Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-18
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
Great Convention TO be Held in Boston Next
Week.

The eighth international Sunday
schooI convention. which is also the
thirteenth national. will be held in the
new and beautiful fremont Temple.
Boston, June 1926. 1t is a triennial
gathering. and represents the 10000
Sunday schools of the United States
and the British provinces, with their
millions of scholars and teachers.
The convention is to be entertained
by the Sunday school workers of Bos-
ton and vicinity. Only regularly ac-
credited delegates are entitled To enter
tainment and to vote in the business
st ssions. Every state and territory in
the Union and every province anu ter
ritory of Canada are entitled to rep
resentation according to population IN
h basis of four delegates to every
$50. 900 of the population Os90). For ex-
ample, Maine is entitled to SO dele
gates. and nearly 1000 delegates will
attend in all. Although only delegates
will be entitled to vote. every pastor
and Sunday school worker in Chisten-
dom is cordially invited and earnestly
urged to be present and share in the
practical uplift and magnificent in
SEPARATION that will surely attend these
meetings, and accommodations will be
provided for 5000 persons.
Mr.. D.. l.. Moody. the famous evan
gelist, will conduct evry day a morning
meeting at 9 o'clock and speak for 20
minutes at a popular service to be held
every noon for 45 minutes in fremont
Temple. The other speakers will in
clude Hon. John Wanamaker, Rev.
John Hall. Rev. John Potts. +. f.
Jacobs and members of the internal
tional Sunday school lesson committee.
1t is at this convention that another
lesson committee will be chosen to
select the succeeding course of lessons
beginning with 1900.
A chorus of 500 hundred voices will
be provided for the meeting. sometimes
made up of male voices, sometimes
cEly female voices, and at other times
mixed voices, representing various di-
visions of Sunday school work in and
around Boston.
Under the direction and
OF Rev. F. N. Pe1oubet. d. D.. there,
VIII be made a choice exhibition of all
that is best and up to date in the mat
ter of Sunday school appliances and
publications. Separate rooms will be
set aside for the exclusive use of this
department of the convention. In one
Sc ction will be gathered together those
things that pertain to primary work:
in another will be found a collection
that will be helpful to librarians: in
still another will be found modern
ideas in ~blackboards, teachers desks,
etc. And the committee are collecting
a humble of photographs and plans
showing forth modern Sunday school
rooms.
Inc railroads have made a rate for
all who wish to attend. whether dele
gates or not. of a fare and one-third,
an each must purchase a first class
ticket (either limited or unlimited) to
Boston. for which he will pay the
regular fare. and secure a printed Ger
t!ficate from the ticket agent. The
transportation committee have planned
an excursion to Plymouth, and ar
rangements will also be made for an
excursion to Concord, and also a per-
sonally conducted trip of three days to
Old Orchard beach and the white
mountains.
The reception committee, represent
lnS the Boston of so. who
have in charge all the local
mrnts for the convention, will under
take to entertain. free Of all charge
during the days of the convention.
every regularly accredited delegate.
providing lodging. breakfasts and sup
rers in the homes Of the best families
to be found among the Christian people
OF Boston and suburbs. Friends &C
companying delegates can have
special rates at hotels. Husbands and
wives of delegates will be accorded the
same hospitality extended to the dele
gates themselves
There is great enthusiasm all over
the country regarding this convention,
and everything indicates that it will
be one of great power, interest and
h~eipfuiness to the Sunday schools OF
tn. world.
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