Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-17

Apropos of the visit of Rev. Joseph
Clark, d. D., general secretary of the
Ohio Sunday school association, the fol-
lowing, which recently appeared in the
Boys World of Chicago, will be of in
terest to the public:
Joseph Clark. general secretary of the
Ohio Sunday school association, from
boyhood to his present eminence has
won his fame through Sunday school
inspiration. His life work began in his
boyhood and its keynote came from the
Sunday school.
DIR. Clark was born in 1854 and was five
years old when, in 1859, notable Sunday
school organizations were formed through
out the United States. His father was
for more than 30 years general secretary
of the New Jersey Sunday school asso-
citation, and his mother for 25 years has
been president of the New York city
Primary union.
1t was in 1869 that the leading Sunday
school workers of the country held a
national convention at Newark, N. ]. He
was a page and was especially detailed to
serve DR.. Henry Clay Trumbull, one of
the secretaries of the convention. He
was only IA, but the spirit of the con-
vention came upon him, and from that
time he Unidentified himself with organized
Sunday school work.
Two years later the young boy was
working in New York city in the Sunday
school bazaar of A. o. Van Lennup.
Sunday school workers from every part
of the country appeared there. The
leaders in the labor made it their head
quarters, and their influence had it's final
effect upon the boy who listened to their
words. He was fitting himself to be a
practical book and job printer, and be-
yond that the superintendent of such
work, but his interest in the Sunday
school never ceased.
Although for II years at the head OF
large printing establishments, his heart
interest in the Sunday school did not
cease. When he was 21 he was one of the
| officers of the Essex County Sunday
school association of New Jersey. He had
already become teacher in the effective
work of the schools His father was in
the same work and his mother was pro-
noting the primary unions which have
since made her name revered from ocear
to ocean.
Between 21 and rs DR.. Clark taught
| classes of boys and girls, was superin-
| tendent of a large mission school, and
i taught for two years a mission infant class
| of 200 members
He moved from the East to Colorado
and was the prime factor in the organic
| ing of the State Sunday school associa-
| ton. He served six years as secretary
of the state organization. At 81 he needed
| a call to the ministry, an influence which
] mad Deen upon MIN IOI years. anu pSBdi
| his first pastorate in Ohio. When Marion
Lawrence was elected to the secretary
ship of the International association, DR.
| Clark succeeded him as secretary OF thu
| Ohio Sunday school association.
He is now editor of the Ohio Sunday
School Worker, the author of the famous
Timothy Standby Letters" a doctor o
divinity, and one Of the most importan
factors in Sunday school and Christian
| work in the country.
He is an example of the boy who hai
made the Sunday school part of his dali!
life; who has taken the teachings of tn
Bible into his own work, and applied then
to the sincere help of those about him
He lives and breaches sincerity of though
and action.
Dr. Clark win be in Brattleboro Tues
day, March 21. An institute will be hell
in the afternoon, when all who are active
ly engaged in Sunday school work in thi
town and the surrounding towns are in
vited to be present to secure the hell
which is sure to come In the evening
DR.. Clark will speak on 1.-The Sou
Winners Equipment. Two Visions and
Baptism