeting, with Mr. Wm. Reynolds representing
the International Executive Committee. Th second meeting was held at
Little Rock about one year later.
Efforts seem to have been made to hold state conventions each year; but
for several years following the first two the attendance was poor and the
interest lagging, with now and then a show of life. Some time about 1895,
Mr. D. L. Bourland published the ‘‘Arkansas Sunday-school Journal’’ for a
short time: but the paper did not receive the support it deserved, and the
enterprise was given up.
A yery good meeting was held in Ozark in 1897. No convention was held
during the following year; but in 1899 a meeting was held in Little Rock
which was fairly well attended. The meeting of 1900 was also held at Little
Rock, and with Mr. Hamill representing the International Committee, a very
good meeting was held.
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It remained however for the convention of 1901, held at Fort Smith, to
arouse the interest that the faithful few had long expected to see. At this
meeting the Transcontinental Party represeuted the International Commit-
tee, and much of the interest aroused was due to their presence The last
meeting of the state convention. held at Fayetteville, was a fitting suc-
cessor to the Fort Smith meeting, the interest being well maintained. Mr.
W. J. Semelroth represented the International Committee in a most accepta-
ble manner. The movement inaugurated at Fort Smith looking to the em-
ployment of a state organizer resulted in the employment of Rey. G. A.
Henderson as field secretary. Beginning his work in October, 1901, Mr.
Henderson had only about four and one-half months to work before the
convention of this year. In this time he organized and revived about twelve
counties; so that at the convention we were able to report 21 organized coun-
ties out of the 75 in the state.
The present condition of the work in Arkansas is indeed hopeful, and
we have great reason to be thankful. If the life and enthusiasm now exist-
ing can be kept up, Arkansas will soon be fully abreast, in this great work,
with her sister commonwealths of our fair Southland.
CLIFFORD P. ‘BOLES, President.
ASSINIBOIA.
International Committeeman, G. B. C. Sharpe, Moose Jaw.
Not organized.
BRITISH COLUMBIA,
International Committeeman, Noah Shakespeare, Victoria.
International Vice-president, Horace J. Knott, Victoria.
President, Noah Shakespeare, Victoria.
Secretary, Horace J. Knott, Victoria.
Treasurer, Alfred Huggett, Victoria.
Last convention held November, 1901.
We have no field-worker, as we have found it impossible to raise the
amount of money necessary for this work. Victoria and Nanaimo are the
only two cities in the province having a thorough organized district associa-
tion. The work is in its infancy, but we hope to see great advances made
in the near future. On the whole, I believe the Sunday-school work in the
province is encouraging, the only drawback being the seeming desire to
work as individual schools instead of co-operating to attain very much
greater success. What we want in British Columbia is to have some thor-
oughly qualified International worker spend a few weeks* with us and en-
thuse us to such an extent that each district would organize, and each dis-
trict feel that it is a part of every other district, and be ready to send dele-
gates to the provincial convention.
HORACE J. KNOTT, Secretary.
CALIFORNIA, NORTH.
International Committeeman, H. Morton, San José.
International Vice-president, Rev. E. B. Baker, Oakland.
President, Rey. W. M. White, San Francisco.
Chairman State Committee, Rey. W. M. White, San Francisco.
Treasurer, C. Z. Merritt, San Francisco.
Last convention held April, 1902.
No report.
Note.-—Since the Denver Convention, Northern Colifornia has called the
Rey. C. R. Fisher, Oakland, to the office of General Secretary.
CALIFORNIA, SOUTH.
International Committeeman, Hugh K. Walker, D.D., Los Angeles.
International Vice-president, W. C. Weld, Los Angeles.
President, Rev. George W. White, Pomona. :
Chairman State Committee, C. H. Parsons, Pasadena,
Secretary, Prof. Charles M. Miller, Los Angeles.
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Treasurer, W. F. Callander, Los Angeles.
Superintendent Primary Department, Mrs. C. A. Baskerville, Los eaeeie
Superintendent Home Department, Dr. Emerson Nerthup, Los Angeles.
Superintendent Normal Department, W. C. Weld, Los Angeles.
Last convention held April, 1902.
No report.
COLORADO.
International Committeeman, William E. Sweet, Denver.
International Vice-president, T. P. Barber, Colorado Springs.
President, S. H. Atwater, Canon City.
Treasurer, H. P. Spencer, Denver.
Recording Secretary, James H. Beggs, Denver.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Jean F. Webb, Denver. =
Primary Secretary, Mrs. J. A. Walker, Denver.
Home Department Secretary, Rev. R. A. N. Wilson, Pueblo.
Normal Secretary, Rev. C. K. Powell, Colorado Springs.
Chairman State Committee, S. H. Atwater, Canon City.
Of the 57 counties in the state, 27 are organized, and active work is being
done in the sparsely settled mountain districts, where at present organiza-
tion seems to be impracticable. Each organized county has held a conven-
tion during the past year. Many rallies and institutes have helped in cre-
ating an interest in association work, resulting in more thorough Bible-
study, and more teacher-training. Rallies and special meetings have been
held in many of the unorganized districts, introducing and securing the
adoption of some of the practical modern methods of work by many of the
isolated schools.
Indications of the increasing interest are shown (1) by the condition of
the finances: all of the old debts have been settled, current expenses paid
(including a field worker for two and a half years, and the local expenses of
the Tenth International Convention), with a small surplus in the treasury,
and some pledges still unpaid; (2) by the rapidly increasing number of home
departments, normal classes and primary unions; (3) by the vast number of
requests coming in to state officers for information concerning different lines
of work, and the best method of adapting them to certain conditions.
The greatest hindrances to the advancement of the work are the isolation
of some of the schools for a period during each year, caused by the heavy
Snows in the mountain districts, and the migratory character of a large class
of the population. No amount of work can overcome either of these hin-
drances, but efforts are being made to place the work on as permanent a
basis as possible.
The convention of 1902 will be held at Pueblo in November.
MRS. JEAN F. WEBB, Corresponding Secretary.
CONNECTICUT.
International Committeeman, H. H. Spooner, Kensington.
International Vice-president, Seward V. Coffin, Middletown.
President, H. H. Spooner, Kensington.
Chairman State Committee, H. H. Taylor, New Haven.
General Secretary, George S. Deming, New Haven.
Recordirg Secretary of Executive Committee, J. W. Logan, Meriden.
Missionary Department, May B. Lord, West Hartford.
Home Department, Harriet E. Walden, New Haven.
Office Helper, Mae D. Janswick, New Haven.
Last convention held November, 1900.
“The Bible for every child, and every child for Christ,’’ has been the
watchword in Connecticut ever since the organization of the state associa-
tion; and to this end every effort has been made along tried and approved
lines of work.
Recognizing that the strategic point is in the home, and that the Chris-
tian home is fundamental to the success of the Church of Christ, we have
vigorously pressed the work of the missionary department by a thorough
canvass of the more neglected fields. Success has marked every effort. The
results haye been: (1) the organization of Sunday-schools; (2) a largely
increased enrollment in others: (3) the visiting of hundreds of homes with
the Gospel message; (4) an awakened religious interest; (5) the open Bible
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and family altars where before there was utter disregard of these things.
Valuable Christian workers have been gained as the fruit of converted lives,
and many of them are the faithful superintendents and teachers in the mis-
sion Sunday-schools of the state.
The normal department has been stimulated by the appointment of a
state normal committee, who have outlined a definite plan of study and read-
ing for normal class work. Diplomas will be issued to normal graduates at
our next state convention. Under the care of Miss Harriet B. Walden, state
home department snperintendent, there has been a new and growing interest
in home department work. This department has been coupled very closely
with the missionary department, and will be more so in the years to come.
Conventions and conferences have steadily grown in fayor, as marked by
much larger attendance and better representation of the pastors and leaders.
Over two hundred and fifty conventions and conferences haye been held dur-
ing the past three years, so located as to reach every part of the state each
year.
GEORGE 8S. DEMING, General Secretary.
DELAWARE.
International Committeeman, Hon. W. O. Hoffecker, Smyrna.
International Vice-president, 8S. H. Baynard, Wilmington.
President, P. B. Ayars, Wilmington.
Chairman State Committee, C. H. Cantwell, Wilmington.
General Secretary, Dr. Frank W. Lang, Wilmington.
Recording Secretary, Dr. Frank W. Lang, Wilmington.
Primary Worker, Miss Florence Burke, Magnolia.
Normal Worker, Mrs. Lottie T. Brockson, Blackbird.
Last convention held April, 1902.
The work in Delaware has undergone a complete reorganization within
the past tw» years; and this is resulting in an improvement in all lines.
The state executive committee was made smaller but more representative.
The courty associations were so reorganized and their work so modified as
to bring about the closest co-operation with each other and with the state
organization, making a failure to hold a convention or perform other work a
practical impossibility for any of them. The organization of the hundreds
(i. e., townships) is now being pushed, with the expectation that the next
state conventiou will find the state completely organized and every county a
banner county.
The practical results of the change and the chosen form of organization
have already been demonstrated in marked degree. First, the number of
schools reporting is now 76 per cent. of the total, or about three times that
of any past year, and the accuracy of these reports has been greatly in-
creased. It is hoped to make a practically perfect canvass this fall. Seec-
ondly, about twice as many schools are now contributing as in any one year
under the old order of things; the amonnts are in many cases larger; and
after the county expenses are counted out, the available resources of the
state association are about doubled. This has made possible the employ-
ment of a general secretary for a part of his time. Thirdly, individual
interest has been uwakened and is growing. Many now work, and give to
the support of the work, who never did before. Within the year a state
primary department and a normal department have been organized, the last
of which has done some effective work already, resulting in about 125 nor-
mal students and one graduate.
In practical resuJts to the schools the work is also showing fruit. De-
cision Day methods have heen urged upon the schools for some time, and
there is not only a constantly increasing number taking it up, but reports of
blessed results are constantly being made. Home departments are increas-
ing, and indications are that this inerease will be rapid hereafter. The
attendance st conventions is constantly larger and more representative, and
ealls are coming in for something that shall go further and be more prac-
tical yet.
We may be pardoned for calling attention to the fact that little Delaware
gives one dollar of every six received by the state association to the Inter~-
national work, and has done even better than that.
DR. FRANK W. LANG, General Secretary.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
International Committeeman, W. W. Millan, Wasnington.
International Vice-president, W. S. Shallenberger, Washington.
President, W. W. Millan, Washington.
Chairman District Committee, W. W. Millan, Washington.
Secretary, R. A. Ralderson, Washington.
Treasurer and Field Worker, J. H. Lichliter, Washington.
Last convention held October, 1901.
Organization thorough and complete, with home and primary departments
in excellent condition.
The statistics reported to the Tenth International Convention from our
district show an increase in our Sunday-school enrollment of nearly seven
per cent., which is a greater rate of increase than that of our population.
The advanc> in home department work has been very marked. The number
of home departments has increased from 23 to 40, and the enrollment therein
from 460 to 2,821.
There were about 750 accredited delegates in attendance at our last con-
coca which was generally conceded to be the best ever held in Wash-
igton.
The primary union is doing splendid work. It holds weekly meetings for
the study of the lesson, and a primary institute annually. It is supported
from the treasury of the association.
For the last two years our executive committee has recommended the
observance of Decision Day, throngh circular letters sent to superintendents
of all schools, and in most instances, te the pastors of churches. The day
was generally observed, and the resnits were very gracious.
Generally speaking, we regard 1901 as the most successful year in Sun-
day-school work in our district.
W. W. MILLAN, President.
ELORIDA.
International Committeeman, H. C. Groves, Ocala.
International Vice-president, Dr. John S. Forbes, De Land.
President, W. N. Sheats, Tallahassee.
Secretary, H. H. Sasnett, Jacksonyille.
Treasurer, J. H. McLaurin, Jacksonville.
Last convention heid April, 1902.
Our counties have not as yet been organized. We have no field secretary,
though we have plans on foot to start such an officer to work and try to get
our counties organized by the time of our next state convention. During
the last three years we were visited by the Transcontinental Party. with
state convention in Jacksonville, followed by a special meeting in Daytona.
Last year our stat2 convention was at Gainesville, and we had the help of
General Secretary Marion Lawrance, Mr. C. D. Meigs and Prof. Excell.
There were at the last convention 86 delegates from 23 of the 45 counties.
While our conventions have not been large, they have been full of enthusi-
asm from start to finish. The next convention is to be held in the city of
Tallahassee, in March, 1903.
H. H. SASNETT, Secretary.
GEORGIA.
International Committeeman, W. S. Witham, Atlanta.
International Vice-president, Asa G. Candler, Atlanta.
President, George Hains, Augusta.
Chairman State Committee, James T. Bothwell, Augusta.
Recording Secretary, J. J. Cobb, Macon.
Last convention held April, 1902.
In speaking of the work throughout the state, it may be stated with much
gratitude to God that the work in Sunday-schools is good and in fairly flour-
ishing condition. ‘This may also be said of a very few county organizations.
It seems from observation that only a very few counties im the state are
organized. This condition was revealed at the last. and also at the previous
state conventions, both of which were poorly attended. This condition is
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given as the reason why we are unable to say with any degree of certainty
how many Sunday-schools are in the state. The last convention was held
April 1-3 of this year, and the delegates of the few counties which were rep-
resented manifested much interest, and determined to push more vigorously
forward this and the following years. Since the last state meeting, consid-"
erable effort has been made to perfect county organization. The response to
this effort is not what it should be, and the co-operation toward rebuilding
the state organization is not what is desired. We ask the prayers of all
Sunday-school workers, that God may awaken us to our duty in this great
work of state organization.
GEORGE HAINS, President.
IDAHO,
International Committeeman, H. E. Neal, Boisé.
International Vice-president, E. C. Cook, Boisé.
President, H. E. Neal, Boisé.
General Secretary, E. C. Cook, Boisé.
Statistical Secretary, Lillian E. Long, Boisé.
Last convention held June, 1901.
Idaho, when a territory, had a Sunday-school association. This was
organized in 1888. The life of this association was about three years.
In 1887 a few of the Sunday-school workers of Boisé City felt the need
of a state Sunday-school association and called a meeting to consider the
matter of organization. At that meeting it was decided to call a convention
for July 19-21, at Boisé. At that convention, on July 20, 1897, the organiza-
tion of the state was consummated with H. EB. Neal, President, and B. C.
Cook, Secretary. Only 23 schools were reported. At the following annual
convention the number of schools reported was 99; and each year but one
since has shown a gradual gain.
We have given to the International Associution, counting what we paid
to their field workers, $153.00. We have eight counties organized, and are
publishing a state paper quarterly. It is the Idaho State Sunday School
Bulletin.
Idaho is a large country and divided by high mountain ranges, and hence
our labors are yery arduous. At our last convention, one of our number,
Mrs. H. K. Drieger, president of the third district, traveled 800 miles to get
to the convention, going through a portion of Oregon and Washington and
back into Idaho. Wighteen of the delegates to the convention at Lewiston
traveled 600 miles each to get there. With the rock-ribbed divisions of our
state making it so difficult for us to get together, we two years ago, at our
Pocatello convention divided the state into three districts, each organized,
and all under the direction of the state association. Some of the very best
conventions we have had have been the district conventions.
Idaho needs a field worker, but it is not able to pay one. All the work so
far has been given.
E. C. COOK, Secretary.
ILLINOIS.
International Committeeman, A. H. Mills, Deeatur.
International Vice-president, E. H. Nichols, Chicago.
President, H. R. Clissold, Chicago.
Chairman State Committee, A. H. Mills, Decatur.
General Secretary, W. B. Jacobs, Chicago.
Primary Superintendent, Mrs. M. S. Lamoreaux, Chicago.
Field Worker, G. W. Miller, Paris.
Field Worker, Henry Moser, Sheridan.
Field Worker, C. E. Schenck, Chicago.
Field Worker, A. T. Arnold, Wheaton.
Field Worker, Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner, Peoria.
Last convention held May, 1902.
The past year has been one of exceeding joy in our Illinois Sunday-school
work. Not for many years have our conventions been attended by so large a
number of pastors and Sunday-school workers, eager for instruction and help
in the best methods of Sunday-school work. Never has the desire for better
things, with a purpose to put into practice the lessons learned, been more
apparent. Neyer have we had more signal tokens of God’s presence with us,
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ror of the guidance of his Holy Spirit. Never have our county officers shown
a deeper love for the work, nor a stronger purpose to bring it up to a high
standard of efficiency. This has been manifest in our one-day institutes, as
well as our county conventions; while perhaps the strongest proof of all is
the large increase in contributions from counties for the support of our work.
Every county in the state is organized, holding an annual convention.
During the past year we have reported 1,481 township or precinct conven-
tions, 145 one-day institutes, and 7 two-day institutes for primary and inter-
mediate teachers, in addition to the Summer School held in Chicago, in
July, 1901.
Our normal graduating class for the past year numbered 297, representing
32 counties.
Primary superintendents have been appointed in 81 counties, and there
are now 32 primary unions, and 18 classes for the study of the Primary
Training Course, No. 1.
W. B. JACOBS, General Secretary.
INDIAN TERRITORY,
International Committeeman, Thomas Lain, Muskogee.
International Vice-president, Dr. W. T. Jacobs, Muskogee.
Not organized.
INDIANA,
International Committeeman, W. C. Hall, Indianapolis.
International Vice-president, H. A. K. Hackett, Fort Wayne.
President, W. C. Hall, Indianapolis.
Chairman State Committee, W. C. Hall, Indianapolis.
General Secretary, J. C. Carman, Indianapolis.
Recording Secretary, O. M. Pruitt, Indianapolis.
Treasurer, W. H. Elvin, Indianapolis.
Primary Worker, Mrs. Anna R. Black, Terre Haute.
Superintendent of Home Department, Mrs. D. W. Thomas, Indianapolis.
Normal Superintendent, J. C. Carman, Indianapolis.
District Normal Superintendent, Rey. T. C. Pierce, Ligonier.
District Normal Superintendent, Prof. R. A. Ogg, Kokomo.
District Normal Superintendent, Rev. 1'. C. Gebauer, Madison.
Manager Messenger Department, W. C. Hall, Indianapolis.
Last convention beld June, 1902.
The year just closed has been one of the most prosperous in our history.
The year began and closed without debt. More money was raised without
extra appeal than ever before. All of the counties are organized, most of
them having a vigorous up-to-date association.
Tke normal, primary, and home departments have been generally intro-
duced, and the new messenger department is being rapidly adopted. The
ast year has been memorable for the following new movements:
Virst, the great evangelistic campaign, known as ‘‘Indiana Sunday-school
Week,’’ which was observed in 80 cities and towns and in part or completely
in a majority of the counties. The newness of the movement made it diffi-
cult to get complete returns; but reports showed about half a million people
visited on I'viday, Visitation Day. I’rom 20 to 50 special meetings were held
in various counties, agitating the moral and religious needs of the boys and
girls of Indiana. Decision Sunday, at the close of the week, was observed
with remarkable results. The week gave great impetus to later revival
efforts, and its influence has been felt throughout the year. Second, the
field-workers’ congresses, eight of which were held in various parts of the
state during the spring. Valuable assistance was secured from surrounding
states, and these days of instruction and study were exceedingly helpful to
our county and township officers. Third, the plan of credential badges and
Melegate attendance has been used with excellent effect in some of the coun-
ties, and had considerable to do with bringing together over 1,700 delegates
at the state convention at Terre Haute last week.
For the first time in many years Indiana had her full quota of sixty dele-
gates to the International Convention.
‘ J. C. CARMAN, General Secretary.
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IOWA.
International Committeeman, J. F. Hardin, Eldora.
International Vice-president, Rey. 0. S. Thompson, D.D., Paulina.
President, Rey. C. J. Kephart, D.D., Des Moines.
Chairman State Committee, F. F. Jones, Villisca.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Mary Barnes Mitchell, Des Moines.
General Secretary, B. F. Mitchell, Des Moines.
Primary Secretary, Miss Effie Roberts, Creston.
Field Worker, Mrs. Mary Barnes Mitchell, Des Moines.
Last convention beld June, 1902.
Relative to the work in our state it was remarked by our state chairman
that it was never in better condition. Our state department secretaries,
namely, primary, normal, home and house-visitation, report monthly to the
state office, and are doing excellent work. Our county officers report quar-
terly. Some of them have done wonders. We send our state paper, The
Sunday School Helper, to all our county presidents and secretaries, also to
the township presidents.
All of our 99 counties are organized, and hold annual conventions. Byery
county but oué was reached by our state workers last year. Our state house-
to-honse visitation was a great snecess. Seventy-six counties engaged in it,
with over 8,000 visitors. Thirty-five and a half per cent. of the entire popu-
lation of Iowa was visited; the results were marvelous. The observance of
Decision Day during the past three years has resulted in over 3,000 decisions
each year.
We have ten city associations. Twenty-six Sunday-school institutes were
held during the past year. We have 15 primary unions. Over half of our
townships are organized. Our officers ail along the line are taking advanced
steps and are doing their part faithfully and well; never before have so
many letters, asking for information and help been received. We are in
touch with erery county association, and hear from them. Fresh statistical
reports have been received from every county in our state this year save
nine. We have inaugurated a lyceum bureau, and it is proving helpful in
supplying the many calls. We feel grateful to our Heavenly Father.
B. F. MITCHELL, General Secretary.
KANSAS.
International Committeeman, Don Kinney, Newton.
International Vice-President, James H. Little, La Crosse.
President, Don Kinney, Newton.
Chairman State Committee, James H. Little, La Crosse.
Recording Secretary, Fayette A. Smith, Abilene.
General Secretary, John H. Engle, Abilene.
Primary Superintendent, Mrs. R. B. Preuszner, Lawrence.
Last convention held May, 1902.
The 105 counties are all organized and huve held conventions within the
year, 108 of them having been visited by the general secretary. Dvyery
county made a written report to the state office, though several reports were
chiefly estimated. ‘Twenty-five counties secured a report from every school
within their borders. A resolute effort is planued and begun to increase this
number to seventy-five within one year.
The state convention, May 13-15, 1902, gave a mighty impetus to the
previously inaugurated campaign for thorough organization and complete
reports from every county. The sparse population in the west, where 7
counties have a total of 3,415, with 26 schools, and 29 counties have less
than five thousand each, 54,978, with 326 schools, makes thorough organiza-
tion difficult. The southeast part is also a dillficult field, owing largely to
the great increase in mining population. A noble band of county officers are
working hard to change this. Hence it comes that out of 1,217 townships
only 759 are organized, and only 42 counties have every township in line.
Probably this may be named as the particular line of advance which it is
intended to push most during the year,—a live, working organization in
every township.
Nearly all counties provide for the work of four departments. About
three-fourths have superintendents of normal, home, visitation and primary
work. Within a year about 1,500 normal students have been enrolled, and it
is intended to double this number the next year. Hamill’s lessons are used.
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The home department idea is just fairly started, with about 400 in operation
and a rapid increase in progress. House-to-house visitation shows least
activity of any, perhaps because the home department is doing so much
regular visiting. The primary department has two difficult rivers to cross,—
failure to see the need, and lack of knowledge of what and how. It has
lifted up its voice with vigor, and a great awakening has begun.
The two serious weak spots in the Kansas work are the lack of money
and the fact that the whole work hangs on three persons, largely on one,
except for a small amount of volunteer work, which is increasing.
J. H. ENGLE, General Secretary.
KENTUCKY,
International Committeeman, John Stites, Louisville.
International Vice-president, W. J. Thomas, Shelbyville.
President, J. B. Weaver, Beechmont.
Chairman State Committee, C. J. Meddis, Louisville. -
Recording Secretary, John J. Davis, Louisville.
General Secretary, E. A. Fox, Louisville.
Primary Worker, Miss Nannie Lee Frayser, Louisville.
Last convention held Avgust, 1901.
If ever the favor of God was manifest in a great work done in his name
and for his glory and honor, it has been in the marked progress of our asso-
ciation work in Kentucky the past three years. Three years ago we were
heavily burdened with a debt of $2,500. Many of our best counties were un-
organized, and many others only nominally so. At that time sixty counties
Were organized, four of them banner counties, and thirty others partially
organized. We are now out of debt, have 95 of our 119 counties fully organ-
ized, 22 of them are banner counties, and some form of organization exists in
every county in the state.
During this time we have held two summer schools of methods in connec-
tion with our Lexington Chautauqua, and are now arranging one for our
Owensboro Chautauqua.
At present we are making prominent in our work three things: (1) Re-
quirements for a ‘“‘hanner Sunday-school,’’ ten points; (2) the importance of
each Sunday-school maintaining a teachers’ library, to aid in which we have
prepared a list of the best hundred books published; (3) the observance of
Sunday-school Week as a state association measure on October 20-26 next.
One of the most valuable of our recent methods is the inauguration of our
tour plan, January, 1901. It economizes time and expense and greatly facili-
tates the work of the state secretary. We are continuing the plan this year
with equally marked success. :
Much still remains to be done. We feel that we are not making the
Progress along many lines that we might, but with our limited means and
working force we are doing the best we can, trusting God for results.
E. A. FOX, General Secretary.
LOUISIANA.
International Committeeman, E. P. Mackie, New Orleans.
International Vice-president, S. D. Moody, New Orleans.
President, Col. W. H. Jack, Natchitoches.
Chairman State Committee, A. M. Mayo, Lake Charle’.
Recording Secretary, Henry A. Pharr, New Iberia.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. H. M. McCants, New Orleans.
Primary Secretary, Miss Myrtle Shively, New Orleans.
We have at this time no field workers, and probably if we had we should
be able to make an excellent report; for we know that good work is being
done in all parishes (counties) that are organized, viz., St. Mary, Calcasieu,
Orleans and Tangipahoa.
The report made to the Atlanta Convention by Mrs. A. M. Mayo, would
apply in many respects to the present time, except that home department
work has been greatly advanced, about quadrupled. More attention is being
paid to the Sunday-school room itself in many of the new churches being
erected, in which the most progressive ideas are being embodied, to the sat-
isfaction of all. Louisiana is certainly going forward in the Sunday-school
work, although vast fields lie untilled, waiting for the harvest.
(Mrs.) HELEN M. McCANTS, Recording Secretary.
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MANITOBA.
International Committeeman, k. W. Clingan, Virden.
International Vice-president, J. M. Johnston, Winnipeg.
President, I’. W. Clingan, Virden.
General Secretary, W. LI. Irwia, Winnipeg.
Last convention held May, 1902.
Organization has reached every part of the province, though much re-
mains to be done to perfect many of the newer county associations. Our
population is too sparse yet to maintain municipal (township) associations.
Conventions are held annually in every county, at which a program of five
sessions is carried out. Institutes covering the entire province are held
under the direction of the general superintendent. From two to four of
these are held in each county. Conventions and institutes are growing more
efficient, and the attendance and interest are on the increase.
Visitation of Sunday-schools by county committeemen has been pushed
with vigor, and we intend to continue to do so, because no other part of our
work has given more satisfactory results.
New methods, such as house-to-house visitation, cradle roll, Decision
Day, grading, etc., have been introduced by degrees, and wherever operated
have been made a means of blessing. The departments of association work,
normal, home department, primary, and I. B. R. A., have all made substan-
tial progress.
Judging the last provincial convention from every standpoint, it was by
far the best ever held in the history of the association. Mr. W. C. Pearce
of Chicago, who represented the International Association, was the means of
a benediction to our work. The treasurer’s report, as read at the conyen-
tion, showed that $400 of the $800 debt had been paid during the year, in ad-
dition to the current expenses. Chiefiy through the efforts of Brother
Pearce, the remaining $400 was at once covered with pledges by the dele-
gates, and within a month after the close of the convention they were paid.
The future looks brighter than ever before in the history of the associa-
tion. The plans include the opening of a public office in Winnipeg; the
starting of an association paper; the issuing of diplomas for use by graded
Sunday-schools, and the presenting of banners to counties and schools reach-
ing the standard set.
W. H. IRWIN, General Secretary.
MAINE,
International Committeeman, L. R. Cook, Yarmouthyille.
International Vice-president, Rey. Smith Baker, Portland.
President, Rev. Smith Baker, Portland.
Chairman State Committee, Rev. Smith Baker, Portland.
Recording Secretary, Rey. Harry W. Kimball, Skowhegan.
General Secretary, Rey. Edward A. Mason, Ne
Last convention held October, 1901.
Maine is working toward the organization of all of its counties. To-day
there are thirteen of the sixteen counties of the state which have a more or
Jess vigorous organization. The thirteen organized counties have within
them about seventy district associations. Aroostook, Cumberland and York
counties are most completely covered.
Just now, Maine is without a primary worker, but it is the intention of
the executive committee to push the prinmiary work; and, as quickly as she
can be secured, they will put into the field a thoroughly fitted worker. A
large number of home departments have been started; and for several years -
a very respectable number have each year completed the Hamill normal
course.
In April, 1901, a monthly organ was started, The Maine State Sunday
Schoo! Star. It has as yet a limited circulation, but there seems a deepen-
ing interest in it.
EDWARD A. MASON, General Secretary.
MARYLAND.
International Committeeman, John P. Campbell, D.D., Baltimore.
International Vice-president, S. W. Reigart, Baltimore.
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President, G. S. Griffith, Baltimore.
Chairman State Committee, John P. Campbell, D.D., Baltimore.
General Secretary, Rev. C. S. Arnett, A.M., Baltimore.
Primary Secretary, Miss Marie Baldwin, Baltimore.
State Superintendent, Rev. George H. Nock, Baltimore.
Normal Superintendent, Preston Fiddis, Baltimore.
Home Department Superintendent, Rey. P. A. Heilman, Baltimore.
Missionary, William C. Palmer, Baltimore.
Field Worker, Prof. Ephraim Lee, Baltimore.
Last convention held October, 1901.
Maryland is looking forward to her state Sunday-school convention, Oc-
tober 2, 3, with much interest. It is hoped that the state will take a long
leap forward. It had been planned to hold all the county conventions before
the state convention; but the camp-meeting fever struck the state with un-
usual force and negatived many of our plans. Large conventions are planned
for the fall.
There is progress all along the lines of our work. Organization work
necessarily makes slow progress in our conservative state, but a recognition
of its value steadily increases. Judging from frequent inquiries by letters
and at conventions, there will be a great revival in the fall in normal and
home department work.
We have every county organized, and in some of the counties all the dis-
tricts. We regret to say that some of these organizations are only nominal,
but we are doing oar best to strengthen the weaker ones and put them on a
working basis.
GEORGE H. NOCK, State Superintendent.
MASSACHUSETTS.
International Committeeman, W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
International Vice-president, John Herbert, Boston.
President, W. C. King, Springfield.
Chairman State Committee, W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
General Secretary, Hamilton S. Conant, Boston.
Recording Secretary, A. H. Stanton, Huntington.
Primary Worker, Miss Lucy C. Stock, Springfield.
Home Department Worker, Mrs. Flora V. Stebbins, Fitchburg.
Normal Department, Miss Ada R. Kinsman, Cambridge.
Last convention held October, 1901.
Since the Atlanta Convention in *99, Massachusetts has made progress.
Twice has our office been removed, improved and enlarged. Increased inter-
est and intelligent co-operation has marked this triennium. A feature has
been the readiness of many schools not using the International lessons te
associate with others in conferences, conventions and institutes for mutual
benefit.
During the first year after the Aflanta meeting, two new department
Secretaries were added. For the home department, we secured Mrs. Flora
V. Stebbins of Fitchburg, who made special preparation for and study of the
work, after entering the ranks as home department superintendent in her
own church. There the messenger service began and had its first suecess.
Miss Ada R. Kinsman of Cambridge, a graduate of Radcliffe College, and
connected with the assemblies at South Framingkam, began her labors in
1899 as Secretary of the Normal Department. The work begun and long con-
tinued by Mrs. Bertha Vella Borden was taken up on March 1 of the present
year by Miss Lucy G. Stock of Springfield, a graduate of the Bible Normal
College, and for three years the State Primary Secretary for Connecticut.
Besides four field secretariés, an office secretary, Miss Elizabeth F. Cooper,
has been employed continuously since the Atlanta Convention, and a stenog-
rapher during the major part of the same period.
The plan of district organization has been continued from the first. The
state is divided into fifty districts, forty-nine of which have maintained
their organization during the three years, and all but three have been doing
good work. Al! but six have held their conventions annually, many of them
one or more, and some many additional meetings.
Several of the colleges and two of the three theological seminaries have
been visited by the field secretary and the students addressed upon the work
of the Sunday-school as 2 field for those who have enjoyed a higher educa-
jiion. At the state convention in Boston, 1899, the first reception to college
430 APPENDIX.
students and graduates was held in Boston University, when upwards of one
hundred persons, representing eighteen colleges, were present. Similar con-
ferences were held at Pittsfield in 1900, and at Haverhill in 1901. These
steps have marked the beginning of co-operation and sympathy between the
Sunday-school work and the educators and educated in our state.
In 1901, we learned from 669 schools that of their officers and teachers,
G.2 per cent. are college graduates; 8.3 per cent. are normal graduates or
teacHers; 2.6 per cent. enjoyed other special training; making a total of over
17 per cent. who had special preparation for Sunday-school teaching.
During the summer of.1900, the writer made a tour of thirty-eight of the
border towns, occupying thirty-three days, conferences being held in thirty-
five towns, and in the others personal visitation of the pastors, officers, and
teachers; thus covering much territory and many towns not previously
reached.
In 1899, twenty-six out of the fifty districts presented a complete report,
-and for 1900, twenty-nine. The year 1900 showed a gain in additions to the
churches.
Never before has the condition of Sunday-schools and organized work in
our state been so fuvorable as at the close of the present period. For all of
this, we boast not ourselves, but thank God for the past, and look forward
with great hopes for the coming triennium. .
HAMILTON S. CONANT, General Secretary.
MICHIGAN.
International Committeeman, E. K. Warren, Three Oaks.
International Vice-president, Hon. J. M. Davis, Kalamazoo.
President, J. E. Bolles, Detroit.
Chairman State Committee, E. K. Warren, Three Oaks.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Bolles, Detroit. 2
General Secretary, Alfred Day, Detroit.
Primary Superintendent, Mrs. G. L. Fox, Grand Rapids.
Home Department Superintendent, William Strong, Kalamazoo.
Normal Department Superintendent, Hon. H. R. Pattengill, Lansing.
Last convention held November, 1901.
There are two Michigans, washed by three inland seas, and divided, geo-
graphically, by the Straits of Mackinac. In Sunday-school work, however,
federated by the state association, the upper and lower peninsulas are one
in purpose, sympathy and co-operation. The conditions to be met, however,
in the two sections are by no means uniform.
Last February a thorough convention campaign was made over the upper
peninsula, each of the fourteen counties being visited at one or more local
points. The general secretary was accompanied by Mrs. Mary Foster Bry-
ner. Everywhere the most intense interest was aroused during the four
weeks covered by the plan, and Sunday-school work received a distinct im-
Fetus, of future promise.
The lower section of the state varies in the conditions of progress exhib-
ited. The counties in the extreme south constitute a fruitful garden of
organized effort in Sunday-school progress; whilst in some sections local con-
ditions, agricultural or otherwise, militate against effective organized work,
and county organization lacks cohesion. The state executive is endeavoring
to strengthen the work at these points by holding a series of local conyen-
tions in each of such counties. Our beloved chairman, Mr. EB. K. Warren,
realizing this need, has generously made himself responsible, financially, for
the help of an assistant secretary in the person of Mr. E. C. Knapp. Our
future is therefore bright with promise.
We have state superintendents of home, normal and primary depart-
ments, who faithfully care in every possible Way for the interests with
which they sre severally charged. The members of our executive committee
also afford help in convention work as opportunity offers. We publish a
monthly organ, Tbe Sunday School Advance, which reaches over 4,000
readers.
Michigan has been fertile in spots; it is nogy weak in spots; and by the
blessing of God these spots will disappear, and the ‘‘wilderness and the soli-
tary place shall blossom as the rose.”’
ALFRED DAY, General Secretary.
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MINNESOTA,
. International Committeeman, Dr. George R. Merrill, Minneapolis.
International Vice-president, Dr. D. L. Kiehle, Minneapolis.
President, Jeff H. Irish, Detroit.
Chairman State Committee, Jeff H. Irish, Detroit.
Secretary and Primary Superintendent, Mrs. Jean E. Hobart, Minneapolis.
Field Worker, John Orchard, Fargo.
Last convention held April, 1902.
There is in Minnesota an abiding interest in all that truly operates for
the advancement of Sunday-school work; while there is yet much to be ac-
complished in convincing workers of the help ‘‘togetherness’’ would bring to
each. Every step, during the past three years, has brought us nearer the
goal of perfect organization. The lack of a field worker has given us per-
haps a one-sided growth.
Minnesota has 2 better record as to separate primary rooms than many
states, as 59 per cent. of schools report having this advantage. Every form
of advance work has place in some part of the state; and with the coming
of our field worker, Mr. John Orchard, we expect to go forward in an intelli-
gent, zealous effort to possess our state, so that every man, woman and
ehild may be reached by the Bible-school, and every worker shall be a
trained worker.
MRS. JEAN BE. HOBART, Secretary.
MISSISSIPPI.
International Committeeman, John T. Buck, Jackson.
International Vice-president, James S. Rea, Wesson.
President, J. M. Boone, Corinth.
Recording Secretary, R. V. Pollard, Greenwood.
Last convention held August, 1902.
This state has never taken the place in the Sunday-school column that it
should occupy. For over fifteen years a few faithful men and women, ap-
preciating the great need of organized work, have been trying to keep up a
state organization and organize the counties, but in this work they have
met with but little encouragement and many discouragements and difficul-
ties. The latter consist in indifference on the part of many and positive op-
position on the part of a few; but those few are usually men of influence and
largely ministers. The fact is, few pastors seem willing to take any part in
the interdenominational Sunday-school work. We have very few trained
workers, and one of the most difficult things is to get teachers to appreciate
their need of training and attend a normal training class.
The most reliable statistics we can get reveal the startling fact that not
over 40 per cent. of the educable white children in this state are in the
Sunday-schools, and at least 85 per cent. of the adult church members do not
attend the school. The leading denomination in the state reports 1,559
ehureches and only 559 Sunday-schools. This is not peculiar to this denomina-
tion, but indicates the condition in the entire state. The above statement
will give a good idea of the difficulty in the way of raising money with
which to prosecute the work. We need to put at least $1,000 into the work
in this state during our next convention year, and a supreme effort will be
made to raise this amount.
Our primary work is in better condition than at the last triennial; we
have 7 unions reported, some of them doing good work. Efforts have been
made in some places to organize home departments, but so far as the writer
knows, there has been but little success.
We have sent in the best statistical report that could be obtained from
the denominational minutes, our statistical secretary not being able to get
anything from the schools.
These are the facts, and we must face them and then determine with
God’s help to overvome all difficulties and ignore discouragements; and to
this end we ask an interest in the prayers of our fellow-workers.
JNO. T. BUCK, Chairman BPxecutive Committee.
MISSOURI,
International Committeeman, W. J. SemeJroth, St. Louis.
International Vice-president, D. R. Wolfe, St. Louis.
President, Hobart Brinsmade, St. Louis.
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Chairman State Committee, Hobart Brinsmade, St. Louis.
Recording Secretary, R. M. Inlow, Nevada,
General Secretary, A. P. George, D.D., St. Louis.
Primary Secretary, Mrs. Jennie Conway, St. Louis.
Field Worker, Mrs. Millie M. Lewis, Clarksville.
The triennium just closing has been one of struggles, trials and victories.
The state superintendent, who is the active field worker, has visited every
county, many of them several times, traveling not less than 20,000 miles a
year, and bringing Missouri, where she once was, to the front. The finan-
cial question has been a troublesome one; but under the management of
Treasurer Hays, whose ability in this line is not excelled, daylight is in
sight. The different departments of work,—normal, primary, house-to-house
visitation and home,—have been carefully looked after by efficient superin-
tendents. :
Missouri is an empire in herself, with a population as complex as that of
a nation. All kinds and conditions of people are in her midst. Her great
cities, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Joplin, are the active marts
of the country. Her mines are producing beyond most enthusiastic expecta-
tion. Her fields are abundant in grain and fruit. Her railroads are reaching
in every direetion. Her school system is among the best. Her people are
intelligent and progressive; and ‘‘New Missouri’’ is at the threshold. The
number of schools is on the increase. Larger schools are everywhere noted;
and ‘‘better schools’’ is the ery of the state association.
' A. P. GEORGE, General Secretary.
MONTANA.
International Committeeman, H. M. Patterson, Butte.
International Vice-president, Rey. D. B. Price, Helena.
President, Rey. J. Rector, Deer Lodge.
Chairman State Committee, D. B. Price, Helena.
Secretary, Prof. L. R. Foote, Butte.
The conditions are exceedingly difficult,—topographically, much country
and few people, with zreat mountain ranges that act as barriers against
communication; spiritually, many godless communities and few godly work-
ers; yet there are many causes for thanksgiving. Nearly all the counties in
the state are organized, and the majority of the schools contribute some-
thing. The pastors and best laymen are heartily interested, and the state
convention is growing in interest each year. The past three years have
seen the employment of a field worker for the first time. This has accom-
plished great good; and although it has been necessary to forego his services
this year, there is a demand everywhere for the continuance of this work.
At present the state is divided into five districts, each superintended by a
local worker who conducts institutes, conventions and other meetings. This
state realizes that it owes its organized existence to the International Asso-
ciation, but there is also a strong feeling that these needy, unevangelized
western states ought, instead of contributing more, than their pro rata quota
to the International Treasury, to be regarded as missionary fields to which
the International Association should send their best workers.
REV. HENRY F. COPH, Ex-President.
NEBRASKA,
International Committeeman, Prof. W. R. Jackson, University Place.
International Vice-president, Arthur Chase, Omaha.
President, George G. Wallace, Omaha.
Recording Secretary, William EH. Nichol, Minden.
Chairman State Committee, L. P. Albright, Red Cloud.
Last convention held June, 1902.
The condition of the work in Nebraska is steadily improving. Although
deprived of the services of a field secretary during the past six months, and
the more carefu) supervision of the work that only an employed official can
give, most of the organized counties have held interesting and helpful con-
ventions. The state convention, held at Central City the week prior to the
International Convention at Denver, was one of the best in our history.
More money was paid and pledged for the work by one-half than at any
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previous convention, the amount being about $1,450. We usually expect to
raise in the field as much more. This will enable us to employ a field secre-
tary, open an office, employ an office secretary. an official we never have had,
and, in convention seasons, secure the assistance of competent specialists.
Our work is in a state of magnificent distances, and the population is
scattered. There are 90 counties, 30 of which are so large and so sparsely
settled that little ean be done in organized work. Institutes are held in set-
tlements, where practical, in such counties.
The home department is received with favor, there being about 150 in
existence. Normal classes are steadily increasing, and at every state con-
yention, normal graduates from over the state receive diplomas.
The state association is directed by an executive committee of six, com-
posed of the president, recording secretary and treasurer, and three others,
all of whom are elected annually. This system is simple, economical and
satisfactory. A state paper, The Nebraska Sunday School Record, is pub-
lished monthly.
GEORGE G. WALLACE, President.
NEVADA.
International Committeeman, Rev. Charles E. Chase, Reno.
International Vice-president, J. T. Gaynor, Reno.
President, J. E. Church, Ph.D., Reno.
Secretary, L. W. Cutchman, Reno.
Treasurer, T. G. Gaynor, Reno.
Organized June 23, 1902.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
International Committeeman, E. R. Machum, St. John.
International Vice-president, Rev. A. M. Hubly, Sussex.
Presicent, Rey. A. M. Hubly, Sussex.
Recording Secretary, Miss Jennie B. Robb, St. John.
Field Secretary, Rey. A. Lucas, Sussex.
Treasurer, E. R. Machum, St. John.
Last convention held October, 1901.
While we cannot say that there has been much extension of the work
upon this field, there has been a marked improvement in the quality. All of
our fifteen counties are organized, and their annual conventions well sys-
tematized. To all county conventions we send our field secretary, and this.
year we are planning to have him accompanied by one other member of our
provincial executive, charged especially with the financial side of the work.
We strive to keep strong the bonds between province, county and parish
(township), the three divisions of our field. Once a year, in some instances.
twice, our secretary goes to each county for a series of parish conventions.
Such series are arranged by county executives, when we allot to them the
time of our field secretary’s aid. This is followed with a system of corre-
spondence, and posters to superintendents, outlining methods of advertise-
ment. The program in such series is studiously practical with a view to
Bible-school education and spiritual power.
We regret that not all our parishes are organized; yet during this tri-
ennium there has been great improvement in the wise zeal with which both
county and parish officers have done their work. Our monthly paper, The
Sunday School Advocate, is on its third year. Although patronage has been
much slower than it ought to have been, we have evidence of its usefulness
to the work, and up to the present it has paid its own way. Three years
ago our Association was under a heavy debt. Most of this is now paid up,
and we expect to clear it all by the time of our annual convention in October
next.
Volumes could be written about the benefits of the home department over
our field; and the normal department gives good promise for better teaching
of the Word in the future. The definite aim of soul-winning by teaching
runs through all our work; and the future good citizenship lies at the basis-
of our new and rapidly growing Temperance Sunday School Army.
35 A. M. HUBLY, President.
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NEWFOUNDLAND.
International Committeeman, Dr. N. S. Fraser, St. Johns.
International Vice-president, Hon. H. B. Wood, St. Johns.
Not organized.
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
International Committeeman, Prof. G. W. Bingham, Derry.
International Vice-president, W. F. French, Milford.
President, Rev. W. H. Bolster, Nashua.
Chairman State Committee, Rev. W. H. Bolster, Nashua.
Recording Secretary, H. W. Denio, Concord.
General Secretary, Joseph N. Dummer, Concord.
Last convention held November, 1901.
The New Hampshire Association is planning for its twenty-ninth annual
convention, which meets in November. The work is well organized, each
county holding its annual convention, as well as, through its districts, reach-
ing every part of the field each year. These meetings are advertised and
made as far as possible schools of methods. The reports have been yery com-
plete this year. Less than fifty schools had to be looked up through the de-
nominational year books. Nearly one-third of our schools have the home
department. Normal or teacher-training work has been prominent. The
association is commanding the respect of the leaders of Christian thought
in the state.
J. N. DUMMER, General Secretary.
NEW JERSEY.
International Committeeman, Rev. Frank A. Smith, Haddonfield.
International Vice-president, Edward W. Barnes, Perth Amboy.
President, James V. Forster, Jersey City.
Chairman State Committee, Dr. George W. Bailey, Philadelphia.
Recording Secretary, Rev. Samuel D. Price, Shrewsbury.
General Secretary, Rey. E. Morris Fergusson, Trenton.
Primary Superintendent, Miss Josephine L. Baldwin, Newark.
Last convention held November, 1901.
Since the Atlanta Convention, our county organization has been continued
and improved, with a strong convention in every county each year, faithful
officers, and, as a result of their work, increased school contributions and
statistics which omit less than one and a quarter per cent. of the 2,352
existing Sunday-schools.
We shall henceforth hold an annual state convention, with no restrictions
upon the number of delegates, and expect this radical change in our state
policy to result in a closer connection between the schools and the state
work, to our mutual profit.
In July, 1901, our monthly paper, The Messenger, was discontinued, our
committee believing that better results could be secured by transferring our
expenditures of time and money to other lines of state work, and reaching
our tield by special messages as needed. We miss our paper, but the senti-
ment of our workers continues to approve this decision.
Our home department work is in the hands of voluntary officers, including
a full set of county superintendents. Seventeen per cent. of our schools now
have home departments, with a steady increase reported each year. The
primary and junior work is in the able hand3 of Miss Baldwin, with a strong
council of workers. The number of active primary unions is increasing.
Our annual summer school at Asbury Park continues to improve its instruc-
tion and extend its influence. The ninth session, July 7-12, promises to
exceed all its predecessors in attendance and in power. Every county and
nearly every township now has a primary and junior superintendent. The
organizing of our normal or teacher-training work has been begun, under the
leadership of a cominittee of which the Rev. J. J. Hurlbut, D.D., is chair-
man.
The executive committee, last February, sent out an earnest letter to all
pastors and superintendents concerning Decision Day and other lines of spir-
itual work, with practical suggestions. The letter met with a general
response.
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In providing for each year’s needs, our International pledge is given
precedence over other claims.
E. MORRIS FERGUSSON, General Secretary.
NEW MEXICO.
International Committeeman, H. E. Fox, Albuquerque.
International Vice-president, J. M. Reid, Las Vegas.
President, H. E. Fox, Albuquerque.
Chairman State Committee, W. V. Long, Las Vegas.
General Secretary, F. W. Spencer, Albuquerque.
Last convention held May, 1902.
The work in New Mexico is in good shape, considering the time we have
been organized. It is the purpose of the officers and executive committee to
push the work with a good deal of vigor this fall and winter, and we feel
yery much encouraged about the future of the work here.
. H. E. FOX, President.
NEW YORK.
International Committeeman, W. A. Duncan, Ph.D., Syracuse.
International Vice-president, Rey. W. Dempster Chase, Carthage.
Chairman State Committee, Rey. A. F. Schauffler, D.D., New York.
Secretary and Treasurer, Timothy Hough, Syracuse.
State Superintendent, Rev. A. H. McKinney, D.D., New York.
Superintendent Primary Work, Mrs. H. Elizabeth Foster, New York.
Field Worker, Rey. S. S. Eddy, Syracuse.
Secretary Home Dept. and Field Worker, Mrs. J. R. Simmons, Mt. Vision.
Field Worker, Miss Mary Moall, Ada.
Last convention held June, 1902.
During the year 1901-02 special attention was paid in the state of New
York to the thoughts embodied in the phrase, ‘‘the children for Christ;’’
with the resalt that there was much profitable labor expended and intense
interest in the subject awakened. The effects of this thought, labor and
interest are only just becoming apparent. One of the most gratifying imme-
diate results was the marked increase in the number of conversions of Bible-
school pupils in many parts of the State. Another result is the attention
that clergymen are now paying to the children of their congregations.
House-to-house visitation claimed a large share of time and labor. The
great city of Albany, smaller places like Little Falls, Cortland and Homer,
and many rural neighborhoods, were canvassed, and preparations were made
to continue this work during the present year. Primary work is in an excel-
lent condition. No state in the Union has a better system of organized pri-
mary work. The result of this is becoming more and more apparent in the
organized primary work in the great centers of population, and in the local
schools. Junior work, while still in its infancy, took immense strides for-
ward during the past year.
Home department work has gone on steadily, so that New York now re-
ports 52,000 home department members. The most marked advances during
the year were in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, which now
has the largest home department in the world, numbering nearly 1,050 mem-
bers, and another department of over 700 members. Normal work has been
earried on for years. The state association offers a five years’ normal course,
which is as complete and comprehensive as can be found anywhere. Last
year large numbers of teachers took parts of this course, while 117 passed
the state association examinations aud received certificates.
The annual convention of the association, held at Saratoga Springs during
the second week of June, was from beginning to end a working convention,
remarkable both for its enthusiasm and its deep spirituality. In addition to
providing for the continuance and the emphasizing of the various phases of
existing work, a committee was appointed to consider the possibility of
forming a union of the organized Bible classes, of which there are large num-
bers throughout the state. The executive committee renewed its expressions
of loyalty to the International work and materially increased the amount of
money pledged thereto.
A. H. McKINNEY, State Superintendent.
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NORTH CAROLINA,
International Committeeman, N. B. Broughton, Raleigh
International Vice-president, Prof. George H. Crowell, High Point.
President, Prof. George H. Crowell, High Point.
Chairman State Committee, N. B. Broughton, Raleigh.
Secretary, Prof. S. M. Smith, Elon College.
Statistical Secretary, H. N. Snow, Durham.
Last convention held March, 1902.
North Carolina has ninety-seven counties, of which about fifty have a
form of organization. A smaller per cent. are fairly organized, and only a
few are thoroughly organized. The great need is organization. This could
be done if the men and the money could be had; but the one, consecrated,
will bring the other.
The association has tried for years to do the work on a cheap basis. It
has employed a man, or men, for a few dollars and sent them out to do
insurmountable tasks during the summer months; consequently the work has
been hurriedJy and imperfectly done, and the people, seeing the inefficiency
of its claims, have failed to realize its magnitude and to contribute properly
to its support. It needs a live, wide-awake man, a man of intelligence and
magnetie address, of platform power and executive ability; a man thor-
oughly in love with the work; a Holy Ghost man, to deyote his entire time
to the work. Such a man could take the counties by groups, find the best
man in each county and effect with him a county organization, plan with the
vice-presidents township conventions, fixing dates, etc., and should not close
his work until an enthusiastic convention is held in every township of each
group. He should not take vacation until these and the subsequent county
conventions are held and full statistics of the work gathered. It would take
but a few years of such persistent efforts to make the work in our state a
great power. The state is looking, hoping, trusting, expecting such a man.
So far as I know, the colored people are not organized at all into the state
association work. North Carolina would be most grateful if the Interna-
tional Convention could and would send a man among these people, and help
to lift them up.
GEORGE H. CROWELL, State President.
NORTH DAKOTA,
International Committeeman, John Orchard, Fargo.
International Vice-president, J. M. Wylie, Drayton.
President, H. E. Pratt, Cavalier.
Chairman State Committee, R. B. Griffith, Grand Forks.
Recording Secretary, George F. Rich, Grand Forks.
Field Worker, John Orchard, Fargo.
Treasurer, W. J. Lane, Fargo.
Primary Superintendent, Mrs. S. P. Johnson, Grand Forks.
Home Department Superintendent, Mrs. D. J. Stanton, Grand Forks.
Normal Superintendent, Mrs. J. A. Sanderson, Farimore.
Last convention held May, 1902.
Ten thousand homestead entries made during 1901, with an average of
five hundred each month during the present year, has brought and will bring
to us this year nearly seventy-five thousand additional population. It is
quite possible not only to exaggerate the possibilities of work under such
circumstances, but also to over-estimate the actual work done. Therefore,
while we report a spleudid advance, the cry of North Dakota is not what we
have done, but what we have not done. We are alive to our progress, and
on fire for the work before us.
For several years the state association work hung fire. One or two
months only in the year a field worker was employed. The adyent of
brighter days became ours directly following the visit of our brethren of the
International Tour. The possibility of securing a field worker conjointly
with Minnesota solved our financial difficulty. Our last state year rejoiced
in seeing 33 conventions, with an attendance of the field worker at all but
one. Our statistical report shows large gains in general membership. With
this can be added a normal class membership of 760, home department mem-
bers over 3,000, cradle roll members over 4,000, with 50 per cent. of schools
graded in one form and another. The gain in advance work is traced in
almost every case to the presentation of them at state and county conyen-
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tions. A further advance came last year by putting into the field a primary
superintendent. In the appointment of Mrs. S. P. Johnson to this office, the
state has gained untold benefit.
Possibly the strongest evidence of the splendid progress of the state
work during the past three years is the fact that, up to and including At-
Janta. only one delegate attended the International Convention; whilst for
Denver, ont of a possible twelve, nine were present.
JOHN ORCHARD, Field Worker.
NOVA SCOTIA.
International Committeeman, Dr. Frank Woodbury, Halifax.
International Vice-president, Peter Fraser, Picton.
President, Prof. E. W. Sawyer, Wolfeville.
Chairman Provincial Committee, Dr. Frank Woodbury, Halifax.
Recording Secretary, Miss Lathern, Halifax.
General Field Secretary, Stuart Muirhead, Halifax.
Treasurer, E. F. Smith, Halifax.
Last convention held October, 1901.
The work is hopeful and progressive from every point of view.
The association is run on business principles. No debt is incurred with-
out the reasonable assurance of income to meet it. There has been no appeal
at the annual convention for money for five years. This method has done
much to inspire the confidence of the churches and public in our work.
The normal department is very fully organized, and is meeting with phe-
nomenal success. About 2,000 persons were students last year, and 152 re-
ceived diplomas. We follow a three-years’ course. The home department
is well to the front, and saining rapidly. There are five primary unions,
and good work is being done; though the department is suffering for a
trained primary worker. Ours is the first association to organize a temper-
ance department. It has been operated as the other departments, and has
proved a great force.
The department of supplemental lessons and grading is carried on by
provincial and county superintendents, and has during its first year of exist-
ence given a great impulse to Bible-study and assisted many schools to an
orderly, systematic method of grading.
Our field secretary is constantly employed. About 150 conventions and
institutes have been held the past year. The work is well understood, and
receives the co-operation of the churches. Continual presentation of the
obligations of Sunday-school workers for the conversion of the young is
bringing better results each year. The week following the ‘‘Week of
Prayer’? was very generally observed throughout the province as ‘‘Decision
Week.”’ It resulted in fruitful revivals in many churches.
STUART MUIRHEAD, Field Secretary.
OHIO.
International Committeeman, Edward L. Young, Norwalk.
International Vice-president, Rev. E. S. Lewis, D.D., Columbus.
President, W. A. Eudaly, Cincinnati.
Chairman State Committee, W. A. Eudaly, Cincinnati.
Recording Secretary, H. EB. Buker, Zanesville.
General Secretary, Joseph Clark, D.D., Columbus.
Primary Worker, Mrs. A. G. Crouse, Westerville.
Last convention held June, 1902.
In each of Ohio’s eighty-eight counties there is a flourishing county
organization. Of her 1,352 townships, more than twelve hundred, in 1902,
reported flourishing organizations. Of Ohio’s nine largest cities, in which
is found about one-third of her population, eight are organized, with fifty-
ene city district organizations. This great family of associations holds each
year in Ohio fully three thousand conventions or meetings, the vast majority
of which crowd the houses to the doors.
The state association carries a full complement of officers. Each depart-
ment found in a modern graded Sunday-school is recognized by the state in
the appointment of a departmental secretary. The state, therefore, has pri-
mary, junior, intermediate, senior, home and normal department secretaries.
Only one of these departmental secretaries—the primary—treceives compen- *
438 APPENDIX.
sation, and she for one-half of her time. Aside from the general secretary,
the only other officer giving his entire time to the work is Rev. H. A. Dow-
ling, the assistant secretary, who spends his entire time in the field.
The officers of the association consist of the full quota and an executive
committee of eighteen. This committee meets three times a year.. It en-
trusts to the business committee, consisting of the president, secretary and
three men of affairs, the details of the state’s plens. This business com-
mittee meets on the first Tuesday of each month.
The state headquarters ure located in the capital of the state (Columbus),
in a modern office building. It consists of two rooms, one of which is
devoted to the transaction of business and is occupied by a bookkeeper, a
stenographer and a ‘‘Worker’’ clerk, and the other by the general secretary
as a private office. The state office is thoroughly organized and equipped for
business, at an expense of about $1,000. The state has an official organ, The
Ohio Sunday School Worker, a sixteen-page magazine, edited by the general
secretary, which has a paid circulation of 17,000 subscribers.
The business of the association is conducted in two departments, viz.,
missionary und publication. Only money contributed by schools and indi-
viduals for missionary purposes is expended in the missionary department.
The publication department, which includes the Worker, and all forms,
blanks, leaflets, etc., sold by the state, is conducted like any other business,
and is expected to sustain itself. During the past few years it has paid a
profit into the missionary department. The state association, as a mission-
ary enterprise sends The Worker to each county and township officer in the
state, while sixty counties at the expense of the county send The Worker
to each superintendent in the county. The expenses of the state work are
met by free-will offerings from schools and individuals, amounting in 1901
to about $8,000.
JOSEPH CLARK, General Secretary.
OKLAHOMA,
International Committeeman, Fred L. Wenner, Kingfisher.
International Vice-president, M. McCullough, Norman.
President, Dr. L. Haynes Buxton, Oklahoma City.
Recording Secretary, Rey. G. N. Keniston, Hennessey.
Corresponding Secretary, Arthur Whorton, Perry.
Field Secretary, Rev. J. M. Anderson, Guthrie.
Last convention held May, 1902.
Oklahoma has been organized as a-territorial association for ten years.
The work done during this period has been voluntary, with the exception of
about four months when a paid worker was in the field. We stand to-day
with every county organized. In the Boston, Atlanta and Denver Conven-
tions we had delegates. The work is in a very encouraging condition. The
executive committee has put a paid secretary into the field, and we are ex-
pecting large results. Every county of our twenty-six has held a convention
during the past year, and this is largely due to the energetic work of the
different members cf the committee. Notwithstanding the points of encour-
agement that we see, we realize, as does every state organization, that with-
out a field secretary there are many valuable opportunities that lie un-
grasped. An active fall campaign is to be opened, and we believe the work
will take on larger proportions than ever before.
ARTHUR WHORTON, Secretary.
ONTARIO.
International Committeeman, J. J. Maclaren, K.C., Toronto.
International Vice-president, Hon. 8S. H. Blake, Toronto.
President, A. McInnis, Vanleek Hill.
Chairman Provincial Committee, Rev. William Frizzell, Toronto.
General Secretary, J. A. Jackson, Toronto.
Associate Secretary, T. Yellowlees, Toronto.
Last convention held October, 1901.
The province of Ontario covers an irregularly shaped area of 222,000
Square miles and contains 2,167,978 people. To leave the office in Toronto
and touch the outlying points of this large field, traveling direct by our
fastest trains, is a matter of many hours and sometimes of days. The diffi-
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culties in keeping it all efficiently organized are insurmountable. Much is
being done, however; and we are able to report sixty-two counties in active
oa with the provincial association, twenty-two of which are banner
counties.
During the past triennium the personnel of the association’s officiary has
completely changed, and their duties have been to some extent rearranged.
Early in the term, Rev. William Frizzell, Ph.B., succeeded J. A. Paterson,
K.C., as chairman of the executive; a little later Thomas Yellowlees suc-
ceeded Miss Jessie Munroe, and was assigned a portion of the field work;
while the general secretary was given control of the work in both office and
field. Shortly after this arrangement, both the general secretary, Alfred
Day, and the treasurer, R. J. Seore, resigned. W. Hamilton was at once
appointed to the latter office, and some time later J. A. Jackson, B.A., until
then principal of cne of the leading high schools of the province, was
selected as general secretary.
The various departments of the organized work are all receiving attention
and are moving onward, we believe, to better things. Sunday-school exten-
sion tours are annually arranged through the new and sparsely settled dis-
tricts. No opportunity is lost to institute new associations or to resuscitate
old ones, if any fall by the way. In home department and house-to-house
visitation much is being done. Some towns and cities have carried through
systematic campaigns of visitation, with beneficial results. Home depart-
ment work proper is now a live issue in nearly every association, and is
gradually winning greater favor. Normal work is kept before our constitu-
ency in a variety of ways. The primary work is also progressive, and those
members of our executive committee especially interested are looking for-
ward to the time when some more aggressive effort will be made in this field
of operation. Our finances are steadily improving.
These facts, together with an increase in the numbers attending conven-
tions, shew a growing interest in the work, which augurs well for its future
in Ontario.
J. A. JACKSON, General Secretary.
OREGON;
International Committeeman, A. M. Smith, Portland.
International Vice-president, A. A. Morse, Portland.
President, A. A. Morse, Portland.
Chairman State Committee, A. A. Morse, Portland.
Secretary, Merwin Pugh, Portland.
Primary Worker, Mrs. C. M. Kiggins, Portland.
That the Sunday-school work of Oregon to-day stands on a higher plane
than ever before can be attributed to two important causes: (1) the ‘‘hard
times’ are past, and since the beginning of 1900 our state has forged ahead
steadily and surely: (2) our workers have been greatly helped by the Inter-
national Sunday-school Executive Committee. General Secretary Lawrance
and his party came to us in 1900, and by wise counsel and inspired work put
us in shape to better meet the rapidly improving conditions. Our field
worker has been in the field a year, and his work has told. All of our organ-
ized counties have held conventions during the year, and in some districts
semi-annual institutes have been held. The Lawrance party was followed
in 1901 by Mr. C. D. Meigs, and this year Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner has been
with us. As a result better work is being done along all lines. We have
more home departments than ever before, and all report success in their
work through finding ‘‘lost members,’’ and bringing our pastors into touch
with those that were church members in other places but had not placed
their letters in their new homes.
Decision Day has been more generally observed, and that it has paid is
proved by our schools reporting larger additions to our churches from the
school membership than ever before in any one year. Rally Day has also
become an established fact in many of our schools, as has the cradle roll,
which all report a decided success. We also have more normal classes than
ever before. We have no cause for discouragement.
A. A. MORSE, President.
PENNSYLVANIA.
International Committeeman, H. J. Heinz, Pittsburg
International Vice-president, Hon. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia.
440 APPENDIX.
President, Hon. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia.
Chairman State Committee, H. J. Heinz, Pittsburg.
Recording Secretary, Rev. Alexander Henry, D.D., Frankford.
General Secretary, Hugh Cork, Philadelphia.
Supt. Primary Department, Mrs. J. Woodbridge Barnes, Philadelphia.
Superintendent Normal Department, Rey. Charles A. Oliver, York.
Superintendent Home Department, Rey. B. I’. Fales, Philadelphia.
Last convention held October, 1901.
The Pennsylvania association was organized in 1862. Since the Atlanta
Convention every one of its 67 counties has retained a county organization,
and all but three are doing township work. The Rey. Charles Roads, D.D.,
was general secretary during the last triennium up to February 15, 1902,
when he resigned to become field secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Sun
day-school Union.
There are 9,931 Sunday-schools in the state. Several of these number
over 1,800, Mr. Wanamaker’s reaching 5,005. There are many up-to-date
schools, but most of them greatly need the work which our association
pushes, The membership reaches nearly 1,500,000. In the last triennium
there have been held nearly 1,800 conventions. At one county convention 106
pastors were present, 95 superintendents, 35 other officers and 464 teachers.
There have been 272 graduates in the state normal course, and quite a
number in the International Primary Course. There are 619 home depart-
ments, with 27,250 enrolled. In one county there are 104 cradle rolls. Nearly
100 cities and towns and two whole counties, with a combined population of
2,725,000, have had house-to-house visitations. These places hold about one-
third the population of the state. Decision Day has been pushed, and has
brought large returns. Thirteen summer schools have been held, enrolling
over 2,000 students.
The Pennsylvania Herald is the state paper, and during the three years
10,000 per month, or 360,000 copies, have been sent out, which has cost in
printing and mailing nearly $4,000. About $250 per year from the state
treasury has been needed to make ends meet. ‘There has been spent in state
werk $12,000 a year, which has kept six people at work all the time and ten
others part of the time. it seems little trouble to get money when we can
show returns.
Taking all in all, the association is in a prosperous condition.
HUGH CORK, General Secretary.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND,
international Committeeman, Dey. D. B. McLeod, Charlottetown.
International Vice-president, D. Schurman, Charlottetown.
President, James Ramsey, Hamilton.
Chairman Provincial Committee, D. Schurman, Charlottetown.
Recording Secretary, J. S. Clark, Bay View.
General Secretary, Rev. G. P. Raymond, Charlottetown.
Last convention held October, 1901.
The association was organized in 1884 by Williams Reynolds. Our proy-
ince is small, being only 150 miles long by from two to thirty miles wide.
The entire population is only 103,000, divided into the following denomina-
tions: Roman Catholic, 47,000; Presbyterian, 30,000; Methodist, 13,000;
Upiscopal, 6,000; Baptist, 6,000. This small province, with a Protestant
population of only 50,000, is at present employing a field secretary at a
salary of $900 a year.
There are only three counties, and no county associations are organized,
nor are there any county conventions. The province is divided into fifteen
districts, and every district is organized and holds two conventions each
year, which, with the annual provincial convention, affords ample oppor-
tunity for prosecuting the work without multiplying the machinery.
Last year’s report shows 212 schools connected with the association, and
a total enrollment of 10,677. Only 84 schools were in session all the year.
The normal students numbered 170, and 33 received diplomas at the annual
convention. The home department members number 445, and $105.00 was
contributed to the association by the schools. The field secretary was em-
ployed for only one month last year. The association has raised over $1,000
during the eight months of the present year, and has paid the expenses of
its field secretary to the International Conyention at Denver. The outlook
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is very bright, and this province is proving that paid workers can be success-
fully employed by much smaller constituencies than whole provinces or
States.
G. P. RAYMOND, General Secretary.
QUEBEC.
International Committeeman, Seth P. Leet, K.C., Montreal.
International Vice-president, W. L. Shurtleff, LL.B., Coaticook.
President, E. I. Rexford, M.A., Westmount.
Chairman Provincial Committee, R. H. Buchanan, Montreal.
General Secretary, Rev. E. W. Halpenny, Montreal.
Primary Superintendent, Mrs. E. W. Halpenny, Montreal.
Last convention held February, 1902.
“Continual dripping wears away the rock.’’ So it has been in a large
measure with the rock of indifference in the work of the organized Sunday-
school movement in the province of Quebec. For three years now we have
vigorously pushed the township convention idea, and it has had gratifying
results. This year not only more schools are represented, but the represen-
tation is larger. There are fewer questions to-day as to the value and im-
portance of the work than at any former time. The spirit of co-operation
grows, and the willingness to help and play a part is very encouraging.
Our home department work goes on. In our normal work there is an in-
crease of tenfold on last year, and we have just prepared a course of three
years, with three text-books and three reading books, of which we are proud.
During the last triennium we have added a new department to our work,—
“The white ribbon army,’’ or temperance work in the Sunday-school. In
this we co-operate with our faithful W. C. T. U. friends. A new departure
of the past year was the offering of a marked Testament of different grades,
to all who would so memorize set groups of the marked verses that they
could respond to the call of chapter and verse, or locate the verse when
repeated. No effort in our work has been more appreciated and none more
commended than this. Our work has greatly profited by an effort in county
conventions and sometimes in township conventicns to discuss the Holy
Spirit’s place in the work of the Sunday-school. We do not need more
method, but we do need present methods worked.
E. WESLEY HALPENNY, General Secretary.
RHODE ISLAND.
International Commititeeman, T. W. Waterman, Providence.
International Vice-president, George R. McAuslan, Providence.
President, Frank O. Bishop, Pawtucket.
Chairman State Committee, James H. Smith, Providence.
Recording Secretary, Rey. E. Tallmadge Root, Providence.
General Secretary, Willard B. Wilson, Providence.
The condition of the work in Rhode Island is such as to give its officers
great satisfaction. There is not a village or hamlet in the state where the
association is not Known, and its work more or less understood. The schools
contribute promptly and generously to our work, and the financial condition
is better than it ever has been.
In our entire state we have only 1,055 square miles and a population of
only 425,000, two-thirds of which is within ten miles of the state secretary’s
office. We have only five counties, and a system of county organization is
not feasible; so our territory is divided into districts, almost identical with
townships in larger states. The work resolves itself largely into a personal
contact with the individual workers of the state, who are chiefly of two
classes; those in large city and town schools, and those in very small com-
munities where it is difficult to get competent district officers.
-There have been sixty conventions and rallies held in the past year. We
have established a circulating library of nearly 300 volumes for the use of
the Sunday-school workers of the state, which is extensively used. This
year we have held our first summer school for the training of Sunday-school
teachers, which was a pronounced success, and will hereafter be a perma-
nent feature of our work.
W. B. WILSON, General Secretary.
442 APPENDIX.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
International Committeeman, William DB. Pelham, Newberry.
International Vice-president, S. B. Ezell.
President. Rey. H. C. Bucholtz.
Chairman State Committee, William E. Pelham, Newberry.
Recording Secretary, Prof. B. W. Getsinger.
Primary Secretary, Mrs. M. A. Carlisle.
During the triennium the interdenominational Sunday-school work in
South Carolina has grown upon the hearts of the people. Each of the three
state conveutions held was well attended and greater interest was mani-
fested with each year. The presence of the Transcontinental Party at the
Newberry Convention, something over a year ago, was wonderfully helpful;
and the visit by Mr. C. D. Meigs at this year’s convention in Greenwood was
a great help and inspiration to all of us.
We have no field workers; but the executive committee was authorized
by the state convention recently held to employ one or more competent work-
ers, to organize during the year other counties, if the way be found clear.
In the counties already organized the conventions are held annually, and
there is a fine spirit of loyalty to the cause everywhere manifested. Home
department and primary methods are features that are becoming more gener-
ally appreciated by the Sunday-schools of the state.
The state organization pledged its support to the International Associa-
tion by the payment each year of $100, the same that has been paid hereto-
fore. We believe that we are doing well in this particular at least, and
that it is fully equal to our ability.
WILLIAM E. PELHAM, Chairman Executive Committee.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
International Committeeman, Rey. Charles M. Daley, Huron.
International Vice-president, C. P. Gregory, Aberdeen.
President, C. P. Gregory, Aberdeen.
Chairman State Committee, Rey. Charles M. Daley, Huron.
Secretary, Rev. F. P. Leach, Sioux Falls.
Treasurer, L. S. Hetland, Valley Springs.
Superintendent Primary Department, Miss Ida M. Pike, Aberdeen.
Last convention held May, 1902.
The work in South Dakota is not in very forward condition, owing to the
lack of thorough organization in the past, and to the great stretches of terri-
tory with thin population. The new officers are planning to take hold of the
work with vigor, and hope to make an encouraging report at the next con-
vention. We are seeking to get in touch with the county officers, and, where
no county organization exists, to reach as far as possible individual schools.
IF. P. LEACH, Secretary.
TENNESSEE,
International Committeeman, Prof. H. M. Hamill, Nashville.
International Vice-president, James Maynard, Knoxville.
President, Rev. W. S. Jacobs, Nashville.
Chairman State Committee, W. H. Raymond, Nashville.
General Secretary, Rey. George O. Bachman, Nashville.
Treasurer, F. D. Daniel, Clarksville.
Last convention held May, 1902.
The Tennessee Sunday-school Association has for seven years pursued a
vigorous and aggressive policy, for the purpose of surmounting all the diffi-
culties which are peculiar to this state. Beginning with forty organized
counties in 1896, they have pushed this campuign of organization until there
are 88 counties organized and 8 others in which plans for organization will
be carried out during this year.
In the midst of all this work within new territory, the general secretary
and his co-workers have looked after the older portions of the field and tried
to the best of their ability by institutes and normal class work to overcome
the diverse conditions, geographical, social and spiritual, which exist in this
great state. As a result, many counties are doing the very best association
REPORTS FROM STATES, PROVINCES AND TFRRITORIES. 443
work, while some are just taking the first steps in co-operative Christianity.
The state is divided into three divisions, and in each a convention is held
annually, in addition to the convention held for the entire state. These
divisions are subdivided into eighteen Sunday-school districts of five or more
counties, each in charge of a vice-president. This district organization has
proved very beneficial during the past two years; and while no conventions
are held in these districts, the vice-president is held responsible for holding
the convention in each county within his district. This has caused quite a
number cf counties to hold conventions that would not otherwise have done
so. During the fall the general secretary is planning several ‘‘Sunday-school
weeks”’ in the larger cities, for the purpose of securing the co-operation of
the city workers in the state association work.
The finances of the association are still the greatest difficulty. The num-
ber of volunteer workers is constantly increasing, and the time is not far
distant when the best work can be done by simply bearing the expenses of
these workers.
GEORGE 0. BACHMAN, General Secretary.
TEXAS,
International Committeeman, J. F. Sadler, Bonham.
International vice-president, J. J. C. Armstrong, Bl Paso.
President, John C. Townes, Austin.
Chairman State Committee, BE. H. Conibear, Dallas.
Recording Secretary, J. A. Bassett, Dallas.
Treasurer, Reuben C. Ayres, Dallas.
General Secretary, Lewis Collins, Dallas.
Primary Superintendent, Miss Adele Phillips, San Antonio.
Last convention held May, 1902.
Annual state conventions have been held in Texas for twenty-eight years.
Several efforts to secure county organization were made, and with salaried
Workers; but every local organization, save three, had lapsed before July 1,
1900. On that date, a field-worker, now the general secretary, was engaged;
and since then the work has gone steadily forward, even against serious
obstacles, such as want of funds for salary or expenses, and refusal to co-
operate on the part of a number who had been leaders before.
Possibly the greatest difficulties to overcome have been the indifference
of the ministry, their allegiance to the old-fashioned revival meeting, and
the seeming inability of nearly all mature workers to do the little easy
things suggested, because they will look ahead and rear mountains in their
imaginations and then refuse to climb.
A campaign of education was begun. The Texas Sunday School Star was
issued; also leaflets of information about certain features of the work. Per-
sonal visits were made, and in small gatherings the convention idea was
explained and committees appointed. In this way, chiefly, some thirty coun-
ties and nineteen precincts have been organized. Now many begin to take
an interest who formerly were indifferent. A good part of this new interest
is due to the work of Rey. B. W. Spilman, Dr. H. M. Hamill and Rey. L. E.
Peters, all of whom held series of institutes during the spring of 1902.
Dallas County shows the result of organization better than any other in the
state.
Some personal work by members of the state executive committee upon
our financial plan now gives hope that this year may find receipts equal to
the expenses. In the last state convention pledges were taken for the first
time from the counties; they are beginning to respond to the faith reposed
in them. The field is white.
LEWIS COLLINS, General Secretary.
UTAH.
International Committeeman, Thomas Weir, Salt Lake City.
International Vice-president, Dr. E. V. Silver.
President, Rey. P. A. Simpkins, Salt Lake City.
Chairman State Committee, Rev. W. M. Paden, Salt Lake City.
General Secretary, L. M. Gillilan, Salt Lake City.
Primary Secretary, Mrs. BH. EH. Shepard.
Normal Secretary, Prof. J. A. Smith.
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444 APPENDIX.
The state organization of Utah had new life and spirit given to it in the ‘
triennium just passed by the visits of the International workers in both the
Northwest and Transcontinental Tours. The result of this new vigor was
the putting of a general secretary into the field for a portion of one year.
It is thought that this effort was profitable by way of organization and re-
organization, and loaning aid and encouragement to the lonely workers in
this difficult field. The secretary has more calls than he can supply.
The Denver Convention has been a great uplift to the work in the state.
Scores of visits through the state in the interest of this Convention were
made by state officers and others. Asa result of this effort to arouse inter-
est in the Denver Convention, Utah was one of the ten that had full delega-
tions at Denver; and she had fourteen visiting delegates besides. It is
thought organized work throughout the state will move right forward.
L..M. GILLILAN, General Secretary.
VERMONT,
International Committeeman, D. M. Camp, Newport.
International Vice-president, L. W. Hawley, Brattleboro.
President, D.°"M. Camp, Newport. ‘
General Secretary, Rey. George L. Story, Essex Junction.
Treasurer, F. S. Pease, Burlington.
Last convention held November, 1901.
No report.
VIRGINIA.
International Committeeman, J. R. Jopling, Danville.
International Vice-president, Col. J. C. Baker, Newport News.
President, George W. Walker, Blacksburg.
Chairman State Committee, G. E. Caskie, Lynchburg.
Recording Secretary, V. W. Davis, Timber Ridge.
Secretary, William H. Wranek, Lynchburg.
Last convention held March, 1902.
Our work is making progress. We have about twenty out of the one
hundred counties in the state organized, and several of the cities. We have
been much hampered by debt, but think we will pay out this year, and then
go forward with our field worker. There is great destitution in some of the
counties, especially among the mountain districts and poorer parts of the
state. The Christian people in the cities and towns seem willing to help,
and all we need now is thorough organization. We are trusting and work-
ing. The blessed Morning Star is still shining.
GEORGE W. WALKER, President.
WASHINGTON,
International Committeeman, W. D. Wood, Seattle.
International Vice-president, D. S. Johnston, Tacoma.
President, W. D. Wood, Seattle.
Chairman State Committee, W. D. Wood, Seattle.
Recording Secretary, Carl Estby, Davenport.
General Secretary, Rev. W. C. Merritt, Tacoma.
Superintendent Primary Work, Mrs. T. C. Wiswell, Seattle. -
Superintendent Home Department, Rey. J.. A. Rogers, Davenport.
Supt. House-to-hcuse Visitation, Rev. B. H. Lingenfelter, Seattle.
Superintendent Normal Work, W. P. Winans, Walla Walla.
Last convention held May, 1902.
Organization is strengthening every year. Our state paper is called The
Sunday-school Worker of the Pacific Northwest. With 36 counties in the
state, we have 35 organizations, one large county having two; two unorgan-
ized counties.
Genuine work is being done in all our departments, primary, home, house-
to-house visitation and normal. We have some thirteen primary and junior
unions in the state. Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner has been engaged for October
and November, 1902, after which we expect to have a much larger number.
Most of our organized counties have county superintendents of all depart-
ments named above. Conventions or institutes held the past year, 132.
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We have raised about $2,000 annually for the past two years for state
work. We have set our figures at $3,600 for the current year. We pledged
$200 for the state at Denver, and individuals pledged $100 more, for each
year of the triennium.
W. C. MERRITT, General Secretary.
WEST VIRGINIA,
International Committeeman, Dr. C. Humble, Parkersburg.
International Vice-president, Rev. B. B. Evans, Huntington.
President, Rev. R. R. Bigger, Wheeling.
Chairman State Committee, Dr. C. Humble, Parkersburg.
Recording Secretary, M. M. Reppard, M.D., Middlebourne.
General Secretary, W. C. Shafer, Fairmont.
Primary Superintendent, Mrs. M. W. Buck, Wheeling.
Primary Field Worker, Miss Martha Graham, Wheeling.
Superintendent of Normal Work, Rey. L. E. Peters, Clarksburg.
West Virginia was organized in 1880. During the twenty-two years there
have been held twenty state conventions. The influence and encouragement
of Brother William Reynolds seems to stand out most prominently, and he is
gratefully remembered. Prof. H. M. Hamill was the one who possibly marks
the last division of our progress. During his brief tour some new life was
given, so that at the convention at Clarksburg about a month afterward
some decided advances were proposed, including the idea of dividing the
state into eleven districts. Two years later, at Ravenswood, it was found
that this plan had not succeeded to any great extent, and so another step
was taken, and the services of a worker secured for three months. Consid-
erable work was done this way.
The adyantage was quite marked at the Moundsville convention. This
convention stood as “‘high-water mark’’ from almost every standpoint. Pri-
mary, normal and home department superintendents were chosen, and $525
was raised for the work of the year, much more than ever before. At this
time there were but eight counties really organized, increased in the last
year to seventeen.
Our primary workers have worked untiringly, and with splendid results.
The normal superintendent, for several years the efficient president, had
opportunity to present the benefits of trained workers all over the state, and
not without encouraging results. A complete set of examination papers and
diplomas is provided. The district presidents are taking hold of the work;
and at our last convention at Huntington there was a splendid showing,
although held in a part of the state totally unorganized. Twelve hundred
dollars was raised for the work, and a man called into the field for full time
for the first time in our history
W. C. SHAFER, General Secretary.
WISCONSIN,
International Committeeman, S. B. Harding, Waukesha.
International Vice-president, Theodore M. Hammond, Milwaukee.
President, S. B. Harding, Waukesha.
Recording Secretary, Miss Anne E. Kurtz, Milwaukee.
Field Secretary, Rey. J. T. Chynoweth, Milwaukee.
Primary Worker, Mrs. C. P. Jaeger, Portage.
Superintendent Home Department, Rey. W. A. McKillup, Milwaukee.
Last convention held June, 1902.
Two good conventions have been held within a year, one in September,
1901, and the other in June, 1902.
Of the 70 counties in Wisconsin, only 31 are organized, and many of
these by the American Sunday School Union; so there is a great work still
to be done by our association. During the months of March, April and May,
some excellent work was done by our field secretary, Rey. George N. Heck-
endorn, by attending county conventions, giving addresses and arousing an
interest in the coming state convention at Portage, and talking up the work
ef the association. At both state conventions, Mr. Marion Lawrance was
present to help with his wise suggestions, practical plans, and earnest ad-
» dresses on the many phases of Sunday-school work. We also helped to raise
$500 at each convention, thus giving a financial basis for more funds to fur-
446 APPENDIX.
ther the work of the association. Primary work had a prominent place, and
all felt its importance. The newly elected officers are wide-awake and
thoroughly in earnest, so the prospect of a successful year’s work is quite
promising.
ANNE E. KURTZ, Secretary.
WYOMING.
International Committeeman, D. R. Cowhick, Cheyenne.
International Vice-president, J. O. Churchill, Cheyenne.
President, H. B. Henderson, Cheyenne.
General Secretary, Mrs. Amy T. Powelson, Cheyenne.
Primary Superintendent, Mrs. J. H. Collins, Cheyenne.
Last convention held April, 1902.
Wyoming was first organized in 1881 by Dr. Joseph Clark, the well-known
author of ‘“‘Timothy Standby,’’ held regular annual meetings for fifteen
years, and then for some unknown reason took a vacation. In July of 1900,
Wyoming was visited by the Northwestern Tour, and the state was reor-
ganized. At the present time three of the thirteen counties are fully organ-
ized and ready for work. Another county, while it has no officers, holds
county conventions, a resident state vice-president presiding, entertained
the state couvention, contributes liberally to our treasury, and always sends
her full quota of delegates to all conventions. A fifth county promises us
an organization in September.
During the past year the state association created the office of primary
superintendent, one large union has been formed, and others are ready to
follow. The home department is also gaining ground, and by the time that
this report is in, we hope to have a regularly appointed superintendent in
eharge of this most necessary department.
Our vast and sparsely settled territory, our scanty supply of railroads,
and the enormous cost of traveling, make thorough work an impossibility;
but we are not a bit discouraged. We consider this a magnificent oppor-
tunity to grow sturdy Christian character.
AMY T. POWELSON, State Secretary.
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V. LIST OF DELEGATES.
Note.—The numbers at the end of each list indicate, first, the number of
delegates to which the state, province or territory was entitled, and sec-
ondly, the number present.
Where a third number is given, this indicates
the number of visitors present, in addition to the regular delegates.
ALABAMA:
Miss Minnie Allen, Anniston.
Miss Minna Bell, Anniston.
Joseph Carthel, Montgomery.
Rey. A. B. Curry, D.D., Birming-
ham.
B. Davie, Clayton.
Mrs. B. Davie, Clayton.
Miss Nellie Edwards, Birmingham.
Miss Mary Force, Selma.
J. G. Greene,’ Opelika.
Miss Alice Hale, Birmingham.
Miss Hettie Jones, Livingston.
Miss E. Rose Lewis, Selma.
Mr. McRae, Louisville.
Adolph Roemer, Montgomery.
Dr. J. F. Turney, Hartsell.
Rey. W. H. Mixon, D.D. (col.),
Selma.
44—16.
ARIZONA:
George F. Sevier, Phoenix.
4—1.
ARKANSAS:
F. W. Axtell, Siloam Springs.
Mrs. F. W. Axtell, Siloam Springs.
Clifford P. Boles, Fayetteville.
B. S. Beach, Osage Mills.
Mrs. B. S. Beach, Osage Mills.
Rey. C. W. Burks, Siloam Springs.
7T. J. Conner, Fayetteville.
Mrs. T. J. Conner, Fayetteville.
G. W. Drake, Fayetteville.
J. R. Duty, Centerton.
B. W. Green, Little Rock.
Rey. G. A. Henderson,
Springs.
Dr. A. C. Henderson, Fayetteville.
7T. A. Hardie, Sunny Side.
W. C. Hauk, Fort Smith.
W. W. Hall, Fayetteville.
Miss Ollie Hagler, Centerton.
Mrs. Kate Hagler, Bentonville.
Mrs. Joe Johuson, Fort Smith.
Miss Lucy Moore, Boonsboro.
“C. R. Moore, Cane Hill.
Miss Meah Merritt, Fayetteville.
A. C. McAdams, Fayetteville.
Siloam
447
L. D. Petross, Springdale.
Mrs. L. D. Petross, Springdale.
Lorine Petross, Springdale.
Miss Lucy J. Ross, Fayetteville.
- J. R. Southworth, Fayetteville.
Frank Shumake, Siloam Springs.
32—29—5.
BRITISH COLUMBIA:
Miss Muriel Curtis, Westminster.
g—1.
CALIFORNIA, NORTH:
Mrs. Emma L. Barth, Fairfield.
Earl S. Bingham, Oakland.
J. W. Craycroft, Oakland...
Miss Sadie Eastwood, San José.
Miss Mabel Gray, Oakland.
H. Morton, San José.
Mrs. H. Morton, San José.
Miss Bessie C. Morgan, Nevada
City.
Miss Rachel J. Morgan, Nevada
City.
Rey. Dwight Potter, Oakland.
Miss Laura Richards, Saratoga.
B. V. Sharp, Hanford.
Rey. J. E. Squires, Colusa.
Alfred Taylor, Hollister.
Miss F. H. Taylor, Hollister.
27—15.
CALIFORNIA, SOUTH:
Mrs. C. A. Baskerville, Los An-
geles.
Miss Stella Blanchard, Los An-
geles.
Rey. F. L. Donohoo, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Stella B. Irvine, Riverside.
Mrs. L. N. McDonald, Lordsburg.
David P. Ward, Pasadena.
Mrs. Annie B. Wheelan, Los An-
geles.
W. C. Weld, Los Angeles.
9—8.
COLORADO:
Rey. O. W. Auman, Goldfield.
Rey. F. N. Calvin, Colorado
Springs.
448
Miss Mabel Cory, Denver.
F. BE. Dunlavy, Trinidad.
Mrs. M. J. Hunt, Buena Vista.
Prof. Charles Lewis, Boulder.
Win. A. Marsh, Grand Junction.
Dr. J. K. Miller, Greeley.
Mrs. Clark Moore, Fort Collins.
Rey. C. K. Powell, Colorado
Springs.
Rey. E. W. Simon, Denver.
Dr. A. H. Stockham, Delta.
Mrs. J. A. Walker, Denver.
Harry F. Ware, Durango.
Rey. U. A. White, Cafion City.
QL. S. Whitlock, Pueblo.
16—16. Several hundred visi-
tors.
CONNECTICUT:
W. H. Allen, Cheshire.
Mrs. W. H. Allen, Cheshire.
Dr. A. J. Cutting, Southington.
Seward V. Coffin, Middletown.
Mrs. Seward \. Coffin, Middle-
town.
George S. Deming, New Haven.’
Miss Grace Fitzsimmons, Water-
bury.
Edward Hallock, Derby.
Rey. J. Chester Hyde,
Hill.
C. O. Jeliff, Southport.
J. H. Mansfield, New Haven.
Mrs. J. H. Mansfield, New Haven.
Rey. R. W. Raymond, Stratford.
H. H. Spooner, Kensington.
Quaker
Miss Frances S. Walkley, New
Haven.
M. C. Webster, New Britain.
24—16.
DELAWARE:
Mrs. C. G. Cannon, Georgetown.
Dr. Frank W. Lang, Wilmington.
12—2.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:
Rey. A. F. Anderson, Washington.
Mrs. Velma S. Barber, Washing-
ton.
A. L. Dietrich, Washington.
Miss Belle Meany, Washington.
W. W. Millan, Washington.
Hon. W. S. Shallenberger, Wash-
ington.
12—6.
FLORIDA:
Miss Sara D. Griffin, Anthony.
H. H. Sasnett, Jacksonville.
16—2.
GEORGIA:
Dr. Joe Broughton, Atlanta.
Mrs. L. G. Broughton, Atlanta.
C. C. Brown, Wadley.
Mrs. C. C. Brown, Wadley.
Dr. W. H. Buchanan, Waycross.
Mrs. Henry W. Burwell, Augusta.
George Hains, Augusta.
Rey. E. R. Carter (col.), Atlanta.
APPENDIX.
Mrs. E. R. Carter (col.), Atlanta.
Miss Cora B. Finley (col.), At-
lanta.
Rey. Silas X. Floyd (col.), Au-
gusta. |
N. Holmes (col.), Atlanta.
Mrs. N. Holmes (col.), Atlanta.
Rev. A. D. Williams (col.), At-
lanta.
52—14.
IDAHO:
Miss Eva M. Deem, Boisé.
H. N. Elkington, Boisé.
Perey Jones, Blackfoot.
E. H. Maberly, Boisé.
Rey. C. BE. Mason,
Home.
H. BE. Neal, Boisé.
Rey. I. F. Roach, Boisé.
Miss lvy M. Wilson, Boisé.
12—38.
ILLINOIS:
Mrs. E. J. Adams, Sheridan.
R. G. Ardrey, Oakdale.
Mrs. R. G. Ardrey, Oakdale.
Arthur T. Arnold, Wheaton.
C. H. Brand, Chicago.
Mrs. C. H. Brand, Chicago.
Mrs. Mary F. Bryner, Peoria.
W. G. Brimson, Chicago.
O. R. Brouse, Rockford.
Miss Bertha A. Beer,
Mills.
Rey. W. R. Blackwelder, Mazon.
Mrs. W. R. Blackwelder, Mazon.
Miss Minnie Bolen, Gays.
Rev. J. B. Bartle, Milan.
J. A. Bickerdike, Pana.
E. M. Breckenridge, Rockford.
Ira W. Broughton, Chicago.
J. A. Burhans, Chicago.
Mrs. J. A. Burhans, Chicago.
Miss D. P. Cummins, Aledo.
Miss Amy Couch, Hutsonyille.
Mrs. C. E. Clark, Carrollton.
Mrs. W. H. Dietz, Chicago.
H. B. Dines, Quincy.
F. D. Everett, Highland Park.
Mrs. F. D. Bverett, Highland
Park.
Miss Lottie Edgar, Oakdale.
C. A. Frier, Shawneetown.
Rey. Hugh C. Gibson, Hanna City.
EB. G. Gedelman, Chicago.
BE. L. Griffith, Chicago.
Rey. C. B. Hayes, Danvers.
Mrs. C. E. Hayes, Danvers.
H. L. Hill, Chicago.
Mrs. H. L. Hill, Chicago.
Mrs. Mary I’. Hurst, Sweet Water.
H. P. Hart, Bolivia.
S. E. Hewes, Quincy.
Mrs. W. B. Jacobs, Chicago.
Rey. S. M. Johnson, Chicago.
Rey. C. J. Kiefer, Princeton.
P. P. Laughlin, Decatur.
Mrs. P. P. Laughlin, Decatur.
M. S. Lamoreaux, Chicago.
Mrs. M. S. Lamoreaux, Chicago.
Mountain *
London
LIST OF DELEGATES.
W. D. Landess, Elgin.
W. E. Longley, Oak Park.
A. H. Mills, Decatur.
Mrs. A. H. Mills, Decatur.
Miss Luella McCoy, Versailles.
R. C. Marquis, Chicago.
George W. Miller, Paris.
Mrs. George W. Miller, Paris.
William Morrell, Palmyra.
Miss Rose Morrow, Decatur.
Rey. Henry Moser, Sheridan.
A. J. McDermid, Chicago.
Mrs. A. J. McDermid, Chicago.
Miss Edith A. Moorehead, DeKalb.
Rey. C. F. McKown, Pittsfield.
Rey. Neil McQuarrie, E. St. Louis.
E. H. Nichols, Chicago.
Rey. M. L. Norris, St. Charles.
Mrs. M. L. Norris, St. Charles.
W. C. Pearce, Chicago.
A. W. Rosecrans, Ashton.
W. S. Rearick, Ashland.
Mrs. W. S. Rearick, Ashland.
Mrs. William Reynolds, Peoria.
Miss Carrie A. Rigg, Edinburg.
C. W. Rose, Custer Park.
Mrs. C. W. Rose, Custer Park.
W. B. Rundle, Clinton.
T. B. Stephenson, Sparta.
Mrs. T. B. Stephenson, Sparta.
Joseph Stark, Marshall.
A. W. Snyder, Galesburg.
Miss M. Libbie Smith, Emington.
Fred H. Stroud, Kankakee.
C. E. Schenck, Chicago.
Cc. W. Schell, Polo.
J. R. Slater, Chicago.
George Strickfaden, Pekin.
Rev. 1. B. Trout, Elgin.
L. B. Vose, Macomb.
Mrs. L. B. Vose, Macomb.
Mrs. H. M. Williams, Blooming-
ton.
R. C. Willis, Toledo.
Miss Omah L. Woods, Monmouth.
Miss Alice Woodson, Cairo.
Miss Etta B. Watson, Circola.
Dr-F. C. Warne, Chicago.
Cc. L. Weaver, Chicago.
BF. A. Wells, Chicago.
Mrs. F. A. Wells, Chicago.
Miss Emma C. Whiteley, Chicago.
96—96—40.
INDIAN TERRITORY:
Dr. W. T. Jacobs, Muskogee.
Rey. Thomas Lain, Muskogee.
D. M. Marrs, Vinita.
4—3.
INDIANA:
Mrs. A. C. Baggs, Indianapolis.
Mrs. Anna R. Biack, Terre Haute.
Rey. G. W. Bundy, Patoka.
Cc. B. Butcher, Angola.
B. F. Butler, Goodland.
Mrs. B. F. Butler, Goodland.
Rey. John C. Carman, Indian-
apolis.
Walter Carr, Reynolds.
29
449
J. A. Catchpole, Angola.
J. C. Davis, Summitville.
W. H. Elvin, Indianapolis.
Don Ely, Indianapolis.
Mrs. Lettie Getz, Richmond.
Miss Clara Getz, Richmond.
B. B. Goodale, Metz.
Mrs. G. H. Gortner, Goshen.
J. F. Habbe, Indianapolis.
W. C. Hall, Indianapolis.
A. R. Jamison, Lafayette.
Miss Eleanor Kirby, Indianapolis.
Miss Emilie Klute, Richmond.
Miss Kate Klute, Richmond.
F. W. Kelsey, Fort Wayne.
Mrs. L. S. Knollenberg,
mond.
Emil Kroessmann, Tell City.
P. G. Lawrence, Angola.
Mrs. F. C. Leffingwell, Maysyille.
B. G. Martin, Angola.
C. D. Meigs, Indianapolis.
Mrs. C. D. Meigs, Indianapolis.
Miss L. Miller, Indianapolis.
Josiah Morris, Coloma.
J. W. Myrick, Patoka.
R. S. Ogle, Tipton.
Capt. A. L. Ogg. Greenfield.
J. W. Parks, Plymouth.
Mrs. J. W. Parks, Plymouth.
Rich-
Mrs. H. D. Porterfield, Indian-
apolis.
Miss Charlotte Porterfield, In-
dianapolis.
O. M. Pruitt, Indianapolis.
Mrs. O. M. Pruitt, Indianapolis.
A. P. Ritz, Evansville.
William Robinson, Brookston.
Mrs. William Robinson, Brookston
H. L. Rockwood, Angola.
J. C. Rutter, Bridgeton.
Miss Anna Schulz, Richmond.
Miss Dorothea Schulz, Richmond.
Rey. E. J. Scott, New Castle.
Miss Emma Smith, Mooreshill.
George Snyder, Indianapolis.
Mrs. Luella Snyder, Indianapolis.
Joseph B. Speicher, Urbana.
Miss Martha Speicher, North
Manchester.
Mrs. D. W. Thomas, Elkhart.
Mrs. Ora Thomas, Sharpsville.
Mrs. A. Thompson, Scottsburg.
W. G. Thompson, Sharpsville.
Mrs. W. G. Thompson, Sharpsville.
Miss M. White, Salem.
60—60.
IOWA:
C. H. Ainley, Des Moines.
Miss Clara Ahrens, Alden.
Rey. J. B. Bartley, Shenandoah.
Rey. W. H. Blancke, Davenport.
M. P. Brace, Dunlap.
Mrs. William F. Brown, Boone.
Rey. J. H. Bryan, Des Moines.
W. N. Chrisman, Mapleton.
Rey. W. B. Clemmer, Des Moines.
Rey. J. O. Crosby, Granyille.
Rey. F. G. Davies, Ottumwa.
450
Rey. F. N. Eldridge, Des Moines.
Fred W. Ericon, Lyndale.
Miss Marguerite Hinsdale, Onawa.
Rey. W. S. Hohanshelt, Red Oak.
Mrs. J. F. Hardin, Eldora.
N. H. Hart, Kalo.
Rey. A. M. Haggard, Des Moines.
Miss Nettie Israel, Bonaparte.
George Isentraut, Sioux City.
I. F. Jones, Villisca.
W. C. Kirchheck, Colesburg.
1). C. Knupp, Vinton.
Ww. C. Kennedy, Rolfe.
Mrs. S. B. Keenan, Des Moines.
Miss Anna Little, Logan.
William Marshall, Glenwood.
B. F. Mitchell, Des Moines.
Mrs. B. F. Mitchell, Des Moines.
Rey. William Murchie, Allerton.
H. R. Millhiser, Marshalltown.
A. W. Murphy, Shenandoah.
Miss Della McKay, Wapello.
Mrs. Julia McQuilken, Se hetai
Ww en Orr, Clarinda.
Rey. M. Orvis, Dubuque.
J.C. Sabet Battle Creek.
Mrs. Anna R. Paddock, Keokuk.
D. H. Payne, Bloomfield.
C. H. Payne, Fort Dodge.
Miss Effie Roberts, Afton.
c. S. Stryker, Creston.
I. B. Stevenson, Cedar Rapids.
Rey. W. A. Sears, Williams.
Mrs. H. J. Slifer, Boone.
Miss Lottie Seott, Le Claire.
Rey. O. S. Thompson, Paulins.
William Tackaberry, Sioux City.
Mrs. W. G. Wescott, Gladbrook.
George Wills, Eldora.
Mrs. C. C. Wallace, Des Moines.
Mrs. Alice Warren, Knoxville.
Miss Grace Wood, Traer.
52—52—78.
KANSAS:
Lineoln J. Allen, Norton.
John F. Barnhill, Paola.
Elam Bartholomew, Rockport.
Rey. G. M. Beeler, Concordia.
tev. J. B. Bolman, Wamego.
Rey. Theodore Bracken, D.D.,
Philipsburg.
Miss Meme Brockway, Wellsville.
c. S. Caldwell, Wichita.
Rey. J. J. Chambers, New Cam-
bria.
Rey. John T. Copley, Manhattan.
Rey. J. T. Crawford, Parsons.
Dr. G. A. Crise, Manhattan.
Mrs. J. G. Donnell, Leoti.
J. H. Engle, Abilene.
rr. J. Garnett, Hill City.
W. E. Hazen, Lawrence.
Rey. J. E. Ingham, Topeka.
C. H. Isely, Fairview.
Rey. C. C. Kesinger, Leavenworth.
Mrs. Don Kinney, Newton.
Mrs. 8S. E. Lambert, Toronto.
J. W. Lowdermilk, Riley.
Miss Mattie McClaury, Norton.
Miss Addie Mains, Oskaloosa.
APPENDIX. ” Pe Soe
J. K. Mitchell, Osborne. =
L. H. Murlin, D.D., Baldwin.
Mrs. R. B. Preuszner, Lawrence.
Howard C. Rash, Salina.
Fayette A. Smith, Abilene.
Rey. J. D. Springston, Ottawa.
O. P. Steele, Throop.
Mrs. W. H. Swartz, Minneapolis.
Mrs. i. A. Tice, Topeka.
Mrs. L. L. Uhbls, Ossawatomie.
Rey. D. E. Vance, Niles.
Rev. J. C. Walker, Burr Oak.
J. H. Waterman, Lakin.
W. Clyde Wolfe, Ellsworth.
C. D. Wood, Hutchinson.
Mrs. C. D. Wood, Hutchinson.
40—40—151.
KENTUCKY:
Miss Ida Barnes, Louisville.
Lewis Becker, Louisville.
Mrs. H. L. Bell, Guston.
Miss Finie Murfree Burton, Louis-
ville.
Miss Eva Carrigan, Guston.
Charles Casperke, Brandenburg.
BE. A. Fox, Louisville. .
Miss Nannie Lee Frayser, Louis-
ville.
Miss Pearl Gattoff, Williamsburg.
Rey. George Gowan, Louisville.
Clarence Hogsett, Crittenden.
Miss Elizabeth Ireland, Louisville.
Miss Hattie Kiefer, Louisville.
Miss Lew Wallace Kirk, Zoneton.
Miss Lucy Mahan, Williamsburg.
Mrs. tT. N. McClelland, Lexington.
H. P. McCormick, Auburn.
Miss Anna Bell McFarland, Hen-
derson.
Rey. J. W. Mitchell, Earlington.
Miss Courtenay Moore, Lexington.
Rey. J. W. Moore, Louisville.
Rev. E. Y. Mullins, D.D., Louis-
ville.
Rey. J. C. Rawlins, Bradfords-
ville.
J. Newt Renaker, Renaker.
Rey. J. R. Sampey, D.D., Lonis-
ville.
Miss Emily Sanders, Louisville.
Miss Sue B. Scott, Lexington.
Miss Hannah Smith, Zoneton.
Miss Mary Tichenor, Taylorsville.
Miss Nellie Triplet, Henderson.
Clarence Watkins, Louisville.
Mrs. Clarence Watkins, Louisville.
Dr. E. Williams, Taylorsville.
E. N. Woodruff, Louisville.
R. E. Wynns, Sturgis.
J. G. Wynns, Sturgis.
52—36—3.
LOUISIANA:
Col. W. H. Jack, Natchitoches.
Miss Mary Kate Jack, Natchi-
toches.
W. H. Jack, jr., Baton Rouge.
Miss Carrie S. Pfaff, New Orleans.
Miss Hermine R. Pfaff, New Or-
leans.
LIST OF DELEGATES.
Rey. A. C. Smith, Lafayette.
32—6.
MAINE:
Mrs. C. I. Bailey, Winthrop.
Rey. Smith Baker, D.D., Portland.
L. R. Cook, Yarmouthville.
Mrs. E. A. DeGarmo, Portland.
Rey. E. A. Mason, Oakland.
Miss Ethel F. Noble, Portland.
Miss Sarah T. Rollins, Dexter.
Mrs. E. M. Stanton, Winthrop.
24—8.
MANITOBA:
Mrs. Allen, Kerfoot.
Rey. W. J. Herbison, Carman.
W. H. Irwin, Winnipeg.
A. L. Maclean, Winnipeg.
12—4.
MARYLAND:
James BE. Ellegood, Salisbury.
L. W. Gunby, Salisbury.
Rey. E. B. Kephart, D.D., Balti-
more.
J. Howard Larcombe, Bettsville.
32-4.
MASSACHUSETTS:
W. K. Andem, Boston.
Forest E. Barker, Worcester.
Mrs. Forest E. Barker, Worcester.
C. N. Bentley, Chelsea.
H. M. Borwich, Cambridgeport.
Rey. F. L. Cleveland, North Han-
over.
Hamilton S$. Conant, Boston.
Miss Hlizabeth F. Cooper, Boston.
Jesse Cudworth, Malden.
Miss Jessie Cummings, Reading.
Rey. C. H. Daniels, Newton.
Rey. A. C. Dixon, D.D., Boston.
Rey. A. E. Dunning, D.D., Boston.
Mrs. A. E. Dunning, Boston.
J. W. Field, Boston.
Charles R. Fuller, Boston.
W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
Mrs. W. N. Hartshorn, Boston.
Miss Ida U. Hartshorn, Boston.
Rey. M. C. Hazard, Ph.D., Boston.
Mrs. M. C. Hazard, Boston.
John Herbert, Somerville.
Mrs. John Herbert, Somerville.
Rey. A. H. Herrick, Hudson.
Miss L. B. Holmes, Plymouth.
Mrs. C. C. Hutson, Harding.
B. M. Joy, Springfield.
Rey. John L. Kilbon,
Centre.
W. C. King, Springfield.
Miss Ida R. Kinsman, Cambridge.
Rey. W. P. Landers, Somerville.
Rey. J. M. Leonard, Boston.
Mrs. Mary B. Lord, Athol.
Miss Mattie Lowe, Fitchburg.
Miss Jane T. Macomber, North
Westport.
W. W. Main, Boston.
Rey. J. H. Matthews, Worcester.
Miss Alda A. Noble, Peabody.
Newton
451
BE. R. Partridge, Wakefield.
Rey. N. M. Pratt, Monson.
Miss Elsie V. Robbins, Boston.
Miss Carrie M. Roberts, Chelsea.
Rey. O. F. Safford, Peabody.
Miss Margaret Slatterly, Fitch-
burg.
Miss Susan E. Smith, Boston.
Mrs. Flora V. Stebbins, Fitchburg.
Miss Lucy G. Stock, Springfield.
Miss Ida Tappan, Gloucester.
Miss Grace Towne, Belchertown.
Rey. Julian Wadsworth, Brockton.
Allan H. Wilde, Malden.
Mrs. Allan H. Wilde, Malden.
Rey. E. E. Williams, Middleboro.
Rey. W. F. Wilson, North Abing-
ton.
64—54.
MICHIGAN:
D. B. Allen, Covert.
Mrs. D. B. Allen, Covert.
J. I. Bender, Battle Creek.
Andrew Campbell, Ypsilanti.
Miss Anna M. Campbell, Ypsilanti.
J. M. K. Campbell, Ypsilanti.
T. S. Clark, Plymouth.
Alfred Day, Detroit.
Mrs. Alfred Day, Detroit.
Miss M. A. Davidson, Three Oaks,
Mrs. Nettie Daugherty, Detroit.
Mrs. E. A. Decker, Mt. Clemens.
Mrs. W. R. Fruit, St. Ignace.
Prof. E. P. Goodrich, Ann Arbor.
Dr. W. H. Hall, Calumet.
Rey. H. Harris, 8S. Lake Linden.
Mrs. G. L. Hicks, Allegan.
Miss Bessie M. Hicks, Allegan.
George C. Higbee, Marquette.
Mrs. George C. Higbee, Marquette.
Rey. M. A. Jacokes, Eaton Rapids.
J. G. Johnston, Hancock.
Mrs. E. Judson, Durand.
E. C. Knapp, Ann Arbor.
Prof. W. H. Lewis, St. Ignace.
Rey. L. K. Long, Covert.
D. K. McDonald, S. Lake Linden.
William Milham, Kalamazoo.
Mrs. Clara Pennington, Macon.
Mrs. Myrtie Purdee, Three Oaks.
Miss Alice Reniff, Kalamazoo.
Rev. E. B. Rundell, Three Oaks.
D. P. Sagendorf, Jackson.
Mrs. D. P. Sagendorf, Jackson.
Miss Clara Sheffield, Adrian.
Miss Mary Sheffield, Adrian.
Miss Kittie Sherk, Detroit.
Mrs. M. L. Stone, Prairie Ronde.
Mrs. A. A. Thorpe, Prairie Ronde.
BE. K. Warren, Three Oaks.
Miss Della C. Warren, Three Oaks.
Paul E. Warren, Three Oaks.
Mrs. S. J. Watson, Three Oaks.
56—43—1.
MINNESOTA:
James Baird, Rushmore.
Mrs. Jean B®. Hobart, Minneapolis.
Fred T. Hobart, Minneapolis.
Jeff H. Irish, Detroit.
452
Miss Genevieve Irish, Detroit.
Mrs. Sue R. Jacobson, Detroit.
Miss Grace Longfellow, Minne-
apolis.
John M. McBride, Minneapolis.
Miss Bessie McCall, Minneapolis.
Miss Ella Mapes, Minneapolis.
Rev. George R. Merrill, D.D.,
Minneapolis.
Mrs. H. C. Morse, Minneapolis.
Guy M. Morse, Minneapolis.
Rev. H. A. Noyes, Le Sueur.
Miss Susie M. Pettit, Minneapolis.
Rey. Walter L. Riley, Detroit.
Mrs. Walter L. Riley, Detroit.
Mrs. Mary Tribble, Minneapolis.
36—18.
MISSISSIPPI:
L. A. Duncan, Meridian.
Miss Helen Fant, Holly Springs.
Mrs. Jean C. Gray, Sumner.
BH. B. MeRaven, Meridian.
36—4—-1.
MISSOURI:
Hobart Brinsmade, St. Louis.
Cc. D. Butler, St. Louis.
Elder D. P. Brockus,
Park.
J. H. Berghauser, Nevada.
Frank L. Bowen, Kansas City.
Mabel Bailey, Rich Hill.
Nellie B. Boyd, St. Louis.
Mary BE. Boyd, Neosho.
R. H. Crain, Carl Junction.
Miss Maude Carnahan, Chillicothe.
Miss Allie Carnahan, Chillicothe.
Mrs. J. W. Carnagey, Parnell.
W. S. Campbell, St. Louis.
H. F. Davis, St. Louis.
Rey. D. R. Dungan, Canton.
M. D. Dudley, Paynesville.
S. Lee Elliott, St. Louis.
Miss Grace Foley, Pineville.
iH. P. Faris, Clinton.
J. E. Fulkerson, Lebanon.
Rev. A. P. George, D.D., St.
Louis.
E. J. Gump, Kansas City.
A. F. Galloway, Gentry.
Rey. G. A. Hoffman, St. Louis.
Mrs. R. T. Hunt, Greenwoud.
S. S. Hewitt, Shelbyville.
Mrs. Fannie Herndon, Lebanon.
Albert Hutton, Duncan.
Miss Puss Harmon, Erie.
E. E. Hunt, Kansas City.
Rey. R. M. Inlow, Nevada.
Rey. J. C. Jacoby, Sedalia.
F. M. Kern, Polo.
F. J. Kotsrean, St. Louis.
John L. Layport, Alexandria.
Mrs. Millie M. Lewis, Clarksville.
J. C. Lamson, Pineville.
Mrs. J. C. Lamson, Pineville.
W. H. McClain, St. Louis.
Dr. J. W. McKee, Kansas City.
Rey. J. W. McKean, Lebanon.
Miss Bessie McMillan, Kansas
City.
Schofield
APPENDIX.
Rev. W. F. McMurray, St. Louis.
Hortense Mason, Kansas
Mrs. S. F. Marston, St. Louis.
Mrs. C. C. McClure, Sedalia.
Miss Belle Nicholls, Lees Summit.
Miss Lois Prates, Pineville.
A. L. Perkins, Neosho.
Rev. M. Rhodes, D.D., St. Louis.
J. S. Richardson, Kansas City.
Mrs. Fannie Roll, Kansas City.
Dr. H. O. Seott, Carthage.
W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis.
Mrs. W. J. Semelroth, St. Louis.
Prof. W. N. Stagner, Camden
Point.
J. W. Stephens, Parkville.
Prof. J. S. Stevenson, St. Louis.
Miss Lida Smoot, Kansas City.
L. S. Stumpf, St. Louis.
Rey. R. A. Thompson, Weston.
Rk. H. Waggener, Kansas City.
Mrs. R. H. Waggener, Kansas-
City.
J. W. Worsham, Frankford.
Miss Addie Westrope, Chillicothe.
Miss Sadie Westrope, Chillicothe.
John H. Wallace, St. Louis.
E. F. Wescott, St. Louis.
68—68—1.
MONTANA:
Rey. Henry EF. Cope, Dillon.
H. M. Patterson, Butte.
12—2—1.
NEBRASKA:
L. P. Albright, Red Cloud.
Mrs. Mary E. Arnold, Gandy.
Rey. H. A. Carnahan, Central
City.
Dr. E. T. Cassell, Hastings.
Rey. A. A. Cressman, Grand
Island.
Rey. Frank W. Dean, McCook.
Prof. D. B. Gilbert, Central City.
R. D. Gould, Clay Center.
Miss Addie E. Harris, Lincoln.
Mrs. Mary S. Hodge, Omaha.
N. C. Holman, Tobias.
Rey. Lewis E. Humphrey, Giltner.
Prof. W. R. Jackson, University
Place.
Roy M. Jackson, Upland.
Mrs. J. L. Jones, Hastings.
Rey. F. F. Lewis, Syracuse.
Rev. Luther P. Luden, Lincoln.
Rey. W. Bennett Maze, Dawson.
T. A. Moss, Atkinson.
W. E. Nichol, Minden.
Rey. Carl E. Oberg, Omaha.
R. H. Pollock, Lincoln.
Rey. E. A. Russell, Ord.
Rey. J. A. Smith, Pickrell.
Miss Jean Spear, Central City.
Rev. J. D. Stewart, Aurora.
Mrs. C. J. Tracy, Loup City.
George G. Wallace, Omaha.
Mrs. George G. Wallace, Omaha-
E. J. Wightman, York.
LIST OF DELEGATES.
Mrs. Calla Scott Willard, Bethany.
L. W. Zook, Cozad.
52—32—about 150.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
Rey. Frank G. Clark, Plymouth.
16—1.
NEW JERSEY:
Miss Josephine L. Baldwin, New-
ark.
Edward W. Barnes, Perth Amboy.
Mrs. Edward W. Barnes, Perth
Amboy.
Rey. Conrad Bluhm, Hoboken.
Rey. Newton W. Cadwell, West-
field.
sa Sarah A. Callender, Atlantic
ity.
George H. Corfield, Jersey City.
Mrs. George H. Corfield, Jersey
City.
H. Grinnell Disbrow, Bloomfield.
Robert R. Doherty, Ph.D., Jersey
City.
Rey. John B. Edmondson, Belvi-
dere.
James C. Fairchild, Jersey City.
Rey. E. Morris Fergusson, Tren-
ton.
Rey. Isaac W. Gowen,
hawken.
George BE. Hall, Plainfield.
Mrs. George BE. Hall, Plainfield.
A. P. Hopper, Ridgewood.
Mrs. A. P. Hopper, Ridgewood.
Miss Elizabeth D. Paxton, Prince-
ton.
Mrs. Alonzo Pettit, Elizabeth.
Mrs. Selina Portlock, Camden.
Albert W. Portlock, Camden.
Miss Lillie Portlock, Camden.
S. Earl Taylor, Madison.
Rey. Thomas Powell Vernoll, Pat-
erson.
Mrs. F. Sherwood Wells, Jersey
City.
40—26.
NEW MEXICO:
R. H. Carter, Raton.
W. V. Long, Bast Las Vegas.
W. J. Marsh, Albuquerque.
Miss Edith Rodkey, East Las Ve-
gas.
4+—_1—6.
NEW YORK:
W. Warren Britt, LeRoy.
Frank DeWitt Brown, New York
City.
Rey. W. S. Brown, Sand Lake.
Miss Irene Bundy, Angola.
Miss Emma Bundy, Angola.
Wee-
Rey. W. Dempster Chase, Car-
thage.
Mrs. W. Dempster Chase, Car-
thage.
Mrs. H. A. Clark, Oswego.
Wm. Clark, Delhi.
A. H. Cross, Buffalo.
453
Rey. W. A. DuMont, New Hack-
ensack.
W. A. Duncan, Ph. D., Syracuse.
Mrs. H. Blizabeth Foster, New
York City.
Mrs. J. C. Greeman, Utica.
W. W. Hall, New York City.
Mrs. W. W. Hall, New York City.
Mrs. F. W. Heath, Brooklyn.
Thomas Hooker, Syracuse.
Wm. MeN. Kittredge, Geneseo.
O. S. Lang, Buffalo.
W. G. Lightfoote, Canandaigua.
Rey. Geo. P. Mains, New York
City.
Miss Edna P. Merrill, Woodhaven.
J. B. Murray, New York City.
Mrs. J. B. Murray, New York
City.
Henry E. McIntyre, Brooklyn.
H. B. McKee, Brooklyn.
Rey. A. H. McKinney, D.D., New
York City.
Mrs. A. H. McKinney, New York
City.
Rev. Thomas B. Neely, D.D., New
York City.
Mrs. Wm. C. Owen, Utica.
Rey. James Robertson, Chipman.
Miss Mary Ross, Syracuse :
Rey. A. F. Schauffler, D.D., New
York City.
Robert Scott, West New Brighton.
Miss Charlotte Siney, Jamaica.
Jonathan L. Slater, Kansas City,
Kansas.
Wallace Weston, Weston Mills.
Mrs. Wallace Weston, Weston
Mills.
John I. Zoller, Little Falls.
Miss Maud J. Zoller, Little Falls.
Miss Zaida Zoller, Little Falls.
14442
NORTH CAROLINA:
Thomas H. Briggs, Raleigh.
Mrs. 'T. H. Briggs, Raleigh.
N. B. Broughton, Raleigh.
Miss Caroline L. Broughton, Ra-
leigh.
Prof. Geo. H. Crowell, Highpoint.
Rey. W. D. Hubbard, Raleigh.
Robert N. Simms, Raleigh.
H. N. Snow, Durham.
Geo. W. Watts, Durham.
Mrs. Geo. W. Watts, Durham.
Joe H. Weathers, Raleigh.
44—11.
NORTH DAKOTA:
Miss Marie Aslakson, Milton.
Mrs. R. B. Griffith, Grand Forks.
Mrs. H. B. Griffith, Grand Forks.
Mrs. S. P. Johnson, Grand Forks.
Beatrice Johnson, Grand
Mrs. J. BE. Kemp, Galesburg.
Mrs. D. W. Luke, Grand Forks.
Mrs. J. J. Musselman, Coal Har-
bor.
John Orchard, Fargo.
12—9.:
454 APPENDIX.
NOVA SCOTIA:
Dr. Frank Woodbury, Halifax.
Mrs. Jessie B. Woodbury, Halifax.
20—2.
OHIO:
D. E. Agler, Van Wert.
Mrs. D. EB. Agler, Van Wert.
Rey. Ernest Bourner Allen, To-
ledo.
D. C. Anderson, Frankfort.
Mrs. D. C. Anderson, Frankfort.
Charles E. Archer, Massillon.
Mrs. Charles E. Archer, Massillon.
E. L. Barrett, Springfield.
N. BE. Benedict, Greenwich.
John A. Boughton, Everett.
Mrs. John A. Boughton, Everett.
F. H. Briney, Woodstock.
Mrs. F. H. Briney, Woodstock.
A. G. Carter, Bellefontaine.
Miss Ethie E. Cartwright, Gilboa.
H. W. Cary, Millersburg.
Mrs. H. W. Cary, Millersburg.
R. W. Chalfant, Bellefontaine.
Mrs. R. W. Chalfant, Bellefon-
taine.
Walter T. Childs, Fremont.
Rey. Joseph Clark, D.D., Colum-
bus.
Mrs. Joseph Clark, Columbus.
Miss Marie Clark, Columbus.
Miss Bertha Comstock, Dayton.
Miss Nellie Copeland, Columbus.
Robert Cowden, Dayton.
Rey. Asahel Clark Crist, Dela-
ware.
Mrs. A. G. Crouse, Westerville.
Mrs. F. G. Curtiss, Painesville.
Fred Diehl, Woodsfield.
G. P. Ditmer, Potsdam.
Mrs. G. P. Ditmer, Potsdam.
Rey. H. A. Dowling, Columbus.
Mrs. H. A. Dowling, Columbus.
W. A. Eudaly, Cincinnati.
Mrs. W. A. Eudaly, Cincinnati.
Daffyd Evans, Athens.
Rey. F. F. Fitch, Tontogany.
Miss Iona Frankenberg, Columbus.
Robert S. Fulton, Cincinnati.
Mrs. C. F. Carberson, Marion.
W. C. Gault, Savannah.
E. D. Goller, Defiance.
Rey. S. E. Greenawalt, Findlay.
Rey. Edward T. Hagerman, Nor-
walk.
Mrs. Minnie Helman, Cincinnati.
E. P. Johnson, Oberlin.
Miss Sybil Johnson, Toledo.
Rey. W. F. Jones, Paulding.
G. W. Lakin, Hilliards.
Mrs. G. W. Lakin, Hilliards.
Rey. Judson H. Lamb. Cleveland.
A. H. Laughbaum, Bucyrus.
Mrs. A. H. Laughbaum, Bucyrus.
D. C. Lawrence, Springfield.
Leslie G. Lawrence, Toledo.
Rey. E. S. Lewis, D.D., Columbus.
B. J. Loomis, Jefferson.
G. H. Lounsberry, Loveland.
Mrs. G. H. Lounsberry, Loveland.
Dr. P. R. Madden, Xenia.
Mrs. P. R. Madden, Xenia.
Mrs. William Marshall, Columbus.
Miss Sue Mossman, Cincinnati.
Rey. E. D. Paulin, Butler.
Mrs. E. D. Paulin, Butler.
BE. S. Peck, Cleveland.
Mrs. Frances Rhinehart,
Lexington.
Dr. H. D. Rinehart, Covington.
Mrs. H. D. Rinehart, Covington.
Rev. J. E. Rudisill, New Lexing-
ton.
Mrs. J. E. Rudisill, New Lexing-
ton.
Mrs. C. M. Scott, Hiramsbure.
Robert F. Sears, Woodsfield.
Mrs. Rosilla Sheldon, Sparta.
Rey. J. F. Shepherd, Carrollton.
John G. Simon, Cleveland.
Mrs. R. J. Smith, Wooster.
Jeremiah J. Snook, Vanlue.
Rey. L. H. Seager, Cleveland.
Mrs. Clara Sheffield, Cleveland.
Mrs. J. C. Spieth, Cleveland.
Mrs. B. P. Stratton, Bowling
Green.
C. F. Strecker, Marietta.
Mrs. M. B. Templin, Calla.
William Edwin Wayte, Cleveland.
Dr. J. B. Wilson, Centerburg.
George C. Williams, Ottawa.
Mrs. George C. Williams, Ottawa.
E. F. Wood, Columbus.
Edward L. Young, Norwalk.
Miss Chrissie Zollinger, Columbus.
92—92—110.
OKLAHOMA:
Rev. J. M. Anderson, Oklahoma
City.
Miss Alice Bell, Oklahoma City.
Dr. L. Haynes Buxton, Oklahoma
New
City.
Miss Hettie Couchman, Oklahoma
City.
Rey. George N. Hartley, Te-
cumseh.
Rey. G. N. Keniston. Hennessey.
Rey. C. G. Murphy, Oklahoma
City.
Rev. Alfred Pitkin, Oklahoma
City.
J. M. Rice, Hitchcock.
J. L. Rupard, Guthrie.
Mrs. J. L. Rupard, Guthrie.
Arthur Whorton, Perry.
12—12—14.
ONTARIO:
Miss H. J. Bailey, Iroquois.
E. J. Boyd, Toronto.
Miss Belle Cameron, St. Catherine.
W. J. Cunningham, Hamilton.
Mrs. S. E. Fairbairn, Toronto.
Miss Blanche Fairbairn, Toronto.
Rey. R. Douglas Fraser, Toronto.
Rey. William Frizzell, Toronto.
Miss Mai Freeman, Freeman.
H. Graham, Toronto.
W. Hamilton, M.D., Toronto.
LIST OF DELEGATES. 455
Rey. W. H. Hincks, Toronto.
Isaac Hord, Mitchell.
Rey. W. A. Hunter, Denver.
J. A. Jackson, Toronto.
J. J. Maclaren, LL.D., Toronto.
Rey. W. S. McAlpine, George-
town.
Miss Lena G. McGregor, Tayside.
A. McInnis, Vanleek Hill.
H. P. Moore, Acton.
Rey. John Potts, D.D., Toronto.
Rey. J. J. Redditt, Barrie.
Mrs. J. J. Redditt, Barrie.
Rey. G. W. Robinson, King.
R. D. Warren, Georgetown.
J. R. Wilson, Denver.
Mrs. J. R. Wilson, Denver.
Thomas Yellowlees, Toronto.
60—28.
OREGON:
I. H. Amos, Portland.
Miss Clara L. Clarke, Portland.
Miss Bertha Crounse, Portland.
R. J. Ginn, Moro.
Rey. C. M. Kiggins, Portland.
J. G. Malone, Portland.
Mrs. J. G. Malone, Portland.
A. A. Morse, Portland.
Miss Jane H. Smith, Portland.
16—9—4.
PENNSYLVANIA:
Rev. Charles S. Albert, Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. Charles S. Albert, Philadel-
phia.
F. T. Allinson, Pittston.
Mrs. I. T. Allinson, Pittston.
Miss Eleanor Ayers, Pittsburg.
Mrs. Mary L. Ayers, Pittsburg.
C. W. Babcock, Norristown.
Mrs. C. W. Babcock, Norristown.
Mrs. J. W. Barnes, Philadelphia.
Dr. George W. Bailey, Philadel-
phia.
Israel P. Black, Philadelphia.
Rey. C. R. Blackall, D.D., Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. C. R. Blackall, Philadelphia.
G. F. Boyd, Scottdale.
Mrs. J. Louise Burwell, Philadel-
phia.
Hugh Cork, Philadelphia.
V. R. Covell, Wilkinsburg.
Mrs. V. R. Covell, Wilkinsburg.
Miss Eliza Curtis, Philadelphia.
Miss Florence H. Darnell, Phila-
delphia.
ey aaa Flanagan, Philadel-
phia.
Miss Harriet Flanagan, Philadel-
phia.
Miss Clara Fouse, Philadelphia.
Miss Ella E. Fouse, Pittsburg.
Miss Mary M. Fouse, Pittsburg.
Miss Meretta Forbes, Huntingdon.
A. Wilson Geary, Carbondale.
Samuel E. Gill, Pittsburg.
Rey. Alex. Henry, D.D., Philadel-
phia.
Miss Alice B. Hamlin, Pittsburg.
Mrs. Alex. Henry, Philadelphia.
Miss Adaline McK. Henry, Phila-
delphia.
W. H. Hirst, Philadelphia.
Charles B. Holdredge, Franklin.
Mrs. Charles B. Holdredge, Frank-
lin.
Mrs. William F. Howland, Ches-
Ter,
Mrs. Clara D. Hudson, Philadel-
phia.
Miss Mabel Hutchings, Moosic.
J. Arthur Johnson, Philadelphia.
Mrs. M. G. Kennedy, Philadel-
phia.
Miss Clara C. Kuntz, Troutville.
Rey. Thomas G. Koontz, Oakryn.
Miss Carrie B. Leonard, Mauch
Chunk.
H. H. Lewis, Witchland.
Dr. L. C. Longwell, East Brady.
Mrs. J. M. Love, Huntingdon.
Rey. J. R. Miller, D.D., Phila-
delphia.
Russell kK. Miller, Philadelphia.
Rev. Rufus W. Miller, D.D.,
Reading.
Rey. William Powick, Columbia.
Alfred B. Rice, Philadelphia.
Rey. Edwin W. Rice, D.D., Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. BE. W. Rice, Philadelphia.
Miss Mary J. Rider, Philadelphia.
Rey. Charles Roads, D.D., Phila-
delphia.
Harrison Schroeder, Railroad.
Rey. H. Franklin Schlegel, Har-
risburg.
John H. Seribner, Philadelphia.
Miss Harriette C. Shirk, Lebanon.
J. Slater, Pittsburg.
C. E. Smith, Pittsburg.
Mrs. C. E. Smith, Pittsburg.
Rey. J. S. Stahr, D.D., Lancaster.
J. C. Stock, Carlisle.
William F. Taylor, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ellen L. Taylor, Philadel-
phia.
Charles G. Trumbull, Philadelphia.
L. W. Turner, Harrisburg.
Richard H. Wallace, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Richard H. Wallace, Phila-
delphia.
P. J. Watson, New Castle.
Mrs. D. S. Williams, Wilkesbarre.
Miss Amelia S. Wood, Philadel-
phia.
Rey. James A. Worden,
Philadelphia.
128—74— 6.
D.D.,
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND:
Rey. G. P. Raymond, Charlotte-
town.
8—1.
QUEBEC:
Rev. E. Wesley Halpenny, Mon-
treal.
456 APPENDIX.
Fred W. Kelley, Ph.D., Montreal
West.
Mrs. Fred W. Kelley, Montreal
West.
Seth P. Leet, K.C., Montreal.
Mrs. Seth P. Leet, Montreal.
J. R. Nutter, Montreal.
Miss Pride, Montreal.
Rev. E. I. Rexford, A.M., West-
mount.
16—8.
RHODE ISLAND:
Alvers R. Benson, Providence.
Mrs. Alvers R. Benson, Provi-
dence.
Miss Clara P. Dyer, Providence.
J. G. Harris, Providence.
A. B. McCrillis, Providence.
Rey. C. A. Tillinghast, Provi-
dence.
Willard B. Wilson, Providence.
Mrs. W. B. Wilson, Providence.
16—8—4.
SOUTH CAROLINA:
T. W. Barr, Greenville.
Miss Amie Bomar, Spartanburg.
James W. Brown, Cowpens.
E. Cavenaugh, Newberry.
F. T. Cantrell, Spartanburg.
Miss Dot Dean, Spartanburg.
8S. B. Ezell, Spartanburg.
Mrs. 8S. B. Ezell, Spartanburg.
Miss Marie Harris, Spartanburg.
Dr. W. A. Hunter, Hunters.
F. H. Hyatt, Columbia.
Mrs. F. H. Hyatt, Columbia.
Rey. W. D. Moorer, Gasline.
Dr. W. E. Pelham, Newberry.
Miss Jeanne Pelham, Newberry.
Rev. J. W. Shell, Reidville.
Rey. W. P. Smith, Spartanburg.
Miss Lelia I. Thompson, Spartan-
burg.
Miss M. L. Trimmier, Spartan-
burg.
Cc. D. Waters, Florence.
Miss P. L. Westcoat, Fringerville.
36—21—1.
SOUTH DAKOTA:
Rey. Charles M. Daley, Huron.
Mrs. Etta Dean Jones, Watertown.
Mrs. F. P. Leach, Sioux Falls.
Mrs. Clara A. Lukens, Mitchell.
Paul Pettigrew, Sioux Falls.
Mrs. I’. W. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls.
Miss Mina Pettigrew, Sioux Falls.
16—7.
TENNESSEE: 5
Rev. George O. Bachman, D.D.,
Nashville.
Mrs. George O. Bachman, Nash-
ville.
Miss Lucy Evelyn Bachman, Nash-
ville.
Miss Nellie Behm, Chattanooga.
Mrs. Jessie Callicut, Memphis.
Miss Emily Caruthers, Memphis.
Robert B. Bleasar, Clarksville.
Robert W. Grizzard, jr., Edgefield.
Mrs. Frances J. Griscom, Chatta-
nooga.
Harry F. Griscom, Chattanooga.
Rey. H. M. Hamill, D.D., Nash-
ville.
Mrs. H. M. Hamill, Nashville.
Prof. J. I. D. Hinds, Lebanon.
Mrs. J. I. D. Hinds, Lebanon.
Miss Kate Hinds, Lebanon.
Miss Valentine Henry, Nashville.
Mrs. A. C. Knight, Athens.
Alfred D. Mason, Memphis.
Mrs. Alfred D. Mason, Memphis.
Rey. John A. McKamy, Nashville.
Mrs. John A. McKamy, Nashville.
W. W. Pardue, Gallatin.
John R. Pepper, Memphis.
Mrs. John R. Pepper, Memphis.
Miss Mattie Potter, Nashville.
Rey. B. W. Spilman, Nashville.
Miss Jennie M. Sisson, St. Elmo.
Miss Elizabeth F. Sisson, St. Elmo.
Miss Amanda Smith, Memphis.
Rev. J. F. Tinnon, Dickson.
Joseph Townsend, Memphis.
Rey. I. J. Van Ness, Nashville.
Mrs. I. J. Van Ness, Nashville.
Miss Edith Weer, Chattanooga.
Miss Caroline C. White, Memphis.
Mrs. J. W. Waddy, Memphis.
A. W. Whittaker, Memphis.
C. W. Williams, Savannah.
48—38—T.
TEXAS:
J. J. C. Armstrong, El Paso.
Mrs. Max Bergman, Fort Worth.
Reuben F. Butts, Fort Worth.
Mrs. Reuben F. Butts, Fort Worth.
Mrs. Samuel BE. Chandler, Corpus
Christi.
Lewis Collins, Dallas.
Mrs. R. O. Cook, Corpus Christi.
Miss Edlena Cook, Corpus Christi.
Miss Lelia Daimwood, Corpus
Christi.
Miss Margaret M. Daimwood, Cor-
pus Christi.
Mrs. P. G. Dismukes, Austin.
H. H. Gedber, Waco.
Mrs. H. H. Godber, Waco.
Miss Fannie Gooch, Palestine.
Rey. T. C. Horton, Dallas.
C. D: Hunter, Bonham.
Dr. Bush Jones, Dallas.
Miss Blanche Knox, Giddings.
Raymond R. Lawther, Dallas.
W. B. Lowe, Jacksboro.
Warren McDaniel, Port Arthur.
A. P. Moore, Tyler.
Evan Morgan, Dallas.
Mrs. Evan Morgan, Dallas.
Rey. B. H. Moseley, Amarillo.
Miss Carrie Page, Fort Worth.
Miss Adele Phillips, San Antonio.
Lionel A. Rogers, Fort Worth.
J. M. Segner, Waco.
Miss Edith Springall, San Antonio.
W. M. Teal, Terrell.
LIST OF DELEGATES.
Miss Ada E. Wareing, Corsicana.
W.N. Wiggins, San Antonio.
Mrs. W. N. Wiggins, San Antonio.
Miss Beulah Wiggins, Rusk.
Miss Jessie Foster Wood, Pales-
tine.
Mrs. Attie G. Wright, Palestine.
Miss Elizabeth G. Wright, Pales-
tine.
60—38.
UTAH:
Miss Anna Baker, Salt Lake City.
Mrs. A. C. Banker, Salt Lake City.
Prof. R. J. Caskey, Salt Lake City.
Rey. A. F. Chapman, Provo.
Mrs. J. R. Foulks, Salt Lake City.
L. M. Gillilan, Salt Lake City.
A. J. Gorham, Salt Lake City.
J. A. Headlund, Salt Lake City.
Mrs. Sarah Reed, Salt Lake City.
Mrs. E. BH. Shepard, Salt Lake
City.
Prof. J. A. Smith, Ogden.
W. A. Wright, Salt Lake City.
12—12—14.
VERMONT:
Ernest W. Chase, Rochester.
Rey. R. R. Davies, Vergennes.
George C. Davies, Vergennes.
Mrs. Louisa E. Martin, Rochester.
Rev. W. T. Miller, Alburg Center.
Levi Swift, Middlesex.
Mrs. Levi Swift, Middlesex.
16—7.
‘VIRGINIA:
Miss Annie B. Davis, Danville.
James R. Jopling, Danville.
Mrs. James R. Jopling, Danville.
Rey. A. L. Phillips, D.D., Rich-
mond.
48—4,
WASHINGTON:
Rey. Samuel Green, Seattle.
Mrs. N. N. Hinsdale, Whatcom.
Miss C. S. Hyatt, Seattle.
D. 8. Johnston, Tacoma.
Rey. W. C. Merritt, Tacoma.
Mrs. W. C. Merritt, Tacoma.
Rey. C. A. Phipps, Spokane.
Mrs. C. A. Phipps, Spokane.
Mrs. E. S. Prentice, Tacoma. -
Rey. J. A. Rogers, Davenport.
Miss Elinor Carter Rockwell,
Seattle.
Mrs. W. A. Spalding, Seattle.
Mrs. C. L. White, Seattle.
Mrs. Thomas C. Wiswell, Seattle.
W. D. Wood, Seattle. \
16—15.
457
WEST VIRGINIA:
J. C. Bardall, Moundsville.
Rev. R. R. Bigger, Wheeling.
Prof. A. D. Hayes, Romney.
Walter Hayes, Romney.
Rey. C. Humble, M.D., Parkers-
burg.
Rey. T. M. Marshall, Stout’s
Mills.
L. W. Nuttall, Nuttallsburg.
Mrs. L. W. Nuttall, Nuttallsburg.
Rey. N. A. Parker, Fayetteville.
Mrs. William Petrie, Wheeling.
Miss Fannie Petrie, Wheeling.
R. F. Rightmire, Parsons.
W. C. Shafer, Fairmont.
24—14.
WISCONSIN:
Rev. John G. Blue, Waukesha.
Mrs. John G. Blue, Waukesha.
Rev. E. B. Edmunds, Beaver Dam.
Mrs. E. B. Edmunds, Beaver Dam.
Theodore M. Hammond, Milwau-
kee.
Mrs. Theodore M. Hammond, Mil-
waukee.
Mrs. Chauncey P. Jaeger, Portage.
Miss Isabel C. Loomis, Portage.
48—8.
WYOMING:
Miss Florence A. Babcock, Chey-
Rey. Rolla B. Brown, Hvanston.
Mrs. Rolla B. Brown, Hyanston.
Mrs. J. H. Collier, Cheyenne.
Rey. H. B. Giffen, Rawlins.
Mrs. A. B. Gray, Cheyenne.
Mrs. A. C. Hogbin, Laramie.
Judge C. N. Potter, Cheyenne.
Mrs. A. T. Powelson, Cheyenne.
Mrs. M. T. Ulen, Laramie.
Mrs. L. E. Warren, Cheyenne.
12—12—21.
ADDENDUM:
The following International and
State officers were present and not
included among the regular dele-
gates from their respective states,
as the delegations were full without
them:
S. H. Atwater, Canon City, Colo.
Rev. H. W. Warren, D.D., Denver,
Colo.
Rev. B. B. Tyler, D.D., Denver,
Colo.
J. F. Hardin, Eldora, Iowa.
Marion Lawrance, Toledo, Ohio.
458 ‘ APPENDIX.
RECAPITULATION OF ENROLLMENT.
States, provinces, etc., entitled to representation, according to the
ORGIEL Call ..s.ssixiv eins he owieit bps 2) wales 6 A alee Pee eer ae
Represented by Gele@atess «asain gas «0 tra niep eelowuaiis oes abi AE ss sate ie 56
Not represented: Alaska, Alberta, ‘Assiniboia, Nevada, New Bruns-
wick, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Mexico, Hawaii, Porto Rico, 11
With full delegations: Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Mis-
souri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming.. 12
25
Number cf religious denominations represented...... Sis bone we ipisile
Accredited delegates present (revised roll)..........eceeeeeeecseeres 1,168
Fraternal delegates from abroad.............+. POP ori Ss poe 4
Total delegates present............. eeieing wie himmuame Sinise: by ow 1,172
Visitors, not including Colorado.........c..eeeeeeecsseee Paice sy 9 sulk 623
Gran tot aL oS ok W ois lptesw aw o wleran,s1%e 16 karat ann hennns A ery eee 1,795
Male delegates, 675; female delegates, 497.
Official positions of those present:
International: Officers i. oc aeise.s a's aserala oat ae aie s/o: 0/e\aiainiaseie 59
State, provincial and territorial “officers wee eg wine 6 SeRiaia apes 357
Paid state and provincial workers...... 60
PASCOIS en aieias ae Bias ciaiethiats « latee eta els 193
Sunday-school superintendents .... 281
OTHE T OMICELA (in ware sree w ciwie:elale minis: c)o!e: eel avah atte mi reneiams Pee «ee
SREB CHEIS | Waele givin cave ale chelsea meni a oe 0s vad see Saleen the Sunday-schools, Lewis,
387.
Why we have Come to Denver,
Potts, 46.
Winona Lake, Ind., invites the Con-
yention, 13.
Woods, Frank, obituary, 231.
Work among the Colored People,
Floyd, 88.
World’s Fourth Convention, the, Is
Jerusalem the Place for, Warren,
247; announcements, xvi.
World’s Only Hope, The,
322.
World’s Sunday-school statistics, 73.
World’s Tour Commission, resolution
of inquiry concerning, 18.
World-wide session, Sunday after-
noon, 235.
Warren,
Vacancies, committees empowered
to fill, 22.
Visitation, Cork, 288.
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