The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-26

Sunday, Sept. 3, the delegates will be in
vited to attend the Sunday schools of the
city, and addresses will be made in the va
rious churches by the more prominent of
the guests
The delegates will come from every state
and territory of the Union, from the Ca
madam provinces and from almost every civ
ilized and uncivilized country in the world.
1t is stated by Mr.. b. F. Jacobs, chairman
of the executive committee of the interna-
tional Sunday school convention, that 2,036
delegates are accredited from the United
States and Canadas, while the local commit
tees place the additional attendance of dele
gates to the worlds convention at 400 at
least. 1t is expected despite the hard times
that there will be very large attendance of
unaccredited persons-so large, according to
present estimates, as to swell the total num-
Der of strangers likely to be here during the
week to 5000 or 600 The Field Workers
conference will be held in Exposition En-
tertainment hall. The international Sun
day school convention and the worlds
convention will occupy Music hall. The
programme of each has been prepared with
great care, and it is expected that Sunday
school workers who are fortunate enough
to be present will derive great pleasure and
profit from the proceedings
Saturday, Sept. 2, will be given over
largely to the celebration of st. Louis an
nual Sunday school festival which was
postponed this year from May, the usual
time of holding it, until September in or
der that the delegates to the convention
should see what st. Louis can do in the
way of a big turnout of Sunday school
scholars. The festival will be held as usual
on the fair grounds, and the new Sports
mans park has been engaged as overflow
grounds. The most interesting features of
this years festival will be the parade and
the song service. The children will begin
to form for the former at $50 a. m. and will
march from Grand avenue near Pine and
Olive streets to the fair grounds, where they
will be reviewed by delegates from the con-
ventions. The song service will consist of
chorus of 10000 fresh young voices. 1t
will be rendered in Sportsman's park and
will be in charge of L. F. Lindsay, who will
also have charge of all the musical services
of the conventions.
This annual festival is feature of Sunday
school work peculiar to ST. Louis as the
May walk is peculiar to Brooklyn Sunday
schools Besides the procession, which is sim
liar to the main feature of the May walk,
and the out of door feast that is so popular at
rural Sunday school picnics, there are athlet-
ic sports for the older boys of the Sunday
SCuDOlS anu bHc yOullS llch VI uut
classes. These sports include baseball, run.
ming races, bicycle races potato races, sack
races, competitive club swinging, etc. Tho
attendance is sometimes as large as 25, 600,
and the interest in the various events of the
day is intense. There is no doubt that its
annual recurrence and the preparations for
it's competitions, which necessarily begin
some weeks ahead each year, add materially
to the interest felt in Sunday schools by
the children of St. Louis. A local rhyme.
ster has described the number and variety
of youngsters annually participating in the
parade in the following lines:
Fair children, dark children,
Children past reason;
Tall children, small children,
Children in season;
Rich children, poor children,
Children in chaises
Girl children boy children,
whole city's babies;
Black children, white children,
Children galore
Good children, rude children,
Score upon score.
Some idea of the significance of the con
vention may be obtained from brief refer
ence to previous gatherings of the same
nature. The Field Workers convention is
the first of it's kind. The international con
yention is the evolution of the national
convention and is the twelfth gathering OF
that body, as well as the seventh of the in
ternational. Its sessions are held once in
three years, and it was organized at the
sixth national convention in May 1875 al
Baltimore The sixth international con
vention was held at Pittsburg in 1890, and
Hon. John G. Harris of Alabama, who was
then chosen president will preside over tn,
coming convention. The board of vice presi
dents includes one from each state in tn,
Union and each of the Canadian provinces
Among the more prominent workers be
longing to the international convention ar,
Bishop j. II. Vincent, best known because
of his connection with the Chautauqus
summer school, and b. f. Jacobs, who il
entitled to the thanks of all Sunday schoo
workers for the International Lesson Leaf
and DR.. Meredith of Brooklyn, long identi
fled in Sunday school work. The plan fol
uniform study by the worlds Sunday
schools was devised by him, and he had tn,
active assistance of DR.. Edward Egglestor
and DR.. Vincent in perfecting it. 1t was
adopted by the convention of 1872, which
was held in indianapolis.
The first worlds Sunday school conven
ton was held in London in 1889 and wa.
the outgrowth of the international conven
ton, as the latter was of the national. Il
was projected during the fifth information
al convention held in Chicago in 1887. Tit
details of the organization were given int
the hands of an able committee, of which Mr.
Jacobs was one. The Sunday school work
ers of the other lands entered cordially int
the work, and the delegates were welcomed
to the worlds metropolis on July 2 of tn,
year named by the lord mayor, and thu
Earl and Countess of Aberdeen and othe
titled and untitled English men and WON
EN- united to make it pleasant for them
The American delegates numbered owe
$50 and thev went to England Cd boart
the Cunard steamer Bothnia, which the,
chartered for the voyage
Many conflicting claims as to who origl
mated the Sunday school idea have beef
put forth, and it is hard in the light OF tn
facts that have been disclosed of late year
to decide as to whom the credit is due
Robert Raikes, a printer and publisher o
asmall newspaper in Gloucester, England
was undoubtedly the first whose work at
tracted general attention and imitation
He got his idea, however, from Mrs. Brao
burn who had been teacher in Sunda
school established in 1863 by Hannah Bal
Raikes started his first school in lIoO, an
IN 1888, 2l0 years ago, it had become sun
GENTLY successful in his eyes TO warrant IN
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