The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-06-13

spring leadership of the State Sunday
School Association. Hearts have been
continuously warmed, efforts doubled
and individual work made more, effec.
tive by contact with the triumphant
forces marshalled under the banner of
the association here represented.
I'VE look hopefully to the future,
with each additional year, as we shall
desire it, rally with increasing enthusl-
asm to the support of our cause, until
the day will come when every Sunday
school in our commonwealth will be
quickened to more and better service
through the cooperation engendered
and vitalized by this association.
I'VE express to our state executive
tfiicers and committees our apprecia.
tion of their useful and well ordered
plans operative during the past year
making it the best 12 months in the
history of our work, eliminating in
this most practical and helpful annual
gathering of Ohio Sunday schools, and
which we pray may mark new era in
the spread of the kingdom
I'VE believe in Joseph Clark and we
bring to our general secretary the full
est measure of our confidence and love,
and pray for his special amounting for
the onerous duties of his position that
lie and his associates may be so di-
rected as to make the coming year the
most fruitful year in achievement for
cur association and the harvest richest
Of all in garnering for the Master,
(Which must now and ever be the one
purpose of the Sunday school.
1--WE commend the work Of our as.
sistant general secretary, and the de
partmental secretaries of our associa-
ton, with each recurring year the i'm
portance of the home, primary and
teachertraining departments is great
ly enhanced and the needs of largei
and better equipment for perfectinE
these departments becomes more and
more apparent. We plea for the sup
rort of our association financially in a
measure commensurate with its practi-
cal purpose and growing demands. The
embarrassment of the association is in
;he very many open doors which God
has shown for us and which we are un-
able to enter for lack OF means where
With to go up and possess the land.
The possibilities incident to the de-
velopment of the Tour Plan as made
practical for counties and townships
CVerwhelms us. 1t is the channel
through which our individual workers
in the remote as we'll as most popu-
lous fields, are to come in personal
touch with the organized work, and in
our conviction it is the greatest con-
Eecting link in the chain of our plan
10 bring the most approved and adapt
| able methods and instructions to the
hungry thousands whom it is our pur.
| pose to reach and utilize.
The convention with no uncertain
| voice desires to give Endorsement tC
! tie well considered plans of the state
executive committee, to establish as a
feature of its work a good citizens de-
partment,' and we urge upon all work
erS a generous support of this new
end distinctive movement to supple
ment the efforts of all our churches
Sunday schools and affiliated oIganiza
tiCns in purpose to increase and eX-
at social purity and civic righteous,
ness in all that those terms imply.
I'VE stamp the drink traffic as the
! monster evil of our time, against
| which the Sunday school army will al
ways wage unrelenting war. We join
With all churches, societies, leagues
and institutions of whatever name and
character, in the task of lessening its
influence and finally exterminating the
saloon with its train of kindred and
equally demoralizing agencies.
We rejoice in the quickening of the
individual political conscience in our
state which ulites with our people in a
purpose to elect to our law-making
body men of ayowed convictions of
right on the great issues of temper
ance, social purity, personal and civic
righteousness. We deplore the use of
Cfficial and political authority to de-
feat the expressed will of the people in
respect to these vital matters or that
wculd use the party lash to intimidate
our representatives in the general as
sembly from the enactment of whole.
some legislation, or to annul or make
ineffective any statute that embodies
in any degree the wishes of the Chris
ton citizenship of the state in its cru,
sade against the cohorts of rum.
With no desire to make a political
association of the Ohio Sunday School
Association or to dictate as to ones
rsonal political Affiliations, we sound
a call to arms for every friend of our
cause, asking acceptance of individual
responsibility for the protection of the
sacred rights guaranteed to every man
under and by virtue of the constitution,
of state and nation tO tho and that wa