Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-11
PLEASURES OF SOCIETY.

Annual Sunday School Convention OF the
Pittsbure Baptist Association-An Ele-
CANT Dinner Served to the Delegates
News of Yesterdays Social Successes.
Earnest, thoughtful men aud women filed
the audience room of the Baptist Church, cor
ner OF Smallman and Thirty-seventh streets.
yesterday afternoon, and endeayored to dis
cover by a commingling and exchange of ideas
the best possible way and manner OF serving
spiritual food for the mind and soul. Equally
earnest and thoughtful women in the Sunday
school room beneath spent the time during the
morning and the afternoon sessions in prepar-
ing for a practical demonstration of the best
possible way and manner of serving material
food for the body.
1t was a happy combination, satisfying alike
to both the spiritual and material being that
succeeded in making the annual meeting Of the
Sunday School Convention of the Pittsturg
Baptist Association thoroughly enjoyable and
wonderfully beneficial to all interested in Sab
bath school work. There were present 80 dele
gates, representing 40 schools of the Sc
which form the association. Allie
gheny, Washington. Westmoreland, Greene
and Beaver counties were repre-
sented. The morning session opening
at $50 o'clock was devoted mainly to routine
business with religious exercises by Rev: ID. E.
Richards, of Sharpsburg. and hymns by the
audience. The roll call. reading OF the
minutes, reports of the Executive Committee
and of the secretary and treasurer were list
ened to attentively and with a great deal OF
interest. especially the last two reports, whicn
proved the association in a fourishing condi-
tlon financially and growing rapidly.
The Election of Officers.
The election of officers followed, and resulted
in placing H. w. Walkinshaw, of Greensburg,
in the chair for the coming year, w. f. MaXOn,
Secretary, and Messrs Henry Stauff, "A. Fl. Eber-
hart and Wilson Weddell, Jr., on the Execu-
lined on the programme did not materialize.
SO with very able paper, 'The Cat
sehetieai lessons in the Sunday School,
session was concluded. The paper advocated
strongly more rigid doctrinal teaching in the
Sabbath schools, which apparently met the ap-
probation of all present. judging from the dis,
cussion which followed. 1t was supplemented
later in the day by resolution presented by
Prof ]. f. Carey indorsing the ideas promu-
gated and suggesting that a committee be ap-
pointed to investigate all publications in that
line for Sunday school work and report at the
next meeting
The adjournment to the impromptu dining
hall was accompanied with cordial handshakes
and sincere greetings, and during the dinner
sociabllity reIgned, to the exclusion OF sub
Jects weightier than cold meats, chicken salad,
saratoga chips, jellies rolls, fruits. pastry,
cakes, coffee and similar dishes -Four long
tables lined the room. covered with snowy
linen and laden with all the delicacies of the
season. And bright-eyed pretty maids and
matrons dispensed the viands. each with the
graciousness and alacrity equal to that in
spired by generous tip in professional.
Work of the Afternoon Session.
At2 o'clock the afternoon session opened with
devotional exercises by Rev. H. ]. Hamilton of
Homestead, and THE Home Department of
the Sunday School, was treated by Henry
Stauff, of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church.
The paper was an original and exhaustive one.
advocating special home teachers in a Sunday
school. whose mission it would be TO visit
homes where sickness or disincliDation pre-
vented attendance at the sanctuary, and TO
endeayor by persistent and earnest effort to
interest and instruct such unfortunates. The
paper created quite a breezy discussion and
produced a very favorable impression.
THE Christian EndeavOr work and its rela-
tion TO the Sunday school," as viewed by H. Z.
cambridge, is a vast and helpful one, and
should be encouraged in every instance and
particular. Aftor delightful supper the
evening session convened. A praise service,
conducted by Rev. George T. Sheet. pastor of
Mt. Washington Church, occupied the earlier
portion of the evening, and address on
The Mission of the Sunday School," by Rev.
S. A. Smith, of W est Newton, the latter with
the question box between. The ladies' COM
mittee, which justly gained so much renown
for the entertainment, consisted of members
of the church in which the convention was
held and of which Rev. II. g. Hall is the re-
Gently called pastor.
Mrs. M. E. Thompson was the Chairman and
the tables were in charge Of Mesdames r. A.
Loeffler, NJ. F.. Pryce, Jane Aubrey,
~ NJ E Imd% T5umbell with ail' aids Misses Misses
Aiken. Maggie Walker Jennie Philpot,
Jennie Thomas, Grace Walker. Sarah Griffith.
Lydia Kincaid, May Williams, Annie Wilson,
Lizzie Lewis, Annie Thompson, Birdie Pryce.
Lue McKain, T. Fl. Chapman, William F.
Maxon, William Fisher, and James r. Sutton