The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-12
GREAT SUNDAY
SCHOOL EVENT
HaWaii's Delegate to C0nven-
ton in Rome and His
Travels.

| Rev. E. B. Turner, assistant pastor
of Central Union church, and the rep
resentatfve of Hawaii to the recent
Worlds Sunday School Convention al
Rome, gave most interesting account
of his trip to Rome and the Holy Land,
from Central Union pulpit last even
ing.
He first gave some account of the
great Sunday school organizations of
the United States and of the world, and
of the work they are doing. The great
opportunity and strength of the Sun
day school was that it utilized the
Iayrnen. Therein was it's great power.
Going across the Atlantic he fell in
with a man from Richmond, Virginia,
who was at the head of Sunday
school of 1900 in that city; who brought
500 or 700 into the Sunday school every
wear: who made 200 visits a week
among the pupils of his school. The
Sunday school in it's work developed
with great capacity and power for
work among children; for work among
pupils of the intermediate classes: Tor
work in Bible schools and Bible classes.
The work of Sunday schools engaged
the interest and endeavor of many of
the best business men of the country.
Among the delegates to the convention
at Rome We're such men as H. J.
Heinz, he of the 81 varieties, and z. J.
Warner of Michigan, and Bishop Hart
zen, one of the best known missionary
bishops of the Methodist church.
In Boston the day before they sailed
the delegates were rendered recep-
ton by Lieutenant Governor Draper Of
Massachusetts, in the State House, and
in the evening there was a great meet
ing at fremont Temple. ~
They sailed April 81, stopping first
at the Azores, where a Protestant min
lister was about to leave because money
could not be raised for his salary, $3.50
a year. Under the inspiration of e. j.
Warren this salary was provided for
three years.
A stop was made at Gibraltar and at
Algiers, where they caught their first
gIfmpses of Mohammedanism and
the degradation that is found in Mos
lem countries
Through the Mediterranean Sea.
which was the center of the ancient
world, as the Atlantic is of the modern
and the Pacific will be of the future
they sailed through the wrecks of en-
pires. Almost every spot recalled some
great nation or empire or people that
was but is no more -
They visited Naples and Pompeii, and
some of them went to the place, not far
from Naples, where ST. Paul landed on
the Italian shore They visited Genoa,
the birthplace of Columbus; Pisa, with
its leaning tower, and thence to Rome, |
with it's three hundred and sixty-fiye
one for every day in the
year.
There are only 1000 Protestants
among Rome's 100000 people. The |
coming Of the delegates was great
to them. It showed |
them, as we'll as it showed Rome, that
Professionalism is united.
They visited the Church of st. John, |
Lateran. st. Peters, they saw the Vat |
can with it's HOO rooms. the Pantheon, |
the prison where, ST. Paul was con- |
fined.
A session of the convention was held |
IN the Coliseum They visited the cat
aeombs and the church of the Capu- |
BnfnA
From italy they went TO the Holy |
Land, where every spot is q, reminder
Of some incident in the Holy Scrip |
lures. They went as far as Damas-
GUS, the place of PauPs conversion; |
they swan in the Sea of Galilee, where
The Savior walked on the waters. They |
we're at Nazareth and at Bethlehem, |
and spent six wonderful days at Jeru- |
salem.