The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-02

A them pr. H. NJ. HamiiI of Nashville Training Teacher Secretary and Sunday School leader of the Methodist Church By a coincidence, Dr. Hamiil happen ed to be in the city yesterday and ht delivered addresses both in the after noon and at night.
 To viatt Twelve Cities
 Montgomery is the seventh of twelve cities which the international officers will visit during their tour of the South. Previous to their coming to Va. Raleigh. N. C., Durham N. C.. Macon, Ga., Augusta Ga. and Atlanta, Ga. from which latter city they came to Montgomery Thursday night. They will leave here this morning for Memphis. Tenn, thence to Little Rock. Ark, Louisville. Ky. Wheeling, w. Va, and Pittsburg, Pa. At Memphis Monday night they will be rendered banquet by the business men of that city.
 Dr. Hamiil expects to leave thik morning for Pittsburg, Texas.
 Prominent among the visiting Sunday School workers to Montgomery yes- terday were T. S. Carroll of Troy. the Alabama member of the International Executive committee,' and D. H. Mar bury of Marbury. Judge Joseph Car thei. General Secretary of the Alabama Association, Major J. c. Harris of Mont gomery, President of the Sixth Interna- tional Sunday School Convention held at Pittsburg, Pa. in 1890. was present at the two meetings.
 While the purpose of the meetings was to stimulate a renewed interest in the work, one of the principal ob- jects of the visitors was to secure one or possibly two secretaries to aid in Southern work.
 The words of the visiting interna- tional officers and of Dr. Hamill were enthusiastically received by those per- sons connected with the Sunday School work of Montgomery and of Alabama.
 The AfterhOon Conference.
 At 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mir. Hartshorn, MT. Lawrence and Dr. H. M. Hamill of Nashville, held an i'm formal conference at the First Presby- terian Church with the Sunday School workers of Montgomery.
 Among those present were Rev. J. A. Rice. Rev. c. A. Stakely, Key. c. W. Patterson. Rev. J. W. O'Hara, Rev. Walter M. Crawford. George c. Miles, B. N. Washburn, Judge Joseph Carthel. General Secretary of the Alabama State Sunday School Association: w. B. Davidson, Judge c. W. Buckley, Michael Cody, Fred s. Ball. M M. Sweatt. Rev Neal l.. Anderson. w. E. H0tloWay, Judge J. T. Cook, J. S. Carroll of Troy and D. H. Marbury of Marbury.
 The conference was held in the audi torium of the church and was presided over by George G. Miles, chairman of the Executive Committee of the State Sunday School Association and Presi- dent of the Baptist State Mission Board.
 The meeting was opened with a prayer by Rev. J. W. OHara, after which Mr. Miles announced the object and purpose of the conference. He thought that the Sunday School Work CTS of Montgomery were exceptionally fortunate in having with them the visitors who were here to confer and determine what was best in the prose- cution of the Sunday school work. He spoke of Mir. Hartshorn and Mir. Law renee, in connection with the high of fees they held in the International Sunday School Association, and said that they were here for the purpose of interest in the Sunday school work. Under the banner of Sunday school work. he said, that all of the workers were alike--looking to the salvation of the souk The visitors, he continued, had had broad experience in the line of work and had devoted much time to the cause.