The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-17
SCOPE OF SUNDAY SCHOOL BODY
 WHICH WILL MEET IN THIS CITY

will be held a meeting of the entire com
 mittee of more than 100. for the pur- pose of reviewing the entire work and
 making such preparation as may be- come necessary. We ask that every one interested in this movement put their shoulder to the wheel and we will on Tuesday next, have every arrange ment complete for the proper entertain- ment of 1000 of Alabama's best citi- zens."
 Judge Joseph Carthel. General Secre- tary Alabama Sunday School Associa- tion. returned to the city today from HonorayfIle. where he had been in at- tendance upon Crenshaw County sun- day School Convention. He reports an enthusiastic and successful convention that the officers of the convention planned to make Crenshaw a banner county this year.
 Being asked about conditions ot the work in the state and prospects of the State Convention. which is to be held here on the 24th inst, he said that the work had made very satisfactory progress during this year and that we expect larger and more representa- tive convention than was held at Birm- ingham last year. Since the Birming- ham convention. the counties of Mon
 roe. Marengo, Blount. Marshall and Winston have been organized. IIous- ton County will be organized at Dothan on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. A convention has been fixed for Choctaw County, which will be held at Butler on May 18th and 18th. This will make fifty-nine counties of the sixty-seven organized so that only eight counties are as yet unreached!
 There has been.' he said, a material increase in the number of ban..er coun- ties during the year. By d banner county is meant county that, CD has County Association that holds Q county convention-eve year; CD holds one or more conventions in every dis trict during the year; (3) makes sta tistical report to the State Association; (4) makes contribution to the sup port of the State work.
 Last year the counties Of Lauder dale, Lawrence, Limestone. Madison, | Etowah, Calhoun. TallaJegl, Bibb, I Clark, Dallas, Sumter, Pike and Cham | bers were the only banner counties. Since the Birmingham convention tho following counties, to WI: Autauga, Bullock. Chiffon. Coosa. Morgan. St. Clair, Wilcox have hecoLIe banner counties. 1t is probable that Walker, DeKalb, Escambia, Barbour and Mon- roe will come up to the banner stand ard and will be so reported at the con- vention on the 24th.
 There has been a very marked in- crease in the thoroughnes of the work done by the County Associations. An illustration taken of three separate counties will show how the work is reaching out to the weakest schools, showing that not only the schools m towns and cities arc being helped and interested, but the schools Tn the coun- try districts are being interested in the conventions. The county of Chil- ton will be made banner county for the first time this year. At con- vention held in the stanton District several weeks ago. thirteen of the four teen Sunday Schools of the district were represented. The rsp,rts from the schools showed that ev,ry school in the district had made an increase in its work since the county conven- tion, which was held in Maplesvlle in August of last year. Shortly after that convention there a district was organ ized. All ten of the schools in the Verbena District were represented in their convention. Another district in that county reports five Sunday Schools and all of them were represented.
 "A fourth district had eight Sunday Schools and seven took part in their District Convention, so that we see in these four districts there are thirty seven Sunday Schools and thirtyfivc of them were represented in the Dis trict Convention. A fair Illustration of the work shows also in the report from Coosa County. At the County COnVenGiOn dC fIlHL t1iiI taSL summer, one of the districts reported that there were fourteen Sunday Schools in the I district and fourteen of them took part in District Convention. Two or three weeks ago the convention of the North west District of Coosa County was held at Kellyton and report showed that of eight schools in the distl jet, seven of them were represented in the District Convention. The District Pres ident, Prof. R. l.. Griffin, reported ho had visited every school in the district except one and had sent a represent ative to visit that school for him. The reports of the Morgan County Conven- tion. held at Gun Springs last August, shows how thoroughly the work has been done. District No. has eigh. schools in it and all of them took part in the District Convention. No. 3 has fifteen schools and eleven were repre- scented.
 Another district had twelve schools and nine represented. These three counties, situated in differents parts of the State. with very different conditions existing in them, show that it is not only possible, but practical to expect the District Association to reach and help all the schools in it's district At the State Convention. emphasis will be laid on the fact that it will be expecced of the County Association that il so thoroughly organize it's work that 1t may touch and help, either through the County Convention or District Con- vention, every school in the county. The ffty-nine organized counties of the State are subdivided into districts as stated above. About 65 per cent. of the districts in the State have been organized. The county of Jefferson which is the largest county, has shown remarkable increase in its work This county is divided into twenty-three dig tricts and reports of the County Con vention held in Birmingham a few months ago show that twenty-five dis trict conventions and twenty iDsti- tutes had been held in Jefferson Coun- ty in twelve months.