The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1902-08-29
CONVENTION.
Great Gathering of Sunday School
Workers at IiOpkinSyilIe.

1
Tho thlrty-sevcnth annual ses-
sion OF tho Kentucky Sunday
School Convention was held AT
Hopklnsville last week Measur-
cd by the former conventions Of
the association not over three hun.
dred delegates were expected, but
the attendance numbered some
thing like seven hundred, 1t was
more than twice as large As any
convention ever held in kentucky
and was the largest assembly Of
Sunday School workers ever gath
cred IN the South. The fact that
the number OF delegates was over
double what il was last year, is an
unmistakable evidence OF the
growth of Sunday School interests
throughout the state. The spirit
OF the convention, the earnestness
OF the speakers, and the regularity
OF the attendance atall the sessions
betokened that Kentucky is thor.
oughly alive to the Importance Of
the Sunday School as a soul saver
and as the greatest neral agency
among the young In the world.
The State Sunday school Asso.
citation is not denominaiional 1t
embraces in its organization all
Protestant churches that study in
their Sunday schools the Inlerna-
tlonal lessons and during theen-
tire convention there was such
complete absence OF denomination.
al spirit that tie words Baptist,
Presbyterian, Methodist, Christian
etc. were not heard a single time.
Our readers as rule have avery
incomplete idea what q great work
is being accomplished by this As
sociation. In the past three years
not less than five hundred Sunday
Schools have been organized and
thousands OF children have been
put into the sunday schools for the
first time. As u direct result OF
the organization more people have
joined the church than from any
other single agency. In theorgan.
ization Of counties the increase in
three years has been fifty per cent.
In banner counties three hundred
per cent, and in subscription for
the work five hundred per cent.
The Importance OF the suDday
school work is emphasized in two
facts that should receive the con-
sideration of Christian people ev-
erNwhere: that ninety per cent. Of
those who joins the church are
from the Sunday school, and, that
Notwithstanding the wonderful re.
suits accomplished by the State
Sunday School Association, there
are five hundred thousand children
In the state OF school age not in
the Sunday schools. hhere is a
wonderful field for missionary la.
Dor through the Sunday school.
For every child o. this five hun
dred thousand gotten into the Sun
day school there are nine chances
out Of ten that he or she will grow
up church member and for every
child never Cotton into the Sunday
school the chances are nine out Of
ten that he or she will not become
member OF the church,
The work accomplished at Hop
kinsville will double the Sunday
school interests in the state in
twelve months. For the first time
the association is out OF debt and
has small surplus In the Treasury.
1t was found that one secretary
was not sufficient to do the work
for the coming year so an addition
al subscription of ~ 900 was asked
to put two more men into the field,
$1,000 Of this amount was raised
and the other will certainly b
contributed.
Every session Of tn Meeting was
replete with enthusiasm and valu.
able information. No church in
town was able to accommodate the
delegates and those intesested in
tae work, aud it became necessary
I meet in the tabernacle, whore
the night sessions were attended
by from 5000 to 1000 people.
The program was carefully ar
rrnged and covered every branch
of the Sunday school work,