The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-10
NEeno coNvENTIoN rNps,
sunday school Workers Meet Next Yea
 In E1IrunIuuhnna.

MtEGUEMAMMW& The Interdenominationai Sunday School Association. an organization os negroes which has been in convention in Montgomery since Thursday. ad- journed yesterday afternoon to meet next year In Birmingham during July the delegates holding that the annuai
 convention should take place When the academic schools are not in session. This afternoon the delegates to the convention will hold memorial services at o'clock at the Old ship Church on
 Holcombe Street, when tribute will be paid the late Prof. c. c. Marcus Of Memphis. Tenn. deceased Field secre-
 tary of the Association. and others who
 have fled during the year. This meet
 ing will be led by President W. H. Nixon of Selma.
 The convention was opened af old ship Church yesterday morning with
 prayer and song. After several wo- men had spoken on the work. Rev. D. Institute, addressed the meeting on
 The Importance of Bible Study"
 He urged his hearers to divide the
 Bible into suitable portions so as to grasp It's teachings. God, he said,
 would have mankind learn to love God and love man." The sixty books of
 the Bible and the more than 30,000
 verses would teach this lesson He
 declared that goodness not knowledge, saves man. Careful study of the Bible.
 he said. would make any church not
 only q thinking church but a working church.
 pr. Medley. Professor Moore and Dr. coiley discussed the necessities of the local churches and urged more work
 in the Sunday Schools.
 Short addresses were made by vari-
 ous women and other delegates and as-
 signments for work in Montgomery
 sunday Schools for today were giver
 out.
 Address submitted it's report recom- mending the following suggestions be adopted. which was done: That the Executive Board have full charge Of the business of the Association; that as soon as possible one or two Held workers be elected or appointed for the work in this State; that the Executive Board establish headquarters for the
 Association: that the next annual con
 vention be held in July; that con- stitution and bylaws be prepared by the Executive Board.
 Resolutions were adopted thanking the officers and members of the Old
 Ship Church, the press and citizens of
 Montgomery for courtesies shown the
 delegates.
 Each Sunday School was assessed to.
 pay the expenses of delegates to the international Convention to be held in
 Toronto, Canada. At o'clock the convention adjourn
 ed with the singing of q hymn and a benediction by Dr. G. F. Welch. These striikng utterances of Presi- dent Nixon in his annual address were approved by the convention. We have success in farms and bus
 mess. Peace. plenty and prosperity ara
 the results of our faithfulness to the giver of all good and to our fellow man. When we have friction In the human family we all suffer together.
 The evil ailurements. confusion and
 untimely death will continue in the land as long as idiers remain. We can new
 CT save our boys and our girls until
 the Congress. Legislatures and Consti- tutional Conventions destroy the piss tols and guns. distilleries and, liquors. Boys and men who carry deadly weapons, carry with them sorrow and death. They have presrranged murder or expect to he murdered
 Bad literature, bad company and a
 bad heart will bring any man. woman or child to disgrace and often to death without even a premonition. 'Lynching. faying and burning hu- man beings will be removed from the globe when the causes are removed"