Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-17
NINETEENTH CONVENTION
Ar MoUNDsv1LLE THIS WEEK
An I~nteresting Programme and
Large Audiences the Features of
the Meetings-A Resume of Yes
terday's Work.


terday's Work.
The State Sunday School Association
began the annual sessions in the NJ. E.
church at Moundsviae yesterday after
noon The programme is entitled 'aThe
Golden Oil" and the operations of find
ing. handling and refining this impor-
tant product of our State is applied TO
some portion of the Sunday school
work.
The exercises began yesterday with
devotional exercises of singing. scrip
tural lesson and prayer. The address
OF welcome was made by Rev. ID. w.
Rube in a few well chosen sentences.
Rev. Il. e. Peters, of Clarksburg, pres
ident of the State Sunday School Asso-
citation, responded. He stated in his
address that this convention is to be
a bureau of information, a school of
methods and an exhibition of industries
OF Sunday school work. He emphasized
the Importance of thorough work in the
Sunday school and stated that more
conversions occur at the age of seven
teen than at any other age.
After a song the topic, The Field,
Accepted Territory" was discussed by
Rev. C. ID. Meigs, of Indiana, a Sunday
school worker of national repute. He
defined accepted territory as territory
that is worth working and said that
ones accepted territory is the place
where one chooses to live. He told of
a teacher he once knew that taught a
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were Christians for several years. Such
work is wasted energy, as no effort had
been made to reach or take the gospel
messages to sinners or worldly people.
The world is the territory and the open
Bible the tool.
The second division of the topic,
Abandoned Territory" was then TAX
en- UP by Rev. r. R. Bigger, of the
Third Presbyterian church of Wheel
ing. Rev. Bigger's church has the larg-
est Sunday school in the State. with a
membership of nearly six hundred
scholars.
Rev. Bigger stated that the Sunday
school could give hope and help where
no other religious organization can. He
paid a glowing tribute to the work Of
the Sunday school missionary and
that in the past decade IL, 6S5 schools
with a membership of 1851, $50 have
been established by these workers in
fields where it had not been consider
ed possible to establish or maintain a
church organization.
At the close of Rev. Bigger's address
a Short social session was held and the
convention adjourned until 7:30 o'clock.
When that time arrived the entire
building was filled with people, a great
many standing in the aisles. A half
hours devotional service was held and
then the discussion of the programme
was resumed.
Rev. j. S. Pomeroy, of Fairview. who
was at the first State Sunday school
convention and who is we'll known to
every Sunday school worker in the
State, gave a short talk characteristic
Of the man.
The topic. Finding the Oil"-The Oil
sand was discussed by Prof. Robt. A.
Armstrong. He compared the Bible to
a rock, i~mpregnable to some, to others
yielding a rich store of oil. 1t is COM
posed of siXty-siX strata and not one
of them produces a buster. 1t yields
the oil Of beauty, truth. love. hope and
consolation. Prof. Armstrong; adj
dress vas a mastery eulogy of the Di-
vine Word and was listened to with
great interest.
Mr.. Meigs then spoke of the control
ing company, the International Sunday
School Association. He said 1t was a
grand trust, n with 20, 200, 600 stock
holders. He referred to the many labor
organizations and combinations and as
sociations in all lines of business and
said that the church must be organ
lied to keep pace and meet the world,
the flesh, and the devil on equal
ground. He spoke of the various de-
partmentS of the Association and said
that its object is TO reach the youth.
His talk was illustrated by chalk
sketches and attracted much attention.
The first meeting to-day will be a
conference on State. county and district
organizations at s O'Clock. AT $3.50
Prof. Thos. Hodges will discuss the
subject OF Lesson Systems, followed by
c.. d. Meigs on Cooperation in Sun
day School Lines" and at 10:3 80 the
annual reports of the officers and COM
mittees will be made. This afternoon
The Derrick" The Tools ard The
EAelue Will NC ulSCuSSeU py 1IOI.
Armstrong, Mr.. Meigs, Mrs. j. W.
Barnes and Rev. Johnson.
At the evening session Results will
be the theme and the service promises
to be very interesting.
DR.. Reppert was elected secretary pro
TN in the absence OF the regular sec
rotary. About one hundred delegates
were in attendance yesterday and many
more are expected in to-day. running
tine number up to two hundred. The
sessions are most interesting and any
one interested in Sunday school work