Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-27
ormed Church Gets a Rep
.tative on the International
Lesson Committee,
ITAPITTSBURG MAN is LEFT OUT
St Louis Succeeds in Capturing the Next
Convention for the Year Of the Worlds
Fair in Chicago.
A WORKER AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE
The Convention Will Contribute to the Families Of
the Dunbar Miners


the great international Sunday School Con-
vention. Important matters Of business
were taken up and debated with ardor. The
convention authorized its Executive CON-
mittee to hire two helpers for William Rey-
nolds, the general field organizer, one of
whom shall labor among the colored people
in the South. It was decided to hold the
next International Convention in st. Louis
in 1898. William Randolph, st. Louis
business man, In his speech asking the con-
vention to 60 to ST. Louis said:
''Ours is the fourth State in its representa-
ton here. We have for you a great hall.
where you can meet, and we have had ex-
perience in taking care of big assemblages.
There has just closed in our city the largest
convention ever held in the world, the
Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor. 1t had enrolled z, 200 delegates.
WILL HAVE LOTS OF ROOM.
''In 1898 we will have great opportunity
to accommodate you. Our highways will
be open. The railway trains running in our
direction will be empty. The merchants
and barterers who crowd our busy marts of
trade will all be away. The multitudes
that usually throng our streets, in short, the
world, the flesh and the devil, will then be
in Chicago attending their big show. At
that time ST. Louis, sitting in its disap-
pointment over other things, will be pecu-
liarly qualified to entertain you"
''Yes," cried B. F. Jacobs, sit will need
prayer"
1t is not likely that the International
Convention and the second Worlds Con-
vention, which both fall in 1898, will now be
held at the same time. Mr.. Jacobs says
that the delegates from Europe cannot get
here until after July 1, and the Executive
Committee will scarcely locate a convention
in St. Louis in the month of July. The
temperature there at that time is worse than
it has been in Pittsburg during this week.
INTERESTING COMMITTEE WORK.
Some of the most interesting work of this
convention takes place in committee meet
ings. The Committee on Nominations has
had doubly hot time of it. Their duty
was to nominate, among other things, the
members of the International Lesson Com
mittee. This is the most important Of the
committees les work is the real work of
these conventions. the chief object for which
the association is organized. 1t prepares
those famous lessons, called the Interna-
tional Series, which are used in the evangeli-
cal Protestant Sunday schools of the United
States, Canada and England.
At the present session q strong effort has
been made to secure an additional member
of the Lesson Committee for PENNSYLVANIA,
and for some denomination not yet repre-
sented on the committee. The United Pres
byterian Churches of Allegheny county
sent agents before the Nominating Commit
fee, asking for the appointment of Rev. DR..
William j. Reid, ofthe First o. P. Church,
of Pittsburg. At the same time a strong
effort was made by the Reformed Church to
secure the appointment of Rev. DR.. ]. S.
Stair, of Lancaster.
CARRIED THEIR POINT.
While there are 90 United Presbyterian
churches In Pittsburg and Allegheny, there
are but three Reformed churches; but in the
United States the United Presbyterians
have only 100, 900 communicates, and the
Reformed church 100000 The committee
refused both requests, but in the convention
the Reformed people carried their point and
added DR.. Stair to the committee.
In the cafe the ladies of the United Pres
byterian churches yesterday furnished two
substantial meals. To-day the minor de-
nominations will have their turn
There are many inquiries in regard to the
personality and history of the tall, soldierly,
gray man who has been elected president of
this great gathering of Christian workers.
John 6. Harris was born in Hale
county, Alabama, and was raised on
a farm. He was a natural stude mt, and,
after working through a high school, be-
came school teacher at the age of IL. He
entered the law department of the Univer-
sIty of Tennessee and graduated in 1858.
He began practice In Hale county, but the
Civil War called him into the Confederate
service, to which he belonged until the con-
fict ended. He then resumed practice, but
has now retired.
Major Harris has three times been a DEM
ooratic Presidential elector for Alabama.
he has Just been nominated by his party for
andou btedly be elected. He is Baptist, a
Sunday school worker and laborer for the
elevation of the negro. He is Past Grand
Master of the Masons of Alabama, and is now
Grand High Priest of the Alabama Grand
Chapter. He is also owner and editor of the
alabama Baptist.
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