The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-25
THE FIRST SESSION.
Several Branches of Work Discussed
 By Delegates.

By Delegates. The opening session of the twenty third annual convention of the Ala bama Sunday School Association was
 called to order at 2:s0 o'clock yeter- day afternoon by the President of the | Association. E. J. Russell of Athens. | and a brief welcome was spoken by | Judge Joseph Carthel. State Secretary | of the Association, in behalf of pr. c. w. | Patterson who was to have welcomed | the delegates to the city and to the | First Presbyterian Church. but who. | on account of illness, was denied that | pleasure.
 | Dr. Charles A. stskely. pastor of the | First Baptist Church. offered a prayer | and the large choir. with Junius J. l Pierce leader, filled the place of wor- | ship with melody.
 The church and gallery were crowded. 1 Chairs filled the aisles and the space about the pulpit. and yet there were hundreds of delegates and visitors who I Ing session.
 Goes Right To work. The work of the convention began at o'clock when John H. Frye of Bir- mingham. opened discussion of the subject. The Superintendent's Work" with an address on Ills Individual Duties" MT. Frye is fine speaker. and while relating his experiences as a Sunday School superintendent. held the | closest attention of his hearers. In the absence of J. B. wadsworth of Birmingham, who was to have fol- lowed Mr. Frye. the discussion was con l tinued by J. B. Greene of Opelika, whose address on The Assistant Su- perintendent." was a gem. Mir. Greene Is superintendent of the opelika Methodist Sunday School. and has the reputation among Sunday Schsol workers of being not only the best superintendent in Alabama. but one of the best In the South. He has had a wide experience in Sunday School work and in his address gave valuable advice Of tho Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent as to the best means andamethods of conducting their schools and of obtaining the best rec suits from the application of those methods.
 Mr. Greene paid an especial tribute to Miss Mimic Kennedy Of Opelika, State Secretary of primary Sunday School work, declaring that to her work and her influence during the years that she was associated with him in the Superintendents work of the Methodist Sunday School of Opel ika is due the proficiency of the teach. CTS and pupils of the present school
 
 Pike County Sunday School Association delivered a splendid address on ''The Secretary" in which there was much of interest, and in which he displayed a vast amount of knowledge of that especial and very essential department of the Sunday school work.
 A general discussion of the preoed. ing subjects followed and interesting short talks were made by Fl. M. Jones of the Methodist church of Dadeyiile, and Dr. Merrill of the Presbyterian church of Wood Lawn.
 Marion Lawrence Speaks.
 Training His Teachers" was the third topic of discussion for the after noon session and in the absence of Rev L. H. Bowles of Troy who was on the program for an address on The Teachers Meeting" Marion Lawrence, of Toledo, ohio. general secretary of the Sunday school work of North Ameri ca, delivered the address Mir. Lawrence began his address by congratulating Montgomery on the very suspicious be- gining of the convention.
 Mir. Lawrence entered into the dis cussion of his subject with a warmth that showed him thoroughly in touch with every branch of the Sunday school work. He interested his great congre- gation by narrating his method of
 
 Toledo of which he is superintendent and affirmed that the teachers meet ing" is one of the most important de- partments of the Sunday school work
 The supply class" was discussed by Rev. J. W. OHara, pastor of the Clay ton street Baptist church of Montgoms cry Prof L. P Giddens of Greensboro who was on the program for the ad- dress having not yet arrived.
 w. E. Holloway of Montgomery dis cuseed In most interesting manner The Training Class"
 Hymns by the choir in which the con- eregation joined were interspered throughout the program.
 Before adjournment, President Rus sell appointed a committee to frame anu send a telegram of greetings and sym pathy to the California State sunday school Convention now in session al Sacremento. The California Association was to have convened at santa Rosa but as that city has been completely annuhilated the association met at Sac remento.
 The committee was composed of J. B. Greene. opelika, B Iavie clayton and J. H. Frye, Birmingham '
 NJ Nj Sweatt, State Treasurer ap- pointed J. B. Davie of Rlockton to as- sist him In the discharging or the duties of his office during the convention ana saId that though his report was not yet in order he could say that it would pc inc hest that has ever been made oy the Alabama Association,
 Tho convention was then adjourned to meet at S o'clock lh tue evening at the Mon tgomery Theatre no one or the city churcheS< being large enough 10 accommodate the crowd for the nrst