Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
COMPLETED ITS WORK.
The Attendance is Good and the Program
is Successfully Carried Out.


is Successfully Carried Out.
The annual meeting of the Marshall
county Sunday schools opened Tuesday
morning under favorable conditions
The attendance was better than had
been expected. Most of the congrega
ton, however, were from the country
In the afternoon there was an increase
of city attendance which swelled to
larger numbers as the meeting pro-
gressed.
The forenoon was chiefly occupied in
the organization and filling out of var
ious committees. After dinner reports
from the different townships were
listened to.
Tuesday night the United Brethren
church was crowded with an audience
that came to hear the address of DIR.
Parr of Ft. Wayne, whose subject was,
"That Little Child" His address was
in close bearing with Sunday school
work, and was esteemed to be one of
the most profitable lectures that has yet
been delivered before Sunday-school
bodies of this county. AT the conclusion
of his address he departed for his home
on the night train.
Wednesday forenoon was occupied in
discussion of various themes, the con-
ference of all the departments of Sun.
day-school work being one of chief in
terest. A paper of fine point and merit
entitled, "Dynamics of the Sunday
school," was presented by Rev. Eli Ny
ers of Argos. Mr.. Myers papers before
Sunday school bodies have always
shown fine thought and logic and his
paper of today was a most worthy pro-
duction. He said that dynsmics was
that branch of mechanics which treats
of the action of forces-the science of
moving forces 1t was the moving
moral forces of which he would speak.
The Sunday school had justly come to
be recognized as one Of the greatest
moral engines of the world. To it, as
to no other agency. did we look for the
training of the growing generation in
all that pertsined to their highest we'll
being. The speaker entered into dis
cussiOn of what were some of the dyna-
mical forces of the Sunday-school, in
which he entertained his audience with
his bright and original statements.
Wednesday was busy day with the
Sunday school representatives of this
county. From $50 in the morning un-
til 9 at night there was an almost con-
tinuous session. Asids from the rou-
tine work the chief intele est of the af-
ternoon centered in the address of DIR.
j. S. Burroughs, whose reputation as
head of one of the great institutions OF
learning of the state has long been &C.
knowledged. He spoke with the grace
and power of cultured educator, and
his forceful utterances were listened to
with greatest interest. The college at
Charlottesville, over which DR.. Bur
roughs presides, has many friends in
this place, two OF the families of this
city, Messrs. North and Dickson, hav-
ing representatives there now in that
institution.
The question box and the reports of
committees occupied the session till a
late hour. Mr.. j. w. Parks was again
elected county superintendent for the
ensuing year. The efficiency of the
county organization has been largely
due to the efforts of the superintendent,
and though Mr.. Parks desired to be re-
tired from his long service, the conven-
tion was not willing to let him 60.
In the evening the church was filled
to overflowing, the promised singing of
Mr.. Yarnelle and daughter from Fort
Wayne, and the address of DR.. Bur-