Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-17
MEET IN ToRoNT


DELEGATES TO INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
Extensive plans are being laid for the
eleventh triennial International Sunday
school convention at Toronto. Canada, June
1927. The United States and Canada, with
Mexico. Cuba and Central America, viii be
represented by 2, 100 delegates and several
thousand visitors. The convention promises
to be the most notable gathering of Sunday
school forces ever held on the continent.
| The international association represents
153, 600 Sunday schools and a constituency
OF 1900. 600, and Its work is continent wide
in its influence and wonderfully varied in
it's scope.
In addition to the association work of a
general secretary and four field workers
| who emphasize the value of organized eff
| forts in seeking right relationship for eff
| cient service In the Sunday schools of North
America, more than forty states, provinces
and territories are thoroughly organized.
employ paid workers and expend from 81, 600
| to $4,000 each annually The work is along
the lines OF development by departments,
/ including primary and Junior. teacher
training, temperance, the home, adult
classes, house-to-house visitation and the
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our religious and secular educational insti-
| tutions.
4 The international association meets once
TN three years for conference, fellowship,
| information and inspiration. In 1896 one
| OF the most remarkable gatherings of the
| association was held In Boston.
| Very elaborate preparation is being made
| In Toronto for the coming convention. A
large and representative local committee,
| headed by Justice j. j. Maclaren Of
the Ontario court of appeals, and w.
| Mortimer Clark LII. D., lieutenant gov
! ernor Of the province, is at work com
( pieting the arrangements for the reception
| of the thousands of guests who are to be
| entertained.
| be Winning a Generation" This is the
| heart and center of the program, and indi-
| Gates that the high note of the convention
will be evangelism Without discounting
| the past or losing sight of the future, great
emphasis is laid upon the obligations which
| the Sunday schools are placed under to
the present generation of children.
winning Generation"
| 1t is the earnest desire of the internal
| tional committee, of which Mr.. w. N.
| Hartshorn of Boston is chairman, that
| Sunday, June %, which is convention Sum
| day, shall be set apart for the discussion
| of the great thought of the convention, and
| the request is made that in every evangel-
| ical church in North America sermons will
be preached or addresses will be delivered
| on the supreme IODlc OF the QOur, w IN
| ming a Generation"
| The program committee for the conven-
| tion-Mr. w. N. Hartshorn, Boston, chair
man-includes. Rev. George R. Merrill, ID,
D. D.. Nashville, Tenn: DR.. George w.
Bailey, Philadelphia, Pa; Mr.. Justice j.
| Maclaren, Toronto; DR.. Frank Woodbury.,
Halifax, N. S., and Mr.. Thomas Weir, Salt
| Lake City, Utah. This committee has pre-
pared notable list of topics and selected
| a splendid array of speakers to present
| them.
Previous to the regular convention ses-
| sions several related organizations and
| committees will meet in important sessions
| The International institute for Sunday
| school workers-feld workers, state and
| provincial officers, will be held from Tues
| day evening, June 20, to noon Friday, June
| 3d. Rev E. Morris Ferguson, Newark, N.
| j., general secretary of the New Jersey
| Sunday School Association, is president and
| Prof. E. A. Fox, general secretary of Ken
| lucky, is the secretary. Mr. II. S. Conant,
| general secretary of the Massachusetts, AS
ISOLATION, is first vice president. The ele-
| mentary workers will take part in this IN
| stitute and conference.
Editorial Association.
The Sunday School Editorial Association
Rev. R. Douglas Fraser, NJ. A., Toronto,
| editor Of the Presbyterian Sunday school
| G.. r. Blackaal, D. D., Baptist publications,
| Philadelphia, secretary, composed Of the
editors Of the Sunday school papers. jour-
mails and magazines, will hold its fourth
| annual meeting at the board room Of the
Methodist Publishing House, June 81, %
| and q, and will consider many important
! matters.
The committee on education, Prof. H. M.
| Hamill, D. D., Nashville Tenn, chairman,
| will meet June %; and the meeting Of the
| international executive committee has been
| called at the headquarters, King Edward
| Hotel, for Thursday, June o.
| The international uniform lesson commit
| tee, which selects the lessons used from
| Sunday to Sunday by nearly 25,O0O.Oo0 Sun
! day school members in America and Eu-
! rope, will meet at the Queens Hotel June
81 OF this committee Rev. DIR. John Potts
of Toronto is chairman and Rev. A. F.
| Schauff1er, D. D., New York, Is secretary.
For the convention proceedings and con-
| ferences six of the largest churches .and
| Massey Hall, the largest auditorium in the
| city, will be used.
Two of the most notable features of the
| great gathering will be the mass meetings
for the children Saturday afternoon and
| the missionary meetings with which the
| convention will close Tuesday evening
| The children ut is estimated that there
will be from 10000 to 10000 will meet In
Massey Hall and four of the churches and
| will be addressed by noted speakers. Each
| child present at one of these meetings is
to be given handsome souvenir from Pal
estine.
The missionary meetings Tuesday even
ing will be held in Massey Hall and Metro
politan Church. The speakers will be Arch
ibald Forder of Jerusalem, whose expert
| ences of thirteen years among the Ishmael
| ties in Moab and Edom suggested the title,
| 1.-The Livingstone of Arabia which has
been given him; Rev. Chauncey Murch of
| Luxor, Egypt; Robert E. Speer of the Pres
| byterian board of missions; Rev. DIR. w. G.
| Puddefoot, the Congregationalst home mis-
| sionary secretary; Rev. DIR. E. E. Chivers.
| the field secretary Of the Baptist Home Mis-
| sionary' Society; President ]. A. B. Scherer
| of Newberry. S. C.: Rev. NJ. G. B. Mason
| of Cincinnati and Rev. D. Webster Davis
! of Richmond, Va, the latter two among the
most eloquent colored men in the south.
This will be a fitting finale of the great
| program.
Simple Grief.
| From the New York Tribune.