The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-31
PROF. HAM|LL'S TOUR
Great Sunday Work r
Coming tC N. c.
Itinerary of His Trip in This State. A Great
Expounder Of Sunday chool Methods. To
Arouse Interest in Old North State.

Sunday school workers all over the
State will receive with greatest satisfac-
tion the announcement Of the coming of
Professor II. NJ Hamill, the widely
known and eminent expo,mder of Sunday
school methods. He will apear in Mon
roe, Concord, Statesyile Hickory, Ma
rion and Asheville.
Professor Hamill visited North Caro-
lima cities two years ago. Wherever he
appeared he was greeted by audiences that
grew enthusiastic under his exposition of
true Sunday-school methods of teaching
and study.
Professor Hamill is international Field
Secretary of the international Sunday
School Association of the United States
and Canada, which appeals to all Pro
testant denominations. The duties of his
position require him to go from State to
State and to address Sunday school mass
meetings in the larger cities and towns.
He has engaged in this work for num-
Der of years, is in love with it, and I'M
derstands the needs of the Sunday school
as few men in the country understand
them.
Professor Hamill is Southern man,
native of Alabama. He served in the
Confederate army in the concluding year
of the war, entering at the age of Is.
No man coming from outside the Dor
ders of the State has elected greater ad
miration among religious workers than
Professor Hamill. He possesses the
happy faculty Of imparting instruction in
q manner so natural, so original, so thor
oughly satisfying, that his bearers are
sorry when he concludes. Although high
ly cultured, he makes not the slightest
pretensions to Oratory. "He Is as PLAIN
as am old SHOE" said Richmond gen
tleman who enthusiastically admires the
great worker.
Professor Hamills North Carolina itin
erary is as follows:
Sunday, February Monroe.
Monday, February 5-Concord.
Tuesday, February G-Statesville.
Wednesday, February Hickory.
| Thursday, February S-Lincolnton-
Friday, February 9-Shelby.
Sunday, February 11-Marion.
| Monday, February 12-Ashevile
The tour Of Professor Hamill is under
| the auspices of the North Carolina Sun
| day School Association, an interdenomi-
! national organization or Wn1cn LIT. j. W
Long. Of Salisbury, is President. Rev
J. W. .Stagg, of Charlotte, is chairman
Of the Executive Committee; Rev. J. c.
| Troy, of Jonesoro, is Secretary; james
II. Southgate, of Durham, is treasurer
and J. w. Bryan, of Goldsboro, is field
| secretary. Mr.. n b. Broughton, of this
city, is a member of the executive COM
| mittee.
| The Sunday school work Of the State,
| it is hoped and believed. will be greatly
stimulated by the addresses which
Professor Bamill win make. AS one Of
| the results it is expected that create,
| interest will be created in the annual
| convention of the State Association
| March 14-16 next. in Charlotte.
The convention in March will be at
| tended by Mr.. i. +. jacobs, OF Chicago
who is the chairman Of the executive com
mittee of the international Sunday
School Association and the generally ac-
cepted founder of the International Sun
day School Lessons.