Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-25
DELEGATESFROM DISTANT STATES.
Over One Thousand Representatives From
the Evangelical Churches Of
North America.
AN ALBANIAN CHOSEN PRESIDENT.
Addresses Il Welcome Delivered by Governor Beaver
and 3. Z. Porter.


audiences were large, but the great heat
gave much inconvenience to the people.
Mechanical Hall, with its glass roof and
sides, is not a cool place on a sunny day.
This fact led the First Presbyterian Church
to offer its house for the day sessions. Its
seats will hold 1000 people, but as more
than that number attend the meetings, the
offer was declined.
The convention is big affair. There are
about 1000 delegates here. Almost every
State and Territory is represented, as well
as all the Provinces of British America.
From Ontario alone there are 60 delegates.
Many prominent churchmen and lay
workers are here. There is no little disap-
pointment because of the inability Of Sen
ator Colqultt, of Georgia, to attend. Hon.
E. H. Blake, q prominent member of the
Canadian Parliament, has also been kept at
home BY business of an unexpected nature.
ONE OF THE ACTIVE WORKERS.
The most active Sunday school worker
present is probably B. f. Jacob. of Chicago.
He is a real estate dealer of that city, a tall,
wiry, gray man, ceaseless in activity and
almost inexhaustible in resource. He is
one Of the organizers of the association and
the establisher of the lesson system now in
use in all the Protestant Sunday schools of
Europe and America. He is Chairman of
the Executive Committee and member OF
the Lesson Committee.
The retiring President William Rey-
nolds, is a pork packer of Peoria, Ill. For
80 years he has been one of the principal
Sunday school workers of his State, anu was
twice President of the State Association.
Three years ago he was elected President Of
the international Association. Two years
ago he was persuaded to leave his business
and devote himself to the Sunday school
work. He has been acting as an Information
al Organizer and has visited nearly every
State and province. He is ready, pungent
and effective talker.
The newly elected President, Major J. G.
Harris, is lawyer of Livingston, Ala, and
was for many years a school teacher. He is
the editor of the alabama Baptist and has
just been elected Superintendent of Educa-
ton of Alabama. He is tall, straight,
gray haired man of sweet voice. He is q
veteran of the Confederate army, and makes
good presiding officer.
JUST THIRTEEN OF THEM.
The biggest men in the association are
members of the Lesson Committee. Its
membership is now 13, of whom seven are at
this convention. The Chairman is Bishop
John h. Vincent, of the M. E. Church,
whose official residence is in Buffalo. He
was formerly resident in Plainfeld, n. j.,
where he edited church papers. He founded
the Chautauqus Sunday School Assembly
and the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle. He has national fame as a lecturer.
He was elected to the episcopal honor at the
General Conference of 1888.
The other members of the committee who
are here are: Rev. DR.. Warren Randolph,
q Baptist preacher of Newport, r. l., who
has been secretary of the committee since
its organization in 1873; Rev. d. A. E.
Dunning, of Boston, editor of the Congre-
gationaliSt; Rev. DR.. John Potts, Metho-
dist minister of Toronto, Ont, and Super
intendent of Education for the NJ. E. Church
in the Province of Ontario; Rev. DR.. d.
Berger, of Dayton, o., editor of the Sunday
school publications of the United Brethren
Church, and Prof. J. d. Hines, of Lebanon,
Tenn, head of the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian College at that place. The committee
is now making its schedule of lessons for
1892. This will be sent to the correspond
ing committee in England for its sugges-
tions, and on its return will be published
here early in 1891.
AN IDEA OF THE WORK.
The work of the association is told best |
in the report of the Executive Committee,
which will be given to the convention to-
day. The report speaks of the death, since
the last international convention, of Rev.
DR.. Isaac Errett of Cincinnati, and George |
H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, and then en-
larges on the work Of the general organizer,
William Reynolds, who has been in nearly |
every State, Territory and Province within |
two and a half years. OF the organization
the committee says:
Sunday school organizations exist in Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, |
Manitoba and that part of British America of
which Victoria may be called the capital. The |
condition of the work in Newfoundland and
Prince Edwards Island is unknown to your |
All the States except West Vir- |
ginia and Nevada and the Territories except !
Arizona, New Mexico. Idaho and Alaska are |
North Carolina and the District of |
cations of colored people. Of those reported |
West Virginia has suffered a re- |
lapse, but will soon recover; the others are in |
the developing period. 1t is difficult to make |
a comparative statement, because the stand |
ards are not the same in all the States. The |
following are designated as banner States /
where every county has living organization, |
viz: New Hampshire. Connecticut New 1
York, New jersey Kentucky, Illinois, Mis- |
sour and Kansas. In some of these it is re- |
quired that every county must have a conven- |
ma N Is
TOO LARGE TO COVER.
The committee says that the field is too |
large for one man to cever it, and it asks for |
an assistant to Mr.. Reynolds in general
work. The report of the Statistical Secre- |
tary gives the following:
Number Of Sunday schools in the United
scholars. S.59SS5L Total in Sunday school, |
!. us, ,2S4 In Canada. schools, 6.6S9; officers |
and teachers 55706; scholars. SIS. SO; total in
Sunday school. 5S4 OBS. In Newfoundland and
schools. 3l4: officers and teachers,
!. 1872; scholars, 22Sl7; total in Sunday school,
"a 979, The footings show schools, 1887: Off
GERS and teachers, LIS S0l; scholars, l49 997;
total in Sunday school, 1o.S2S.29&
A call is made for more money for the |
work. The report says:
1t is believed that the forthcoming census
will show that there are more than is 000 0U0 of
young people in the United States of suitable |
age to attend Sunday school. We have reached |
B 0OO, ,0O0 and 10, 600. 600 are not reached.
The convention is reminded that the new |
Lesson Committee, for seven years, must be |
chosen at this meeting, and that the task is |
important. The establishment of an illus |
rated international Sunday school maga-
zine is urged.
A PROPOSED UNION.
The second worlds convention will be