Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-02
Their Annual Convention is
s Being Held at Milford.
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE PRESENT
Individual Schools Grouped
In Districts.


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Guthrie conducted the. song service,
and the Rev. V. p. Northrup led 10
the deyotions. The Rev. Frank p.
Jones made the address of welcome,
and President Goldey responded. The
following oommitteeJ were appointed:
Nominations - William Anderson,
George b. Morris, the Rev. W. L. s.
Murray. u. D., DR.. j. A. Ellegood,
the Rev. I. r. Taggart and the Rev,
j.. q. PIERCE
Programme - The Rev. Aloysius
Green, Thomas r. Ingram and George
r. Chandler.
Executive-J. j. Hayes, the Rov. ".
p. Northrup and r. X. Caulk.
Resolutions-Dr. q. B. Pierson, Mrs..
Lafayette Mark, Peter II. Causey, D.
b. Maloney and A. q. Cox.
Frank Sheppard, the treasurer, sub.
mitted the following report: Receipts,
1913 30, expenditures, s50l. II; balance
in the treasury, SOL. II.
@. Il. Csntwell read the report of
the retiring executive committees. The
report said the committee had adopted
the following plan at a meeting hold
in Wilmington, May 18th:
The county association is to he the
factor of organization 10 the State.
The State association is to foster IL and
make 1t most effective, securing through
it Information and support and acting
solely hereafter as connection be.
tween the several counties and be-
tween the entire State and the general
Sunday-school work. The individual
schools are to be grouped in hundreds
and city districts, each Of these to be
in charge Of a county officer called
hundred secretary, who shall keep in
constant touch with the schools, visit
ing them, securing from each an annual
statistical report and contribution and
forwarding both to the county score
tary, who, in turn, shall forward a
.tabuated statement for his county to
the State organization. The county
association is to be asked and expected
to make an annual appropriation from
funds received from the schools to
the State organization, and this amount
is to be SO apFortioned that the State
shall receive zach year an amount
sufficient for ordinary expenses; extra
work Is to be met by contributions
from individuals"
The committee summarized the
years work as follows:
Il. Each county has an efficient
organization and held its convention
although one year ago one county was
y unorganized and another had had no
convention in two years.
-. The plan has enlisted many new
workers, and SO of these are capable
men and women, each OF whom has a
small number of schools within easy
reach, for the condition of which he Is,
in a measure, responsible, and to which
hs acts as living Intermediary in
matters pertaining to organized CO.
operation and its beneficent results.
Some OF these have already done excel.
lent work.
80. The county conventions were
better than ever, chiefly in the fact
that there was that outside touch
which is the essence of association
work and which was lacking where the
work was entirely within and largely
without reference to conditions with
out its bounds.
"a. The statistics were secured In
suoh manner as has greatly increased
the number OF schools reporting, and
in many places left an important sense
of co.oE grafton with the school. Many
new contributions have also been
secured and whereas in the past all bad
two and some three calls for statistics,
this year all was done in one call. .+,i
3. Today there is touch between
the parts of the State and between each
school and all others that has never
before existed 10 Delaware and which,
though not yet realized by all, will
make itself felt. Besides, il IL organic
and acknowledged. and no association
today stands apart from the Others,
as was the case year ago."
The following recommendations were
made by the committee
4" i. We recommend that the plan of
work entered upon during the past
ear be approved and continued, and
hat at the election the executive cum
nittee be reorganized in the following
manner; Tint the executive COMMITTEES
hereafter consist of the officers of the
convention Ia president, three vice.
presidents, one from each county. n
recording secretary and treasurer)
a chairman, three members elected by
each county convention triennially in
rotation, general secretary to he
elected by the executive committee, de-
partment. superintendent to be elected
by the executive committee and apy
international officer or committeeman
who is resident in Delaware; that, in
order to complete this organization,
there be elected at this convention ito
hold Office until the counties make
their, selectionsl the three members
from each county above specified, and
that the executive committee have
always the power to fill vacapcies
occurring in its membership until the
next election.
' 80, That The executive COMMITTEES he
authorized TO raise and expend the
sum OF $500 for the work of the YEAR
20. That the county associations be
( requested to 90 operate, as was done
/ last fall, by holding the con ventions in
the same week, and also in securing ex-
pert help at each meeting.
"A. That the Kent County Aseocja,
tion be requested to make its orpanizn.
ton uniform with the rest of the stare
by adopting the hundred lines.
IS. That the executive committee be
instructed to promote hundred orgapiza-
tion and to seek to interest county aud
hundred organizations in concerted
house-to-house visitation. ~
80. That the Sunday school Mes.
senger, published by the New Jersey
Sunday school Association, be made
the official organ of the State associs.
j tion, Sunday school workers of the Stats
be urged to subscribe for ii and the
executive committee be instructed to
have it sent regularly to all State and
for 1t. :
~. That the first Sunday of Febru-
airy be adopted as State Decision Day,
and that the schools OF the State be
urged to observe it or some locally suit
able date.
80. That the executive committee