The record-union., 1896-04-04
HAS CONCLUDED IT'S WORK.
The State Sunday-School Convention
Adjourned Yesterday.
Officers Chosen for the Ensuing Year
The Most Successful Conven.
ton Yet Held.

The exercises Of the State Sabbath
school Convention yesterday began at
y a. m. with hearty praise service.
which was led by Messrs. Ira D. San
key and George C. Stebbins. and con-
tinued for half an hour.
At $50 o'clock the members of the
convention considered the financial
needs for the work Of 1S96-97. The
sum of $40 go was then and there
pledged for State work, and In addition
500 was raised for the international
field
The election Of delegates to the In
ternational Convention of 1896, which
will meet at Boston, was the next in
order. Mrs. G. A. Stoddard and Rev.
r. M. Stevenson of Sacramento, Rev.
L. L. Writ, DR.. John Kimball and G. G..
Burnell Of San Francisco, Mrs. H. w.
Dexter of Woodland and J. F. Wilson Of
Napa were selected.
A part Of the programme mapped out
for the afternoon was carried out at
10:45 o'clock, when reports Of commit
tees were heard and the election Of off,
GERS was held.
The Enrolment Committee had Sc
cured the names Of but 16O delegates.
although the number In attendance
upon the convention was known to be
between $50 and 800.
The choice Of State officers for the en-
suing year resulted as follows: Presi-
dent, H. Morton of San Jose. a member
Of the Methodist Church; First Vice
President, Rev. H. N. Hoyt, pastor of
the Congregational Church of this city;
Second Vice-President, Rev. NJ. NJ.
Boynton, pastor Of one OF the Baptist
Churches Of San Francisco; Third Vice
President, Rev. F. D. Seward, a Presby-
terian minister of Fresno; Fourth Vice
President, ]. c. Adriance Of Napa, a
Presbyterian by utilization; Secretary.
Earl S. Bingham of San Jose, Presby-
terrain; Assistant Secretary, Miss B.
Ketchum Of Berkeley, Presbyterian;
Statistical Secretary, Moore Hesketh,
General Secretary Of Y. M. G. A of
Woodland; Secretary Home Depart
ment, Rev. L. L. Writ of San Francisco;
Committee for 1S99-Rev. j. Kimball of
San Francisco, Congregationalist; Guy
w. Campbell of San Jose, Presbyterian
Martin Munson of Santa Rosa, Bap-
fist; Rev. w. S. Hoskinson Of Sacra-
mento. English Lutheran.
The convention extended a vote of
thanks to the retiring Secretary, Guy
w. Campbell, for faithful and efficient
services rendered within the past two
years.
The convention likewise adopted the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the thanks of the State
Sabbath-school Association are due
and are hereby extended to the press
Of Sacramento for their faithful reports
of our exercises; to the church where
our exercises have been held; to the
choir who has so greatly aided in max
ing this convention a success; to the
Southern Pacific Company for a reduc-
ton in rates of fare, and to the local
committee, whose untiring efforts in
behalf of the convention have been SC
signally successful.
At the close of the exercises DR.. R. S.
Cantine Of San Jose made a happy
speech, in which he spoke highly of the
efforts of Sacramento's Sabbath-school
workers, and bestowed a few well-mer-
tied compliments on certain individuals
whose native modesty prompted them
to request that they be not repeated
here. DR.. Cantine confessed that he
had been afraid a State Sunday-schoo
Convention could not be made sue
cess in Sacramento, but he had beer
agreeably disappointed. He consid
cred the Twenty-ninth Annual Conven
ton of the State Association, which hat
row concluded its labors, the best ant
most inspiring gathering Of the kline
ever held in California.