The sun., 1899-05-01
Atlanta's Sundays.

The Hon. HoKE SMITH Of Georgia was
elected last week as President Of the Inter-
| national Sunday School Association. His
term OF Office Is for three years. The con-
vention which thus honored Mr.. HoKB
SMITH was held at Atlanta centre OF
evangelical effort situated about thirty
five miles northeast Of Newman.
After taking the chair, the newly elected
President Of the International Sunday
School Association delivered an inaugural
address, which the Atlanta Constitution de-
scribes as eloquent and forceful. We quote
few passages to show the spirit in which
this citizen OF Georgia enters upon the per-
formance OF the duties Of his Office:
yours is body that does not gather together to
discuss financial question: TO build political plat
forms. to select candidates for political prefer.
ment. but to study how TO teach the word Of GoD"
You come TO serve the Prince Of Peace the Ever.
lasting Con"
1--WE heard last night Of the progress in the com.
mon schools. and an proud OF this advancement,
but must dissent from view presented LAST
night. and that Ii thst the intellect 10 the only
thing to be trained In the public schools. That
would dwarf the child. Truth and morality must
be taught in the schools II you undertook TO build
only the intellect. fear that yon would build upon
the sand. Your work 10 TO build the foundation and
to teach the child at rst what Cop Is. and that
truth alone chAracter and mind be built Train
child in the way that he should 70 and he will not
depart from it is the promise that given you to
the fathers and tho mothers. Oh. what blessed
promise It is but oh. what responsibility without
the responsibility there Ia no promise. But I
do not mean that In the Sabbath school alone
Is the promise given for the child. II we arc
going to teach the children must know
that II is by example that they must bs
taught. The sabbath school is looked as being
for the children only. but IL is for the fathers and
the mothers. II We love our children wisely and
we'll, we will be found In the Sabbath schools with
them on Sunday. How many parents must be
reached. and how many Of them eau be reached
themselves through the Sunday schoolsr I have
faith in Q child whose parents start st two years
and 20 every Sunday to Sab tath school with
him up to the time that he 10 ten years old, and
have faith In the parents also. When have the
children trained In the Sabbath schools and when
| we have the parents studying the Bible. we will
have no more horrible crimes and still more horrible
mobs TO avenge them: even more than that We will
need no Calling guns in foreign countries but you
| the Sunday school people. with the word OF Cop.
| would be there. Cop bless you. my trothers. in
your woeh, and may He aid You and assist you"
On the Monday preceding the delivery OF
| this address in which the Hon. HoKE SMITH
| urged his adult neighbors in Atlanta to at
tend Sunday school along with their chill
dren, In order that they, too, might profit
by the teachings OF CHRIST the Atlanta
Journal printed an account Of the burning
alive Of the wretch SAM HOSE on Sum
day, and the mutilation Of his body
to furnish CHASTITY souvenirs to the
crowd. The journal treated the occur
| renee in the spirit in which local report
| ers write Of some great festive occasion
1t told Of the train loads Of Sunday excur-
| sionists which went out from Atlanta to
witness the awful spectacle. 1t dwelt upon
the humors OF the day. described what it
called the "rch and magnificent scenes"
enacted along the route OF the Sunday excur-
| sion train from Atlanta, compimcnted the
Hundreds OF ladies who stood on porches
waving their handkerchiefs and smiling
approval as far as they could SEQ 1t, ex-
hausted the resources OF dialect writing to
make the narrative racy, and wound up
with tribute to the character OF the dele
| cation from the Hon. HoKE SMITHS town,
and an expression Of regret that all OF them
did not succeed in reaching the scene OF the
burning alive of SAM HOSE in season to
| witness his agonies:
1.-THE West Point railroad sold about 900 tickets
yesterday. One OF tho most animated apectacles
ever in Atlanta the struggle for tckos At
tke Union depot. SO great the crowd that hun
dreds coud not get there. and had to pay their way
on the train or stay behind
1.-THE agents stood in the depot and yelled:
"Get your tickets at the West Point once In tGe
Kimbanr
There was q rush for the once. but when the
crowd surRed in they found the same kind Of tight
going as at the depot
1T the most exciting struggle for tickets ever
Nitneaaed IN Atlanta.
trains. It was tho best humored crowd which ever
left the city and the moat rdeTly. There was not
drunken man aboard The ar!y thought the only
fear of the great crowds. which looked NOR. like
jolly party bound for tho than lynchnR was
that they miHht bo too late tc see the execution.
"The quiet dignity and perfect order OF the
hundreds from Atlanta at Newman was notable In
deed II formed CT the most interesting feAtu es
OF the day.
"But for the fact that the programme was sud
denly changed aud the lynchiug took place near
Newman fully 5000 people would have seen the
burning near the Crawford home. and OF these
nearly half were from the city of Atlanta.
"The change Of programme prevented the Atlanta
crowds from seeing the lynching. There was great
| disappointment but the crowd was noA 10 be out
| done. for two.thirds, on arriving at Newman won't
out 10 view the OF the burning scores on foot
hundreds In vehicles and though they failed to see
the lynchng. at least one in fifty brought away
some msmsnto Of the terrible punishment inflicted
upon the monster barbarian whom he eIpiated in
the flames his most horrible crime"
The newspaper printing this tribute TO
! tho pn'ct d'rn,tv md orderly good humor