The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-13
Red Springs Aglow With
Sunday School Workers.
A LOVE-FEAST OF SONG
PRACTICAL TALKS ON BES
METHODS OF GLASS WORK.
Mr.. CULLOM'S STRIKING STUDY OF PAUL

Rev. B. W. Spillman Compares the missionary
With the Anti-Mssionary Baptists Timely
and Telling Talks by Messrs J. NJ.
Broughton and Cadde.
Red Springs, N. c., Aug. 12.-(Special)
After devotional service led by the pres
ident, Prof. Cullom, of Wake Forest, led
in a Bible study, taking his studies from
the Book Of Acts, and the Life of Paul
LIST Acts, 9th Chapter, the conviction and
conversion of Paul. especially his hrst
vision.
1t was the great turning point OF
Paufs life He caught vision of Jesus.
He before this had been the proud,
learned Pharisee, but afterwards was
quite different man. He saw himself
as sinner, and got such a view of sin
and such sight of God as he had never
had before. 1t humbled him as he saw
Gods great love for him, and made him
love and respect God. AS Sunday school
workers we need this vision and this
knowledge of Jesus as our personal sa-
viour. While we may not all have such a
vision, or feel the scales fall from our
eyes as Paul did, still we can know our
selves as sinners and feel the love Of
God shed abroad in our hearts.
Second Acts, IS: The vision at Troas.
A vision of his fellow man in his need
Jesus said, love thy neighbor as thy
SELF" Too many of us have a perpendicu-
lar religion. AS soon as we have the Sec
ond vision, the man of Macedonia calling
for help, we slap our hands on our
pocket books, and say we are not able
to train ourselves for the work. We never
reach our privileges or rise to our oppor-
tunities, because we fail to obey the Sec
ond vision.
The speaker used many beautiful illus
trations, and kept his hearers deeply in
terested in the study.
He then referred to Paul's third vision
as contained i'm Second Corinthians, II
Chapter, where Paul got such glimpses OF
heaven as it was unlawful for man to ut
ter. If we see to it that we have the first
and respond to the second we will have
the third.
Mr.. Wright. of Jackson, then offered
prayer.
REVIEW OF MISSIONARY WORK.
At 10 o'clock Rev. B. w. Spillman,
Sunday school missionary, gave review
Of the Sunday school work in North Caro-
lima. He said that the Indifference of the
friends of the Sunday school was its
greatest hindrance; not that they were
not friends, but being Indifferent, leav-
ing it to others to do, was doing much
harm. In 1895 the Baptist state conven-
ton appointed committee Ct fifteen TO
take the matter of Sunday school work
in hand. and they had done it, trying to
show that the Sunday school deserves a
place in our work, just as foreign mis-
sions needs place, and it must have it.
We are holding Institutes, Chautauquas,
etc, in order to train workers. The State
forbids any man to teach children read
ing and arithmetic who is not competent;
and we want not to forbid, but to i'm
prove the teacher who has the training OF
the child not for citizenship in North
Carolina, but for citizenship in the king
dom Of God. We want teachers to teach
the third thing God commanded to teach
We make no apology for the Sunday
school work in North Carolina. We need
to make none. Sixty-seven years ago the
missionary and anti-missionary Baptist
Of North Carolina started together. The
anti-missionary refusing to ego" and t.
teach" started with $4,000 members
and today numbers only 10000 The mis-
sionary also started with $4,000, and
have done both the "go" and teach,
and today number 100000; and while we
have done this in the sixty-seven years
past still we are not baptizing as many
now as we did ten years ago, and unless
we improve it will take 100 years to dc
as much as we have done in sixty
seven in proportion. He furnished Stats
tics to prove his assertion and showing
that in churches where no Sunday
schools exist no members came into the
churches from churches without Sunday
schools; our members, our preachers, oul
workers, our finances, come from church
es with Sunday schools. The Sunday
school is the greatest developing agency
in North Carolina for winning the State
for Jesus. North Carolina needs it, he
people need it. We are moving on indus
trial lines, on commercial lines, fac
tory is being built every twenty days IL
North Carolina, and villages built aroun'
them; we must give them Christ through
the Sunday schools. The speaker then re
ferred in words of eloquence and fervo
TO the condition Of our State in the mat
ter of intelligence and begged for 600,
900 children who have no opportunity t
brighten their darkened minds except il
the Sunday schools.
DIR. Simms stated to the audience tina
he had never heard an address that hat
in it so much to stir our hearts to re
newed energy, and he thought we ough
to at once pray that they may be fixed OF
our hearts and minds that they may fir
us to renewed energy.
President Broughton then led the audi
ence in prayer.
Prof. Renbush arrived at this hour ant
was welcomed by the audience.
A SERVICE OF SONG.
The audience then sang the battl
hymn, and engaged in a song service o
fifteen minutes. Visiting brethren wer
recognized as follows: Revs. r. Ell. Nose