The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-11
Of Worlds 26,OOO,OOO Sun- day School Pupils America
 Leads With 15,OOO,OOO
PRESIDENT BROWN MAKES
 ADDRESS OF THE MORNING
Miss Kennedy and L. p. Levell Make Inspiring Talks to Big Convention at the First Baptist
 Church.

The climax of the Alabama State con- vention was reached last night when W. c. Pearce of Chicago, standing as it were on the Alps, cast his eye about and carried the convention with him in a view of the worldwide Sunday school movement. It was the pivotal point about which all the thought and inspiration of the session has moved
 And perhaps the most beautiful picture in the course of his transit was that of the worlds convention at St Louis; how, when the thousands packed the enormous hall, they came to sing the last hymn. and Mr. Lindsay, who was leading choir of 5000 voices, lead off the whole Convention in God Save the Queen," while he waived a British Jack oyer the heads of the multitude
 Then, without changing the tune the inspiring words of My Country, 'Tis of Thee swelled from the many hearts. while the director waived the Stars and Stripes Then, as the last words died out, MT. Lindsay took both banners, waved them together across the open page of the Bible, and there was nothing else for the great assemblage to do but sing, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love"
 Scope Was Marvellous.
 The great scope which the speaker had was marvellous. The Sunday school was once a little rivulet, but now it is great river; once a little acorn, but now an enormous tree, the greatest army that marches in all the worll.
 Next Sunday at the very first hour somewhere there will be a Sunday school singing the praises of the Lord, and be- fore the midnight of that day the hymn of praise will have swung around the world and sounded under the flag of every nation.
 'I would like to take you with me to some great mountain peak and look through a telescope around the world. would like to let you see what have seen Perhaps l would start with Hawaii, and there we would look in upon con- vention just like this of 300 natives
 Continuing in his description of the enormous sphere of the work he carried the audience with him first to the West Indies, and then on to Kingston, where they looked upon thousands and thou sands of natives lined upon the shore, while the missionaries were rowed out to their boat and the words of That Will Be Glory For Me- sounded along the waters; how they ceased, and in perfect quiet a voice went up from the boat in application.
 On to Australia.
 Then on to Australia he carried them to the magnificent Sunday School conven- tion TO Africa and Egypt they sped, al- ways finding hundreds engaged in or ganized Sunday school work, while every where the Lord Jesus wss lifted up amid the singing of familiar songs.
 Even to the Holy Land, through the organized Sunday school conventions at Nazareth and Tiberius, and in the Holy City he showed them Now they were in Syria at the Protestant college of 1000 students watching the printing press which never ceases to turn out Bibles, or in Turkey, where Constantinople has 20O- 900 population, more dogs than men, the Sunday school is found among the Mo hamedans.
 Then he carried them to the fair south ern skies of Italy, where they have a great convention. and as fine secretary as any state in the union except Ala bama." Here it is that the fifth worlds convention will be held next month. Onward, with countless beautiful de- scriptions. he carried them through China and India, where they study our same lessons every Sunday in thirty-two diff ferent languages; old priest-ridden Mexi- co. where the delegations walk fifty miles to get to a railroad, and as many more if they miss connection.
 Back to America.
 Finally, after passing under the flags of every nation, the Alabama conven- tion arrived back home, and cast its eye with MT. Pearce over North America. Out of the worlds 26,0OO,0o0 Sunday school pupils we have 15,O00,000, yet if all the eligible people in America would at