The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29

| The closing address of the three days | meeting of the State Sunday school As l sociation, was delivered at the First l Presbvterian Church Thursday night I by Rev. Henry Trawick, pastor Of the Perry Street Methodist Church. His subject was ''The Sunday Schooi and the Great Commission" and con bined much of practicality with an in- | spiring eloquence that was a fitting close to the most successful convention in the history of the Association.
 Mir Trawick said in part:
 We have come in these last moments of this great Convention to speak the
 words of prayer and or praise. III d very few moments the last duties Will have been attended to. the last practl- cal suggestion will have been made ana the sweet old English Goodbye ana May God bless you. have been spoken among those who have so pleasantly
 been with us these few days and who now depart for theiF-own fields or Ia bor.
 It has been said that Americans are mt given to patience. It has been as- serted that people do not take as much | Interest in religious services as they do 1 in theatres or circuSes, but or thls | body it can be said, that you have been
 faithful; that you have waited through long weary hours while men nave
 waded through long columns of sta tistics and while long and practical ad- | dresses have been delivered.
 Mir. Trawick said he felt that the
 committee made a mistake in placing l him as the last speaker on the pro | gram, for he felt his incompetency to 1 speak the words, that being the last, 1 should echo the inspiration from all 1 the good and valuable things that had preceded He said that the title of his | subject explained itself the Sunday | school is the great Commission, and l that through the Sunday Schools we | get a world wide view of the domin- | ions of God. There is an inspiration in | the passage that says. "The earth is | the/I.ords, and the fullness thereof, | and the great commission means that | the great army of Sunday Schools shall | not stay their march until the banner | of the Lord shall wave over all and | to him every knee bow down. MT. | Trawick said further that before Christ 1 sent out Ills Disciples to teach, he first | sent them into an upper chamber to | pray and be begged that the men and l women of this great convention pray | that the enthusiasm and the inspiration | for good of this meeting he gathered | up; that the holy spirit overshadow | and take us to that high mount and | show us all the kingdoms of the eartf | that He in His name, would have us | conquer. May the Holy Spirit descend upon this body of church workers to- 1 night, and go with you to your homes 1 may the inspirations received here Et 1 out, not only through Alabama. bu even to the uttermost parts of thu 1 earth, and thus fulfill the command O | the great commission. Christ Wa! | broad and we want to be broad ever l as He was.
 ''You do not live in Alabama. yol 1 only stay here-you do not live in tho l United States, you simply stay here,
 were the words of Marion Lawrance
 and had he said nothing else the les 1 son to be learned from that eXpres
 sion alone would have paid me for at
 tending the Convention and have paiC 1 him for coming here at this time. We live through not the universe O | God we live in the memories Of thu
 past and in the hopes of the future
 The past Is ours, the future Is ours
 Gods Universe Is ours and God want | us to he broad enough to take In th' | wide, wide world. If Sunday Schoo
 teachers will be missiouarie at heart
 and teach the child as Christ taught 1 we will take the world for Him. Train | Ing counts most In missionary work
 and d child should be taught to give
 not only for the purpose of buyini 1 Sunday School literature and defrayini
 the actual Sunday School expenses, bu
 he should he trained to give for pur poses beyond the bounds of nome ant