The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-10
ROOSEVELT
A SINCERE
CHRISTIAN
Popular Because lie Is Right,
Says Sunday School Con-
ventiOn Speaker.

Inc lorty-elgntn annual session OF
the Essex County Sunday school con-
Vention opened yesterday at the North
Reformed Church on Broad street.
About 200 delegates from the various
Sunday schools throughout the county
We're present. and after the convention
was opened with prayer by the Rev.
Lyman Whitney Allen, the following
officers were elected Nfor the ensuing
year:
President. the Rev. Theodore M. Ship
herd, pastor of the Belleville Avenue
Congregational Church, Newark; cor
responding secretary and treasurer, S.
ID. Turton, Newark; recording secre-
tary, Edward W. Cooper, South Or
ange; member State executive commit
tee, u. Cutler Ryerson, Newark; super
intendent home department, Miss Louise
Peterson, East Orange; superintendent
elementary department, Mrs. Edwin M.
Moore, Newark; chairman county ex-
ecutive committee, Henry H. Dawson,
Newark.
The election was followed by a con-
ference on the home department, in
charge of Mrs. William L. Smith.
What We Have Accomplished was
discussed by department superinten-
OtulSg WIN lOIh II dtluii " TIC plVSlCSo
in the home department and the advance
IN elementary work. County Secretary G.
D. Turton reported on the progress Of the
work which came under his supervision,
which was supplemented by a report from
the county executive committee, presented
by Henry FL. Dawson, chairman. The
morning session was brought to a close with
a round table conference on problems and
How They Are Solved" led by the Rev.
E.. M. Ferguson, State secretary, and an
address of welcome to the delegates by the
Rev. DR.. James l. Vance, pastor Of the
North Reformed Church.
From LIS to 2:10 o'clock in the after
noon there were conferences as follows:
Elementary, In charge of county elemen-
tary superintendent, Mrs. Edwin NJ. Moore,
of Newark, and Miss Scott; teacher train
ing. in charge of the Rev. w. e. Foote;
intermediate, in charge of the Rev. e. M.
Ferguson: home department, in charge of
Mrs. A. w. Karnell, of Union, n. j., and
adult classes, in charge of the Rev. James
Parker. of Jersey City. Each of the con-
ferenees was of necessity brief, but to the
point, valuable suggestions being made by
the eaders.
The afternoon session was opened with
a devotional service, led by the Rev. Os-
car l.. Joseph, OF Caldwell, and followed
by an address hv the Rev. Henry G.
Cronin, of Jersey City. reviewing the
StdLt WOIk anu OlC OA oihh ehS
Teachers by the Rev. Mr.. Foote, secre-
tary of the State Teachers Training
School. came next. The report of the
county treasurer, Mr.. Turton, showed the
association to be in a Furnishing condi-
ton. He presented certificates to all sun
day schools in the county contributing
three cents a member to the county
treasurer.
Addresses were then delivered on phases
of the Sunday school work. including The
Teachers Preparation" by the Rev. DR..
A. H. Lucas, of Montciair; THE ultimate
Aim of the Sunday School," by the Rev.
DR.. w. Y. Chapman, pastor of the Rose
willie Presbyterian Church, and What
Next?'' by Miss Rose Scott, State superin-
tendent of elementary work. An open con-
ference on what Have 1 Learned?" closed
the afternoon session.
At the evening session reports of COM
mittees were presented, and addresses were
made by the Rev. A. Peter Tulip, pastor
of the New York Avenue Reformed
Church, on The Debt Which Parents
Owe Their Children and the Rev. DIR.
Cortland Myers, of Brooklyn. on 1.-THE
Wonderful Day in Which We Live" DR..
Myers devoted a large part of his address
to the great progress of missionary work
in foreign lands. including China, Korea,
Japan, Africa and the South Sea Islands.
He said;
1T was only a century ago that Aaron
Burr. vice-president of the nation, killed
Alexander Hamilton, one of the greatest
statesmen this country has ever had, be-
cause Hamilton had frustrated some of
Burr's political plans. He murdered Ham
ilton. but went unpublished, Such a thing
would not be tolerated at the present day
in our advanced condition of Christian
citizenship. We have come out of the fog
into the clearest light Christianity has
ever seen. Roosevelt is the most popular
man in the country today. Why? There
have been greater men in the White
House. men who nave done greater things.
Why is he so popular? Because he has in
all his career never swerved from what
he sincerely thought was right: because
he has always stood for the typical ideal
Americanism.
Our country and its statesmen have de-
veloped more in the last ten years than
in a century previous. Look at the prog
ress of temperance, particularly in the
South, Georgia, a prohibition State; Ken
lucky. the State of whiskey, and Colorado,
largely prohibitionist; Texas, three-quar-
tiers that way. and other Southern States
following in their wake. / read 4 short
time ago of the Governor of a Western
State being visited by a committee OF
brewers who protested against a bit OF
temperance legislation. They told him II
would mean his political death If he signed
the bill Facing the delegation, he said
1 shall sign the BILL and he did sign 1t:
We need such men as the Governor OF
Indiana"
Before the convention adjourned the fol-
lowing committees were named:
Enrolment, Walter r. Bird, of the Iry-
ington M. E.. Church, chairman; w. FL.
Ward, 1%rvington; Arson A. Carter and
Myron w. Morse. Nominating, ]. w
Snedeker, of Bloomfield, chairman; Hor-
ace G. Shaw, The Rev. William s. Coey-
man. OF Hilton; Miss Anna Van Duyne
and Mrs. w. N. Jacobus. Resolutions. The
Rev. Henry T. Belcher, of Hilton, chair
man; the Rev. w. B. Fleming, Maple
wood: the Rev. S. D. Riddle. ST. Cloud;
John Bratton, Newark, and Mrs. william
r. Bailey.
Mrs. Emil Hoffman and Miss Louise Hood.
Woods-Burkc. 4
Miss Frances A. Burke, daughter OF MT