Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-11-25
The Broad Organization,

Inc broud Organization.
Mr. Milan Reynolds of the International
Sunday School Union was the next speaker
He would not, he said, take I'D the subject
of the Boston convention at the point where
Mr.. Ferguson was compelled on account of
his sickness, to leave off, and would only
say that the Boston convention was the
elimination Of $1,000 Sunday school con-
| ventions held throughout the land, espe-
ciaily in the country districts, during the
last three years.
Continuing. Mr.. Reynolds said in part:
picked men and women gathered there
from every part of the Union to teach the
youth of the nation"
Mr. Reynolds then related in detail how
| canvass was made in Illinois during the
recent campaign. and the result in the
state foreshadowed with accuracy GAYS be-
loIe the votes were cast, and also ex-
planned the various steps taken to organ
re township, county and state conventions
| There are" said he, three branches of
work we are extending. First, the house
to-house canvass, so that we hope when
| the next triennial convention meets in 1890
that we can say that there are whole
/ states IN which every family in the state
! Is visited once every year and invited 10
attend some church. and 1 understand
there is to be house-to- house yisitation
here.
Another thing we are pressing is the
| nome department, or the study of the
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| Is not opened?
Again, We are not satisfied with the
| KIND OF work that Is being done FOR God
| believe that the poorest work that is
DO our very best for God A great 1nany
people do poor work for God because they
| DO not know how to do good work
| these questions stimulate teachers to
10 peter. We cannot tell the Amount of
work that Is being done by them Tho
primary department has been wonderfuliv
improved during the last few years as the
| Cs,1Iar OF .his. There is in Washington
NaIVary BAPTIST Church, the finest Sunday
scnool building in the United States If not
| IN the world. Who would have though a
rev nn. years yea ago that any congregation would
put $io,Cn In a Sunday school building?
This is what has been done here. and II is
the result of education
g.. Inc weak point of our Sunday schools
| Is IN my Judgment the intermediate de-
partment. From some cause we Iose 81
| boys after they leave the primary denart
ment. Boys are queer institutions II
| mere was any way to get men without
having boys l would be glad of it.
! nut teacher ought never to tell his or
ner Grass, no matter how bad her hovs
might be, that they are bad.'' "o'e
! MI. reynolds then related a very inter-
es.ihs story OF now an earnest teacher had
| managed to get class of yerv had ha'ot,
| 10 become very good ones. '0
| lnree-quarters of those who are to ho
M snr P ReHno men Of this country continued
!
| Try! Try sunday schools of this country"
| Where. he asked, did President.sIsscc,
NC Mek S,,ni come from? From little coun.
did 0V Wti1;s scn M Where" he continued,
uiu "liiiam E. Bryan come from ~ In
stantiy the sound came from every nart
or the house. William j. Bryan moi .Es
put the speaker did not correct his error,
and after saying that Mr.. BRYAN also
| came from small Sunday school Vent ~,
! to say: "e'i' vi
believe that the future Of this coun-
| try Is not based upon wealth: it is not
upon our public school system grand as
1t is, but l believe is dependent upon The
| morality Of our youth.
| There is nothing known Of morality
| outside OF that taught by the Bible This
book Is not taught in our public schools
| But little is taught in the family. If the
word OF God is not taught In the public
| school and In the family, where hut in the
| Sunday school Is morality to be taught
we want to continue and extend the
work of the Sunday school throughout the
| land, specially in the country places and
we want not only sympathy but your finan-
| cial aid The cry for help from the Sun
day School Union is coming lp rom every
and Newfoundland"
After AFTER explaining the condition of the
| gent need for the establishment of Sunday
schools in the south, during which he said
he sometimes feared for the safety Ct the
Union, because of the fact that thora arc
| million and quarter Of colorad children
\ In that section who do not attend either
| day schools or Sunday schools, Mr. Rey-
nolds made an appeal for funds to aid in
| making house to house canvass in this
| city in the interest of the District Sunday
| School Union.
One of the representatives of Calvary
| Baptist Sunday school responded by rle6g-
ing So but there being no further answers
| to Mr.. Reynolds. DR.. Domer explained to
| him that while the Sunday schools of the
| District were heartily in favor of the plans
| of the International Sunday School Union.
| it was the custom here for the superin-
| tendent of each school to consult with his
| teachers before taking any important step
| relating to matters of the school and that
| this was no doubt the reason there were
! no more offerings at the time He had no
| doubt. however. he said. that every school
| in the District Union would 10 its full