Milford chronicle., 1905-07-07
A Trip to Toronto.

- ''O -'Atiohdi convention OF SUNDAY
. school representatives of North America.
which was held in the city OF Toronto.
Canada, and to which was one of the
2OOO delegates which took part. It was
the largest convention ever held. and it
transacted great deal ofimportant work.
The city of Toronto is an ideal place
Tor such a convention; as it is a city of
churches, many large ones seating two
to three thousand persons. In that citv
there are $1,000 members of Sunday
Schools, and by far the largest part of the
population is connected with thechurcbes.
Toronto has 25O,0OO population.
The two important places where meet.
lngs were held was the Methodist Church.
seating 5000 with a choir loft seating.
zOO; 1t has an organ that cost $40. 900.
The other place was Massey Hall. seating
5000 and choir space for 400. These
places were always crowded to tile doors.
and on Sunday during the convention.
every church of the 165 in the city was
well filled; services being conducted bv
ministers and Sunday School workers
from all parts of the continent. 1t was
IN evidence from the addresses and re-
ports OF the speakers, that great progress
Is being made all over the country in
teaching the Word and bringing the
world to Christ through the Sunday
Schools.
One OF the main reasons why Toronto
is particularly well fitted for conven-
ton OF this kind is, its strict Observance
Of the Sabbath day; the door has been
opened to a slight extent by the would
be Sabbath breaker, to what it was twelve
years ago; then street cars were not per-
nltted to run on Sunday, but the capital,
SITS now control by a small majority and
'perate the lines on Sunday. Thousands
u people in Toronto will not use the cars;
very store is closed and the laws strictly
bserved.
Our entertainment card provided for
'dglng and breakfast on week DAYS, but
'r iull entertainment on Sunday. as the
estaurants would not sell to us on Sun
ay' | attended preaching at 10 am.
nnday School at y noon, temperance
ieetng at 3 p. m, and convention SER
zee at p. M, in Massey Hall: and. dur
g the day walked about twelve miles .
OF which gave US exercise and pre-
red us for a good nights rest.
Inc Temperance meeting at Massey
all was worth to me all the trip cost.
st think oft; all the chief officials of a
eat city as chairmen and as other Off
Is OF a temperance organization which
attended by 5000 men and women every
nday afternoon. VIII we ever have
'h in Delaware? If every christian
IN and woman would say yes, it would
so.
1 man on the ticket for a public Of
IN Toronto should be known TO treat
person to liquor, his defeat is sure.
who are working for the overthrow
he rum traffic in Delaware, should be
outraged to know that we are a part
he American people, and that the peo~
Cah De IOOleQ all the time.
While some of the moral conditions
not so good as we would like to have
m in Delaware, 1 saw nothing to cause
to desire to change temporal condi-
is with those of either the Canadian
he New Yorker
hen I left Delaware on the 22nd of
e, many different crops had been har-
ed at fair profit, and all along
ugh the State was one continuous
EN- wheat field, or thousands of acres
'rn waist high, and gardens of vegeta-
and fruits. The contrast was verv
zed as we passed through New York
Canada. Very little cultivated land
seen in either; the corn being only
ich or two high with grass almost
lg it; potatoes just coming up, and
other vegetables was to be seen. It
surprising that some of the north
nen come to Delaware and fail to
ed at first, for they know very little
cultivation of crops we grow.
]anadian looked at me in astonish-
when l told him that had har-
two tons of hay per acre and then
crop Of corn growing on the same
wo feet high this season, and that
Id get fifty bushels of shelled corn
re from this same land Also that
harvested $50 per acre from peas
nat land was also in corn. They
eaize itas facts.
New York apple orchards did not
rosperous in foliage or fruit, COM
to our sprayed orchards in Della
As whole, the Delaware farmers
great deal to be thankful for.
B. F. B. WooDALL.
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