The Russellville Democrat., 1885-07-30

Carley and Miss Minnie Gill.
Atkins C. P. S. S.: Mrs. Hervey,
and Miss Maggie Whiteside.
JErF DAVIS.
HUGH BONDS, Com.
R. B. HoGINs,
On motion the report was adopted
and the committee continued.
A communication was read frsi:sii
the President Of the Womans Christ
ian Temperance Union appointing
Mrs. Cordie E. Gill fraternal dele
gate to our ASSOCIATION. Mrs. ). +.
White and Mrs. Hattie Erwin Of
RussellvilIe were also received as
delegates from the w. &. I. U. On
motion they were accorded cordial
reception to our association.
Music.
The President appointed II. G.
Sapington, F. D. f. Montgomery and
J. S. Church, committee on reports.
A communication was read from
the President of the johnson County
Sabbath School Association cordial.
ly inviting our President to appoint
delegates from our county to attend
the District Association to be held
at Clarksville, Arkansas, Sept. 18th,
1885. On motion the President was
instructed to appoint six delegates
to said association.
Discussion: "What are the objects
of. and benefits to be derived from
the Sabbath School Association
Led by N. w. Kuhn and followed by
Rev. A. p. Melton, Rev. w. d. Math-
ews, Caleb Davis and j. S. Church.
Music.
The President appointed Law
renee Russell, w. M. Peeler and II.
p. Burney committee on resolu-
tions. He also appointed I. 9. York,
j. B. Westerfield and II. A. Clifton
committee on Secretary's and
Treasurer's books.
The association adjourned to re-
assemble at o'clock p. nj.
NIGHT SESSION.
The association was called to or
der at s o'clock p. m. by the Presi-
dent. Song: "Rescue the Perishing."
Services conducted by Rev. w. ID.
Mathews, who read part of the 3lst
chapter of Deuteronomy and led in
prayer.
Music.
The welcome address was then de-
livered by Rev. j. p. Galloway, which
was responded to by Lawrence Rus
sell as follows:
LAWRENCE RUssELL's ADDRESS.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Having been selected by your
committee as the ohe who should re
spond to the address of welcome, it
is with pleasure we extend to you the
gratitude of this convention and
these visitors. for your most cordial
reception. We know that our stay
here will be pleasant; that while
with you we will be associated with
friends, and while around your fire.
sides we will feel as comfortable as
if at our homes. We are glad to be
with you and thank you sincerely
for your unlimited kindness, for
your boundless hospitality. We wish
we could be with you oitener, for it
is always a source of pleasure to
meet with people so frank, so gen
erous, so open hearted. We prom
ise you in behalf Of the delegates
and visitors, that they will do all in
their power to make your lives hap
pier, to increase your zeal for the
Sabbath school cause, aud to aid you
in the promotion of morals and
Christianity.
We are gratified to see the inter,
est you are manifesting in the con-
vention and glad to know that your
Sabbath schools are well attended.
1t speaks well for you, it speaks
we'll for Atkins, for Pope county,
and for the State of Arkansas. 1t
evinces the fact that your town is
not behind its sister towns in point
of intelligence and morals. No town
can prosper without the health
giving influences of intelligence and
religion.
Since viewing your prosperous
town with its neat cottages and beau
tiful churches, its adjacent groves
with inviting shades, its neighbor
ing hills clad with vineyards and
crowned with orchards, and on see
ing before us to day, in this land so
fair so fruitful and 80 free, such
host of true, energetic, noble-heart-
ed Sabbath school workers our hearts
swell with new hope for the future
greatness and glory Of our State
We have great reasons for rejoic-
ing when we contemplate the sue
cess of the Sabbath school and the
triumphs OF Christianity. There
are In the Sabbath schools of Ameri-
ca nine millions of children instruct
ed bv more than million of officers