The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-22
WORK IN CAUSE
OF TEMPERANCE
Great Mass Meeting Held in
Louisville Attended by
Thousands.
MISSIONS AND SCHOOLS
ATLANTA PASTOR DELIVERS A
NOTEWORTHY ADDRESS.
MISSIONS AND SCHOOLS

Louisville, KY, June PA great
temperance mass meeting at the Ar
inory, sessions of the superintendent
and teachers congress this afternoon,
fifteen missionary mass meetings
throughout the city tonight and SER
mons in 100 Louisville pulpits by emil
nent visiting ministers, We're the fea-
lures of tOday's work of the Interna-
tonal Sunday School association, which
is holding its twelfth triennial session
In Louisville.
The main event was, of course, the
temperance rally at the ArmOry this
afternoon. Mrs. Lillian NJ. NJ. Stevens
address was accorded an enthusiastic
hearing by an audience that filled the
main floor of the ArmOry.
The Rev. p. A. Baker, national SUI
peTintendent Of the Anti-salOOn league,
told of the beginning of the new cru
SADIE against the saloon"
DIR. Alexander Alison of New York,
general secretary of the National Tenn
perance society, was heard with keen
interest as he spoke of the dual prob
lem" that confronted the temperance
workers.
The principal address of the mission
airy congress tonight was delivered at
Trinity NJ. Z. church by the Rev. J. F.
Love of Atlanta, who detailed the prob
lens Of Sunday school and home mis-
siOnary work in the south"
He said:
Missionary in Church.
THE Sunday school had missionary
inception and must be missionary in
its character. No sharp line can be
drawn between the mission work of our
boards through their missionaries and
the mission work of our Sunday schools
through their teachers. Missions are
sowing the truth and saving lost peo-
pie. The man who believes in the
truth and in saving lost people believes
in missions. There is no place for
the Sunday school in the work of the
churches if there is no place for mis-
sions in the work of the Sunday school
If the Sunday school is not missionary
il has no mission. There is, perhaps,
no better evidence of the proficiency
of those who prepare the cuTricula of
the Sunday schools than the place they
are now giving missions among the sub
jects To be taught.
School Promotes Missions.
THE Sunday school is a maker of
converts TO Christianity, which is the
essential mark of a missionary agency.
our converts are won by the Sunday
school. or at least predisposed and pre-
pared for conversion by this agency?
In that fact you have the missionary
value of the Sunday school in compar-
isOn with other missionary organiza-
tons.
The Sunday school is to be the pro-
mOter of missionary benevOlence. We
shall not have a generation OF contrib
utors in our churches until our Sunday
schools train il. Ten thousand Baptist
churches and perhaps a full million
Baptist church members in the south
gave nothing 10 missions last year.
We haven't yet reached the pastors of
these defective churches. If we could
but get them 10 go TO Sunday SCHOOL,
Are Making Converts.
But we are making more than con-
verts in the Sunday school and will get
more than money from them. Here is
the missionary plant bed of the
churches. l knew a devout Christian
woman who as mother and Sunday
school teacher taught her children the
claims of Christ. She gave 10 missions
as ! never knew any other Christian |
10 give and taught every child to give. /
! had the JOY of seeing one of her BOYS
converted at the age of IS. He went
10 college and once when I visited him !
there he followed me into the campus. |
and with the light of a soul that had |
found a great mission for life shining
in his eyes he told me he had answered |
Gods call TO be a minister. He took !
his degree and is now teaching in my
city preparatory TO entering the semi |
nary in this city. The other day he !
found me and told me of his purpose |
10 go 10 China With my knowledge |
OF that boys home and Sunday school |
training, / should say that his life has |
been expanding degree by degree, in |
the most natural way.
Fitness of Home Missions.
IAN / have said for missions in the /
Sunday schOl applies with even addi- |
tional emphasis as an argument for |
home missions in the Sunday schools.