Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-30
NATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CON-
VENTION.

NATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CON
VENTION.
Upon the reassembling of the Sun
day School Convention at Newark yes
terday morning, after the presentation
of various resolutions, the hearing OF
the reports of Safe Associations was
resumed. Mrs. Jeanette 2. Heath, oil
Kansas, made very interesting ad
dress concerning the work in that state.
She had travelled day and night to be
present here, and urged the justice of
recognition of the services OF women IN
the Sunday School cause as among the
most useful of all. She was cordially
applauded by the audience, and her
name, on motion of Mr.. Reynolds OF
Peoria. was placed by reclamation on
the list of vice Presidents.
The Convention, with the audiences,
filling to overlooking every available
place in the house, then listened to an
address upon "The Mission Work of
the Sunday Shoool, by the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. He was welcomed en-
Enthusiastically.
Mr. Beecher was followed by the
Rev. s. Fl. Tying, jr., Mr.. Ralph Wells,
the Rev. DR.. Jesse T. Peck, and others.
The music was excellent. The closing
prayer was made by the Rev. DR..
Rogers.
In the afternoon the Convention sep
Grated into six different sections, for the
particular consideration of various top
les. This is, perhaps, the most prac
tical work of the Convention, and was
conducted as follows Delegates inter
ested in the superintendency of Sun
day-schools met together by themselves
in one church, others who are pastors
met in another, Bible-class teachers in
another, librarians and secretaries in
another, teachers of juvenile or inter-
mediate classes in another, and teach,
separate gatherings discussed, from 2
until o'clock, the questions pertinent
to their respective positions, and sum-
med up the results of their debates in
resolutions and otherwise This morning
their reports will be submitted to the
Convention as reports of special com
mittees and the discussion proper to
their reception may consume the re-
manning hours Of the daylight sessions.
In the evening, the farewell meeting
will be held, and the Convention will
terminate.
EVENING.
The evening found the First Baptist
Church even more deusely crowded
than hitherto The limit of 5000 peo-
Pile having been exceeded before the
exercises began, notice was given of
another and supplementary meeting to
be held in the lecture room (now the
museum below. A hymn was sung
by Mr. Perkins of New York City, and
the Rev. DIR. Teage of Mississippi offer
ed prayer. Mr.. Stewart then intro
duced the Rev. DR.. John Hall, the
speaker appointed for the evening. DR..
Hall spoke on the subject of Sunday
School work in Europe"
After another hymn had been sung,
the Chairman introduced the Hon.
Frederick I. Frelinghuysen, U. S.
Senator from New-Jersey, amid great
applause. That gentlemen spoke briefly
upon the advantages of institutions
hike Sunday-schools to our republican
nationality.
At the conclusion of Senator FIRE.
linghuysen's address, Mr.. Stuart read a
letter from the Hon. Schuyler Coltax,
who expressed great regret ct being
unable to be present and much sym
pathy with the cause, with which he
has long been identified. Other letters
and addresses detained the attention
OF the Convention until the hour of ad-
journment.
In the room below, several hundred
people who had vainly sought admiss-
ion up stairs, were entertained with ad
dresses by the Chairman, Mr.. Jacobs
of Chicago, and by the Rev. II. Clay
Trumbull of Connecticut, the Rev. Mr..
Meredith of Newark, and others.
To-day is the closing day of the Con-
vention. Discussions of practical top.
les will occupy the morning and after
noon sessions, and farewell addresses
in the evening. The first session begins
at o'clock, in the Academy street
Baptist Church, behind the Post Office
aeA- We have received from the Ma
tional Publishing Company advanced
sheets of the life of Jefferson Davis,