Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-15
LONG BEACH HAS
THE BEST CHANCE
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
CLOSE CONVENTION
Or. Hugh X. Walker Of Los Angeles
Delivers Fine Address, Which
Creates Great Enthusiasm
Among Delegates
Pasadena Agency,
161s East Colorado Street
Telephone Main 752.


PASADENA, Dec. 14.-The twenty
second annual convention Of the Los
Angeles Sunday School association ad-
journed this evening in one of the
most enthusiastic sessions of the gath
ering.
The large auditorium at the First
Congregational church was packed with
the throng of delegates and Sunday
school enthusiasts who gathered to par
ticipate in the final session.
Invitations were received from four
cities, begging for the convention to
convene there next year. Long Beach,
Whittier, Pomona and Pasadena ex-
tended the invitations. The invitations
will be considered by the executive
committee of the association at its next
session and the invitation accepted will
then be announced. Interviews with
some of the committee developed a
strong favoring of Long Beach as the
next convention city.
In the afternoon session the officers
for the ensuing year were elected, and
this evening they were impressively in
stalled. The officiary is as follows:
President, Oscar Newby, Los Angeles;
first vice president, Miss Nettie Irene
president, Rev. W. K. Beans, Pomona
recording secretary, Miss Clara B.
Homer, Los Angeles, with a salary of
$40 per month; treasurer, w. e. Nc
Way Los Angeles; executive commit
tee, e. w. Thornton, chairman Long
Beach; G. H. Parsons, vice chairman,
Pasadena; H. M. Patterson, Los An
geles; w. Clifford Smith, Long Beach I;
G. l.. Webb, Santa Monica T. w. La
Fetra, Glendora; Miss Hattie Cover,
Los Angeles.
The executive committee was author
lied to fill all vacancies.
AT the evening session there were
several lively topics discussed, what
the Sunday School Means to Me as
Pastor being one of the most interest
ing. 1t was discussed by ten visiting
pastors. A popcorn meeting was a
unique feature, and several brief
sketches of what the convention had
given the delegates that they would in
turn take home and incorporate in the
work of their schools were given.
The address of Rev. Hugh X. Walker,
D. D., on "The Real Value of the Sun
day School to the Church" awakened
the most enthusiastic applause that
has marked even this unusually en-
thusiastic convention. He said in part
'In the parlance of the world there Is
distinction. To the ID the church
represents that divine agent of the
Master. But the two are in reality one
The Sunday school is the pioneer of the
church. Another value the Sunday
school has to tho church Is as it's pro-
teetor. : But for the Sunday lschoo
training given to our 14.000,000 of young
it is doubtful the church would exist
/ believe that the Sunday school today
stands to the church as its Gibraltar
the bulwark OF it's perpetuity.
"It is also the propagation of the
church. We must depend on the Sun
day school to propagate the seed OF
Christianity in the young of COM
munitty. When men pass the middle
age they are almost invariably un-
reachable. A very small percentage of
them become followers of Christ after
they have become adults. Therefore
the Sunday school as the sower of the
gospel seed is the propagator of the
church."
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