The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-21
DISTRICT MEETING
REFRESHING GATHERING AT
 CHISHOLM YESTERDAY.
Was Annual Meeting of chisholm District Sunday School Associa- \ tion--w. E. Hollowsy Pre-
 sided--An Interest ss
 ing Program.

montgomery County Is divided into Tour district. the Ramer District, the chishoim District. the Pine Level District and the district including all the Sunday Schools fin the city of Montgomery. together with
 Each district has PresiAent. the Pres ident of these four districts being yice- President of and subordinate to the Mont gomery County Sunday School Assccia-
 MT. W. D. Dlliard Of asatbsws Is the President of the County Sunday School Association, Mr. w. N \ Thetford is the Secretary and Treasurer and Mir. ". AE. Holloway is the Chairman of the Execu- tive Committee az.
 Each of these districts hold one yearly convention and once each year the County Association meets. The County Convention win be held August q ct Fine Level. this year.
 Yesterday afternoon the Chisholm Dis trict held their yearly Sunday School Con vention and 1t was well attended. The little church. just across from Athletic Park, was well filled with n,en and wo- men who are interested in the great work of building up the Sunday Schools in this County.
 A splendid program had been arranged. for thought and each talk and discussion showed deep and comprehensive study of the subject presented. -e. The exercises were opened with Scrip ture reading and prayer by the Rev. T. w. Rhinehart, pastor of the Fifth Ave- nue Methodist Church.
 The first number on the program was an address by the Chishoim District Presi- dent, w. W. Gunter, on the subject "The Influence of Sunday School Work Mir. Gunter being absent. w. E. HoIlo- way presided and presented the subject in an interesting light. He presented some strikingly strong points, especially cmphasizing the Idea that the most po- tent factor in the civilization of the world Is the Sunday Schools. J. H. Judkins spoke briefly on the same subject. He went even deeper into the subject and gaveit as his opinion that to ''biot out the influence of Sunday Schools In America, utter lawlcssness would pre- vaii.' # N < q
 Mir. Judlxins spoke of the delights of the Sunday School work as had been his experience for many years and in his es- timation the words Sunday schoor' and Hove" are almost synononnous The iYi- fiucnce of the Sunday School is needed, not only by the boys and girs but by the men and women of today.
 MT. Judkinss talk was full of sound logic and was interesting from beginning to end. s
 W. R. Sawyer spoke interestingly on the same suhject. "Tnfiuence of the Sum day School Work. He spoke of the chief end of the Sunday School work as being the salvation of souls. as bringing souls to Christ: of the great and far reaching influence of the work in Chris tian civilization.
 America" ssid Mfr. Sawyer, Heads the world in all that is good and noble and Breat" is looked up to by all nations of k..t aL-. Naturally the question comes to us, Why Is this so?'' and Mir. Sawyer said the an- swer can be found In the fact that as q nation the study of the Bible prevails 1 The earlier the study of the Bible is be- gun by the child the better for the child and for the civilization of the country. It is a great mistake made by many active and brilliant young men and women. this drifting out Of the Sunday Schools when, they have reached the age of maturity. It is a school from which there can be no graduation.
 | MT. Bynum spoke of the Sunday school work as a rolling ball, gathering momen- | tum at each revolution. Mir. Bynuun's S was strong talk. a talk. especially In- teresting to the Sunday school teachers. to. those upon whose shoulders rests the responsibility of the souls salvation of tho boys and girls and the young men and young women of this country.
 The next on the program was an ad- dress on the subject of "The Sunday School Teacher" by Mss Minnie Kenne- dy, who is the primary secretary of the Alabama State Sunday School Associat- ton. Miss Kennedy is a pleasing talker. and thoroughly inbued with the spirit of her work. .
 She began her talk with a little syncp- 1 sis of the mornings Sunday school les son-where Christ fed the hungry multi. tude with q few loayes of bread and the few small fishes. @
 She brought out the idea that we, as a Christian people. are surrounded by q hungry multitude that must not be sent away. The multitude must be given the living Christ as the bread of life and the preachers and teachers and workers are responsible. Not all are called to be mis- sionaries, or to preach or teach, but those who stay at home, and work and pray, are just as really Gods missionaries, in another sense. but just as true and just as necessary to the work
 Miss Kennedy said that in a measure l those who are professed Christians are responsible fer the lives with which they come in touch; for the hungry souls | they meet, that need the bread of life. Every soul has an influence and that ln- fuence is yielded, either for good or
 
 widens out, and goes en from time to eternity, and woe be unto these who have | the bread of life and yet send the null titude away hungry.
 | Miss Kennedy gave synopsis of the | work of the three departments in the | Sunday school, including the primary de- partment, the intermediate and the adult | departments. She spoke in earnest appeal | to the teachers to do their best work in | the great cause, remembering that God
 has in His promise said Be thou faith l full unto death, and I will give thee a
 crown of life" There are always ob- stacles in our way-nothing Is made smooth or easy, but. He that is for us | is greater than those who are against us' +-
 In speaking of the intermediate work in hthe Sunday schools, Miss Kennedy de-
 seribed So beautifully that time in the | life of the boy CT girl as the "transition"
 period; the period of changes and of danger; that serious time in life when we come to the parting ef the ways;
 when we stand with bated breath. watch ing to see which one of the paths which | stretch out before the boy or girl, will
 te the one chosen for the walk through
 life.
 The meeting of the convention was
 then adjourned and Sunday school was
 organized, to be known as the Chisholm | Sunday School, with Mir. Graves as super intendent; Graham Chisholm, Secretary
 and Treasurer; Miss Ruby Crawford, pri- mary teacher; Mrs. Charley Chisholm and | -. - |