The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-02

As soon as the picture was taren | Chairman Miles again called the Con- ference to order and introduced pr. N. | M. Hamilf of Nashvilie. Teacher Train | of the Methodist Church South. Mr. Miles said that pr. Hamill was . man | known to all of those assembled and a man they all love to hear. He said l that the man he was introducing had | gained ''notoriety' ass . Sunday School man and it gave him great pleasure to present him to the -confersnce. pr. Hamill arrived in Montgomery yesterday afternoon from Americus Ga, where he attended . Methodist Con. ference. delivering an address thers Thursday night. He was passing through Monfgomsry enroute to Pitts. burg. Texas, and bsing informed of tha conferences at the Presbyterian Church he was in attendance yesterdayi after noon on invitation from the Sunday School workers.
 pr. Hamiil prefaced his informal ana interesting talk with an account of how he happened to De in Montgomery. Hs had come here by pure accident and he was convinced that some hand ot Divine Providence had directed him to
 Montgomery just at this time. He com fessed that he was consecrated to the Sunday School work of the Kingdom of God. pr. Hamiu was heartily in accord with tho objects and purpose of the international organization. He said there was great need for an extension of interest in organized Sunday School work. Denominatfonal work was good enough but organized work should be strengthened. He. himself, in hts line of Methodist work. was indebted, in a great degree. to the international or- ganisation.
 The speaker spent some time in dis cussing the progress of the Sunday School work in Tennessee and in con- clusion paid a high tribute to Mir. Hartshorn, as he said he thought 1t was better to say good things to mans face than to wait until after his death and inscribe the good words upon his tombstone. He spoke in highest praise of the work pr. Hartshorn is doing and the burdens the international chairman Is carrying.
 Chairman Miles then introduced Ma rion Lawrence, General Secretary of the International Association, as a man that all knew and all loved.
 MT. Lawrence Speaks.
 Mir. Lawrence said that the preceding speakers had said very nearly all that he wished to say and that he seconded all that had been said by both of them. He was glad that pr. Hamtll had paid tribute to MT. Hartshorn who. besides putting his time In the work, was put ting in money this year that would hardly be measured this side of five figures"
 He confidently believed that Alabama was the best organized State in the Southland. and he believed that a ban- ner county in Alabama meant as much as a banner county in any other State in the Union. He reviewed the scope of the organized Sunday School work. and expressed the sentiment that the character of teaching in the Sunday Schools must be continually improved. To this end a committee on education had been appointed which offered three degrees to teachers. Since the organ ization of the committee the teacher training work had been quadrupled.
 Mir. Lawrence spoke at length of the progress of the work in Mexico and incidentally said that very soon organ- izations would be perfected in Bermuda and adjacent is1ands-in the South Att lantic for which places parties will sail from Halifax in the ship orinoco.
 The speaker desired all those assem- bIed to know that 1t was not the object or purpose of the International Asso- citation to interject schemes that might 1