The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-10
Notable Address Made By Gov
Conner Shows Relation Of
State to School
DISCUSSIONS OF PEACE
FEATURE OF MEETINGS
President Thach of Auburn Among the
Speakers-Many Stirring Addresses
Made BY Prominent Visitors
to the Convention.

"All Hail the Power of Jesus Name!'
AS it pealed through the corridors of the
First Baptist church at the opening of the
greatest convention of Sunday school
workers ever held in the state, there sank
deep into the hearts of two thousand
souls the power of that name which had
brought them from the confins of Ala
bama to sing His praises and plan for
the coming of His kingdom.
1t was a great day for the Christian
workers. Their faces shone with the in
spiration of the hour, and they caught
eagerly for every word and thought that
might help them in their conquest of Ala
oama. Before reaping the harvest while
the seeds are just sprouting they have
come to Birmingham, the center of their
activities, to plan the best ways in which
the harvest may be gathered.
They came from east, west, north and
south, and yet the hospitable arms of the
city can hold more. At least two thou
sand had arrived at the closing hour last
night, and still they come. When the
hour of rest arrived, they felt that the day
had been a glad and profitable one for
themselves
Many Notable Addresses.
From the time that President Armstead
Brown of Montgomery called the first
session of the twenty-fourth annual con-
vention of the Alabama Sunday school
convention to order at 2:30 p. M until 10
o'clock last night, the hours passed rap
idly with some of the most notable adj
dresses that such an audience had ever
listened to.
Beginning an interesting discussion OF
the superintendent work, in which j.
B. Wadsworth of Coleanor and d. II.
Marbury of Marbury lead. and a discus
sion of 1.-The Records of the School," by
II. E. Jones of Dadeville and w. r. Saw
yer of Montgomery, through admirable
talks by the Rev. DR.. Fl. II. Mccormick
of Birmingham, w. C. Pearce of Chicago
and DIR. C. c. Thach of Auburn, the day
came to a triumphal close with the ad-
Dress delivered by Governor b. B. Conner.
His talk was the feature of the occa-
sion, showing the combined interests of
the state and the Sunday schools.
The afternoon session was opened by
devotional exercises lead by the Rev. DIR.
j. A. Duncan, pastor of the First Meth
odist church. He read, what he called.
the first great open air Bible study on
record, the eighth chapter of Nehemiah,
and in closing said, 1T is our mission to
reveal the word of God so that it can
be understood.
Wadsworth on Superintendent Work.
Then Immediately the programme was
taken up and j. b. Wadsworth broke the
ice with a discussion of planning the
superintendent Work. After a few
Introductory remarks, in which he said
his speech was like a dogs tail, Bound
to a-cur," he pressed home the thought
that the superintendent must be welded
to his work. not for honeymoon, but
that in sunshine and in Storm the school
must be the spouse of his bosom and the
joy of his heart.
Without a plan the school is like
ship without helm. 1t is easy enough
to plan a business, but we often go at
Gods work haphazard Many superin-
tendents close up their doors each Sun
day and label it to be called for
I'm the first place, the superintendent
should plan at his home in the quiet of
his room and not in the confusion of
office and shop. The morning is the best
time to work. when the body is rested
ami the mind at ease. What great things
these two hours in a day can mean for
God"
The speaker then explained useful
plan which he follows in the direction
of his school. Beginning Sunday even
ing, the subject for the next week Is
taken up, and the names of the absentees