Evening star., 1905-10-23
ANNUAL CONVENTION
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SUNDAY
SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.

The committee in charge of the program
Of the twelfth annual convention Of the
District OF Columbia Sunday School Assoc
c.stson has finished It's labors and will re-
port the completed program at meeting
Of the executive committee. which has been
called for next Friday evening at Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church.
The convention will be held in New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church and will
open the evening Of October 80. Tuesday
two sessions will be held, afternoon and
evening. and Wednesday, November i,
three sessions-morning, afternoon and
evening. Monday after the usual formalf-
ties and routine business, including the
annual report of the president, Mr.. w. W.
MILAN, the convention will be addressed py
BISHOP II. w. Warren of Denver, Col.
Tuesday afternoon there will be session
of the Primary Union of the District. at
which Mrs. Amy May Gray, president OF
that union, will preside. Mrs. j. Wood
and junior secretary of the International
Sunday school organization, will deliver an
address and will also teach model lesson
to class of young children. DR.. II. M.
OF Sunday school teacher training, in the
Methodist Episcopal Church south. will
speak on Vital Primary Problems" Miss
Hilda North of the Washington public
class and Mrs. w. F. Crafts will talk about
the convention exhibit.
AT the Tuesday evening session Henry b.
+. Macfarland, president of the Board of
Commissioners Of the District will speak
briefly and DR.. Hamlll will discuss THE
Bible-Our Text Book"
Home Department Union.
On Wednesday morning session Of the
Home Department Union will be held. at
xybi nd will he
Hamill and Rev. A. H. Zimmerman. Miss
Kate S. White of Calvary Baptist Sunday
school will give Notes from the Depart
merts." Mrs. M. NJ. Mitchell Of Waugh
M. E. Church. president of the Home De-
partment Union, will preside at this ses-
sion
At the session of Wednesday afternoon,
beginning at 2:13 pm. DIR. Hamill will
speak on THE Teacher Himself and on
Hard Problems of the Sunday School, fol-
lowed by conference on the latter subject.
Four fifteen-minute addresses by local
speakers. which are expected to form an
attractive part of the program of this ses-
sion, are follows: How We Made Our
School Grow" VIM. Henry White, First
Presbyterian; How We Increased Our En-
Months" James E. West, Mount Pleasant
Congregational: How to Make a .Teae n
ers' Meeting Popular p. H. Bristow, Cal
vary Baptist; How Our School Reaches
the Masses Rev. Charles Alvin Smith,
Peck Memorial l esbyterian.
At the closing session Wednesday even
ing DR.. Hamill will make the principal ad-
dress on the theme, Approved Modern
Methods
Attractive music will be made a feature
of every session The directors of the sing
ing for the evening sessions are Messrs
Page l.. Zimmerman, Roland r. Rodrick
and Percy S. Foster. Prof. Theodore l.
King, Miss May E. Smith and others will
assist at the piano and organ. Among the
vocal numbers will be duet by Mrs. G. B.
Bayly jr., and Mrs. D. Olin Leech and solos
by Miss inertia Pickford and Miss Bessie
Harrison.
The business of the convention will be in
terspersed through the various sessions at
convenient intervals. Tuesday evening Mr.
]. H. Lichliter will submit his reports as
treasurer and field worker, and on We'd
nesday evening there will be reports from
the committees on resolutions and on nomi-
nations. The election Of officers and MEM
bers of the executive committee for the en-
suing year will be held at the close of the
Wednesday evening session.
The president of the association has re-
nent pastors of the city expressing their
interest in the convention and promising to
attend. Among those who will assist in the
devotional exercises at the several sessions
are: Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, w. F. Locke,
Donald C. Macleod, D. w. Montgomery,
A. S. Beane, w NJ Ferguson R. r. Riedel,
George E. Maydwell, Albert Evans, w.
Taliaferro Thompson, Walter F. Smith,
John Compton Ball and r. NJ. Moore.