The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-07-10
GREAT SESSION
OF THE CONGRESS
THE REAL WORK ACCOMPLISHED
BY THE NATIONAL SUNDAY
SCHOOL MOVEMENT MEETING
IN FLORIDA.

Jacksonville, Fla, July 6.-The close
of the great Sunday School Congress
and Young Peoples Chaltauqua, which
held its third annual session in this
city demonstrated the real amount of
interest that is now being manifested
by all denominations in the Sunday
school and young peoples work. This
city entertained the most distin-
guished delegation of religious work
ers in the Sunday-school and the vari-
Gus departments of religious work that
was ever assembled in the State Of
Florida by any one denomination.
Jacksonville is by rights a cosmo-
politan city, and when the welcome ad-
dresses that were extended to the
Congress which was held at the Bethel
Baptist Institutional Church were fin
ished, the most skeptical of all minds
conceded that Jacksonville is in real
ity what it claims to be.
The promoters of this religious
movement, which has already stirred
the entire United States to greater re-
ligious activity, were not slow in max
ing known the fact that they had laid
extensive plans to have thousands of
workers interested before the next SEES
sion convenes. The personnel of the
meeting was of the highest intellectual
type. Such speakers as e. w. D. Isaac,
the editor of the National Baptist
Union, Nashville, Tenn; H. T. Mussel-
man. of the American Baptist Publica-
ton Society, Philadelphia; N. B.
Broughton, Vice President OF the
Southern Baptist Sunday School
Board, with headquarters in Raleigh,
N. c.; Chas. T. Walker, D. D., of Au-
gusta, Ca; together with scores OF
well-rendered papers, carefully pre-
pared by prominent Sunday-school
workers, touching every phase OF Sun
day-school work, gave to this meeting a
superior touch and an advanced step
in modern Sunday school methods and
improvements. The entire sessions
were void of the usual delays-time
killing methods of office-electing. Each
session was given exclusively to the
rendering of papers by persons who
are familiar with Sunday-school work
The presiding officer, Rev. G. II
Clark, D. D., adopted the common
consent" method of disposing of al
subjects and topics. There was never
an occasion to use a gavel. A large
Florida palmetto fan was substituted
The arbiter, w. S. Ellington d. d., o.
Nashville, was extremely interesting
managing at all times to put the finish
ing touch on every subject and brlnt
out more thought by his analyses, ever
though the subject seemed to hav
been exhausted by the discussions
But the climax of the entire meeting
was on Sunday afternoon when tn
populace turned out in full force AM
packed the Duval Theatre to hear tn
mastery address of DR.. G. T. Wake
on practical Christianity" Nor
than two thousand people crowded tn
galleries of this historic playhouse
They applauded when DR.. r. H. Boy
introduced the speaker for the ever
ing.
The music throughout the Congress
which was conducted by Rev. N.
Plus, of Springfield, Ohio, was pertec
jacksonville has not witnessed bette
renditions or better selections. The
we're pleasing even to musical critic
Rosmond Johnson, the famous mus
clan, sat in the audience on Sunda
evening and listened to the pleasin
renditions by a chorus of one hundrt
voices. which pealed forth selection
written and set to music by Negro a
thors,
In an interview with the Secretal
of the Sunday School Congress, M
Henry Allen Boyd, he stated that Il
most important and new features
the meeting were, first, the teacher
training course which is practical
established, and which terminates
the close of the Congress each yes
The Sunday school teacher is to
- given full benefit of thorough cour'
The next was the laymen's missiona
movement that is being encourage
which will no doubt eliminate in
, first real session at the next ami
meeting. Another feature of the O.
gress was the Educators Conferen
which brought together a large nu
. Der of presidents, principals and p
fessors from universities, colleg
academies and high schools who
cussed the religious training featu
without overlooking higher educat
and industrial work.