The Jersey City news., 1901-11-22
S s. CONVENTION
State Association Discusses
Methods at Cam
den.

Every child q scholar; every scholar a
Christian the motto OF the New Jersey
Sunday School Association was the key
note of yesterdays sessions of that body
at its triennial State convention and
forty-third anniversary, held in the
Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church,
Camden. Delegates from the twenty-one
counties of New Jersey, from Sussex to
Cape May and from Atlantic to Camden.
assembled in the church auditorium at
Broadway and Berkeley street. The visi-
tors We're received hy a committee of
church workers and escorted to the pews
assigned TO them. About two hundred
delegates wer present at the opening ex-
ercises, and this number was increased
as the proceedings advanced.
The Rev. John w. Lyell. pastor of the
First Baptist Church. Camden, conducted
the opening session Of prayer, which was
delegates Following the hymn, 'sOn-
ward. Christian soldiers sung by the
gathering, the president. Captain c. B.
Parsons, of Red Bank, called the conven-
tion to order. In his opening remarks
the presiding officer congratulated the
association on the attendance at this, the
formal opening. At the meeting OF super
intendents, held in the league parlor last
evening" he said more than one hundred
schools were represented. and everyone
was convinced that the convention opened
with high standard of excellence.
Delegate D. r. Warne, of Ewing, then
offered the opening prayer, following
which the roll call Of county secretaries
was begun. The Rev. w. B. Stultz, of
Manasquan, was in charge.
Gratifying reports were made by these
officers, all showing an advance in Sun
day school work and an increased in
tere@t shown by higher enrolment of
teachers and scholars. and better results
in the advancement of the association s
objects Not a single county showed any
material falling off or backward ten
deney.
The Rev Jesse Lyman Hurlburt, D. D.,
an authority on Biblical history, then
conducted !; Normal lesson on THE
Captivity of Judah. a study from Out
lines of Old Testament History He en-
tertainesi the delegates with an hours
Instructive talk upon the seventy years
of Babylonian exile. and traced the wan
derings and final reconversion f the
children of Judah and the contrast be-
tween them and the ten tribes of Israel.
Luncheon followed, with an informal dis
eussion or round-table conference, led by
the general secretary.fthe Rev. E. Morris
Ferguson, of this city. The Rev. H. e.
Cronin presided at this meeting.
Devotional exercises pre,faced the after
noon deliberations Miss Josephine L.
Baldwin, State primary superintendent,
offered report on Junior and Primary
work" sThe Work and Needs of the
three Lower Departments was the
theme of an address by Mrs J. Wood
bridge Barnes, primary superintendent of
the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School
Association. The State Executive Com
mittee reported. through its chairman,
DIR. George w. Bailey and Miss Annie
S. Harlow, Of Philadelphia. addressed
the teachers on Character Building
The evening session programme con
sisted of a service of song by the Broad
way Church choir, an address of welcome
by the pastor, the Rev. James William
Marshall D. D.. the annaal address by
President Parsons, and a discourse on
s'The World, the Teachers Field.'' by
Robert E. Speer of Englewood.
The convention will reassemble today,
the final session ending this evening.
On Wednesday evening Joseph H.
Wright, of this city. was elected treas
urer of the New Jersey Sunday School
Superintendents' Association