The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-11
CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW ALBANY, INDIANA,
June 7-EyeniDg.

Jul O0 NAho dlbcluOOu at ~ U ClOCh,
after most interesting and enthusi-
astic session. The entire proceedings
to-day have been animated and pleas
ing to an extent not heretofore OBJ
served. In the forenoon the discussions
were pointed and practical, and great
deal of important business was trans
acted. A resolution was adopted re-
commencing the holding of Sabbath
School Institutes in each Congress
ional District during the year, and
committee of FIVE was appointed to Sc
lect competent persons to take charge
of, and manage them. This, your
correspondent regards as one of the
most important movements the Con-
vention could possibly have inaugur-
ated. The great difficulty experienced
by superintendents of Sabbath Schools
all over the State, in making their
schools entirely successful, is the want
Of competent teachers. The organi-
zation of Institutes in every district,
and ultimately in every county, will
most surely remove the difficulty, and
impart new life and vitality to all the
schools.
The Convention was also favored,
during the morning session, with
most entertaining and instructive ad-
dress from Rev. Mr.. Mckee, of Lou
isVille. Every delegate who heard it
was delighted, and he was unani-
mously selected to deliver the opening
sermon, at the next session of the
Convention, at Lafayette. He really
gave the Convention more practical
ideas in few minutes talk, than had
been previously gained in long hours Of
somewhat tedious discussion Other
interesting addresses were delivered,
and the reports of the committees
adopted. The report of the Commit
tee on Resolutions is designed to con-
tain summing up of the ideas and
principles evolved in the discussion
Of the various questions submitted for
the consideration of the Convention.
The friends of Sabbath Schools
will find in the resolutions adopted,
much that will prove worthy their
careful attention and consideration.
A mass meeting Of the children was
heidin the First Presbyterian Church,
in the afternoon, st three o'clock.
This, we are positive in asserting, was
the most entertaining meeting of the
kind We ever attended. The children
were out in numbers, and the large
church was filed to its utmost capa-
city with them and their friends. The
order Of exercises was short volun-
tary addresses, interspersed with
singing-one of the best mental sand
witches, we venture TO say, that was
ever enjoyed by many of those pres
ent. Addresses were delivered by
Messrs. Hunter, Of North Carolina,
sedgWick, ofKentucky, Pentecost and
Glover, Of Evansville, and Gregory,
Of indianapolis. Add to these, a
Kind OF medley. composed of talk and
singing, by Rev. Mr.. Little, of Wes-
tern Virginia, and the bill Of fare is
presented. Brighter or more inter
esting children never gladdened the
friends of the Sabbath School cause,
than were collected on this occasion.
The Little fellows, q large number of
whom were from the Mission School,
we're very attentive to all that was
said, and entered into the spirit of the
singing with their whole hearts. The
short sermon Of Mr.. Sedgwick,
from the text And Deliah said unto
Sampson, show me wherein thy
strength lieth, was perfectly charm
ing TO the. little folks, and greatly
amused and entertained those who
we're much older. Mr.. Little, of Vir-
ginia, also attracted their attention
closely by. his songs. He has small
hand melodeen which he plays we'll,
and ne also sings finely. He gave the
children a comic temperance song,
and funny song about mouse who
selfshly ate too much cake, rather
than divide with his comrades, and
died in consequence, which fascinated
the children. The boys from the
Mission School rose to their feet, and
with mouths and ears wide open
drank in the strange but delightful
sounds. We are confident, from theil
lnnka that the moral of the song was