The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-06
,rNpAY SCHOOL WORKERS.
4;,o of the Carroll County soc;ation Here Last Week.

The meeting of the Carroll
 c0unty Sunday School Associa-
 son in Green Forest last week
 was not largely attended, but
 ,bose whose hearts are in the ef-
 art to build up an organized
 Sunday School work in this coun-
 tv are not willing to call it a fail-
 ure, as many difficulties and dis
 advantages are always to be over
 eome in an effort of this kind.
 The meetings of the association
 were held at the Baptist church
 hetween the hours for the pro-
 racted meeting services which
 were then in progress. Many of
 the subjects discussed elicited
 much interest and the feeling
 seems to be general that the as-
 sociation can and will be made
 great success.
 Clifford Boles, president of the state association and who is also county clerk of Washington county, was present at the meet ing and bent his every energy toward the success of the organ ization. MT. Boles' whole soul is in this work and he is determined that the present effort to organ ize the entire state in Sunday School work shall not stop short of success.
 From Mr. Boles THE TRIBUNE has secured some interesting facts 9sepcerning the Sunday School .aork in general and Carroll county in particular which we gladly give space:
 Organization as applied to Sum- day School work is world wide in its scope, including as it does the humblest member of the weakest Sabbath School and embracing all Protestant Christendom. Of all church conventions, assem- blies and meetings, the Sunday School conventions are by many considered the most important. Up the present time there have been three worlds conventions of Sunday School.workers, the va rious countries of the world be- ing represented. The first was held in London in 1889, the sec- ond at St. Louis in 1893 and the third again in London in 1893. The fourth is likely to be held in Jerusalem in 1904. Next to the Worlds Conventions comes the Inter- National Sunday School Convention, which takes in all the states and territories of the United States and provinces of Canada and British America, or the whole of North America. While there had previously been several meetings of representa- tive Sunday School workers in the United States prior to 1872, yet this year was made the date of series of conventions by rea- son that in that year at the meet Ing at Indianapolis was adopted what is known as the "Interna- uonal Lesson System, which has grown so popular that nearly tWenty-fiv millions of people are studying the same lesson every Sunday.
 The next organization in inn portance comes that of the state or province, then the county. and lastly that of the township which IS the unit of the organized. work. LUIS composed of all the schools ln the political township. Every member, as a general thing, of every school is a member of the township organization. These meetings are usually held guar 0erlX or semi annually. The county conventions are composed oi delegates from the township assoclations, but as the township organizations are so imperfecl ana not even practicable in some sectlons in this country, the 'sSoonty conventions are usually soe up of delegates from the
 ous Sunday Schools.